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WHY DID PAUL SPEAK SO MUCH ABOUT WIVES SUBMITTING TO THEIR HUSBANDS?

January 2, 2020Church1 corinthians, Authority, Bible, bible studies, bible times, body of Christ, Christ, Christian, christian studies, christianity, Christlike, Church, Ephesians, Father, Galatians, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, husband, Husbands, inferior, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, love, marriage, married, marry, mother, new testament, Old Testament, paul, rooted, roots, submission, the church, theologians, theology, wife, wivesabarkley8

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Paul was no chauvinist. He taught the spiritual equality of women and men (Gen 3:28) and wrote eloquently about husbands loving their wives as Christ loved the church-sacrificially and unconditionally (Ephesians 5:25-33). But to a church in a corrupt culture where marriages were in disarray, the brave Paul argued that submission was essential for any institution-government, church, or family. Without authority, chaos reigns. Continue reading WHY DID PAUL SPEAK SO MUCH ABOUT WIVES SUBMITTING TO THEIR HUSBANDS? →

FISHING, EGYPTIAN STYLE

January 1, 2020Churchancient, ancient diet, angle, bait, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible times, big boats, big fish, boats, bronze, Christian, christian studies, christianity, christians, Church, churches, diet, Egypt, egyptians, fish, fisherman, fishing, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, hooks, manners and customs, monumetns, mourn, net, nets, new testament, Nile, Nile River, NIV, Old Testament, Religion, religion studies, religion study, religions, river, shore, small boats, study, the church, theologians, theology, water, watersabarkley8

19a3846f762e0d7cd0f52534eb973404 This verse is part of Isaiah’s prophecy of doom against Egypt. God’s punishment would be so devastating that it would spoil the Egyptian fishing industry. Fish taken from the Nile River and it’s tributaries were a staple of this ancient nation’s diet. Continue reading FISHING, EGYPTIAN STYLE →

WOMAN OF THBE BIBLE (JAEL:THE HOSTESS WITH THE HAMMER)

January 1, 2020Church300 years, Bible, bible studies, bible study, canaanite, Canaanites, Character, Christ, Christian, christian studies, christianity, devil, evil, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gods, hammer, Heber, hostess, Israel, Israelites, jabin, Jael, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jordan, Jordan River, Judges, Kedesh, Kenite, King, Kings, leader, manners and customs, marriage, married, marry, military, new testament, Old Testament, prophet, river, Samuel, Satan, sisera, the church, theologians, theology, women of the bible, Zaanannimabarkley8

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Jael is the Bible character who sparks one-liners about “splitting headaches.” She’s the woman who jokesters like to refer to as “as expert at helping men ‘get things through their thick skulls!” But we are getting ahead of ourselves. A bit of context in needed.

Following the Israelites’ crossing of the Jordan River, Israel’s campaign to conquer and settle the promised land got off to a spectacular start. But over time, for multiple reasons, the effort sputtered and lost stem. Taking over a country is trying, not to mention tiring.

By Joshua’s final days, the people of God had pretty much given up attempting to squash the pockets of Canaanite resistance that were popping up left and right. After Joshua went to glory, the nation went off the rails. Continue reading WOMAN OF THBE BIBLE (JAEL:THE HOSTESS WITH THE HAMMER) →

SHOULD A CHURCH DISCIPLINE IT’S MEMBERS?

January 1, 2020Church1 corinthians, 1 Thessalonians, bad, Bible, bible studies, bible study, Christ, christian studies, christianity, christians, Church, churchwide, devil, evil, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, good, Holy, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Bible, King James Holy Bible, members, new testament, Old Testament, Satan, theologians, theologyabarkley8

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Yes. Church discipline is that unpleasant but sometimes necessary final process in maintaining purity among the people of God. It is a radical kind of churchwide accountability that says, “We cannot and will not allow you to continue to live in sin,” and “We will exert extreme pressure on you in order to get you to do what is right.” Continue reading SHOULD A CHURCH DISCIPLINE IT’S MEMBERS? →

DEFINITION OF THE DAY (DIVERSITY)

December 30, 2019Uncategorized1 corinthians, abraham, Adam, Adam and Eve, Bible, bible definition, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, definition, definition of the day, definitions, earth, Ephesians, Eve, Exodus, Galatians, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Church, HCSB, his church, human, Jerusalem, Jewish, jews, John, KJV, new testament, NIV, NKJV, Old Testament, population, Psalm, revelation, theologyabarkley8

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Characteristic of human and animal populations (Gen 10; Acts 17:26-27). Out of His richness God created an unfathomable number of creatures to fill the earth (Gen 1:11-12, 20-22,24-25) and respond to Him in praise (Ps 148). Continue reading DEFINITION OF THE DAY (DIVERSITY) →

HOW CAN A PERSON SURVIVE SEVENTY-TWO HOURS INSIDE A FISH?

December 26, 2019Uncategorized72 hours, asleep, Bible, bible studies, bible study, bible times, biblical, big fish, boat, Christ, chronological, criminal, dead, death, fish, God, great fish, human, jesus, Jesus Christ, jonah, love, loves, Matthew, minor prophet, miracles, new testament, Old Testament, parable, sail, shallow, shallows, shark, shelter, ship, sleep, sleeping, succumb, survive, theologians, theology, whaleabarkley8

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The sheer unlikelihood of this event has caused many to interpret Jonah’s book as allegory or parable, not history as such. Indeed, no other account exists of a human being surviving such an event. Did it really happen to Jonah, and if so, how did he survive? Continue reading HOW CAN A PERSON SURVIVE SEVENTY-TWO HOURS INSIDE A FISH? →

ALL THE GODS OF EGYPT

December 11, 2019Uncategorizedamgn, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bondage, books, bull god, Christ, Christian, christianity, chron, Egypt, egyptian, egyptians, Exodus, fertility, first born, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gods, godspeed, Holy Bible, horus, house, isis, Israel, Israelite, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, Khonsu, Lord, love, Moses, osiris, ptah, ra, sekhmet, seshat, set, slavery, sobek, taweret, theology, thoth, wisdom, worshipedabarkley8

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To be superior to “all the gods of Egypt” was quite a claim, since the Egyptians are known to have worshiped more than thirty pagan deities. These included the bull god Apis, who ensured fertility; Hathor, the goddess of love; and Thoth, the god of wisdom and books. Continue reading ALL THE GODS OF EGYPT →

BEFORE CHRIST, HOW DID PEOPLE GET TO HEAVEN?

December 4, 2019Uncategorizedacts, Acts 16:31, afterlife, Bible, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christ death, Christian, christian studies, christianity, chronological, dead, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's People, Heaven, His Son, holiness, Holy, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, living, Lord, Lord Jesus, new testament, Old Testament, Psalm, Psalm 49:15, theologyabarkley8

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People have always gotten to heaven by one way only-God’s way-through the work of Jesus Christ, His Son. That is the gospel, God’s Good News: God has made a way through an intractable divide between human sinfulness and divine holiness. That way is Jesus Continue reading BEFORE CHRIST, HOW DID PEOPLE GET TO HEAVEN? →

EGYPTIAN MAGICIANS

November 29, 2019Uncategorizedaaron, bad, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, black, black magic, Christian, christian studies, christianity, christians, chronological, cow, cows, curiosities, customs, devil, dream, dreams, egyptian, Egyptian Magicians, evil, Exodus, fat, fat cows, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, good, hidden, hidden messages, Holy Bible, Israelite, Israelites, Joseph, magic, Magicians, messages, Moses, mulas, new testament, Old Testament, Pharaoh, priest, priests, Satan, skinny, skinny cows, slave, slavery, Studies, study, theologyabarkley8

Pharaoh dreamed that seven skinny cows gobbled up seven fat cows along the Nile River. Many people in Bible times believed that dreams carried hidden messages, so he called on the magicians of the land to tell him the meaning of his dream. Continue reading EGYPTIAN MAGICIANS →

A SQUANDERED INHERITANCE

November 29, 2019Uncategorizedbad, Bible, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, cash, child, children, christian studies, christianity, christians, clan, Deuteronomy 21:17, devil, estate, evil, fallen, Father, firstborn, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, godspeed, good, inheritance, Jewish, Jewish law, Job, Job's, kids, King James, King James Bible, King James Holy Bible, law, Luke, Luke 15:13, money, mother, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, older son, property, Satan, sinners, Son, squandedred, theology, young, young sonabarkley8

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This verse is part of Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). An estate was normally divided by a father among his sons at his death. But the father in this parable did so while he was still alive. Continue reading A SQUANDERED INHERITANCE →