The angels existed before the death of any human being; therefore they are not the spirits of our dead loved ones. We read in Genesis 3:24 that God placed at the gate in the Garden of Eden cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. Cherubim are an ord...
We know that the Bible as we have it was not formed until the 3rdcentury AD, and largely under a Christian interpretive agenda. Would our answer to the question ‘what is the Bible?’ be the same or similar to that of a culture or community which existed before there was a Bible? In...
Their faith was their assurance and trust in Jesus, even before they saw the results. Saving faith is more than believing Jesus existed; it’s fully trusting in Him for salvation and surrendering our lives to Him. The Assembly's Shorter Catechism defines it well: “Faith in Jesus Chris...
Before sin’s entrance into our world, the physical and spiritual realms existed in harmony and there was no separation. This is demonstrated by God “walking in the cool of the day” with Adam and Eve and also in how the serpent spoke to Eve with seemingly no alarm on her part at...
While billions of people believe Jesus of Nazareth was one of the most important figures in world history, many others reject the idea that he even existed at all. A 2015 survey conducted by the Church of England, for instance, found that 22 percent of adults in England did not believe Je...
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Profanity, swearing, cussing, cursing, obscenity, vulgarity, expletives and epithets have likely existed since the dawn of time. In ancient Sumerian (one of the earliest known written languages, c. 2400 BCE), there are inscriptions that contain insults and crude language. Ancient Egyptian, Greek...
Jesus, the Word of Life - What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our
“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15). A close bond of friendship and mutual trust existed between Jesus and his...
What is in the future, has already existed. And God restores what has passed away.New American BibleWhat now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by. New Revised Standard VersionThat which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is...