#Scripture

A thread for Hays’ Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels, about the Gospelwriters use of the Hebrew BibleFirst up: Mark!Apparently “fishers of men” also kind of means “judgers of men”,
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Hoo boy. I'm taking an online course about #Jewish scripture. It is free and online, so the other students are a mixed bag. The professor warned the students at the
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Isaiah 47 this AM. In the Old Testament, Babylon is, of course, an actual city-state & a rising & falling empire but it also becomes symbolic of human decadence, of
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Can I be honest for a minute? I'm fed up with reading about people in ministry who disgraced the name of Christ. It's just becoming toxic to my soul. I
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> “Not allow chrislamic views to take over Hinduism”Sorry sis, Hinduism is not "pro LGBT" and it's not "feminist" either, and it doesn’t need to fit in those Western paradigms
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Thead:God’s soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.If you didn’t know that, then both you and your pastor have probably been neglecting God’s Word. This topic has
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*A thread on prayer*The Bible instructs us to pray without ceasing (1Th5:17), everywhere, for everyone (1Tim2:1, 8). And yet, prayer seems to be so difficult for so many. Even with
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I honestly find Elijah's life fascinating. He single-handedly dealt with 900 prophets of Baal, restored the name of the Lord, and brought back rain, all confidently. But, the threat of
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Though singleness is beautiful, most believers are not called to singleness.I wanted to point this out because people seem to always be scared that “God has called them to be
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”Something BIG is coming”.Gematria BIG = 18The significance of the number eighteen in the Bible comes from its symbolic meaning for bondage. This particular type of bondage is mentioned 18
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Is26:13-14: “O Lord our God, other lords besides U have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring 2 remembrance. They are dead, they will not live; they
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1)As human beings we live in the language of metaphors (we don't simply live in "language" we live in the language of metaphor). We don't simply live in "words". The
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Just throwing this out there:My husband & I are pretty hapless when it comes to catchizing my kids. We have family prayers & Bible reading at breakfast & I'm SUPER
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In this thread I will attempt to unearth racist, sexist, xenophobic, and Islamphobic comments of British PM Boris Johnson, ironically of recent Muslim Turkish ancestry. To remind us all of
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“You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.”James 2:24 ESVThis verse has been pushing me to major contemplations about my faith and the Bible.
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There is a disturbingly large number of pastors who not only believe LGBTQ+ folks can’t be Christians, they also believe anyone who affirms the faith of LGBTQ+ folks can’t be
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