Tag Info

This is a two-part answer, because your question addresses two things: I should also make it clear up front that I am one of those unbeliever types. 1) Yes, wisdom from the bible can be beneficial to an unbeliever. Because wisdom from all sources is beneficial. As an unbeliever, no book holds a special place. This means that all sources can be analysed ...

The hebrew word for life in Proverbs is chay (חָי) and means life or alive (which doesn't seem to imply anything spiritual). In 1 John the word used is the greek word zóé (ζωήν) which means: life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. So in the literal sense the verse 1 John is talking about more than just physical ...

Try the very last verse of the book of John: Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. New International Version Beside that, it is obvious that much of the minutia of daily life is missing from the Bible.

I'm going to start with some base assumptions, because I sense that the atheists are going to have a field day with this, and I'm hoping to prevent this from turning into a debate on whether or not God exists, is good, etc. The assumptions are those that are necessary for this site. IMO, the debate over the assumptions on which this site are off-topic. ...

This is what Luther calls the theologia gloriae.1 The most obvious way to the cognition of God is to follow the footsteps of creation. The creation speaks a powerful language.2 Scholasticism has understood the natural cognition as a way of salvation.3 Scholastics think of God and man from the same viewpoint of natural causality and connect the cognition of ...

Proverbs 9:10 and Isaiah 33:6 are referring to the fear of offending the Lord or sinning. I believe in Genesis 15:1 God is telling Abraham that he does not need to have fear, because he did a good thing by rejecting the king of Sodom's reward in Genesis 14:21-24. The Catholic Bible states it pretty well when it says, "Lastly, the gift of fear fills us with ...

From Orthodox catechism 2 John 1:12 I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete. Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Matthew 28:19,20 ...

I may be wrong, but this doesn't so much sound like a question about Christianity as it is about human nature. I can think of four scenarios where I've heard people speak as if they know the mind of God. When we are asked a question, we feel compelled to give an answer. If we don't know the answer for sure, we tend to give an answer that we think SOUNDS ...

Proverbs 3:5-6 New International Version (NIV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; This tells me we really don't know anything and that there is much more than what is written. I remember working with children with disabilities and thinking this is what it must be like for God working with us, ...