Tag: bible

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.—2 Timothy 3:16-17, NIV Someone recently asked if I consider the Bible the inspired and inerrant word of God or if I fee...

The story of the destruction of Sodom and its sister city of Gomorrah is of compelling interest today because of the current debate in the churches over homosexuality. In the course of this debate, these two chapters of Genesis have been degraded from a story of God’s justice and providence to a dia...

You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise yo...

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There are four purposes for this translation: To restore the Name of the Almighty to its rightful place in the text;To be recognizably Messianic in that it affirms the Hebraic roots of the Messianic belief;To restore the meaning to so many words which have become popular to use, but do not accurate...

This version, in two volumes, was translated by Charles Foster Kent, with the collaboration of four other persons. The aim, through the selection of certain parts of the Bible which have seemed to the editors especially well suited, is to kindle the interest of the busy modern reader in the Bible as...

AnachronismThis is something that is out of place in respect to the historical setting. This happens when something is referred to in a translation that did not exist at the time of the original setting. An example is the use of the word Bible, instead of Scriptures, in the New Testament.ApocryphaTh...

The Bible is filled with a variety of objects that play important roles in the stories and lessons it conveys. Some of the most notable objects in the Bible include: The Ark of the Covenant - This was a sacred chest built by the Israelites according to the instructions given to Moses by God. It was ...

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It is an abridgment of the King James Version, edited by Roy B. Chamberlin and Herman Feldman with the counsel of an advisory board of Biblical scholars. Some reasons why the resolve of many people to know the Bible has so often come to naught are as follows: its overwhelming length, its somber form...

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