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In Acts 7:56 why does Stephen see Jesus "standing"?
and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man ~standing~ at the right hand of God.” Acts 7:56 (NASB)
All of the time, except for this time, Jesus sits at the right hand side of God.
Why is He standing rather than sitting?
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Why does the Greek Septuagint of Genesis 34:3 refer to Dinah as a virgin?
In relation to a question, Does Isaiah 7:14 refer to a virgin?
καὶ προσέσχεν τῇ ψυχῇ Δινας τῆς θυγατρὸς Ιακωβ καὶ ἠγάπησεν τὴν παρθένον καὶ ἐλάλησεν κατὰ τὴν διάνοιαν τῆς παρθένου αὐτῇ
Greek Septuagint of Genesis 34:3
To translate a Hebrew word…
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Why did God accept Abel's offering but reject Cain's?
Gen 4:3-7 details the account of Cain and Abel's offerings to God. Why did God accept Abel's Sacrifice but not Cain's? I have come up with the following possibilities but not sure which is right.
God cursed the ground and thus sacrifices from it…
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Why does Jesus tell the Samaritan woman to "Go, call your husband"?
When the Samaritan woman finally accepts Jesus' offer of living water, he says to her: "Go, call your husband and come here." (John 4:16)
Why doesn't Jesus just give her his living water?
The new focus on her husband and marital status seems…
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How should ἱλαστήριον (hilasterion) be translated in Romans 3:25?
The word ἱλαστήριον (hilasterion) is often translated in Romans 3:25 as "propitiation," "atonement," or "sacrifice [of atonement]" in Western conservative biblical translations. In Hebrews 9:5 it is generally translated as "mercy seat" or "atonement…
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Why does God say he revealed his name, Yahweh, only to Moses?
Responding to the meta call for contradiction In Exodus 6:2 we find the following quote:
And God spoke to Moses and said to him
I am Yahweh. And I showed to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as El-Shaddai, and by my name, 'Yahweh', I did not make…
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What is the significance of both the priest and the Levite in the Good Samaritan parable?
In the Good Samaritan parable (Luke 10:25-37), the first two people who see the beaten up man are a priest and a Levite. However, a priest is a member of the Levite tribe.
So why include both since they are (somewhat) interchangeable? Jesus could…
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"Overcome" vs "comprehend" in John 1:5
John 1:5 reads in the ESV:
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
I recently heard the KJV quoted and was struck by the difference:
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
In the…
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What was the "yoke" that neither the disciples nor their fathers could bear?
Acts 15:10 Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner…
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Why is the light in day 1 of creation not an 'it'?
Throughout Genesis 1 there are two repeated refrains:
ויהי כן
7And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. ESV
9And God said, “Let the waters under…
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Did Luke use Josephus as a source?
Richard Carrier summarizes an argument made by Steve Mason in his book Josephus and the New Testament that Luke knew of Josephus' Jewish War (79 CE) and Jewish Antiquities (94 CE). At it's core, the argument stems from a similar purpose behind the…
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Did Jesus call God YHWH?
In Matthew 27:45-46 Jesus is recorded as saying:
Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?
Based on Jesus the Phoenician Jesus called God 'EL'—which is a Phoenician God—when he was on the cross. Is this claim true or false? Did Jesus call God YHWH?
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What is the oldest existing copy of Genesis?
This answer https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/18933/what-are-the-oldest-surviving-manuscripts-of-the-scriptures mentions the Nash Papyrus which doesn't contain Genesis and the Codex Sinaiticus which does (but that's more than just…
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How was "let him take up his cross" understood by Jesus's audience?
Matthew 16:24
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Εἴ τις θέλει ὀπίσω μου ἐλθεῖν, ἀπαρνησάσθω ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἀράτω τὸν
σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀκολουθείτω μοι.
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If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his
cross and follow me.
Luke 9:23 is similar. See…
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What was Onan's sin?
Genesis 38:6-11 (NJPS):
Judah got a wife for Er his first-born; her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah’s first-born, was displeasing to the Lord, and the Lord took his life. Then Judah said to Onan, “Join with your brother’s wife and do your duty by her…
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