1. God did not approve of marriage involving concubines. The fact that legal provisions were made for concubines does not mean that God approved of this marital model. - InGenesis 2:22-24, God clearly designed marriage to be a union of one man and one woman. ...
Why Did Balaam Bless Israel? - The Universalism I n The Narrative Of Balaam And The Spirit Of GodSaya LeeJournal of Namibian Studies
And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?American Standard VersionAnd they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in...
I am proud to belong to the people Israel, whose name means “one who wrestles with God and with man and prevails.” For though we have loved humanity, we have never stopped wrestling with it, challenging the idols of every age. And though we have loved God with an everlasting love, ...
Judaism tells us that love is essential to who God is. There’s an incredible moment in the book of Hosea where God is portrayed as saying, “I wish I could abandon you, Israel, but I am God and not a person” (Hosea 11:9). What makes God God are the inextinguishable and unfath...
You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”Berean Standard BibleOne of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”Berean Literal BibleThen you will say to me, "Why then does He still ...
According to Wright, “the gospels tell of Jesus who embodied the living God of Israel and whose cross and resurrection really did unveil and initiate the Kingdom of God.” Wright then claims that the kingdom is apart of a greater eschatological theology, which is concerned with what is ...
O Children of Israel! Remember My favor that I bestowed upon you, and fulfill My covenant (which I made with you through your Prophets), so that I fulfill your covenant, and of Me alone be in awe and fear (in awareness of My Power and of your being My servants).
She does not bow to them and change the Christian Faith to make it consistent with the results of human thought and science. St. Basil the Great advised young monks to use Greek philosophy as a bee uses the flower. Take only the “honey,”—- the truth — which God has planted in ...
does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. [19] And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. [20] For everyone who does ...