Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
Jeremiah 46:2-12 foretells Necho’s defeat at Carchemish, which indisputably happened. The fulfillment of verses 13-26, on the other hand, is a tad bit unclear.
This second Egypt-concerned message prophesies a "coming of Nebuchadnezzar…
Is there a legitimate contextual comparison between what Jesus teaches in Matthew 18:15-20 (certain disciplinary functions working in an assembly of people in God’s name) and the text in John 20:21-23? (That is, are both texts referring to…
As part of my daily Bible reading, I was going through Psalm 44, which contains a very familiar verse from Paul’s writings:
22 Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
As some…
John 3:13, 14
13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up (NRSVue)
My real question is whether δεῖ + …
As I was thinking about the cultural view of women’s hair in the modern Middle East, and in the Ancient Near East too, it raised significant questions for me about the story in Luke 7:36-50 (I’m interested in added cultural or historical c…
In Revelation 20:2, John links the satan and the serpent:
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
A couple preliminary questions: Is the reference to "that ancient …
Acts 2:36 (ESV):
36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ. When did this happen?
In Genesis 3 the Hebrew word ‘nachash’ meaning the shining one has been rendered ‘snake’ or ‘serpent’. What possible ground is there for such renditions?
Wikipedia summarizes a traditional “Biblical Theology” approach to interpreting the Bible as follows:
Biblical theology seeks to understand the progressive unfolding of God’s special revelation throughout history… Biblical theology i…
In Rev 4:6 and 5:6 it says these are the 7 spirits of God. In Rev 4:5 it states that the lampstands are the 7 Spirits of God then in 5:6 it states that the 7 horns and the 7 eyes are the 7 Spirits of God.
Rev 4:5 – From the throne came f…
Question about the term δράκων in passages such as Revelation 12:3 and Revelation 13:4 and Revelation 16:13.
(I am not asking about the symbolic meaning of whom or what the Dragon represented, as that can be seen in answers to other questi…
The Egerton papyrus has a version of Jesus’s healing of the leper that adds further information at the beginning and end:
Egerton 1 recto (35)
And behold, a leper came, saying, “Rabbi
Jesus, I traveled with lepers and ate with them at the…