Is Unwed Pregnancy a Sin?
What do you all think of this? Steve Webb [01/09/2016 7:35 PM]Unless the title is misleading and the article states otherwise…I think it’s leading…
What do you all think of this? Steve Webb [01/09/2016 7:35 PM]Unless the title is misleading and the article states otherwise…I think it’s leading…
Luke 23:34 (DRA) (emphasis added)
34 And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.
Addressing the Father, Jesus acknowledges God’s ability to forgive their sin (…
I have a question on the translation of Galatians 3:22. Most English translations give something like the NIV gives:
But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith…
In Jesus’ conversation with Pilate in John 19:11, responding to his question, “Don’t you know that I have the authority….to crucify you?” Jesus answers:
“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from abov…
Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV):
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— …
(NET) Matt 5:19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands
and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of
heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be
called great in the king…
Sorry, I know bible scriptures that mention God repenting, and other verses about God Never repenting has been brought up a number of times on this site in order to harmonize/reason how the said verses can be taken as a whole withOut contradicting each other:
Is there a contradiction between 1 Samuel 15:29 and 1 Samuel 15:35?
Numbers 23:19 Says God doesn’t repent, Exodus 32:14 Says He repented?
Does God have regret or not in 1st Samuel 15?
However, I wanted to bring in the use of literary devices.
1 Samuel 15:29 says that God neither lies nor repents since He is not a man.
(1 Samuel 15:29)
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. KJV, ©1769
And yet, in 1 Samuel 15:35, it says that God indeed repented (for making Saul king over Israel).
(1 Samuel 15:35)
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he
had made Saul king over Israel. KJV, ©1769
(Numbers 23:19 (KJV))
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he
spoken, and shall he not make it good?
(Exodus 32:14 (KJV))
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Could we say that the contradiction between the aforementioned could be associated with literary devices of hyperbole, figure of speech? In other words, for God to repent or to regret something to do with his actions is so disturbing to God Himself that is why Samuel says in 1 Samuel 15:29 that God “will not lie nor repent” ?
[KJV]2 Samuel 21:
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the…
The Book of Jonah begins with God’s call to the famous reluctant prophet:
“Arise, go to Nin′eveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their
wickedness has come up before me.”
As far as I can tell the nature of this wickedness is not…
Hebrews 9 compares the annual sacrifice of the high priest (v. 7) to the greater, one-time sacrifice of Jesus (vv. 11-14). In verse 7, the writer states (NKJV, emphasis mine):
But into the second part the high priest went alone once a yea…
Rom. 5:14 says:
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
In what way did death reign from Adam to Moses whe…
“Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.”
Exodus 23:21
Is this saying the messenger has the ability to forgive but won’t or is …