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Giving up (Numbers 13 & 14) After just a few weeks on the march, Israel reach the oasis of Kadesh-Barnea, on the border of Canaan, and are within sight of their destination! However, none of them know anything about Canaan; not even Moses has ever been there before. And there are no maps or...

I agree in principle with some of what you say, but I am well aware that those churches that 'baptise' babies also believe that they have Biblical support for what they do. I'm not going to defend them (because I don't agree with their conclusions), but I can at least understand why they do as...

NO - I'm saying that the battle isn't over yet! As far as my own life is concerned, it's still going on. If we don't have to do anything, why is the Bible (including the New Testament) so full of exhortations to "be holy"? For example: "Just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you...

Were we talking only about children who are not yet responsible? The age of responsibility has not been defined, but is surely well below the age if 16. And whether responsible or not, only Jewish children are born inside any covenant. We all deserve annihilation because we all sin - and "the...

God has not changed, and human nature has not changed. Whether new covenant or old makes no difference to those who are outside it.

"The LORD brings death and makes alive." (I Samuel 2:6) There is a sense in which God is responsible for the death of every human being on this planet. We are all sinners - we are all rebels who deserve nothing better than instant annihilation. God is merciful and patient, and He allows us a...

The rules laid down by the apostles in Acts 15 were a recommendation, not a command; they were to be observed not as necessary to salvation, but in the interests of good relationships between Jewish and Gentile believers.

How do we become holy? This question can be answered in several ways: God declares us holy, and that’s all there is to it - so don’t worry about it. We achieve holiness through obeying His commands. Holiness is a gift of the Holy Spirit (maybe through a ‘second blessing’ or ‘complete...

Leadership (Numbers 12) Moses has a lot on his plate at the moment - and now on top of it all he finds his leadership challenged by his own brother and sister! Ostensibly their grievance is his second wife (has Zipporah died?), who is a foreigner and not even of Abrahamic descent. (Perhaps...

The doctrine of the Trinity does not depend on either of those two verses anyway.

The Fatherhood of God Luke 15:11-24 “God is love” (I John 4:8) is a great ‘soundbite’, one familiar to most Christians. But what does it actually mean? The young man in this parable wants his inheritance immediately so that he can ‘do his own thing’. But in that culture, the implication of...

Are you not aware that the New Testament was originally written in Greek? I "got from Paul many infirmities"? What does that mean? I'm twisting nothing: I read a reputable translation of the Bible, and I read there that Paul had an illness. Other reputable translations have "physical illness"...

This link does NOT define the English word 'infirmity'. It defines the Greek word 'astheneia'. Not the same thing. I've said absolutely nothing about the meaning of the word 'infirmities'. I've been talking about a Greek word, not an English one.

Food again (Numbers 11) The Israelites are the recipients of a daily feeding miracle - every morning, in the midst of the barren wilderness, there is nutritious food waiting to be collected. And yet within a year or two its very familiarity has made them contemptuous of it. Admittedly, a diet...

Food again (Numbers 11) The Israelites are the recipients of a daily feeding miracle - every morning, in the midst of the barren wilderness, there is nutritious food waiting to be collected. And yet within a year or two its very familiarity has made them contemptuous of it. Admittedly, a diet...

Food again (Numbers 11) The Israelites are the recipients of a daily feeding miracle - every morning, in the midst of the barren wilderness, there is nutritious food waiting to be collected. And yet within a year or two its very familiarity has made them contemptuous of it. Admittedly, a diet...

Food again (Numbers 11) The Israelites are the recipients of a daily feeding miracle - every morning, in the midst of the barren wilderness, there is nutritious food waiting to be collected. And yet within a year or two its very familiarity has made them contemptuous of it. Admittedly, a diet...

I find this difficult to follow as well. Three what? Seven eight what? It wasn't me who did the translation, so what does what I think have to do with it? If you don't know anything about translation, don't claim to know better than a real translator. But if you have a good source for your...

I find this difficult to follow as well. Three what? Seven eight what? It wasn't me who did the translation, so what does what I think have to do with it? If you don't know anything about translation, don't claim to know better than a real translator. But if you have a good source for your...

The Greek word is 'astheneia'. It refers to any kind of illness and sickness, from the serious to the trivial, and is also used for other kinds of physical and moral imperfections (the Greeks believed that bodies and minds were meant to be perfect). ἀσθένεια | billmounce.com In Matthew 8:17...