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There is a righteous anger. However, if you feel angry frequently and for a long duration each time, something is wrong. It's not good for your blood pressure. You are hurting your health. Acknowledge the anger to yourself and, if possible, to the person you are angry with. Step back from the...

I don't think so. Let's check the original wording. Exodus 21: The owner paid the victim's relative ransom money to redeem his life. Strong's Hebrew: 3724. כֹּ֫פֶר (kopher) — 17 Occurrences The word has two meanings, Brown-Driver-Briggs: I. the price of a life, ransom II. pitch God commanded...

Not anymore. Proverbs 16: The last casting of lots in the Bible happened in Acts 1: As a result, Matthias replaced Judas, the betrayer. Immediately after that, the Holy Spirit appeared at Pentecost in Acts 2: Believers were filled with the Spirit. Jesus promised the Paraclete in John 14...

Hannah and Mary had a lot in common. When the songs were written, Hannah had given birth to Samuel while Mary was carrying Jesus in her womb. Both songs open similarly with rejoicing. Hannah opened with 1 Samuel 2: Mary opens with Luke 1: The similarity between the two is remarkable. Both...

The whole thing about Galilee and Nazareth seemed to be some kind of divine irony/comedy. Nazareth was the butt of the joke, John 1: Jesus was collecting a bunch of Galilean disciples, heading to Galilee. John 12: Nathanael himself was from Galilee, John 21: Ironically, where was Nazareth...

Deuteronomy 22: No flannel shirts. Why not? It was a rule to distinguish the Israelites from other peoples. I am glad that Jesus' commandments are more universally sensible.

The Israelites worshipped an image of a calf. Moses was angry in Exodus 32: Deuteronomy 7: Acts 19:

Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4: Jesus was not talking about the physical water but the water of eternal life. The woman didn't get the point and confused the two kinds of water. They were on different wavelengths. But instead of giving the woman a systematic theology...

See If you don't think that Jesus was God and wish to wager on it, and follow up there :)

If you don't feel sufficient with your infant baptism, then go ahead and get baptized as an adult. If you do, I don't think getting baptized again is necessary. Paedobaptism vs Credobaptism The issue is debated: A Paedobaptist Position with R.C. Sproul vs A Credobaptist Position with John...

Joseph thought adultery was a sin against God in Genesis 39: David thought he sinned against God in Psalm 51: The prodigal son in Luke 15: 1 Corinthians 8: When we disobey God's commands, we sin against God and he judges us, Isaiah 33:

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Luke 19: Is it literal or hyperbole? How does this relate to the standing Western Wall or Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem today? The following is from Dottard: The prophecy of Luke 19:44b about "not leaving one stone upon another" could not be literally true for at least two...

Joshua 4: How could they still be there much later? Wouldn't these stones be pushed downstream by the torrents? I find Keil and Delitzsch's explanation reasonable:

Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born (Gen 21:5). Isaac was a young man When God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Genesis 22: Isaac was thinking about the next step. Isaac trusted his father. The young Isaac could have overpowered his old father, but he didn't. Did Isaac struggle...

Matthew 18: Children are not particularly humble. What does Jesus mean by this? Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus meant it as a contrast. If one lowers himself like a little...

The words of the covenant were more than the 10 commandments. See also Did Moses or God write the 10 commandments on the SECOND set of tablets?

Exodus 34: The LORD said he would do the writing. But then: Who was he? It was the LORD. Deuteronomy 10 made it clear:

Yes, Exodus 34:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke."

If Jesus was God, how could he die? If Jesus was God, why didn’t he know when he would come again? If Jesus was God, why did he need the Holy Spirit to descend on him at baptism? There exists an infinite number of questions of this form: If Jesus was God, why/how …? All of them could be...