Fasting was a common occurrence in the Old Testament and was implemented for many reasons. Surprisingly, fasting was only proclaimed once as an annual national observance in the Law of Moses. It was to be done on the Day of Atonement and it was [...]
God did not create a wife before Eve. If another woman were created for Adam, how was she created? Did God take two ribs from Adam when the scriptures say that God took only one rib bone? Did this other woman have children?Since none of us [...]
John 5:45-47, “Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe [...]
This is a scripture that needs thoughtful consideration. The translators of the various Bible versions seem to disagree somewhat as to exactly what the scripture says. The King James reads: "For thou hast made [man] a little lower than the angels..." The Jerusalem Bible [...]
At Mt. Sinai the nation of Israel entered into a covenant relationship with God. After receiving the commandments, and the promise of life if they kept them, their response was a resounding “all these things we will do.” (Exodus 24:7) But the law that [...]
First of all, no, you're not wrong to ask God for His forgiveness. Those who wish to follow Christ want very much to please Him and the Heavenly Father. We read, "This is love for God: to obey his commands..." (I John 5:3) and [...]
Luke 5:36-38 "No one tears a patch from a new garment to patch an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t match the old garment. Nobody pours new wine into old wineskins. If they did, the new [...]
There are two possible answers to this question. Firstly, there is a physical heaven composed of our atmosphere, the air we breathe, the sky, and, further still, space, where we find the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the other galaxies and celestial bodies that comprise [...]
Jesus declared, ‘Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? [...]
The gay and lesbian communities are very familiar with the Christian, biblical position on homosexual relationships. Your son doubtless knows you cannot condone homosexual practices. What should a parent say to his gay child?Whether a sin seems large, like murder, or a sin seems [...]
Where the Old Testament is concerned, the King James Version (KJV), the New International Version (NIV), as well as most Protestant translations of the Bible are based on a single manuscript, the Leningrad Codex, produced around 1008. This Codex is our earliest complete copy [...]
You might be thinking of this scripture: Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Let’s look at it in a couple of other translations of the Bible: (BBE) Get for yourself that which is true, and [...]
Class servants in the congregation/ecclesia today should have characteristics shared by our Old and New Testament examples. The church of the living God is being developed to promote God’s word.In Exodus 18, we read that Moses needed help in managing the affairs of Israel. [...]
Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone. (NASB) Luke 20:17 - But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone’? (NASB) Jesus is the stone referred [...]
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard” Romans 3:23 NLT. Sin is any action out of harmony with God’s perfect standard of justice and rightness. It is “missing the mark.” In one important sense, God treats all sin the same. Whether a sin [...]
There is no specific answer in the Bible on this subject except that the Bible clearly states that sex is for marriage. One important reason is that sex can produce children, who deserve to be conceived in the embrace of marriage. Additionally, science has now [...]
The Seventy Years usually referred to as the seventy years captivity in Babylon, is scripturally styled the "seventy years desolation of the land." This desolation God had predicted by Jeremiah the Prophet thus: "And this whole land shall be a desolation, and...shall serve the [...]
First, let's consider the options the Bible offers in regard to life after death. (All scriptures quoted are from the King James Version Bible.) If Adam had not sinned, he and his descendants could have lived for ever on a perfect earth. After Adam [...]
One Bible verse that helps us answer your question is 1 Peter 3:3-4: "Let not yours be [merely] external adorning with…the wearing of jewelry...But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart…with the incorruptible and unfading charm [...]
Over the centuries, the translators of our Common Version English Bible have used the phrase "holy ghost" without any authority. The original Greek word is pneuma, meaning spirit. In more recent times, the Revised Version of the New Testament changed the word "ghost" to [...]
