A student asked about the parallel between Jesus on Jonah (3 days and 3 nights). Were there really three days and three nights?
No single translation can fit all needs. However, understanding the various Bible versions and how and why they were translated is a means of helping one to know how to make the best use of them.
written by Jon Paulien, PhD – see original post here. From time to time I have made presentations on stages of faith, how people of faith develop through the seasons of life. Many people have asked me to put some of that in writing so I am posting a summary of these presentations here. This is the most life-changing material…
If you’re memorising Scripture mechanically, you’ll be a perfect… Pharisee. A Pharisee will count words and passages, will have yellow stickers or small cards all over the place.
Apostle Paul knows how to differentiate between holy women and those who are “busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to…”
We are honest and realistic enough to admit that yes, not always our prayers get the answer we expected. Maybe not then, maybe not quite so, maybe not at all…
By Herbert Kiesler, reproduced from chapter “The Ordinances: Baptism, Foot Washing, and Lord’s Supper,” as published in Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology (Review and Herald, 2000). Baptism is the door to the church, a symbol of renunciation of the old life and the adoption of a new life in Christ (Rom. 6:4). Of key importance to the topic of baptism…
Reacting to the concept that God would subject His enemies to unending torture in hell, many have turned from God. But the Bible makes clear that this is a misunderstanding.