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 [...]
God’s main way of “talking” to us is through His word. Many have claimed to literally hear God speaking to them but at times it can be contradictory to what His revealed word says. The apostles and others who wrote the New Testament encouraged [...]
No one will miss Christ’s second presence - sinners or not! When Christ reigns, it’s going to be a wonderful and glorious time. John 5:28, 29 (ESV) tell us, “…for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall [...]
If Jesus said his followers would do even greater things than him, how come we’re not doing them? John 14: 12-14: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than [...]
The gentiles are in a different position in regard to their relationship to God. than the Jews. The Jews, as a nation were in a covenant relationship to God. They were offered a covenant by God through Moses, the mediator when they had been [...]
In Jonah 1:17, we read, “But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.” Then in Matthew 12:40 we read, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly [...]
John 19:26,27, “When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his [...]
First, we must acknowledge that we are all imperfect and we all commit sin.1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin…1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.1 John 1:10 If we say [...]
Nowhere in the Bible does it state we are not to pay tithes. Likewise, nowhere in the Bible does it state Christians are to pay tithes. The tithing system was a divine arrangement made with Israel when they entered the Promised Land. One-tenth of [...]
Nowhere in the Bible does it state that God will no longer speak to His people today. In Old Testament times God often spoke audibly to those he chose to communicate with. When instructions needed to be given, laws delivered, and information conveyed, God [...]
Nowhere in the Bible does it say we are not to use anointing oil. However, it is important to consider how and for what purpose anointing oil was used in Bible times, and if it would serve any purpose today. Anointing the body or [...]
“For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive” 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (NASB). This text should be of comfort for someone worried about a child or young [...]
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.” Eph. 1:18. If you are truly looking to follow Jesus and serve God, [...]
The books of the Bible were originally written as solid texts with no divisions such as chapters and verses. In the early 13th century, French professor Stephen Langton (who later became archbishop of Canterbury) decided to break down the Scriptures into chapters to make [...]
We are not able to find the specific reference in Revelation that uses those exact words in the King James translation, but we will assume you are referring to verses in Revelation 20: Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again [...]
While there is no specific record of Jonah asking God for forgiveness, but his actions seem to imply a repentant heart.The message of the book of Jonah is that God has compassion on all of mankind as well as the whole creation. It’s not [...]
God can only choose the wisest and best plan for eternity. In eternity the principles of right and wrong (good and evil) will always exist. The ability to understand these concepts is part of the human and the angelic natures. God created His intelligent beings with the power [...]
Sarah was 90 years old when she conceived Isaac Genesis 17:17: “Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, [...]
