So, what do angels really look like? What is a biblically accurate description of an angel? Will we know when we see one? The answer to this actually entirely depends on what form they take. Angels, being spiritual beings, can take on different forms. As we see in Scripture, angels ...
Well, water is scary. You go under water, you can't breathe. 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,...
You can’t turn to a place in the Bible and find teaching on Advent or a command to set aside four weeks prior to Christmas as a season of waiting, hoping, and yearning. Does this mean that biblically-oriented Christians shouldn’t observe Advent? For some, the answer is “Yes.” If...
Paul David Tripp suggests that if isolation from the culture (rejection) is on one end of the spectrum, and immersion in the culture (assimilation) is on the other end, then Christians can find a biblically-appropriate place between the two. He calls this place, “redemption interaction.” R...
What does it mean that this girl was “possessed with a spirit of divination”? It means that the slave girl was one who had a demon spirit. It’s likely the case that the slave girl practiced divination, that she consulted spells, books, chants, and other formulas in order to summon ...
f. We believe that this view is the one that is most biblically based of all. InRomans 11:17-27, the apostle Paul used the analogy of an olive tree to illustrate this. Let me summarise what he wrote: The Covenant is represented by an olive tree. The Israelites are the natural branche...
I'm sure there is a place for Christian themed plays in churches still. But I don't see a Biblically themed play attaining much success on the mass market. Byhamje32— On Oct 29, 2011 @Mammmood - I wonder how long the first plays were. If they were meant merely to serve as illust...
Additionally, just because one doesn’t think something should be made illegal does not mean that one thinks these activities are not a problem. It’s just none of the law’s business unless the activity infringes on our rights. We can speak about the dangers, we can attempt to educate,...
A biblically illiterate person might well have missed the import of Jesus' words. Caiaphas and the Council, however, did not. They knew that in saying he was "the Son of Man" who would come "on the clouds of heaven" he was making an overt reference to the Son of Man in...