Top new questions this week:
|
The Book of Revelation 13:3 speaks of a beast that received a deadly wound on the head and the wound was healed and the world followed that beast in wonder.
Revelation 13:3
One of the beast's heads ...
|
What is the difference between power, throne, and authority?
Revelation 13:2b NIV
The dragon [that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan12:9] gave the beast his power and his throne and great ...
|
In Deuteronomy 22 and 24, only men were allowed to produce a bill of divorce. Although in the case of adultery, both sexes are criminally responsible, in the case of Deuteronomy 22 and 24, there does ...
|
We read in Psalm 75:5 with the title : For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph. A song.
1 We praise you, God,
we praise you, for your Name is near;
people tell ...
|
Romans 6:9 ESV
"We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him." [My emphasis].
Here "we know" is eidotes.
Acts 1:...
|
Ephesians 4:11-13 NIV
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, [12] to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be ...
|
strong text Was Demas, Paul's co-worker, truly born again? And if so, did he lose his faith afterwards? Or was he never truly saved?
Col 4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
2Tm 4:...
|
Greatest hits from previous weeks:
|
Why is it that Biblical translators choose to translate the Hebrew word צֵלָע (tsela) as "rib" when referring to the formation of Eve from Adam in Genesis 2:22? Never is this word translated as rib ...
|
This passage is a bit vague at first glance:
Romans 12:1 (NIV)
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing ...
|
My small group was looking at this verse in Ecclesiastes 4:12:
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of
three strands is not quickly broken.
I was curious the meaning ...
|
In Matthew 24:28 and Luke 17:37, Jesus uses the phrase "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather." Was Jesus speaking in a parable? Idiom? How has this phrase been interpreted?
|
When we shift from Samuel to Kings, we start with this fairly benign story:
King David was now old, advanced in years; and though they covered him with bedclothes, he never felt warm. His courtiers ...
|
And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name
of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. (Job 42:14)
These are his three new daughters after God restored ...
|
1 John 5:16 (NIV) Emphasis Added
If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to ...
|
Can you answer these questions?
|
I find no other Bible references to God performing "strange" acts.
Isa 28:21 - For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will
rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His ...
|
I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on a remark by evangelical biblical scholar D.A. Carson in his book Exegetical Fallacies (1984): "One well-known seminary insists that proper ...
|
Colossians 1:22 in the "body of His flesh" what is different between body's death and flesh's death. Is it same?
|