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Is Jesus atoned for us?
English grammar is pretty fluid, especially in poetry. The proper way to attach subject, verb, and object here is:
He atoned for us
Thus Jesus performed the actions that accomplished the atonement ...
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What did "one baptism" in the Nicene Creed mean back then?
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. ...
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Meaning of cross with Jesus on both sides
A double-sided crucifix has the same religious significance as a single-sided one. It is an artistic device that enables the image of Jesus to been seen from two sides. This is particularly useful in ...
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Help interpreting a Christian allusion in Willa Cather's 'One of Ours'
My non-authoritative interpretation is that this is a preacher that takes pride in his righteousness, including forbidding alcohol at weddings. Then, when he thought about the similar situation in ...
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What is the meaning of 'scandalous' associated with the crucifixion of Jesus?
Perhaps the closest biblical connection is to 1 Corinthians 1:23:
we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles (ESV)
Ravi Zacharias makes this connection in an ...
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Is Jesus atoned for us?
Hymns and grammar
The language of traditional hymns can take a while to get used to, since for rhyming purpose the grammatical parts are frequently moved around, especially the verbs, which are moved ...
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Meaning of the word "sons" in "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"?
TL;DR: One possibility is that it just means "humans". Another (thanks, Paul!) is that it refers to divisions of time.
Longer answer:
Who is being borne away? If they are being borne away by ...
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What did "one baptism" in the Nicene Creed mean back then?
What did "one baptism" in the Nicene Creed meant back then?
Before going on I would like to point out a huge over looked historical fact about the First Council of Nicene of 325: The acts of ...
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What Does St. Francis de Sales Mean by "Sounding Periods" in Sermons?
I had never heard that phrase before. Here is an article about techniques of public speaking which uses the term in context.
It seems that “sounding periods” is a type of lofty and maybe pompous ...
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Meaning of the word "sons" in "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"?
This article informs us that Watt's song was based on Psalm 90:
https://blog.reformedjournal.com/2015/01/03/time-like-an-ever-rolling-stream/
The original had three more verses that are seldom sung ...
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What is the difference between "love" and "worship"? Do "love God" and "worship God" mean the same thing?
C.S. Lewis had trouble with the idea of praise and worship, as if God were continually seeking compliments from us. He warmed up to the idea slowly. See this:
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/...
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How do Lutherans interpret Matthew 15:11?
In Matthew 15:11, Jesus was responding to the Pharisees who said:
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat." - Matthew 15:2 ESV
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What is the meaning of "excellent things" in Proverbs 22:20
After comparing this verse with the New International Version and the New Living Translation Bible, it seems that the meaning of the Hebrew word used is uncertain. Both the NIV and the NLT translate ...
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Why is "Your will be done" not redundant?
In Christian theology, God is thought of as expressing His will in more than one way.
This article goes into some of those categories from a Reformed perspective:
https://www.monergism.com/discerning-...
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Why is "Your will be done" not redundant?
The Lord's prayer as our daily statement of purpose and petition for support
My faith tells me that everything happens according to the Lord's will anyway, so why pray asking for this to happen if I ...
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What is the difference between "love" and "worship"? Do "love God" and "worship God" mean the same thing?
'Faith worketh by love' we are told, Galatians 5:6, and also it is written that 'Love is of God,' 1 John 4:7. So faith is of God.
Thus it may, sometimes, be difficult to discern between the two, I ...
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What is the difference between "love" and "worship"? Do "love God" and "worship God" mean the same thing?
No, they don't mean the same things. My own view is love -> worship + something else. But worship can also arise from non-love sources (something-non-love -> worship). Conceptually, I see ...
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What is the difference between obeisance and worship?
The best way to address this question is to start with definitions.
Definition of obeisance
1 : a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow
//After making his obeisances he ...
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Is naturalistic cosmology pointing us back to viewing stars as gods (similar to how pagans did), crediting stars with giving meaning to the universe?
A lot of the scientific literature I've read, since Asimov on (things I can comprehend, popular science, not the hard stuff) seem to make this assertion; the way scientists describes stars make them ...
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Which religions is this song inspired by and what do the metaphors/symbols mean?
The lyrics of this song suggest ideas of rebirth and reincarnation, which is neither Christian, Jewish nor Islamic but can be found within Buddhism, Hinduism and new age spirituality.
Rebirth in ...
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Help interpreting a Christian allusion in Willa Cather's 'One of Ours'
The idea is contrasting their current attitude toward alcohol versus Christ's action in creating alcohol at the wedding in Cana. It is the false idea that abstaining from alcohol makes one more purer,...
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The Meaning of St. Philip Neri's "to Despise being Despised''
I think translation is partly the issue. A 1902 biography by Father Bacci, The Life of Saint Philip Neri: Apostle of Rome, and Founder of the Congregation of the Oratory Vol. 1 Chapter XVII (Of ...
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The Meaning of St. Philip Neri's "to Despise being Despised''
To despise something is to feel deep contempt for it.
Therefore, if you despise being despised, you feel deep contempt for it.
Consider the case if someone told you that if you gave to a charity, &...
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Is the hymn "I Gave My Life For Thee" inaccurate?
Whoever named the tune for the hymn "KENOSIS" (see bottom right corner here), made a theological opinion that this hymn is about Kenosis, recalling a hymn embedded in Phil 2:6-11, esp. verse ...
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What is the purpose of typology in the Bible?
Not all analogies between OT and NT character / event / story qualify to be interpreted as typological relationship. We should be guided by how Jesus and NT authors themselves use them, or probably ...
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Is naturalistic cosmology pointing us back to viewing stars as gods (similar to how pagans did), crediting stars with giving meaning to the universe?
He puts the horse before the cart. Only when you have an extant universe can it be populated with cosmic bodies. How can a star exist before the universe? You need to first have a universe before a ...
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Is naturalistic cosmology pointing us back to viewing stars as gods (similar to how pagans did), crediting stars with giving meaning to the universe?
You need go no further in your search for "points to make about where science should end, and speculation based on atheistic interpretation [should begin]" than to consider the Christian ...
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What is the difference between "love" and "worship"? Do "love God" and "worship God" mean the same thing?
The word 'worship' and the word 'worth' have common roots. To worship, in its essence, is to assign worth. It is the result of a 'rightly ordered soul' where God is in first place (i.e., the first ...
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