Having had the self-esteem beaten out of me as a child, being poor in spirit takes on a whole new meaning for me. Sure, there are those who think their feces doesn’t stink, and many of whom have wrangled their way into the pulpits of some massive churches. One that comes to mind...
trusting him to do what he promised. And so God made them able to have children.12Abraham was so old he was almost dead. But from that one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. So many people came from him that they are like grains of sand on the seashore....
James Adair's History of the American Indians (This contains 23 arguments that American Indians are descendants of Hebrews. It also tells of buried plates (5 copper and 2 brass) kept by an Indian tribe.) (London: E.&C. Dilly, 1775) Josephus' War of the Jews Ethan Smith's View of th...
Christ received the opportunity from God, to live along side of God in the heavens, and then have that spiritual life transformed, and experience the complete life of a human, from birth to death. Living a complete life on this earth, in the physical dimension is absolutely necessary to hav...
17While God was testing him, Abraham still trusted in God and his promises, and so he offered up his son Isaac and was ready to slay him on the altar of sacrifice;18yes, to slay even Isaac, through whom God had promised to give Abraham a whole nation of descendants!
for instance. All of these could work well in place of 'thought'. My personal preference is to write as plainly as possible, and 'thought' is good. The reader's eye almost just glides over it to the meat of what is being said or thought. But I agree you need some other options if...
Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, 18 even though God had told him, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.”* 19 Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in...
To produce the promised snake-crusher. And contra Steinbeck’s claim in the novel, we are not the descendants of Cain, but of Seth (see Gen. 5). Yes, we have a little bit of Cain in each of us, but it’s Seth, who Eve says God has given her “in the place of Abel,” who...
17 While God was testing him, Abraham still trusted in God and his promises, and so he offered up his son Isaac and was ready to slay him on the altar of sacrifice; 18 yes, to slay even Isaac, through whom God had promised to give Abraham a whole nation of descendants! 19 He belie...