Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
Is there any reference to the gender of the nephilim in the Bible?
From what I understand they have been created by sons of God with the women of men (Genesis 6:4 ESV):
The Nephilima were on the earth in those days, and also afterward…
Genesis is included in the Torah, which is the first five books of the Bible. Joshua 8:31 says that Moses wrote the Torah:
And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he [Joshua] wrote on the stones a copy of the law [torah] of…
Nigel J in answering a Question about Gen 3: 22 Translation said:
The big question is ‘How does God live ? By the knowledge of good and
evil ? ‘
This is answered by Young’s Literal Translation (see his prefaces
regarding the Waw conversiv…
In the "chapter of three deaths" (Deborah, Rachel, and Isaac), there is this brief and enigmatic verse: "But Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonb…
KJV Genesis 11 : 29
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Closely related:Who is Iscah in Gene…
Pneuma 43 (2021) 135–166 Book Reviews ∵ Amos Yong, Mission after Pentecost: The Witness of the Spirit from Genesis to Revela- tion(Grand Rapids, MI:…
Pneuma 43 (2021) 135–166 Book Reviews ∵ Amos Yong, Mission after Pentecost: The Witness of the Spirit from Genesis to Revela- tion(Grand Rapids, MI:…
Elohim and ὁ θεὸς in Genesis 1
The creation account in Genesis begins with a plural word, elohim to identify God:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1 ESV)
בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
Elohim contin…
If we read the Bible, God’s days start at sunset. God’s months start with a new moon (lunar calendar). The Jews in the O.T. & N.T. followed God’s lunar calendar, based on the new moon. The seventh day, the Sabbath, was never on the sam…
In Genesis 25 we meet Isaac who marries Rebecca. Rebecca conceives and gives birth to twins Esau and Jacob. Isaac is above sixty years of age when the chapter closes.
Genesis 25 NASB
20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, …
Paul states in Romans 4:22 that there was a reason that righteousness was imputed to Abraham (‘therefore’). The reason (or reasons) are stated in 4:16-21:
He believed God (who quickens the dead and calls those things that be not as thoug…
Paul argues in Galatians that circumcision obligates one to keep the whole of Torah:
Gal 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and
do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Gal 5:2 Look: I, Paul, say
to y…