Firstborn meaning in the Tanakh as I cannot see how only the firstborn were killed [closed]
Was the word ‘firstborn’ in the Tanakh ever used to mean ‘the flower of Egypt,’ the pick of the pick,’ or ‘the best of the best.’?
Was the word ‘firstborn’ in the Tanakh ever used to mean ‘the flower of Egypt,’ the pick of the pick,’ or ‘the best of the best.’?
Note the apparent diversity of views in the NT about judging others:
We should not Judge
Matt 7:1, 2 – “Do not judge, or you will be judged. 2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it w…
Jesus appoints his teachers on earth. So the question is–do Jesus’ real teachers teach exactly what Jesus taught?
Matthew 6:33- Keep on seeking- FIRST- the kingdom and his( YHWH(Jehovah) righteousness and all these things will be added( …
Blockquote 15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Le…
Premise: YHWH (God) made all things
Isaiah 44:24 (NASB)
Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, YHWH, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all al…
We see over and over the nation of Israel – God’s chosen people, departing from God and following the world about them. Probably not necessary to list how they were warned against idolatry and foreign gods (etc.), but followed after them a…
I am struck that these words/concepts are used frequently in the New Testament by speakers (Jesus and Paul among others, including Romans 4:20), who would have been (presumably) speaking/thinking in Aramaic/Hebrew, and approaching their th…
It has been somewhat challenging for me to properly contextualize the choice of words in the Greek translation. Instances of "logos" appear quite often, one could argue almost systematic. This site has a helpful summary of all th…
ὁ νικῶν κληρονομήσει τὰ πάντα, καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῷ Θεός, καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται
μοι ὁ υἱός.
δειλοῖς δὲ καὶ ἀπίστοις καὶ ἐβδελυγμένοις καὶ φονεῦσι καὶ πόρνοις καὶ
φαρμακεῦσι καὶ εἰδωλολάτραις, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ψευδέσι, τὸ μέρος αὐτῶν ἐν
τῇ λίμνῃ τῇ καιο…
Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead? Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. Acts 26:8-9 New English Translation
Why did it see…
I am new to this site, so if someone has asked this, please accept it as a newbie move and denigrate not. (lol)
Caleb חלב means dog. How did Caleb know he was being called a human name, and not a dog (slur)?
Helev חלב means milk. How did H…
Jesus had no biological father and we know that, according to the Pentateuch, the tribal lineage is passed through the father and the mother’s genealogy is irrelevant. The argument of Zelophehad’s daughters is not valid that tribal heritag…