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. Sleep The night was black, rain fallin' down Looked for my baby, she's nowhere around. Traced her footsteps down to the shore, 'fraid she's gone forever more. I looked at the sea and it seemed to say: I took your baby from you away. I heard a voice cryin' in the deep: Come join me, baby, in...

. 396) 2Tim 3:12-15 . .You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them; and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ...

. Eternal Life vs Immortality Eternal Life is often mistaken for Immortality. The two are not the same. Immortality pertains to a body that's immune to death. Eternal Life, on the other hand, pertains to a soul that's immune to death. It's possible for people to obtain eternal life prior to...

. 395) 2Tim 2:24b-26 . . The Lord's servant must . . be kind to all, apt to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them a change of heart leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape...

. 394) 2Tim 2:24a . . The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome The Greek word translated bond-servant means slave; ether voluntary or involuntary. Bond servants are different than captive slaves. A bond servant is typically someone who's entered into a service agreement with minimal...

. Soul ● Gen 2:7 . .The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul. The Hebrew word translated soul isn't unique to human life. Its first appearance is at Gen 1:20-21 in reference to aqua creatures...

. The Grave The Hebrew word sheol (sheh-ole') first appears in the Bible at Gen 37:35 where some versions translate it "grave" but although sheol includes the grave, there's a bit more to it than that. Jonah spent some time in sheol (Jonah 2:1-2). According to the information given in his...

. 393) 2Tim 2:23 . . Refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce debating. Not all speculation is forbidden; only the kind that's absurd and uneducated. I seriously doubt that 2Tim 2:23 is addressing one's IQ, but rather, the propensity of some to shoot from the lip...

. Abba ● Eph 1:4-5 . . He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will There are important differences between adopted kids and foster kids. The latter have no inheritance rights, they have no right to be known by a foster family's...

. 392) 2Tim 2:22 . . Flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on The Lord from a pure heart. "youthful" is translated from a Greek word which, in the USA, pertains to folks under the age of 18. But most folks are typically youthful way...

. His Rest ● Ex 31:16-17 . .The children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days The Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He...

. Hello; and welcome to a work-in-progress homespun collection of expressions frequently tossed about in Christian circles. Buen Camino (Pleasant Journey) _

. 391) 2Tim 2:19 . . Let everyone who names the name of The Lord abstain from wickedness. The wickedness he's talking about in this particular instance regards unskilled use of the Bible along with sophistry, conjecture, semantic double speak, wild-eyed posits, theories, flimsy science, and...

. 390) 2Tim 2:16 . . Avoid worldly, empty chatter; for it will lead to further impiety. The Greek word for "worldly" refers to heathenism, i.e. secular thinking. What he's talking about there are bull sessions wherein untrained people discussing the Bible haven't a clue what they're talking...

Christ's book of life-- a.k.a. the lamb's book of life --is mentioned in Rev 13:8 and Rev 21:27. I believe we can safely assume that when folks' names are transferred from God's book of life to Christ's book of life; it's all the same as transfer to the lamb's book of life; which is a huge...

. I've heard it suggested that God's book of life is not the same collection of names as Christ's book of life. Apparently everyone's name starts out in God's book of life and remains there until such a time as death catches up with them or when they get their names transferred to Christ's book...

. 389) 2Tim 2:15 . . Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Some folks construe rightly dividing the truth as instructions to keep the old testament completely separate from the new. But that's not even...

. 388) 2Tim 2:14 . . Command them in God's name to stop quarreling over trifles. In a Sean Connery movie titled "The Name Of The Rose" church dignitaries assembled a meeting of the minds to reach a resolution on a theological question which was: Did the Christ own the clothes that he wore or...

. 387) 2Tim 2:8 . . Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel There are Bible-toting missionaries out there going door to door all over the world teaching that Jesus Christ's crucified dead body wasn't restored to life; they're saying it's still...

. . Mother Teresa complained in private letters to spiritual counselors that she felt scarcely the slightest glimmer of The Lord's presence in India virtually the entire five decades she was there. The Lord's perpetual absence eventually led Teresa to question whether there really is a supreme...