Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
I found the name “El-Shaddai” mysterious, but while going over Genesis, found the following passage (Gen 49) Wikisource translation
From the god of your fathers, and he will help you, and the Shaddai, and He will bless you, blessing on…
The Hebrew words תֹהוּ and וָבֹהוּ are translated to empty/formless and void in Genesis 1, but that isn’t what they mean.
In my research, I have found that one of the two words is unknown, and the other means chaos or waste. Throughout my …
I heard explained that it means that the LORD will still extend mercy in spite of sins. I have also heard that it means just the opposite-that an extended hand in ancient Near Eastern context means a hand administering punishment, or, at …
In the Old Testament, when someone dies, he is sometimes said to be "gathered to his people" or a close variant:
Genesis 15:15 As for you [Abraham], you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
Ge…
I was just reading a few stories pointing at medieval art that conceived of what was written in Aramaic on the cross and that Pilate had put the four words “Jesus the-nazorean, and-king of-the-jews”. There’s this claim that his formulation…
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…
I am aware of singular verbs with plural subjects in the third person, masculine, singular. Such as Exodus 4:29, but I am wondering if there is a 1cs that has a plural subject?
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Exodus 4:29 Moses and Aa…
Genesis 1:26 New International Version
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over a…
Early Christians linked the sacrifice of the Eucharist with the sacrifice described in Malachi 1. In the King James Version, this passage relevant reads
10 … I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an o…
Exodus 33:20 (DRB):
And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live.
Did Moses say that he wants to “see the Face of the LORD” or he wants to “see the LORD”?
The LORD says in verse 20:
Thou canst…
In Jeremiah 34:14, we read that a Hebrew slave which has served six years must be let go at the end of the seventh year:
Jer 34:14:
מִקֵּץ שֶׁבַע שָׁנִים תְּֽשַׁלְּחוּ אִישׁ אֶת־אָחִיו הָעִבְרִי אֲשֶֽׁר־יִמָּכֵר לְךָ וַעֲבָֽדְךָ שֵׁשׁ שָׁ…
We are initial told that when God created humankind he made him in his image and likeness.
Genesis 1:26 ESV
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over th…