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- 347) 1Tim 6:20a . .Turn away from impious chatter This probably refers to sophistry, which Webster's defines as the use of reasoning or arguments that sound correct but are actually false and/or subtly deceptive. Sophistry is fairly common in perpetual bull sessions that never get to the...

- Genesis 21:10-12 ● Gen 21:10-11 . . Sarah said to Abraham: Cast out that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac. The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his own. NOTE: By the customs of that day...

- 345) 1Tim 6:13-14 . . I charge you in the sight of God-- who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession --to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. The koiné Greek word for...

- ● Gen 3:6-7 . . She took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened. According to 1Tim 2:14, Eve was in violation of Gen 2:16-17 when she tasted the fruit. But curiously, her eyes weren't opened right away. In other words: up...

- Genesis 21:1-9 ● Gen 21:1 . . God took note of Sarah as He had promised, and God did for Sarah as He had spoken. Because God's word is sometimes slow and long in coming to pass, people are often inclined to scoff at what it says and lose confidence in His testimony. The Word told Noah that a...

- 344) 1Tim 6:12b . .Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good profession in the presence of many witnesses. Note the grammatical tense of the "have" verb in the passages below. It's in the present tense; not future; indicating that Christ's believing...

- ● Gen 2:25 . .The two of them were naked, the man and his wife, yet they felt no shame. Webster's defines shame as: 1) guilt, or disgrace, 2) a feeling of inferiority or inadequacy, and 3) inhibition. In other words, there was absolutely nothing in early Man's psyche restraining him from...

- ● Rom 8:20 . . . For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it; in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Corruption takes a variety of...

- ● Gen 2:16-17 . . as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for in the day you eat of it, you shall die. The first thing to point out is that in order for the threat to resonate in Adam's thinking; it had to be related to death as Adam understood death in his own...

- Genesis 20:9-18 ● Gen 20:9a . .Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him: What have you done to us? What wrong have I done that you should bring so great a guilt upon me and my kingdom? The very first God-given prohibition against adultery was given at Gen 3:16. Whether Abimelech was...

- 342) 1Tim 6:11 . . But you-- O man of God --flee these things and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) believed that Christian virtues, especially compassion, are an impediment to achieving greatness...

- ● 1Cor 15:1-4 . . I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. . . . For I delivered unto you first of all that which I...

- Genesis 20:4-8 ● Gen 20:4a . . Now Abimelech had not approached her. It wasn't unusual in the ancient world for new additions to a harem to undergo a period of beautification; like Esther did. But I think something else happened. God may have tampered with Abimelech's ability to breed. In...

- Oxford dictionary defines a Christian as a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Christianity. There's quite a bit of latitude in that definition; and leads one to ask: What is Christianity? /

- Civil disobedience, except as per Ex 1:8-21, is out of the question for ordained Christian ministers. ● Ex 23:2 . . Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. ● Rom 3:8 . . Let us do evil that good may result? Their condemnation is deserved. ● Rom 12:21 . . Do not be overcome by evil, but...

- 338) 1Tim 6:1-2 . . Let all who are under the yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that the name of God and our doctrine may not be spoken against. And let those who have believers as their masters not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but let...

- ● Gen 2:16-17 . . The Lord God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for in the day you eat of it, you shall die. ● Gen 3:4 . . And the serpent said to the woman: You are not going...

- Genesis 20:1-3 ● Gen 20:1a . . Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negeb and settled between Kadesh and Shur. In Moses' day, Kadesh was a jumping off point just prior to crossing over Wadi Araba into the region of Moab. (Num 20:14-16) According to freytag & berndt's map of...

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- 336) 1Tim 5:22 . . Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily That ruling seems primarily concerned with the avoidance of fast-tracking candidates for aldermen, senior pastors, associate pastors, deacons, and deaconesses; in other words: church officials; whether high ranking or low ranking...