“Having been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever. Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endu...
The Bible explores the theme of jealousy between brothers in the Joseph story, in which Jacob’s favoritism for Joseph leads the brothers to throw him into a pit and sell him to the Ishmaelites/Midianites. It is possible that the Cain and Abel story is also making use of this trope. Jos...
In the novel, Baba and his son Amir leave Kabul for the US by way of Pakistan because of the Soviet invasion. Baba is a businessman who believes... Learn more about this topic: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | Characters, Summary & Plot ...
I have answered similar questions before regarding the apparent “delays” in God’s timetable. For example, we have previously considered the question, “Why did Jesus wait three days to rise from the dead?” and “Why is Jesus waiting so long before He comes again?” Obviously, those que...
Why doesn't Philip's mom like Willemstad in The Cay? Why does Philip end up on the raft in The Cay? Why did William Paul Young write The Shack? Why did Herman Melville name his character Ishmael? Why does Philip's mother dislike black people in The Cay? Why is "Adam" by Kurt Vonn...
So Ishmael was born and both Abraham and his wife were well satisfied that they had done a great work for God when, in fact, they had done a great work for the devil. Ishmael, God could never accept as the child of promise. When God’s own good time came with the birth of living...