The form of the vow is nowhere given in the Bible. Like many other points of detail, the wording of it was left to the administrators of the law. They divided vows into two classes: (1) Positive vows, by which a man bound himself to consecrate for religious purposes his own person, ...
All of us have positive illusions about life. It can be summed up this way: to an extent, every single one of us wants to believe that the world is the place we desire it to be. Think about that. There is a type of world I want to live in, a world where bad things don’t h...
The positive command in verse 29 is to speakwhat is good.The word used here forgoodisagathos. It is used in the accounts of the Rich Young Ruler (Matt 19:17; Mark 10:18; Luke 18:19) to refer to God. Jesus tells the rich young ruler that no one is good,agothos, but God alone...
Greek and Roman mythology. As the morning star, he represents Venus, the brightest star in the sky, only seen while descending during morning hours, hence Lucifer ending up as the fallen angel in the bible. The Old Testament had very positive things to say about...
Then we see what is still happening with the pandemic. India seems to be the disease’s principal target as I write these words, although the United States still has 32.5 million positive cases and more than half a million deaths in its wake so far. And the number of new cases has rema...
Joyce Wrice:I feel like with a pandemic… I think people just want to have fun. They just want to release all this stress and tension [from] the hecticness that we all experienced. It was very shocking and unexpected. I feel like people just [want to] be more open and ...
Although she complained just a little here and there about her cancer, she always attempted to maintain a positive outlook on life and even her diagnosis. “It could be so much worse, Heath.” She would tell me. “I am grateful to be alive today. There is still so much to be ...
Verse 17.- The moral test is then applied to the great dictum which he had just uttered.If any man willeth- not merely desires, but performs the distinct act of willing -to do his will- as his will -he shall know;i.e.his intellectual faculty will be quickened into high activity by...