Tag: contradictions in the Bible
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The Man in the Garden
We previously finished walking through the week of creation. Moses took broad strokes and used inexact language in order to show that there is one God, no chaos, and that people were not created in order to give any god power or support through service like the Ancient Near East legends claimed. He is using…
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Urgency Of Christ’s Message- Revelation’s Cadence
I grew up thinking the church was a joke because what I saw didn’t match the what the Bible said God wanted. The longer COVID-19 goes on, the more I realize that the majority church really is a joke. Just the other day, I saw an evangelist calling people to give their stimulus checks to…
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It Pleases God To Have People Reject Jesus?
Jesus has been teaching about the rejection of His Gospel—despite our sin, God’s people are saved by grace through faith and not by any works of their own. Galileans are refusing to repent even though the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. In the previous passage, Jesus claimed that if Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom would…
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When God Regrets His Own Deeds
In the previous passage, we saw one of the most difficult theological ideas people must wrestle with in our time. God is sovereign and good, and His wrath is always just. When we elevate God’s love as His single attribute and assume that He is only interested in the acceptance of people, we have ignored…
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Tobit- Missing the Bible’s Point
Tobit 6:10-13 Raphael reveals to Tobias that there is a woman named Sarah who is without a husband and that Tobias is entitled to her and her father’s estate under the Law. Therefore, Raphael instructs Tobias that they must stay at Sarah’s father’s house. The Law in Numbers 27:1-11 and 36:1-13 prescribes the responsibility of…
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Why Consider Ourselves Unworthy?
Have you ever wondered what Jesus feels when He sees the faith of His people? I’m not sure we usually perceive Jesus as celebrating the faith of His people. We usually merely see Jesus as being present and helpful and someone we go to with our requests. We may see Him as the one who…