The New Testament begins with the life story of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus’s life and death provide for the redemption of all mankind. It was prophesied throughout the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament. The holy calling to follow in Jesus’s [...]
To have foreknowledge is crucial when one is designing and planning. If you are designing a building, you must know ahead of time how to finance, where to place it, basic layout, structure, materials, workers, etc., before you can even attempt to begin work. [...]
Who is the “us”? The LORD God is the architect of all creation. He designed and planned it. Then God created the Logos, meaning “word” in Greek. The Logos (Jesus) is the only begotten son of God (John 3:16), the first born (Colossians 1:15) of all [...]
Since the beginning of Christianity there have been misguided, sincere Christians who fall into the trap of confusing literal Bible verses with symbolic verses. For example consider Ephesians 6:11, “Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand [...]
Abraham was one of the most important people in human history. James 2:22-24, summarizes: “You see that faith was working with his works…and Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and Abraham was called a friend of God.”Early in the book [...]
To understand verse 4:6, we need to recognize that all men are under the Adamic penalty of death. In other words, since Adam was under the death penalty, the entire human race is also under the death penalty. In a sense, we are all dead. (Matthew [...]
The Bible is the written word of the Lord. To learn to love the Bible one must first learn about its author, who is God, and come to appreciate His character. The Bible is the way He has chosen to reveal himself to mankind. [...]
Reading the accounts together in Matthew 27:45-51, Mark 15:33-39, Luke 23:46-49 and John 19:25-30, this world-changing event is one of the most dramatic we will ever hear or read. The first question this scene raises is, why did God send an earthquake? In the Scriptures, [...]
Chapter 4 begins with “let us therefore.” “Therefore” refers back to lessons from Israel in chapter 3. Israel had “an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God” (3:12). The nation could have entered “the promised land” soon after receiving the Law. [...]
The Bible's message is love “for God is love,” 1 John 4:7-8. It begins with God creating the heavens and the earth and establishing both plant and animal life on Earth. His crowning creation was man as Adam was created perfect in God’s moral, [...]
It has been stated, “The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed. The New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.” “One plan, spirit, aim, and purpose pervades the entire Bible. Its opening pages record the creation and fall of man; its closing pages tell [...]
No. God instructed Abraham to sacrifice Isaac to test his faith. God had promised Abraham, “In thee (Abraham) shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 12:3. This covenant was made with Abraham and was to be maintained through Abraham’s children. God [...]
We need the Bible because it is the very word of the Lord, and the holy spirit is the spirit of the Lord. “God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24) The holy spirit is not [...]
There are several examples from the Bible proving that failure is not fatal.Peter is a prime example. He denied the Lord - not just once but three times. Jesus warned Peter this would happen. Yet Peter trusted in his own strength and proclaimed he [...]
“The Old Testament is the New concealed and the New Testament is the Old revealed.”The New Testament contains a large number of Old Testament quotations. There are at least 295 separate references to the Old Testament. These occupy some 352 verses, or more than 4.4 [...]
We will consider three perspectives of these verses. Perspective 1: In the context of this chapter, Paul is warning the brethren to watch for those who would bring in false doctrines and heresies. These could cause factions and divisions among the collective “temple” of [...]
Only the Bible is the inspired word of God given to man. We see this in 2 Timothy 3:16: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” Paul also states that the gospel is a revelation of [...]
Summary: The Bible is the story of man: their creation and fall into sin and death. It also talks about our Jesus as our Savior, dying in order to release man from their death sentence. We also learn about the development of the “bride” [...]
The Hebrew word eth (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance #H853) spelled Aleph-Tay is left untranslated because it is used to provide emphasis in the text with the sense of “entity; self.” Depending on the structure of the sentence, eth may mean “even, or namely.” There is no [...]
No translation is perfect. Different versions have different strengths. Many times translators will express the meaning of a scripture according to their doctrinal biases. That makes those verses a mistranslation. It delivers an inaccurate understanding of God’s word. Our answers sometimes refer back to [...]
