Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.GOD'S WORD® Trans
I went away full, and Jehovah turned me back empty; wherefore will ye call to me Naomi, and Jehovah humbled me, and the Almighty did evil to me? Catholic TranslationsDouay-Rheims BibleI went out full, and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi, whom the...
So why did Matthew use these two words in the same verse? Petra was a common word used for “rock” in Greek. It’s used fifteen times to mean “rock,”“rocks,” or “rocky” in the New Testament. Petros is an ancient Greek term that was not commonly used in Koine Greek at all...
“Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, ‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.’ Then Abram gave ...
A simple message of pursing happiness did not go well with this clinical population, but the challenge of turning their suffering into achievement and joy did. First of all, I encouraged them to accept with courage the fact that life is full of injustice and bad people, and reminded ...
Still, Ms. Mara has a message or two that she wants to share. The critical idea is that she privileges the narrative over the message. Aesthetics over ideology. Bill is a recovering alcoholic and what he did screams to the reader, “OMG Don’t drink and drive! Call a cab!” But the...
(1) Contrary to Zarathustra, Abraham (then still Abram) realized that God is One, which implies that creation is One as well: not in the sense that God equals the whole of creation (that's pantheism), nor in the sense that everything is One and distinctions are illusory (that would be...
James, there is no difference in the theology of the thing. The difference had to do with the facts on the ground. When the Reformers were in the same position as the fathers of the early church, they behaved the same way. Tyndale went to a martyr’s death just like Polycarp did...
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised. / So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Psalm 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her ...