The Dictionary definition of a priest is "one especially consecrated to the service of a divinity and through whom worship, prayer, sacrifice, or other service is offered to the object of worship- and pardon, blessing, or deliverance is obtained by the worshipper." ( Is priest a religion? A...
While repentance is everywhere presented as a turning away from sin and turning toward God, it is nowhere presented as a condition for receiving eternal life. Instead, repentance is always a condition for temporal deliverance from death, sickness and enemies and is a condition for ongoing fellowshi...
1. To Justify the Idea of a Spiritual Spouse in the Bible, One Must Make Large Hermeneutical Jumps That Are Very Weak and Unwise Hermeneutics is just a big word seminarians use to mean “the method of interpreting Scripture.” A good hermeneutical framework includes some really important princ...
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.Is John saying that in order to receive eternal life, you need to love other Christians? Lots of other pastors and Bible scholars teach 1 John 3:14 in ...
) Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance. Obstetrics (n.) The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth. Obstetricy (n.) Obstetrics. Obstinacy (n.) A fixedness in will, ...
Berean Standard BibleWhat does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?Berean Literal BibleFor what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and to lose his soul?King James BibleFor what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose ...
For more on these subjects, see our articles “What Does It Mean to Believe in Jesus Christ?” and “What Is Living Faith?” A converted life begins After one receives God’s Spirit, a converted Christian will focus on what Jesus said in Matthew 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of...
It does not mean to totally blank your mind out waiting for illumination from God. God works best when you are in an active and seeking mode with Him, not when you are in a passive, robotic, zombie-like state. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth. One ...
腓立比书 1:18–23 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 18What does it matter? Just that in every way, whether out of false motives or true, Christ is proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice19because I know this will lead to my deliverance through your ...
2:9 Bowing down to idols will not bring deliverance to Israel, but rather total abasement. Do not pardon them: this line is so abrupt that it is almost certainly an intrusion in the text. 2:11 That day: i.e., the day of the Lord; cf. note on Am 5:18. 2:13 Lebanon: Mount ...