Category: About the Bible
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In the Gap
Has God abandoned you? Does it feel like He is a thousand miles away and cannot see or hear you? Is He not responding to your cries? The feeling that God has abandoned you and removed His presence from you is common. Most Christians, at some point in their lives, feel like God is absent…
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Do we need to defend the faith?
What we need to defend is the reason for our belief in the Bible and therefore the Gospel. We do not need to defend the Bible itself or what it says. We do not need to defend the God of the universe. We only need to explain who He is and what it means to…
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The Message of Isaiah
This essay will show that the overall message of Isaiah is redemption by showing that God is Omniscient, Omnipotent and He gives us chances of repentance. Isaiah’s writings can be broken up into two groups chs.1-39, before the captivity which focus on judgement and chs. 40-66 post captivity where salvation and comfort are…
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Amos and Minor Prophets
The words of Amos can be summed up into five words “Prepare to meet thy God (4:12b).” This sounds harsh, but it is true. The message of Amos is condemnation. Condemnation may be the message but he ends with hope.[1] The condemnation of Syria is first (1:3-5), followed by Philistia (1:6-8), Tyre (1:9-10),…
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Old in New Testament
In his address to the Ephesians, Paul uses a commandment given at Mt. Sinai and restated in Deuteronomy. The letter is mostly about relationships and the “family according to God’s originally intended design for it.”[1] Paul is using a quote from the Old Testament law for instructing the New Testament Ephesians, that can be…
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Messiah, the Second Psalm
The second Psalm starts by talking about the earthly rulers raging against God’s anointed king. They do not seem to realize that when they make war with God’s anointed that “they are making war against God.[1]” It speaks about the anointed king who is David, and it skips to a king who is the…