The Bible How do we as evangelicals treat the Bible today? ... Mark Chapter 16: 9-20 Eleven verses! ... Is this how we tremble at the Word of God? ... How rarely we hear the warning to flee the wrath to come and yet Roman Catholicism for all of it's faults in the 16th century never forgot to tell sinners where they go when they die in their sins. ... And how do we excuse away our sin? ...
Exodus is the second chapter in the Bible. ... How is that fair for a God who loves us do this to people? For example a child who was just borne into this world and dies from birth defects or disease. ... He believes in God, his creation, and the laws created, but he too questions the religion (Christianity) that we both grew up with. ... How do I know for sure what is being to me is the truth? ...
Exodus is the second chapter in the Old Testament after Genesis, there also seems to be at least four hundred year time frame between these two chapters. ... But I will also cover how we can read Exodus and gather an understanding of the meaning based on when it was written. ... This comes from the writing having a variety of styles along with the temple, believed to have been built centuries after Moses died. ... Exodus sets up a legal system that should be followed through the chapters, while telling the story of how Israelites were delivered from slavery in Egypt. ... This could be read as ...
Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not." ... In this chapter, Jesus sees that people are making a mockery of the temple by using it for financial gain and not for worship. ... Jesus knew all along that he would be dying for the people that would eventually kill him. ... When asked if the mothers would die for a stranger, the answer probably changes. If they would be asked to die for a criminal, the answer would be no. ...
However, manyhave no idea of how the King James Bible came to be. ... However, some ofthese men either died or stepped down before the translationwas started which reduced the final number to 47. ... As we can see, thetranslators wanted to keep all the ancient meanings, but makecomprehension as simple as possible. ... The first editionalso contained a dedication to King James, a remarkablepreface, several tables, the lineage and map of Canaan, atable of contents, the Apocrypha, chapter synopses, numberedverses, marginal notes, and cross?... Thisseems to show the tremendous dedication the trans...
If we believe what is written there, then we also believe that these blessings will be upon every facet of our lives. ... In addition, heart patients are 14 times more likely to die following surgery, if they did not have an active prayer regimen. ... Every prayer brings us that much closer to the blessings as described in Deuteronomy chapter 28. ... Every time we bend our knee to speak with a benevolent God, it is one more time that we are purchasing a little insurance into the health of our bodies. Notice carefully how the quoted verse from Deuteronomy closes. ...
We saw in the book, the story of Moses unfold, born into a family of amazing faith; he died a man of amazing faith. ... Meyer died in 1929 yet the publication date of Moses: the Journey of Faith dated 1954. ... A repeating organizational feature of the book is the example of a faithful act by Moses; then an explanation of how this faith, if applied to our modern lives will bring about change. ... One such idea, "And out of the whole story there comes to us this lesson: we must never suppose that the difficulties which confront us indicate that we are not on God's path, and doing his wor...
When each of the two men dies, the rich man is sent to Hell, while Lazarus takes his place in heaven next to Abraham. ... In this second chapter, James stresses the fact that we must act consistently and kindly towards any person and not favor the rich or the poor. ... The life of Jesus Christ, in conjunction with the message of biblical texts, presents insight about how to deal with our responsibilities towards our neighbors in the context of modern daily life. ... We are all capable of following this model; however, we must also have the knowledge of how to identify which people truly nee...
Sproul poses an interesting question regarding this subject5, "If the penalty for sin is death why do babies die?" ... How is possible that a tiny being not yet capable of deliberate actions, conscience thought, or speech, is guilty of sin? ... Exactly how this occurred remains a debate that lies outside the scope of this essay, but the concept or theory is definitely rooted in the Bible (Ro 5:12, He 7:9-10). ... If sin is indeed a state of being spiritually separated from God, and if we are all indeed in a state of sin, and if sin is punishable by death, how then may we escape it? ... Whi...
I think there are many to-day among the Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Princes and Popes of this world whose ancestors were mere pedlars of pardons and firewood; as on the contrary, there are many alsmhouse beggars - poor, suffering wretches - who are descended from the blood and lineage of great Kings and Emperors; which seems likely enough when we consider the amazing transferences of crowns and empires from the Assyrians to the Medes, from the Medes to the Persians, from the Persians to the Macedonians, from the Macedonians to Romans, from the Romans to the Greeks, from the Greeks to the French (C...
A decade later we see that the count from January through August was 38 murders, a monthly average of 4.75 (Sharp, 1997). ... Another good comparison comes when we compare Los Angeles and Singapore whose populations are similar. ... We can see in the Old Testament that God is pro death penalty when it comes to people who have committed murder. ... In Exodus 21:12 we see again God reaffirming that, "Whoever strikes so that he dies shall be put to death," and again in Leviticus 24:17 (Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death) and Leviticus 24:21 (Whoever kills an animal shall m...
