Pilate's inability to recognize the truth standing before him highlights the spiritual blindness that can afflict those who are not open to divine revelation. retorted PilateThe word "retorted" suggests a quick, perhaps dismissive response. Pilate's interaction with Jesus is marked by a sense of ...
God is the light that shines within and through His church as the light of the world. The same word the Bible uses for light inMatthew 5to describe Christ’s Church also describes Christ Himself inJohn 8:12: “Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the Light of the worl...
In this episode of How to Study the Bible, we're looking at John 9 and reading about two different cases of blindness - the blind man's journey toward physical sight and spiritual belief, and the Pharisees' descent into hard-heartedness and spiritual blindness....
Berean Standard Bibleand said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.Berean Literal Biblesaying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.King James Bible...
In Isaiah 40:1-11 we read how the Lord God of Israel wants to deliver His people. The Lord does not give up on us because of repeated sinning, but is always
To the unsaved, the end is spiritual blindness: 2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. There can come a point where a ...
Pride causes spiritual blindness and drives us to self, not to God. We can't see God in our pride because if we did it would reveal our awful, sinful condition. This is why the KJV Bible says in Psalms 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God...
There were no eye (as in physical eye, not spiritual eye) witnesses to the gold plates, based on later admissions by the witnesses.The Book of Mormon places Jesus' birth in Jerusalem, not in Bethlehem as in the Bible.There was no religious revival in 1820. The revival occurred from 1824...
Theological Instincts happen when the paradigms of God’s Revelation are enacted in the ministry of the people of God such that God’s ministry to humanity is more clearly revealed. Jesus knew that “The Sabbath was made for humans, not humans for the S
The four biographies of Jesus in the Bible are filled with encounters of Jesus healing individuals. from blindness, paralysis, leprosy and diseases, even bringing dead people back to life. Thousands of people would gather to hear Jesus teach and to heal them. Up until then, the Pharisees and...