Steeling the Mind Conferences

Bible timelines are a useful tool for understanding the historical context of the Bible and the chronological order of events and stories mentioned in the text. These timelines provide a visual representation of the events and figures described in the Bible, and they can help readers to better under...
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Welcome to our enriching "Bible Lessons" section, where we embark on a journey of spiritual exploration and understanding. Delve into a diverse array of thought-provoking posts that offer profound insights from a biblical perspective. Our collection covers an array of topics, ranging from profound t...
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Have you ever read some of the places in the Bible and wondered where they were located, today? It only takes a few moments to realize there are places mentioned in the Bible that we cannot find on a map, today. Over the years, these places have changed names. You can tell how some of them have chan...
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Is the Bible an original document or is it just a story based on other documents? Can we even know the answer? Among the present attacks on the Bible's originality, there are two common ones used by anxious atheists and agnostics that doubt the Word of God. If you are unaware of these attacks, then ...
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Do you realize how unique the Bible is? There is no book like it and there never will be. Please take a look at the facts below and let your faith grow! God bless you. Written over about a fifteen-hundred year span.Written by more than forty authors from every walk of life, including kings, military...
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Early in the morning Jesus, battered and bruised, dehydrated, and exhausted from a sleepless night, is taken across Jerusalem to the Praetorium of the Procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate. You are, of course, familiar with Pilate's action in attempting to pass responsibility to Herod Antipas, the Tet...
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Note: We have a Bible lesson called Jesus Christ is God that shows many of the New Testament scriptures that clearly say Jesus is God. Among the religious leaders who have attained a large following throughout history, Jesus Christ is unique in the fact that He alone claimed to be God in human flesh...
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There are still many people today who make the claim that Jesus never existed, that He was only a mythical character. Bertrand Russell puts it this way, "I may say that one is not concerned with the historical question. Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He...
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In the eight chapter of Matthew's gospel, he writes about the story of Jesus Christ crossing the Galilee and entering the land of the Gergesenes. In this land, Jesus cast demons out of two demoniacs and into some pigs. The pigs subsequently ran off a cliff and died. Where did the Gergesenes live? Wh...
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If we read the Bible, there is no doubt that it tells us that Jesus Christ is God. He has many titles, abilities, and duties, but we must recognize Him as not only the Son of God, but God the Son, the second person of the trinity (the triune Godhead). Know these verses and be able to refer to them o...
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In order to understand the Bible better, it helps to know the Jewish calendar. They had developed a calendar that was changed in the time of Moses. This site shows the old and new calendars. Exodus 12:2 "Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be your beg...
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Introduction Origen was the son of Christian parents and a disciple of Clement. His father was martyred, which helped inspire his desire to teach and share the good news. Although Origen was a philosopher, he knew that there was great danger in leaving the Christian faith and following the popular p...
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How could Jesus stay in the tomb three days and three nights if he was crucified on Friday and rose on Sunday? Jesus prophesied in Matthew 12:40 (NASB) that "just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the h...
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Some people say the NT is false because we don't have any contemporary manuscripts. Have you ever wondered how the New Testament compares with other books of antiquity? Please read the following data and judge for yourself. There are many books from antiquity that are widely accepted as true. Howeve...
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The Dead Sea scrolls were found in the caves at Qumran. The scroll from Qumran cave 11 is one of the best preserved and most interesting of the Dead Sea scrolls. Some 200 of the scrolls from Qumran, about a third of the total, are of biblical books. Only one biblical scroll (Isaiah), however, has su...
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- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - "The only real valuable thing is intuition." - "Everything should be made as s...
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Did you know that there are all kinds of codes in the Bible? There is a very interesting set of codes in the beginning of Genesis. There are many different kinds of trees mentioned in the Bible. Twenty-six of these trees (and all the trees in the Bible, except the sycamore, apple and juniper) are en...
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Introduction Throughout the scriptures, we read that Abraham and his descendants sojourned for 430 years. We also read that Abraham's descendants were afflicted for 400 years. Can this be proven, though? Regarding these issues, there have been some differing opinions and calculations. Consequently, ...
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