--Better, and apart from faith it is impossible to be "well pleasing" (unto Him); for he that draweth near (Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 10:1; Hebrews 10:22) to God must believe . . . Thus the very statement that Enoch pleased God is an assertion that in him faith was found. No one...
So, the law or written code with all its regulations, all its do and do not statements has been canceled by the cross, more specifically by what Jesus accomplished on the cross. Note that God tells us the law was “against us” literally standing and speaking against us like a prosecuto...
Hebrews 3:16-18 New International Version 16Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?18And to whom did God swear that ...
Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a c...
Who was the Old Testament law written for? Who is Melchizedek in the Old Testament? What is the Ephod in the Old Testament? Who are the Hebrews in the New Testament? Who are the Pharisees in the New Testament? Who are the Gentiles in the Old Testament?
Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 7:26. But how is the exception of sin to be understood? Is it that, though, like us, tempted, he, unlike us, resisted temptation? Or is it that his sinless nature was incapable of being even solicited by sin? Now, the verb πειράζω means sometimes ...
Furthermore, it is written that “faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see, ” (Hebrews 11:1) and “we live by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7)Jesus may have challenged Thomas’s doubt, but he also didn’t condemn him for his lac...
The novelAmerican Godswas written by Neil Gaiman in 2001. The book received a warm response from audiences and critics alike. It won the Hugo,... Learn more about this topic: Neil Gaiman: Biography & Quotes from Chapter 5/ Lesson 13 ...
It was written by someone else who remains anonymous. —Hebrews: A lengthy piece of theology and exhortation, written either just before the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 or much later, between A.D. 80 and 90. Who Was Paul? Until His Conversion Saul was born around the beginning ...
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; the. Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himse...