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What does the Greek word θεότητος in Colossians 2:9 mean?
The Greek word θεότητος is translated differently in English Bibles:
Colossians 2:9
New Living Translation For in Christ lives all the fullness of God
in a human body.
New American Standard Bible For in Him all the fullness of Deity
dwells in…
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Where was Adam created?
Genesis 2 describes Adam being put in the Garden of Eden:
7then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden,…
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Why was, "for they were Ishmaelites" considered an explanation for why the Midianites had golden earrings in Judges 8:24?
Gideon's Ephod
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your
son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of
Midian.” Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son
will not rule over you;…
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What historical reasons resulted in Revelation being included in most Christian canons?
As a source, the book of Revelation is something of an outlier for a book of the Bible that got accepted into the canonical New Testament of most branches of Christianity: it is the only explicitly eschatological work in the New Testament, its date…
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We shall be like him because we shall see him as he is?
1 John 3:2:
Ἀγαπητοί νῦν τέκνα θεοῦ ἐσμεν, καὶ οὔπω ἐφανερώθη τί ἐσόμεθα. οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἐὰν φανερωθῇ, ὅμοιοι αὐτῷ ἐσόμεθα, ὅτι ὀψόμεθα αὐτὸν, καθώς ἐστιν. (UBS5)
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we…
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In Matt. 26:63–65, Why is Jesus’ admission to being the “Son of God” equated with “blasphemy”?
In Matt. 26:63–65, Jesus effectively admits to being the “son of God” according to his response to the chief priest, (i.e., “You said.”).
English translation:
63 But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, “I put You under…
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Use of "I, even I" and similar phrases
Looking at Ezekiel 6:3 as an example, this sort of phrasing has always intrigued me:
and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I,…
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Proper translation of John 1:1
Is there any particular reason why "kai Theós ēn ho Lógos" is translated "and the Word was God" and not "and God was the Word"?
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Did Matthew intend “evil” or “the evil one” in the Lord’s Prayer?
I previously asked a question about how to understand these words in the language Jesus was originally speaking. However, the text we have is in Greek, and I realized I’m not as familiar with the assessment of the Greek text here as I’d like to…
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Who was a greater king: Hezekiah or Josiah?
About Hezekiah, we read in 2 Kings 18:5-6:
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to the LORD and did not cease to follow him; he kept…
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Different meanings of 'Earth' in Genesis 1
The word הארץ ('the earth') appears a very large number of times in the six-day creation account spanning Genesis 1:1 to 2:1.
It seems clear to me that the usages in 1:1 and 2:1 are special - the only two cases where the word forms part of the…
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What is the internal evidence that Peter provided source material for Mark's gospel?
I am aware that there are a number of early church fathers who made this connection (e.g. see Eusebius and others including Irenaeus, Justin, Clement, Origen, and more cited in this blog post). Is there also material internal to Mark's gospel to…
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Was Moses the probable author of Genesis?
I've been operating under the assumption that Moses was the author the book of Genesis (or at least the recorder of a bunch of oral traditions).
This document suggests a different view.…
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What does "The LORD said to my Lord" mean in Psalm 110?
This phrase has perplexed me a little bit. It's a psalm that was quoted by both Jesus (Matt 22:44, Mark 12:36, Luke 20:42) and Peter (Acts 2:34).
Psalm 110:1 ESV The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your…
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In John 21:7, is Peter naked, and does he put on a coat before diving into the water?
John 21:7 reads
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λέγει οὖν ὁ μαθητὴς ἐκεῖνος ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς τῷ Πέτρῳ· Ὁ κύριός
ἐστιν. Σίμων οὖν Πέτρος, ἀκούσας ὅτι ὁ κύριός ἐστιν, τὸν ἐπενδύτην
διεζώσατο, ἦν γὰρ γυμνός, καὶ ἔβαλεν ἑαυτὸν εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν·
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Therefore that…
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