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- Genesis 28:16-19 ● Gen 28:16-17a . . Jacob awoke from his sleep and said: Surely the Lord is present in this place, and I did not know it! Shaken, he said: How awesome is this place! Actually Jacob was very frightened. I believe that place gave him the creeps. It isn't unusual for an...

- 471) 1Pet 3:14a . . If you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. Peter isn't talking about one's religious beliefs per se, but about one's personal righteousness; in other words, one's personal conduct, and their convictions about what's right and what's wrong. The...

- Mother Teresa yearned and yearned for corroboration from God. You'd never know it from her public speaking and her books, but Teresa felt utterly ignored. I'm not kidding. You can read about her crisis of faith in the private letters she wrote to spiritual counselors. Below are some excerpts...

- I haven't always been a Protestant. I started out in life baptized an infant into the Roman Catholic Church; and subsequently went on to catechism where I completed First Holy Communion and Confirmation. Though I kept my Catholic identity for twenty-four years, I gave up on the religion...

- As if hell's circumstances aren't bad enough, people are in it as their selves; viz: they are never going to be free from their own personalities-- their phobias, their hang-ups, their inner conflicts, their memories, their anger, their hostility, their rivalries, their prejudice, their bias...

- ● Luke 23:43 . . Jesus answered him: I tell you the truth; today you will be with me in paradise. Three days later, after passing away on the cross and rising from the dead; Jesus said: ● John 20:17 . . Jesus said: Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. So; where...

- 467) 1Pet 3:7b . . giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, The koiné Greek word for "honor" is time (tee-may') which means: a value, i.e. money paid. The word for "weaker" is asthenes (as-then-ace') which means: having no strength, i.e. fragile. And the word for "vessel" is...

- 466) 1Pet 3:7a . . Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge The koiné Greek word for "knowledge" is gnosis (gno'-sis) which means: knowing (as information) in other words: facts and/or ideas acquired by study, investigation, observation, or experience. Gnosis is...

- Genesis 28:15 ● Gen 28:15 . . Remember, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Actually, hardly any of those promises were fulfilled in Jacob's lifetime-- his offspring didn't...

- Were I to reveal how; I'd no doubt be instantly written off as twice the kook I already am around here. But Paul said how he knew: ● 1Cor 9:1 . . Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Well; if Paul wasn't telling the truth about his close encounter of a third kind with Jesus, then people today...

- It's amazing the things that people are willing to trust sans convincing proofs merely because it's written in a holy book; e.g. Koran, Bible, Rig Veda, Tripitaka, and Book of Mormon. Using a holy book's claims to prove a holy book's claims are true is what's called circular reasoning. It's...

- ● Acts 1:1-3 . . The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom he had chosen. To these he also presented himself alive, after his suffering, by many...

- The chronology of Post #6 isn't based upon the year Jesus actually went to the cross; it's based upon 2018. Had Jesus been crucified this year, the first day of the week would be positioned in the chronology quite different than his year. For example: Passover for 2017 was Tuesday, April 11...

- ● Luke 23:50-54 . . And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor; and he was a good man, and a just (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. . . .This man went unto Pilate...

- Genesis 28:12b-14 ● Gen 28:12b . . a ladder was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it. The word for "ladder" is from cullam (sool-lawm') which is actually a staircase. This is the one and only place in the entire Old Testament where...

- ● John 2:19-21 . . Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews therefore said: It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days? But He was speaking of the temple of his body. Watch as I revise a...

- Genesis 28:8-12a ● Gen 28:8 . . Esau realized that the Canaanite women displeased his father Isaac. Now that Esau no longer enjoyed the status of a pampered athlete, he's a little more attuned to the opinions of others around him; most especially to the dad who at one time gave the...

- 465) 1Pet 3:3-5 . . And let not your adornment be merely external-- braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses --but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. Some of...

- The preponderance of evidence indicates that Christ's crucified dead body returned to life on the third day rather than after the third day was completely over and done with. In other words: Christ wasn't deceased for three whole days; i.e. he was deceased two whole days plus a partial day. ●...

- 464) 1Pet 3:1-2 . . In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior. Peter began his instructions with...