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- Genesis 22:11-12 ● Gen 22:11 . .Then an angel of God called to him from heaven: Abraham! Abraham! And he answered: Here I am. This particular celestial messenger is not only going to speak about God, and speak for God, but it will also speak as God. ● Gen 22:12a . . And he said: Do not...

- Genesis 22:6b-9a ● Gen 22:9b . . Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; This was a place where, apparently, Abraham had never worshipped before because he had to build an altar. ● Gen 22:9c . . he bound his son Isaac; If Isaac was old enough, and strong enough, to shoulder a...

- Disappointment can be defined as the emotion felt when one's expectations are not met. By the time most people are adults; they've no doubt undergone at least one disappointing experience so it shouldn't be too difficult for them to empathize with God's disappointments. Frustration can be...

- 370) Titus 2:3-5 . . The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness: not traducers, not given to much wine, teachers of right; that they may train the young women to be sensible, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home...

- Sympathy doesn't elevate you above your friends, no, it seats you beside them; holding their hand and/or putting your arm around them and assuring them they aren't alone in their grief. I cannot imagine any friendship lasting for very long without sympathy, compassion, and empathy. No, a...

- Genesis 22:6b-9a ● Gen 22:6b-7 . . He himself took the firestone and the knife; and the two walked off together. Then Isaac said to his father Abraham: Father! And he answered: Yes, my son. And he said: Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering? Oops...

- Adam wasn't a precise replication of God, but he was pretty close. ● Gen 1:26-27 . . God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. So God created man in His own image. Later on, God brought out a much better replication of Himself than Adam. ● John 1:14 . . And the Word was...

- It's been my experience that it's very difficult to sympathize with someone while at the same time disliking them immensely. BTW: Rom 1:28-32 lists malice towards God as a depravity. Whether or not that's really true is of course left up to each individual to decide for themselves. /

- 368) 2Tim 4:5c . . do the work of an evangelist The koiné Greek word for "evangelist" is euaggelistes (yoo-ang-ghel-is tace') which means: a preacher of the gospel. Here in America, we typically think of evangelists as guys like Billy Graham and Louis Palau. But according to Paul, pastors...

- ● Mark 12:30 . .You shall love The Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. One of the aspects of love is empathy; which can be roughly defined as emotional responses related to things like compassion, pity, and sympathy...

- Genesis 22:2d-6a ● Gen 22:2d . . on one of the heights that I will point out to you. Precisely where the land of Moriah was, and the specific height God chose, is impossible to tell for sure. Abraham knew where the land was but he wouldn't know the exact spot until he got there. It's just...

- Fiction can be defined as stories about people, places, and events that, though untrue; are plausible; viz: realistic. Fantasy can be defined as stories about people, places, and events that are not only untrue; but implausible; viz: unrealistic. For example: a story about a boy like...

- 364) 2Tim 3:12-15 . .You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them; and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ...

- ● Luke 16:25 . . Abraham said to him: Son, remember I should think that one of the negative aspects of hell is memory. How people down there retain their memories sans the brain cells they left behind with their corpse, I don't know; but they do, just as the rich man is able to experience...

- Genesis 22:2c ● Gen 22:2c . . and offer him there as a burnt offering The Hebrew word for "burnt offering" is 'olah (o-law') which is a very different kind of offering than those of Cain and Abel. Theirs were minchah (min-khaw') which are usually gifts rather than atonements. They're also...

- 363) 2Tim 2:24b-26 . . The Lord's servant must . . be kind to all, apt to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them a change of heart leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape...

- Take for example the dilemma wherein ordained Christian ministers find themselves in Muslim countries where it's illegal to preach Christ and/or teach the Bible. According to Matt 28:18-20, and the pastoral epistles of 1&2 Timothy, Titus, and to some degree 1Peter, ordained Christian...

- At first glance, Thoreau's ideas makes good sense. However; it's important to take into account he refused to acknowledge the dictates of a supreme being whose commandments, laws, rules, statutes, and edicts take priority over all other forms of government. Thoreau's concept of civil...

- Genesis 22:1-2b ● Gen 22:1a . . Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. This particular section of scripture deals with an ancient incident known in sacred Jewish literature as The Akedah (the binding of Isaac). The Akedah portrays the very first human sacrifice ever performed in...

- 359) 2Tim 2:19 . . Let everyone who names the name of The Lord abstain from wickedness. The wickedness he's talking about in this particular instance regards unskilled use of the Bible; and sophistry, conjecture, wild-eyed posits, theories, flimsy science, and lines of entertaining bull that...