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How would stoning of an adulterer actually be carried out under the Law of Moses?
How would stoning of an adulterer actually be carried out under the Law of Moses?
In John Chapter 8 there is the familiar story of how Jesus prevented a stoning of a woman who had committed adultery. I know that many think this was not in the…
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Exodus 6:3 - what is the significance of God's different names in the Tanakh?
Exodus 6:3:
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of
God Almighty, but by My name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. (KJV)
This is a strange and unique verse in the Bible since it's an explicit recognition of the fact…
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Is there a difference between "the devil" and "Satan" in the Synoptic Gospels?
While answering a question about the words σατανᾶς (satanas, Satan – transliterated from Hebrew śāṭān) and διάβολος (diabolos, devil) in the New Testament, I ran into another question for which I have no answer: is there any distinction between…
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Is David's name at the beginning of the Psalms intended as an attribution of authorship?
Many† of the Psalms begin with some variation of:
מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִ֑ד
LXX: Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυιδ
ESV: A psalm of David
However, as mentioned in Part (2) of this answer about Psalm 72:20, the translation of the lamed preposition (or the Greek dative)…
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What kind of event is being depicted in 1 Thessalonians 4:17?
In 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Paul writes that, "We who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." Is this describing what some call a "rapture" or is there some other kind of event being…
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Are there two distinct words [‘lexemes’] for ‘fish’ in Jonah 2?
Jonah 2:1 (Eng. 1:17) says that God appointed דָּ֣ג גָּד֔וֹל (dāg gādôl, 'a great fish') to swallow Jonah. The following verse tells of Jonah crying out from the belly of הַדָּגָֽה (haddāgâ, 'the fish’). There is an extra qāmets-he on the end of the…
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Who are the "kings of the earth"?
In the book of Revelation, it sometimes seems like the term "kings of the earth” is used to refer to the chosen ones, but in other verses it looks like they are the damned ones.
The chosen ones:
Revelation 1:5
... Jesus Christ, the faithful…
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How many wives does Deuteronomy allow a king to have?
According to Deuteronomy 17:14-17, there are limits to a king's possessions:
When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, "I will set a king over me, like all…
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In Luke 11:50-51, why does Luke seem to refer to Abel as a "prophet"?
In the gospel of Luke at Chapter 11:50-51 (NIV), Jesus refers to Abel as a "prophet." I am not aware of any scripture spoken by Abel, which would prove that he is a prophet,but the words of Jesus clearly say,Abel is a prophet,as written in the…
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Comparison of English word "fool" in original Hebrew and Greek
Question is based on this comment on Christiantity SE.
In the OT, the word fool is apparently used to describe atheists:
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 53:1.
However, in the NT, Jesus clearly warns against…
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Does baptizing come after discipling in Matthew 28:19?
Matthew 28:19 (ESV) reads:
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
In the Greek, (according to Blue Letter Bible) that's:
πορευθέντες οὖν μαθητεύσατε πάντα…
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Is Keller's view of the father in the Prodigal Son parable a reasonable interpretation?
In Tim Keller's book "The Prodigal God", Keller points out a fairly incredible dichotomy between older and younger brothers - and the parallels between these categories and our society.
In the final part of the book - he extends this to the father -…
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Why does Paul get annoyed with the slave girl in Acts 16?
The story in Acts 16 of the demon-possessed slave girl is a curious story to me for many reasons. If it's better to break up my questions into several, I can do so; but for now I'd like to keep them as one since I suspect the answers will be…
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Why did David and Jonathan need the arrow signal?
Just before David left Saul's service for the last time, he and Jonathan arraigned a way to communicate with one another in code:
Jonathan, out of his love for David, adjured him again, for he loved him as himself. Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow…
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What Scriptures is Paul referring to in 1 Cor 15:4
In 1 Cor, when Paul is laying out the the tradition of the resurrection to his readers, he lays out a tradition with his own testimony at the end.
1Cr 15:3-8 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for…
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