it can be helpful to read entire passages surrounding a Bible verse that piques your interest to ensure it isn't taken out of context and meaning isn't being wrongly ascribed
While1 Timothy 2:12may come across as sexist as it gets, it's one of those Bible verses that prove it's important not to take a singular verse out of context. While Paul advises the women of a particular church not be allowed to teach, many scholars believe1 Timothy 2:...
So you see, dear Brother Nathanael, the Deicidal curse or blood curse has already taken its toll back in 70 A.D. And today, what anyone could be suffering right now, any Jew or Gentile who does not accept, obey and LOVE the Lord…is a new curse from a New Testament prophet, apostl...
“My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouth, so that they have not hurt me … So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him,because He believed in his God.” (Daniel 6:22) “And His name,through faith in His name, has made this man s...
The LORD created us, gave us HIS commandments of law and it is to him that we return...which is the final triumph...the one treasure in life that cannot be taken away. If you have lived your life properly, old age is no longer "the evil days", but becomes instead, reminiscent of...
Pretty well all of the oldest manuscripts of the book of Matthew, though, clearly use the words “firstborn son” instead of “a son.” A lot of people believe that word “firstborn” was deliberately taken out by people who wanted to think of Mary as a lifelong virgin, deliberately cha...
Falling like that out of the sky: did they imagine there would be no sideeffects? Higher Powers had taken an interest, it should have been obvious to them both, and such Powers (I am, of course, speaking of myself) have a mischievous, almost a wanton attitude to tumbling flies. And ...
This verse is taken from Paul’s last letter before his death, addressed to Timothy during Paul’s second imprisonment in Rome, and in this study we will examine what it means to fight the good fight, finish the race and keep the faith. Continue reading → 3 Comments 1 Corinthians 10:...
INFLUENCE OF SEX ON BODY WEIGHT AND CONFORMATION TRAITS IN A RANDOM BRED POPULATION OF JAPANESE QUAIL (COURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA) 242 male and 236 female quails taken randomly from 43 sires and 129 dams (1:3 mating) obtained in single hatch from a large random mating quail population maintaine...
some say it was a letter imprinted on his forehead, either taken out of the great and glorious name of God, as the Targum of Jonathan, or out of his own name, as Jarchi; others the mark or sign of the covenant of circumcision but as the word is often used for a sign or miracle...