Karlo:That’s right. And that’s obviously not the case. So the more likely interpretation here is that they went down into the water. That is, they went into the water together, the eunuch was baptized and they
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What does Galatia mean in the Bible? Some scholars have argued that the "Galatia" is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor. The New Testament indicates that Paul spent time personally in the cities of Galatia (Antioch of Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra and Derbe)...
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I wanted to know: what does the Bible tell us? It was just this past year in a Bible Study when this subject came up: Predestination and Election. When I heard the explanation, my initial reaction was: this doesn’t sound right or seem to reflect the God whom I came to know through...
3True, some of them were unfaithful; but just because they were unfaithful, does that mean God will be unfaithful?4Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him, “You will be proved right in what you say, ...
Jerome, who wrote the authoritative Latin translation of the Bible in the late fourth century, neatly summarized the consensus interpretation, which he himself endorsed: Nearly all the commentators on this passage [of Galatians] interpret it to mean that the slave woman Hagar represents the Law ...
I responded to the question Max put forth that went something like this: will you be prepared to reply when the time comes for you to respond about your faith that could mean your death, as it did for Queen Esther and Mordechai? I am barely comfortable when I have to respond, and it...
bris (bris milah) – circumcision bubby (bubbe)– Grandma (Yiddish) chag sameach!– happy holiday, literally challah– the braided bread typically served on Shabbos. Chanukah– the festival of lights! Our 8-night festival in the wintertime commemorating the miracle of one day’s worth of oil ...
During Shavuot we revisit the miracle of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, but you might be surprised to know that Rabbinical Judaism believes that two Torahs were given to Moses at that time -- the written Torah and the oral Torah (in Kabbalistic