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The Pipe-Smoking Prophetess who Enabled a Revival | Making History Now
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The Christian movers and shakers from past centuries have a lot of relevant things to say to us today! July 28, 2015. The Pipe-Smoking Prophetess who Enabled a Revival. In my reading of Church history, I regularly find colourful characters who didn’t fit the usual pattern but whom God used in surprising ways. Perhaps it was always so? As early as Genesis 20, King Abimelech of Gerar talks with God and behaves uprightly, yet the patriarch Abraham cannot see the possibility of good in anyone in Gerar. I inq...
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The Men Who Killed Goliath: Unraveling the Layers of Tradition behind a Timeless Tale of Heroism | Is That in the Bible?
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Is That in the Bible? Exploring the Judeo-Christian Scriptures. Chronology of Palestine and Syria, 40 BCE to 70 CE. Deliberate Mistranslation in the New International Version (NIV). The Men Who Killed Goliath: Unraveling the Layers of Tradition behind a Timeless Tale of Heroism. A Summary of 1 Samuel 16 18 and Its Problems. David is introduced to Samuel (and the reader). He is anointed as a future king in front of his seven brothers, the eldest three of whom are named. (16:1 13). David is introduced agai...
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“But What About 1 Timothy 2:12?” Ten Talking Points - The Junia Project
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A Community Advocating for Women's Equality in the Church. Submit a Guest Post. But What About 1 Timothy 2:12? April 25, 2014. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. ( 1 Timothy 2:12 NIV. This verse continues to be an obstacle preventing churches from moving toward a more robust theology of women. In Defusing the 1 Timothy 2:12 Bomb. Today I want to go in a different direction. Could this have had something to do with this restriction? This purpose of this ...
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Uncertainty | The Alethiophile
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Exploring truth, reading a lot of books and generally mulling things over. About the blog’s author. Index of books by author. Index of books by title. The requirement of the law (A Personal Catechism #4) →. Creative Commons: Horia Andrei Varlan. In this blog post, I wanted to look in a bit more detail at a quote I posted on Twitter on Saturday the 4th. The quote was as follows:. 8220;Interpreting the bible is very interesting, but we don’t really know what it means.”. 8220;Then we are lost”. The requirem...