[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This delightful question serves as a reminder that fathers--and...Switzer, John B
“Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?NASB 1977 “Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?Legacy Standard Bible Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?Amplified Bible“Why do ...
15Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He...
on the kingdoms that do not call on your name,7 because they have devoured Jacob,and they have destroyed his pastureland.[s]8 Do not charge the guilt of our fathers against us.Hurry, let your compassion come to meet us,for we are very weak.9 God, who saves us, help us for the ...
The writings of the Church fathers show that, in the early Church, married priests werenotthe accepted norm in the main centres of Alexandria, Antioch and Rome. They were considered a "problem" that existed in the outlying regions. By the third century there were almost no married priests an...
Levitical Priesthood was formed. This was a remedial priesthood which Theonomists recognize was intended to be superceded in the New Covenant. Priests as mediators between God and Man facilitatedatonementto propitiate the wrath of God. God ordained priests to help Family heads ("elders") do this...
Why, the people of our World EXPECT ‘Priests’ to be WITHOUT vocal chords so as to NOT contest or confront the EVIL DEEDS of people affecting both the Church directly as as well as the peoples of the nations of our contemporary World. People want their PRIESTS to say nothing, to DO no...
Do you believe that all the fathers have been in error? It seems hard so to believe, especially of the Worthier ones such as Augustine, Ambrose, Bernard, and that whole throng of the best men who have governed churches with the word and have been adorned with the August name of the ...
What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us the LORD used to do--how he brought them out of Egypt? The LORD has abandoned us and left us to the mercy of the Midianites." International Standard VersionBut Gideon replied, "Right… Sir, if the LORD is with us, ...
There are numerous accounts of the Fathers and teachers of the Church, particularly beginning with the fourth century, of the Church’s reverence of the saints. But even from the beginning of the second century there is direct evidence of ancient Christian writings of faith in ...