Essentially, the fact that Mary's pregnancy is virginal and thus divinely meditated makes her son divine. ... Thus, in the Hebrew Bible there are barren women who through God's grace give birth to sons of their husbands who come to inherit the Abrahamic covenant of land. ... In this speech to his servant, Abraham invokes the importance of the preservation of bloodlines: "you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live, but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac'" (Genesis 24:3-4). ... For example, when J...

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The reference to man leaving his father and mother and cleaving to his wife in Genesis 2:24 could be so interpreted. ... Thus Rachel, believing her father would deny her husband legal share in his estate, took the Teraphim. ...

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God later changed Abram's name to Abraham, which means the father of many nations. ... Isaac had twin sons - Esau and Jacob. ... Ruth, a Moabite woman, married Naomi's son. Both Naomi's sons and her husband died. ... They had a son named Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David. ...

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Man alone could never have reconciled himself to the Father for his shortcomings, he would need a mediator-and a plan. ... The simple covenant was made-obey and have an open and pleasing relationship with the Father, know happiness, and have eternal life-disobey and accept the consequence of death. ... God's covenant with Noah also regenerated the covenant made with Adam by giving man dominion over the animals and by charging him and his sons with the responsibility of repopulating the earth. ... In Abraham we find a man that was willing to hear God's command to leave his fathe...

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Here we have our requirements for baptism as laid out by the Bible: 1) You must repent of your sins 2) You must be immersed in water 3) You must come to be baptized (not be brought) Later in Matthew 28:18-20 Jesus adds to these requirements that the believer: 4)Be baptized by another believer 5)Be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit According to the scriptures "John the son of Zechariah i...

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"What's Love Got To Do With It?- By Renaldo Brown French is only a language to those who speak it. For most Americans, French is not a part of who they are, the lifestyle they live, the language they speak, or a culture they can identify with. They were born Americans. The similarities of the American culture and the French culture boil down to french fries and good wine. ...

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Many people believe that the son's of Noah are actually nations themselves and not individual persons and naturally others believe the reverse. With the way the story is interpreted, it gives the idea that the sons are individuals and not nations of people. ... There is a biblical story that states Ham, the second son of Noah, was the ancestor of the African race, which is agreed upon by many scholars. ... Then another interpretation taken from the Bible states that Noah was drunken from wine and lay naked in a tent and Ham was the first to see this and did not cover his father. Inste...

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MacArthur states that Some scholars have suggested that there may be gaps in the genealogy, in which a generation or two is skipped and the name of a grandson or great-grandson is substituted for the name of a son. ... Charles Darwin was born on Feb. 12, 1809, as the son of a well-known doctor. ... At the age of 16, his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. ... In 1827, his father sent him back to school at the University of Cambridge to study divinity. ... Darwin had always had an interest in being a naturalist, but his father had encouraged him against it (C...

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Understanding the Christian Doctrines of Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, And Free Will for Counseling "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." ... (John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. ... (John 6:44, NRSV) "And he said, For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." ... For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the fi...

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The eternal security view gives reference to a handful of verses, one such verse is as follows, "None of those who are drawn by the Father and given to Christ can fail to be raised up on the last day" (John 6:35-44). ...

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