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Wisdom "is a Tree of Life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who hold her fast" (Proverbs 3:18)."The fruit of the righteous is a Tree of Life" (Proverbs 11:30)."A soothing tongue is a Tree of Life" (Proverbs 15:4).Clearly, unlike the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil, the Tree...

Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!" (Matthew 27:54)Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying...

Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you." (Gen 1:29)"but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from...

John 19:1-5The Crown of ThornsPilate then took Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a purple robe on him; and they began to come up to him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give him slaps in the face. Pilate came out...

Fall 37 BC — Herod captures JerusalemSpring 19 BC — Herod begins construction of the Temple proper, in his 18th yearFall 18 BC — Herod inaugurates the Temple proper — after 1.5 years — on the anniversary of his capture of Jerusalem. Mary, mother of Jesus, born around this time.11 BC — Herod...

(1) Abraham lived around 1500 BCSodom & Gemorrah represent the mighty Canaanite city states that dominated the region in the Middle Bronze Age (2000 - 1500 BC). The MBA was ended by the super-eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean, around 1530 BC. Thera, modern Santorini, was the island...

(RobinD69;19698) I agree,ther is no need for replacement theology.We must consider that Christ's original followers during His earthly ministry were Jews, but His enemy claimed to be Jews. His enemy had rejected the truth for the lies they had promoted in their commenteries therefor making...

(Faithful;19655) Are you saying those like Joshua are not saved? The implication that God would not save those of the old covenant who were first to believe in the Messiah and received him before he was born, like David and Moses are not saved because he had not been born yet, is not to...

(RobinD69;19698) I agree,ther is no need for replacement theology.We must consider that Christ original followers during His earthly ministry were Jews,but His enemy claimed to be Jews.His enemy had rejected the truth for the lies they had promoted in their commenteries therefor making themselve...

I have defended the Orthodoxy of Paul. (For, as some of you may be aware, modern scholarship often seeks to claim a schism between Paul and the Jerusalem Church of James and Peter, and thereby sever the legitimacy of the whole Gentile Mission. J.J. Bütz is one such scholar, but by using his own...

According to J. J. Bütz, The Brother of Jesus, Paul must have written his Epistle to the Galatians before the Jerusalem Council of c. 50 AD. This is because Paul makes no mention of the Jerusalem Decree, sent out by James the Just and the Jerusalem Elders from that Council, acknowledging that...

I understand that this is a potentially sensitive issue, yet the Scripture I have cited is equally hard to misunderstand. When those who reject the Messiah, for whatever (sinful) reason, are described as "broken off" and "rejected"... it is very hard to misconstrue what "broken off", "cast out...

Here are some pertinent extracts of this article from the Evangelical-Times.org website: On the BBC Sunday programme on 12 May [that was in 2002 - DL] there was a feature concerning so-called ‘replacement theology’. Some in Israel and elsewhere are blaming it for an ‘anti-Israeli’ stance in the...

Matthew 2:14-15 So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt. He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: "OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON" [Hosea 11:1]. (1) Hosea 11:1...