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- ● Jonah 1:17 . .The Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. ● Matt 12:40 . . As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of...

- One of the New Testament Greek words for redemption is apolutrosis (ap-ol oo'-tro-sis); which means: to ransom in full. Another is lutrosis (loo'-tro-sis); which means: a ransoming. ● 1Tim 2:5-6 . . Christ Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all. A ransom can be defined as a consideration...

- Melchizedek was a high priest of the Most High God contemporary with Abraham. (Gen 4:18-20, Heb 5:10) Mel, along with Abraham, existed prior to the covenanted law that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. ● Deut 5:2-4 . .Yhvh our God made a...

- ● Luke 2:8-12 . .And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. . . . But the angel said to them; "Don't be afraid. I bring you...

- God is not in the habit of sweeping sins under the rug. ● Ex 34:6-7 . . Yhvh, Yhvh God: compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness and truth; who keeps loving kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave...

- The Bible says that Christ was restored to life for our justification. (Rom 4:25) The Greek word for justification is dikaiosis (dik-ah'-yo-sis) which essentially means acquittal-- a legal term that can be roughly defined as the act of adjudicating that a person is not guilty. In other words...

- ● John 3:5 . . Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to you; no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. It is commonly assumed that the water Christ spoke of in John 3:5 refers to the ritual of Christian baptism. There's no excuse for an error of that magnitude...

- Yom Kippur is not a day to celebrate. It's a day to afflict oneself; which Webster's defines as causing distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering and/or anguish. (Lev 16:29, 16;31, 23;27, and 23:32) The penalty for failure to cause oneself persistent suffering and/or anguish is...

- ● 1Pet 3:15 . . Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. That passage should probably always accompany this next one. ● Rom 8:23-25 . .We ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly...

- The Greatest (a.k.a. Cassius Clay) followed a spiritual philosophy called Universal Sufism. If the Bible has it right, then the three-time heavyweight boxing champion is now coping with something far, far worse than Parkinson's disease. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

- Transubstantiation is a process wherein the elements of communion (a.k.a. species) are transformed into Christ's body and blood; which, if true, is a tremendous advantage for Catholics. Here's why. ● John 6:53-54 . . Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and...

- ● Matt 8:21-22 . . Another disciple said to him: Lord, first let me go and bury my father. But Jesus told him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead. The incident tells me that not all commandments are equal. In other words; the commandment to honor God trumps the commandment to...

- The dead are mentioned four times in the scene depicted at Rev 20:11-15 while the living aren't mentioned even once and that's because Christ testified at John 5:24 that the living never have to worry about being put on trial for things they've done that are hell-worthy. In other words: none...

- Human life is susceptible to death; viz: human life is a kind of life that's very easy to exterminate. Eternal life is quite a bit different than human life. It's impervious to death; hence eternal life is impossible to exterminate. If that were not true, it would be possible to assassinate...

- ● Gen 26:5 . . Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My instructions. ● Deut 29:13-14 . . Not only with you am I making this covenant and this oath, .but with those standing here with us today before the Lord, our God, and [also] with those who...

- Prince started out in life as a Seventh Day Adventist. Sometime around 2001 he joined the Jehovah's Witnesses; which is the missionary arm of the Watchtower Society. According to the Society's theology, human life is entirely physical. In other words; people experience no conscious existence...

- As a Christian missionary, abroad representing Christ, Rome's poster child, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (a.k.a. Mother Teresa) is a terrible disappointment. It turns out Teresa was a remarkable actor. Her public image bore no resemblance whatsoever to the secret life of her inner being. Below are...

- The Watch Tower Society says that Christ's crucified body is still dead and its remains are squirreled away somewhere on earth in a condition, and a location, known only to God. Opinion among traditional Christians vary. Some say Christ's crucified body was restored to life normally; viz: in...

- †. 1Cor 1:3 . . Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. I seriously doubt the average rank and file pew warmer even knows what grace is. I suspect that most are under the impression that grace is somehow a quantifiable substance like butter and gasoline; but in...