If someone says that you have hurt him, then do not deny it. If you do, then Jesus thinks you’re a pig.
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Abundant Eternal Possession
I came so they could have life and so they could have it abundantly.
-Jesus
Eternity lasts forever, so not a single day could be added to or taken away from it. What, then, does Jesus mean when He says that He wants us to have eternal life abundantly? It is not that He wants us to have more eternity, but that He wants us to have more in eternity.
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Does God condone raping and buying virgins? Part two.
Part Two
In part one of this post, we saw that the Law was set up to protect Israel, and we saw that Deut 22:13-30 contains laws to protect her from sexual debauchery. We looked at Deut 22:13-22, and are driving through vs 23-30 in this post. If you haven’t read part one, please do so.
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Does God condone raping and buying virgins?
Does God condone raping and buying virgins? This might seem like an odd question, but it is a sincere question that a close friend asked me a while back. The short answer is, “no,” but, let’s take a look at the Bible passage where my friend’s question comes from. The particular passage that he had in mind was Deuteronomy 22:28-29:
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Have You Broken the 10 Commandments?
The following blog post is a verbatim transcription of a conversation between two people, whom we will call Jack and Joe in order to protect their identity, even though they and this conversation are completely fictional:
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Some thoughts on the word, “Justify”
There are some questions we can ask ourselves every time we see the word, “justify,” in the Bible. Let’s look at these questions and see how they affect our understanding of a famous passage that may seem to contradict the Gospel.
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