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That's exactly what I suspected Jack! I just wanted to see if someone else thought the same way!
To get started reading the Bible, choose a helpful English translation if that is your native language. I like the New Living Translation. If this is your...
Psalm 59:11 But do not kill them, Lord our shield, or my people will forget. In your might uproot them and bring them down. 12 For the sins of th...
Psalms 59:1 - 17
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Danny, I just saw your comment above, 8 years after my comment! I do want to add to anyone reading what I wrote before that now, after following the Lord...
Jacob’s family is quite straightforward. Genesis 35:23-26 lists twelve sons of Jacob according to their mothers. Genesis 30:21 mentions the daughter, Dinah,...
One commentary that I read, and that seemed to make sense to me, indicated that Esau had four wives: Judith, the daughter of Beeri Basemath (who was also...
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Trump shortened the timeline of the pandemic with operation Warp Speed. He is the “Trumpet”. Bill Gates is the “Gates of Hell” which shall not prevail. By...
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In context, John 3:13 was addressed to Nicodemus. Jesus was saying to Nicodemus that “No earthly teacher can really teach us about heaven because none of...
Should Mark 16:9-20 be in the Bible? My opinion is no, Mark 16:9-20 should not be in the Bible, but that the ending of the scroll somehow was lost. It kind...
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If we are to accept the hypotheses of the Y-chromosomal Adam and the Mitochondrial Eve as put forth by Mr. Houdmann, then we must also accept that this...
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Is it permissible as a Christian to rent out an apartment to a couple who aren't married?
Great question, Shirley H.! David knew he would meet the innocent child in heaven, while Absalom, who rebelled to the will of God, would certainly go to...
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Marriage is not the context of the scripture, "Don't be yoked together with unbelievers." Read the whole chapter and you won't read anything that refers to...
No, you do not have to have a wedding ceremony to be considered “married” in the eyes of God. My own daughter eloped and was then married by a justice of the...
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With 50% couples getting divorced, and high rates of divorce in Christian couples, it should be law to have that in place. otherwise, it's too easy for...
The best and most efficient way to begin reading the Bible is to join a solid Bible study group at your congregation. Moreover, you will greatly benefit from...
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Michael, also I liked your statement, "The Bible contains many examples of prayer and plenty of exhortations to pray (see ... Ephesians 6:18)." Prayer is the...
To me, the most important sections to start with would be the Old Testament books of Genesis and Exodus (which establish the framework for all the the rest...
I would say that the psalmist is wanting God to "rise up" in the sense of taking action (as a human would upon rising from sleep or rest) against those...
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How about this passage: Acts 2:25-34? Psalm 16 is a Messianic prophetic Psalm - it is not saying that upon death David immediately goes to heaven. David here...
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The AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL government has been very quiet on it's 11/17/21 NO-FAULT indemnity scheme for COVID-19 vaccination? The Australian Government is...
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There will be no boasting in heaven. Matthew 7:21-23. John 6:40, and John 6:29. Romans 3:26-28. John 3:18. John 6:47. John 3:16. Jesus said it, we believe...
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Cindy Jennings, thank you for the very good comment. There is a doubt on "the apostle chosen to replace Judas.." Peter in Acts 1:20: “For,” said Peter, “it...
"Rise up, O True God; judge the rulers of the earth, for all the nations are Yours."
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So, what does that tell us? Perhaps what this whole thing is really about???
Daniel 9:25 - 26
In Rev 7:13, 14, the elder does not ask John the question in order to seek the answer. The elder asks the question in order to teach and draw attention to...
Great question, also asked by Janis Neiheisel on this website. Herbert Lockyer has a wonderful collection of volumes starting with "All." A sweet, wise,...
Although some manuscripts have a shorter and different ending and it is known this was not the original ending, Mark 16:9-20 should definitely be in the...
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Are intrusive thoughts sin? Are spontaneous violent, sexual, or blasphemous thoughts sin?
The phrase “the second Sabbath after the first,” Luke 6:1, is literally “on the second-first Sabbath,” (Greek ‘en sabbato deuteroproto,’ although missing in...
When King David's child from his adulterous affair with Bathsheba died, he did not mourn (2 Samuel 12:20). Yet in 2 Samuel 18:33, we find King David mourning...
2 Samuel 12:20
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Paul said the same thing in First Corinthians 15:1-4. Galatians 1:6-9 Though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that we have...
At times God protects us from misfortunes like sickness and accidents. I praise Him for this as I've been really sick before, and He healed me. There was...
As I read the passage cited in the question, any reference to sorcery or other occultic activities pertained to practices in which the individuals engaged...
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How about this passage? 2 Samuel 12:15 - 22: This was the report of David and the child that Uriah's wife bore. The child was sick and died. On the seventh...
As I read the passage cited in the question, any reference to sorcery or other occultic activities pertained to practices in which the individuals engaged...
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November 2021 the AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL government has been quiet on it's NO-FAULT indemnity scheme for COVID-19 vaccination? The Australian Government is...
I have not seen anything in the Bible that contradicts getting a vaccine. If you believe 1 Cor 3:16-17 tells you that you are defiling the temple of God by...
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"By whatever means is necessary." This phrase was Malcolm X's favorite!! He opposed the government of the United States just like you do. He called the...
Acts 19:18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. 19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together ...
Acts 19:11 - 20
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Mr. Vincent Mercado, you quoted: "It was only in 1950, when Pope Pius XII elevated this doctrine to a level of a dogma (a must-believe Church teaching). The...
Jesus was a revolutionary in the sense of requiring that, in cases of irreconcilable conflict, allegiance to Him take precedence over allegiance or obedience...
I would say that, in the case of the situation that motivated David to compose the psalm in question, God rescued David by His control of human events, in...
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Well put, Grant!
To me, this is an example of a rhetorical question -- a literary device or figure of speech that can be (and still is) used to introduce a subject that the...
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