We’ve been referring to this a lot, but it’s good to look again at the practice of forgiveness of sins in the Old Testament. The people who lived in ancient times had to make a plan themselves with the sins they had done. Animals had to be sacrificed constantly so that the people themselves did […]
Read moreThere has to be one set of rules to maintain order in society. Every person can’t simply have their own rules. That’s a recipe for disaster. God has just one set of rules too. Everybody is subject to the same rules, no exception, no discrimination. The Old Testament also had a bunch of rules and […]
Read moreMy dad always warned us against saying, “I promise you this or that,” because you have to keep your word. When my friends and I wanted to confirm something is true, we therefore used something we made up. Lifting our hand, we said, “True as Bob!” I wonder if we even knew what “nannies” meant! […]
Read moreSometimes you have to go back to the original scripture to get a new perspective on the meaning of a verse. In the King James translation of 1769, which corresponds closely to the original Greek Bible, verse 14 reads as follows: … how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit […]
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