"Death" (Gk: thanatos) does not mean torment in Greek-never. Its parallel is in Romans 6:23 which is the gift of "eternal life" for the believer. The setting is clearly eschatological. The "wages of sin" will be the sinners" loss of life (death) at the end of the age. It is ...
Or, again, does the Bible seem to prohibit marriage, and particularly slave-ee intermarriage, for female slaves? I shall argue, first, that the two terms as used biblically are synonyms. The most likely reason, in my opinion, for the presence of two terms is that each has a ...
Well, my parents said I was Biblically inspired...John. Pretty basic. But what are some of the names we just don't see 'in vogue' anymore? What are the LEAST popular baby names now? A name is important. It's something a child will carry til at least 18, and if they don't like...
It's a picture of death and of the grave, and always has been, Biblically. The flood, God floods the world, that is a baptism, Peter tells us in 1st Peter, chapter 3. God sends Jonah into the deep, into the water, it is his judgment upon Jonah. God ultimately baptizes the world...
But what does it actually mean? It's one thing to say, "Blessed are those who..." in the ceremonial, ritualistic, everybody knows it since, but actually we all want to be blessed, right? Actually, the word blessed could be translated from the Greek to the word happy. Jesus is sayin...