Monthly Archives: February 2019

WHY DID JESUS HAVE TO DIE?

02/20/2019UncategorizedAdam, Almighty God, bad, blood, bloody, capital, death, die, died, Eve, fulfilled, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Son, good, Hebrews, jesus, Job, John, Leviticus, offense, pure, purification, resurrection, Romans, salvation, Sin, sinsabarkley8

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You’d think the almighty God could have figured out a better plan of salvation.

Something less bloody. Something that didn’t involve his Son on a slab. Continue reading WHY DID JESUS HAVE TO DIE? →

A PREGNANT VIRGIN?

02/20/2019Uncategorized700 years, Christ, Christian, christians, fully God, fully human, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Spirit, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, pregnant, sign, Signs, skeptics, Son of Man, virgin, virgin mary, young womanabarkley8

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Some Christian join skeptics on this point. They doubt Matthew’s claim about Mary: “While she was sill a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 1:18). Continue reading A PREGNANT VIRGIN? →

MEN OF THE BIBLE (CAIN: THE “FIRST” DRIP IN THE FLOOD)

02/20/2019Uncategorizedabel, Adam, brother, brother's keeper, brothers, Cain, child, child of God, children, Christ, drip, Eve, face, feel, First, flood, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jealous, jealousy, jesus, Jesus Christ, justified, keeper, kill, killer, Lord, Men of the Bible, murder, murdered, new testament, Old Testement, sorry, violent murderabarkley8

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Can we feel sorry for the man who invented murder?

Sure. Cain probably felt sorry for himself. He was the first child born into mankind’s fallen state. He friends a cursed land. It would have been a difficult life. He might have felt bitter. Perhaps he felt justified in keeping his best produce for himself and offering God the rest. Continue reading MEN OF THE BIBLE (CAIN: THE “FIRST” DRIP IN THE FLOOD) →

HOW DID DANIEL SURVIVE THE LION’S DEN?

02/20/2019UncategorizedChrist, christians, Daniel, daniel's friends, den, field, forms, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, lion's den, lions, living, locked, survive, worthabarkley8

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Daniel’s survival was not the result of a force field set up by his strength of will or by compatriots feeding the lions just before he was locked among them. Daniel survived the lions because God protected him. Daniel’s friends survived the furnace because God protected them. In both cases, those threatened with death did not presume God’s intention to keep them alive; instead, they trusted in God’s deliverance, whatever the outcome. Daniel lived by God’s divine purpose-the only reason worth living. Continue reading HOW DID DANIEL SURVIVE THE LION’S DEN? →

BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (EATING WITH TAX COLLECTORS)

02/20/2019Uncategorizedauthor, bible customs and curiosities, Christ, Disciples, doctor, eating with tax collectors, food, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, hate, hated, invite, invited, jesus, Jewish, jews, Luke, Matthew, Matthew 9:10, pharisees, physician, Romans, sick, sinners, tax collector, taxes, welcomeabarkley8

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Matthew, atuthor of the Gospel of Matthew, was a Jewish citizen who collector taxes from his countrymen for the Roman government. After Jesus called Matthew to become one of His disciples, Matthew invited some of his tax collector friends to his home for a metal with Jesus and His other disciples. Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (EATING WITH TAX COLLECTORS) →

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 JOHN 3:1-6) LIVING AS CHILDREN OF GOD

02/20/2019Uncategorized1 john, 1 John 3:1-6, 2 John, 3 John, abideth, child, children, committeth, Father, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Him, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, hope, Jesus Christ, Kids Application Bible, King James Holy Bible, law, living as a child of God, new testament, Old Testament, pure, purifieth, scripture of the day, Sin, sinners, sinnethabarkley8

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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Continue reading SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 JOHN 3:1-6) LIVING AS CHILDREN OF GOD →

DOES TRUSTING GOD MEAN NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN TO US?

02/20/2019Uncategorizedabdnego, bargain, Daniel, Daniel 3:19, disaster, freedom, fury, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, King, King Nebuchadnezzar, king of kings, Kings, Lord of Lord's, Meshach, pain, persecution, Shadrach, threat, trust, trusting, visageabarkley8

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Trust in God is not a bargain we offer in exchange for freedom from pain, persecution, or threat of natural disaster. Trusting God means we don’t waver when things are not turning out the way we planned. Daniel’s friends told the king they Continue reading DOES TRUSTING GOD MEAN NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN TO US? →

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (EYE)

02/20/2019Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, 2 Kings, 2 peter, bible signs and symbols, darkness, Deuteronomy, devil, evil, Exodus, eye for an eye, eyes, Ezekiel, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God who sees, God's omniscience, health, Holy Bible, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, Job, Judges, light, Lord, Luke, paul, Psalm, song of solomon, spiritual truth, symbolic, symbolizes, Symbols, Zechariahabarkley8

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Gazing into someone’s eyes can make us feel as though we are seeing into the person’s soul. In the Bible, as in life, we find many types of eyes, including, beautiful eyes (Gen 29:17; Song of Sol 1:15; 4:1); prideful, arrogant eyes (Pro 6:17); lustful eyes (2 Pet 2:14); sad eyes (Ps 6:6); and desiring eyes (Zech 2:8). People who are seeking revenge take “an eye for an eye” (Exod 21:23-25; Lev 24:20; Deut 19:21). How a person judges morality is described as “doing right in [one’s] own eyes” (Judg 17:6; 21:25; 2 Kings 10:5, all ESV). This contrast with doing “what was right in the eyes of the LORD” (1 Kings 15:5, 11; 2 Kings 14:3, all ESV). The use of eyesight as an image is varied and far-reaching, but two main uses emerge in Scripture. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (EYE) →

BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (THREE WAYS OF BAKING BREAD)

02/19/2019Uncategorized3, baking bread, baking oven, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, boiling meat, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 4:3, fire, fryingpan, glat, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grain, grians, griddle, heat, Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Leviticus, Leviticus 7:9, oven, pan, pot, rocks wounds, threeabarkley8

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LEVITICUS 7:9- All the meat offering [grian offering niv] that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan [griddle, NIV] shall be the priest’s that offereth it. Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (THREE WAYS OF BAKING BREAD) →

WHAT DID GOD MEAN BY IDENTIFYING HIMSELF TO MOSES AS “I AM WHO I AM”?

02/19/2019Uncategorizedaction, active, AM, differ, divine name, Egypt, Engliish, everlasting, Exodus, Exodus 3:14, forever living, future, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, himself, I, I AM WHO I AM, identifying, Israelites, Jane, Jennifer, Jesus Christ, Moses, name of God, past tenses, quotation, Sarah, summarized, tetragrammaton, thou, verb, WHO, YaHWeH, YHWHabarkley8

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When you ask for someone’s identity, you normally get a name. Names distinguish individuals from other people. Jane differs from Sarah and from Jennifer, who are all women, similar in many ways yet distinct. But God has no similar others; thus God has no name. Continue reading WHAT DID GOD MEAN BY IDENTIFYING HIMSELF TO MOSES AS “I AM WHO I AM”? →

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