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Yes, according to our modern formal scientific sense of scholarship. Hosea 11: Hosea was talking about the rebellious nature of the Israelites. Matthew cites Hosea out of context in Matthew 2:15 and applies it to Jesus: One can find quite a few such instances where the NT writers didn't...

Alcoholic drinks are fine. God commanded the Israelites in Numbers 15: Jesus drank wine, and he turned water into wine, John 2: Paul advised Timothy in I Timothy 5: However, drinking too much is a sin, Romans 13: Eph 5: I don't drink because my body is sensitive to alcohol. Sometimes, I...

ESV, 1 Corinthians 3: Paul complained to the Corinthians of the divisions in the church. The context here is the church. Build on the foundation of Christ only. Don't use any other materials: Apply this truth to individual believers: We believers together form the temple of God because God...

In the beginning, there was only one law: Don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve sinned by violating this spoken law from God. When they did, they acquired their own sense of good and evil. Some years later in Genesis 4: Cain did not offer his best to God. He...

Is smoking a sin? I don't think so. the Bible does not mention directly about smoking tobacco cigarettes or cigars. 1 Corinthians 10: CDC lists many bad health effects: It is wise not to smoke. Similarly for vaping, it is not a sin but it is not wise. See also Smoke weed.

Matthew 5: Matthew 23: Jesus rightly labeled these scribes and Pharisees as G3474-fools. There is another Greek word for "fool". Psalm 14: Paul addressed the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 15: Using the word "fool" is not a sin. It is how you use it. It is your heart's attitude when you make...

1 Timothy 2:11-15: Paul was pointing to himself, not God. Paul seemed to be expressing his personal reasoning. As an apostle, it did carry some weight at the time given its social environment then. However, I don't think it has to be applied universally to all women today. It was not an...

Jesus wanted every generation to be ready for his second coming. Jesus spoke of future happenings in Matthew 24: These are signs from heaven. "you" refers to the future people who will see all those future signs. Jesus wasn't kidding. He spoke to the future people ("you") using the words...

1 John 1: But then only 2 chapters later, King James Bible 1 John 3: commit Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Koine-Greek.com: The Greek present tense carries a sense of repetitive or routine action. My paraphrase: Anyone born of God will not routinely practice sin as a...

Jesus fasted in Luke 4: John's disciples fasted, Matthew 9: G3522. νηστεύω (nésteuó) occurs 20 times. Thayer's Greek Lexicon: Fasting and prayer are often paired on special occasions, Acts 13: It is not just prayer but prayer and fasting to humble ourselves before an important decision...

New King James Version, John 3: Jesus is God's only begotten son. What does "begotten" mean applying to Jesus? G3439 (μονογενής, monogenés) occurs 9 times. HELPS Word-studies: Thayer's Greek Lexicon: Monogenés means "one and only of its kind". It identifies uniqueness. English Standard...

G3307 μερίζω (merízō): to apportion, to divide, to disunite G3308 μέριμνα (mérimna) from 3307: the state of being concerned and preoccupied, through the idea of distraction G3309 μεριμνάω (merimnáō) from 3308: worry, concern, preoccupy G3309 appears many times in the NT. NIV Matthew 6: The...

Exodus 8: Why didn't Pharaoh want to get rid of the frogs right away? Why wait until tomorrow? Why suffered the night of frogs running around all over the place? Pharaoh seemed to be deliberate and purposeful in his answer "Tomorrow". What was he thinking? Gill explained: Whatever Pharoah...

2 Corinthians 4: has blinded Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular How did Satan blind my mind? I was studying computer science at a university when Christians on campus tried to convert me over a period of two years. My scientific mind blinded me to see the Christian...

Matthew 5: 1 Corinthians 10: Theoretically, it is possible to live a sinless life. In practice, Romans 7: By the grace of God, when we fail, we confess and repent. God will forgive. We can only take it one day at a time. Hopefully, our spiritual condition next year will be better this year...

I know that I have my freewill. I can sense it. OT mentions it in Exodus 35: The Bible assumes the existence of freewill. 1 Corinthians 7 talks about freedom and will: A similar concept is expressed in (BSB) Philemon 1: On the other hand, Paul talks of God's influencing our will in...

1 Corinthians 2: How do we have the mind of Christ? Ellicott explained: Four verses earlier, 1 Corinthians 2: It begins with being born again. The Paraclete/Spirit moves in and dwells in our spirit, close to our mind. John 14: Romans 8: We have the mind of Christ/Spirit. We need to pay...

Ecclesiastes 7 contains a set of philosophical paradoxes to get the readers to think deeper than the surface meanings, e.g., verse 2: Mourning is better than feasting because in the end, everyone dies and people mourn his death. This is reinforced in verse 3: Sorrow is compared to...

Psalm 110:1 The LORD יְהוָ֨ה ׀ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel to my Lord: לַֽאדֹנִ֗י (adoni) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 113: Sovereign...

New International Version Isaiah 7: The word is almah (H5959 עַלְמָה). It appears 7 times. H5959 is ambiguous. New American Bible: On Biblehub, 39 versions use virgin. Only 3 use young woman. 6 commentaries agree with virgin: Barnes, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Pulpit, Matthew Poole, Keil and...