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Does Romans 4:17 speak of God calling things into existence?
Rom 4:16-17:
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring — not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,…
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When did, "Satan fall from Heaven like lightning." Luke 10:18?
A couple of recent questions regarding Satan/devil on this site, has prompted me to ask a related question.
In Luke 10:17 after the seventy-two returned,they say to Jesus (NIV),
"Lord,even the demons submit to us in your name."
In verse 18 Jesus…
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What is the point of Ezekiel not mourning his wife?
Ezekiel does a lot of strange things at the behest of Yahweh. One of the most poignant is set out in 24:16 (ESV):
"Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall…
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Why does Exodus 3 refer to "the angel of the LORD"?
Exodus 3:2 (ESV):
And the angel of the LORD (malʾak yhwh) appeared to [Moses] in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
It seems pretty clear from what follows that the individual in the bush is YHWH himself.1
When the LORD saw that he…
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What was the intention behind Jesus stating that he is "lord of the Sabbath?"
Matthew 12:1-8 ESV
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing…
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What is the significance of the names of the pillars in Solomon's temple?
The Bible doesn't include extraneous, meaningless information, and names have great significance in the Old Testament. 2 Chronicles 3:17 records,
[Solomon] set up the two pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one to the south of the entrance and…
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Why do some Bibles say 'Canaanites' in Zechariah 14:21, while other say 'traders' or 'merchants'?
Zechariah 14:21 (KJV): Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house…
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Which idea for εἶδος is intended in 1 Thess 5:22?
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In 1 Thessalonians 5:22, the Greek reads (no major textual variations):
ἀπὸ παντὸς εἴδους πονηροῦ ἀπέχεσθε
The word εἶδος (here in the singular genitive neuter εἴδους) is translated differently in the KJV vs. NKJV (and most later…
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In Romans 11:4 why did Paul use χρηματισμός to introduce his quotation from the Elijah narrative?
Romans 11:4 (NA28 | ESV):
ἀλλὰ τί λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ χρηματισμός; κατέλιπον ἐμαυτῷ ἑπτακισχιλίους ἄνδρας, οἵτινες οὐκ ἔκαμψαν γόνυ τῇ Βάαλ.
But what is God’s reply to him? (literally: what does the χρηματισμός say to him?) “I have kept for myself seven…
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Whose faith is the subject of Hebrews 11:11?
Πίστει καὶ αὐτὴ Σάρρα δύναμιν εἰς καταβολὴν σπέρματος ἔλαβεν καὶ παρὰ καιρὸν ἡλικίας, ἐπεὶ πιστὸν ἡγήσατο τὸν ἐπαγγειλάμενον (Hebrews 11:11, Westcott and Hort)
The traditional translation of Hebrews 11:11 implies that it was (at least partially)…
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Why is Isaiah 7 narrated in the third person?
Is there some literary (or other) reason that Isaiah moves from the first person to the third person and then back to the first in Isaiah 6-8?
I think the switches probably actually line up with the beginning and the end of Chapter 7. The boundaries…
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Where was Uzziah buried?
2 Chronicles 26:23 (ESV) reads:
And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place.
Overall, it sounds…
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Is this a contradiction in the first sentence of Genesis 1?
In Gen. 1:1-2, it states,
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (KJV)
But, the word…
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Does the Canaanite woman disagree with Jesus in Matthew 15:27?
27 ἡ δὲ εἶπεν· Ναί, κύριε, καὶ γὰρ τὰ κυνάρια ἐσθίει ἀπὸ τῶν ψιχίων τῶν πιπτόντων ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης τῶν κυρίων αὐτῶν. (Matthew 15:27, SBT GNT)
26 And he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” 27 She…
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Why does Mark use "immediately" so often?
I noticed while reading Mark 1 that the word immediately (εὐθὺς) is used eleven times in this chapter.
When I researched, I found a theory that it may have been Mark's way of portraying Jesus as the Father's servant. Although it does make sense, it…
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