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When did Jesus receive authority over heaven and earth?
Matthew 28:18 NASB (After Jesus has risen from the dead & meets His disciples again):
All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
There is already a question on SE on what this authority is. My question is when this authority came…
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How did Biblical translators decide on cypress for the type of wood in Noah's ark?
Reading from Genesis 6:14 (NRSV):
Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover
it inside and out with pitch.
There is a note at "cypress" which says:
Meaning of Hebrew uncertain.
In the New Interpreter's Study Bible,…
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In the gospel of John is it reasonable to make the following connection?
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
The Word was God
“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”
John 17:17
God’s Word is truth
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and…
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What is the significance of Ezekiel's description of God's heavenly chariot in chapter 1?
Chapter 1 of Ezekiel contains a famous description of God's heavenly chariot (the maaseh merkava):
...as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were
opened, and I saw visions of God... And I looked, and, behold, a
stormy wind…
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Where did Samuel come from when he was summoned by the Medium of En-dor?
Appropriate to today, I was thinking about the time when Saul visited the Medium of En-dor in 1 Samuel 28:8-14 (ESV):
So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he…
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Did 70 or 75 people go down to Egypt with Jacob?
Acts 7:14 states that "Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all." This seems to contradict Deut. 10:22, Ex. 1:5; and Gen. 46:27 which all say it was 70 persons. What accounts…
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What did Job believe?
Job 9:2 says:
In truth I know that this is so; But how can a man be in the right before God?
Is this a rhetorical question, or he is sincerely wondering how to be justified before God? Depending on who you ask, Job may have been pre-Abraham or…
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If a "house divided cannot stand" how did non-disciples cast out demons?
Really what I'm getting at is two lines of reasoning I see in gospel accounts that seem to contradict one another.
In particular I'm thinking of the pericope in which Jesus is accused of casting out demons by Beelzebul, and the one where Jesus…
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Genesis 3:12: What is the underlying Hebrew word translated into English as "with me" (in KJV)?
In Genesis 3:12, is the underlying Hebrew word, translated into English as "with me" (in the KJV), supposed to be Strong's H5978 as the HCSB and HiSB suggests, or Strong's H5973 as the KJV suggests?
Hebrew text:
וַיֹּאמֶר הָֽאָדָם הָֽאִשָּׁה אֲשֶׁר…
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Why did the Samaritans worship God in Mount Gerissim rather than Jerusalem?
In John chapter 4, Jesus has a discussion with a woman of Samaria:
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to…
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Was Ezekiel 37 understood as a prophecy of a literal Resurrection?
Ezekiel 37 presents a dramatic picture of a valley of bones being resurrected. The natural Christian interpretation is that it is an image of the day of the Lord when the righteous will be brought physically back to life. But it isn't clear that…
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Are there scriptural warrants for using the rule of first mention?
The rule of fist mention is used by various forms of allegorical interpretation. Rather than inventing an allegorical meaning, clues are taken from the first mention.
For example: Garments are interpreted to represent either righteousness, or works…
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What signs does Q show of stages of composition?
Regarding the Jesus Seminar, N.T. Wright writes in Jesus and the Victory of God:
Great reliance has been placed on the work of John Kloppenborg, who has painstakingly analysed the Q material into its supposed three stages of composition.
This is…
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What is the difference between ζωὴ and ψυχὴ?
The word "life" appears in most translations of John 12:25 three times. For example, in the ESV:
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
However, the Greek (SBL) uses two different…
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What is the best interpretation of the “finger of God” in the Old Testament?
The "finger of God" as used in the Old Testament seems to depict two diversely annotated acts of God.
First, in Exodus 8:16–20, during the plagues of Egypt, it is used by the Egyptian priests to express the superiority of God’s power over…
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