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a manger is from where one would feed an ox -therefore if one didn't feed an ox there would be an empty manger -and if you didn't feed it it would have no strength
if one feeds ox they will do work and help bring in harvest
likewise if we feed people with the word of god they too will be strong and sow the word and the result will be as a good harvest?
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A lot of people in the know are saying that the last language without the Bible will have a translation started (perhaps not finished) during the lifetime of many (most?) people alive today. I have seen the date of 2038, for example. Of course, that assumes that God's people continue to support Bible translation with prayers, giving and getting involved. ...
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The first concordance was undertaken under the direction of Hugh of Saint-Cher and completed in the early 13th century.
Hugh was a member of the catholic Dominican Order, whose founding goals were to preach the gospel and fight heresy. This order was known for its intellectualism; the influential St. Thomas Aquinas was a member of it. While prior to the ...
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YES YES
John wrote in Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. NASB
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I'm going to answer your stated question: "Who decides wat is literal and what is metaphorical?" That's a legitimate question. The old "what laws are still in effect" has been answered many times. Hence my VTC. What is metaphor and what is literal, however, is a good question.
Ultimately, who "decides" is a verse is literal or metaphorical is the ...
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All the books in the bible was written by God himself through Moses ,John and all those who write the bible,,,, prove that lets talk about Moses he wrote (In the begining God created heaveans and the earth ) Moses wasn't there but God through Moses He (God) wrote Genesis though Poul He (God) wrote Acts. Even those who say we wrote the the bible,, no its God ...
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Acts ten is about men, not food. Even Peter declares he has never eaten unclean food. thiis is obviously after everything Jesus accomplished on Earth during his first coming. This should be an obvious clue that Jew and Gentile alike are still under Mosaic Law. As to how the Law pertains to sacrifices, it specifically states who is to perform the ...
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My answer on a related question covers much the same ground. I like this question better, because it is more generic, but the specifics of that answer still hold true here.
Key points:
God desires 1 sacrifice, and 1 sacrifice only, for all time (Heb 10)
God chose to come "at the right time to die for the ungodly" (Gal 4)
Too early, and people wouldn't ...
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Quick and short Lust vs Love
Lust is LOVE for myself(through sex, food, other pleasures).
Love is not "LUSTING", but desiring God more than anything and finding PLEASURE in each of His commands
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The following books are referenced in the King James Version of the bible but are not found in that text.(source)
book of the Wars of the Lord (Num. 21:14);
book of Jasher (Josh. 10:13; 2 Sam. 1:18);
book of the acts of Solomon (1 Kgs. 11:41);
book of Samuel the seer (1 Chr. 29:29);
book of Gad the seer (1 Chr. 29:29);
book of Nathan ...
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According to Wycliffe, this is the state of Bible Translation today:
The worldwide status of Bible translation (2012):
6,800+ ...the number of languages spoken in the world today
Under 2,000...the number of languages without any of the Bible, but with a possible need of a Bible translation to begin
about 209 million...the number of people ...
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So, the Bible was written in three languages - Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Aramaic.
Of the extant manuscripts, only Daniel - and there only a few chapters of Daniel (2 - 9 if I remember correctly) are written directly in Aramaic.
With the exception of those chapters of Daniel, the entire Old Testament was written in some time period of Hebrew - though some of ...
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I think the key to finding the true doctrine exists in scripture in Isaias 22:22 which then interprets Christ's own key in Matt 16:19 which leads to the church authority Christ advocated in Matt 18:17. Another way to determine correct Bible interpretation is to read first hand (to avoid the cherry pickers) the instructions and letters early church leaders ...
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not meaning to burst your bubble, but I don't think we're ever going to find out how old the earth is. Yes, there may be disputes about the age of the earth, but they're far from fruitful as no evidence will satisfy the evidence we need. Even IF carbon dating was accurate, we must look at the creation of the earth itself. When God created the earth, He ...
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When you take the time to research this idea, you will find that your general idea is pretty much correct. Certainly there is no evidence that any of Paul's letters were written in anything but Koine Greek.
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Gospel Truth
The practice of swearing an oath on the Bible sits in the uncomfortable median between secular and religious practice. John Bouvier explains the motivation behind the practice in his Law Dictionary:
OATH. A declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal or officer, to tell the truth; or it is the act of one who, when ...
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A very straight reading of Matthew and James would lead you to believe what Jeff wrote. But that may not be the end of it, or have anything to do at all with judicial oaths.
Christ meant, as the Fathers and ecclesiastical writers explain, to be so truthful that men could believe them without need of oath to confirm what they say. He did not forbid the ...
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Matthew 5:33-37 and James 5:12
The bible is clear that swearing on anything and taking oaths is sinful. The premise is that you should always be trustworthy. If you are known to always tell the truth, then you would not need additional corroboration or incentive that you are telling the truth.
Does it swearing an oath on the bible have any additional ...
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It can, yes.
The fourth commandment in the decalogue is, "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain," which in some readings is not to break an oath that has been made in the name of God. The consequence is that any such perjury, in this context, is then a mortal sin rather than a mundane sin.
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The Bible never explicitly refers to anything other than the angels and life on earth. This does not necessarily demand that there is no life elsewhere. It does suggest, however, that it was not important for us to know.
There is one passage which some have referenced as perhaps suggesting that there is life on another planet. That is in John 10:16
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Whatever trade He worked in ,one thing is for sure, He was in shape. His hands were heavily callused, from swinging a mallet and chisel for years. His arms and shoulders were defined. His back was well defined from hard strenuous work. No folks ,our Lord was not the skinny , no muscled person that most pictures depict. In fact ,He was in serious shape, from ...
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The question can not be answered as i stands, since the premise is wrong:
There is significant evidence and documentaries on how the Bible has
been augmented and parts removed by political leaders of the past in
attempt to control people. (Emphasis added)
In fact there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. Looking at the NT texts there are ...
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There are some confusion among Christians regarding Paradise, Heaven, Hell, lake of fire and Sheol. Already many questions are asked on these topics like; this, this,this and this.
I would like to explain what I understand about Heaven.
I believe that Paradise was a place where the Old Testament saints were waiting for Jesus to defeat Satan and bring them ...
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There's a difference between being in heaven completely (with body) and with soul only. We have biblical evidence for the first in case of Enoch (Genesis 5:24) and Elijah (2Kings 2:1-18), there is an apocryphal account of this happening to Moses (Assumption of Moses) and the tradition dogmatized in Catholic Church and believed by many in Orthodox Churches ...
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The main verse that people quote with regards to being in heaven immediately is the words of Jesus on the cross to the thief:
"I assure you: Today you will be with Me in paradise" Luke 23:43
Indicating that rather than just waiting until the 2nd coming, there is a paradise which people inhabit immediately upon death, similar to that spoken of in John ...
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"Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living." Genesis 3:20 (NIV).
So according to Genesis Eve was the mother of all living, so that means there were no other directly created people. Also Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, ...
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Let me bring up some unauthentic book.
The Book of Adam and Eve gives a good explanation to this confusion. The first son, Cain was born along with his twin sister Luluwa. The second son, Abel also had a twin sister Aklia. After Cain murdered Abel, Cain married his twin sister Luluwa.
As we know, the Bible rarely mentions the name of women, their is no ...
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The bulk of the teaching on tongues in the Bible is not in Acts, but in 1 Corinthians. While there are a couple of instances in Acts that do mention people speaking in tongues, only Acts 2 mention that the words are understood by the bystanders. In 1 Cor 12-14, it is clearly understood that tongues require interpretation in order to be understood.
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Well, of course you may believe whatever you would like, as there is no way to conclusively prove one way or the other (at least, no so that everyone will accept).
Now that my disclaimer is out of the way, I think the question is irrelevant. Genesis was never meant to be a documentary of how the earth or its inhabitants came into being. It is designed to ...
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I had this question myself a few years back, and spent quite a while reading through the Bible to get an answer. What I found was that there is no explicit mention of other life in the universe apart from what is on earth and the spiritual/heavenly realm.
And by spiritual realm I mean a wide category of creation mentioned in the Bible, from angels to demons ...
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According to the Bible, God created no other people besides Adam and Eve. Adam was created from the dust of the earth, while Eve was created from Adam (perhaps his rib).
Genesis 5 indicates that Adam and Eve had quite a few children. We have names for Cain, Abel, Seth, other sons (plural) and daughters (plural). So, at a minimum, they had seven ...
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This is not an answer but a scientific clarification, please delete if inappropriate. But since the OP asked
(correct me if I'm wrong)
Lights on earth are only visible from space if you are very close.
The only planets we can actually "see" are the ones in our solar system. As far as we know these don't carry any life at all
With the aid of Kepler ...
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