Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
Can the Holy Spirit, the Person, be a "medium" (be filled with) and an "agent" (gave the utterance) at the same time?
English translations added "the" and capitalized the first letter "S" arbitrarily…
Irrespective of whether one believes in Gap theory or not we see that the word Bara and asa is used several times in Genesis interchangeably. What confuses me is how are we to understand the actual meaning of the word in the text. Eg. in G…
Galatians 3:19,
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
What is the relationship with angels…
Ephesians 3:3b "as I have already written briefly."
Does Paul mean earlier in that very letter (seems unlikely he would feel the need to say that) or is it a previous letter to the Ephesians that we do not have, or something else…
“BAPTISM 125 THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF IN THE SPIRIT” Fr. Peter Hocken argued process experienced at Fuller, I of Jesus Christ and The…
I have appreciated the information on this site regarding the meaning of ἄφεσις and I am trying to compare that information to an accurate definition of χαρίζομαι. There may be no significance in the comparison and yet there might be. I ha…
In John 11:16, it is written,
ΙϚʹ εἶπεν οὖν Θωμᾶς ὁ λεγόμενος Δίδυμος τοῖς συμμαθηταῖς Ἄγωμεν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἵνα ἀποθάνωμεν μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ TR, 1550
which may be translated as,
16 Then Thomas (who is called “Didymos”) said to his fellow-di…
What does it mean by " turning the children to their fathers and turning the fathers to their children"in Malachi 4:6
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…
The word Armageddon appears only once in New Testament in Revelation 16:16. Is this a Greek word or a Hebrew word? What does this word mean?
Jude verse 13 speaks of those who are… “wandering stars for whom blackest darkness has been reserved” (NIV) or “wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever” (KJV).
My interest is in the meaning of “blackest d…
What are the possible renderings of ‘Spirit of Christ” in 1 Peter 1:11 –
(BLB) inquiring into what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
in them was signifying, testifying beforehand of the sufferings of
Christ and the glories after…