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"What has happened will happen again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Eccl 1:9, REB) If history repeats itself, and Eccl. 1:9 states that it does, it is no wonder that we have Pharisees and Sadducees in this day. The names may not be the same...

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2Chr 7:14, KJV) That is directed to God's people, not a secular nation. What...

"'It's just a matter of interpretation.' That is a lie by which Satan leads many souls to eternal destruction. This lie asserts that the problem is really with the Bible. The Bible can be understood in many different ways, the devil whispers, so no one ought to insist that his understanding is...

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12-13 KJV) The new birth, being born of God precedes believing and is...

"I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women." (2Sam 1:26 ASV) Starting with the immediate context of the verse itself, focusing on the word "love" first, and then "women" in love of women. Using...

Our founders created for us a Representative, Constitutional Republic so in a very real way the people form the government; Federal, State and Local. From the start it was known it could not work apart from Christian morals, being the salt of the earth. Upon reflection, speaking for myself...

KJV 1611/1769, Exodus 21:22 "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." **I remember clearly the strong...

Why do modern translations render Χριστός as Messiah instead of Christ so often in the NT? The Greek word for Messias/Messiah, 'Μεσσίας' is found only twice in the NT, John 1:41 & 4:25. The Geneva, KJV, ERV, ASV, RSV use Messias/Messiah only the two times, in those two verses, and render...

The Revised English Bible (REB) is a 1989 UK translation, a revision of the New English Bible. It is an excellent reading translation little known in the USA. Here is how it reads on a key doctrine of the Scriptures. Try comparing it to the KJV, RV, ASV, etc. "It is he who has brought us...

NOTE: The actual name "Messiah" is not found in the books of the Old Testament. It is found in the apocryphal book of 2 Esdras. Yet, as explained in the Jewish Encyclopedia: "But though the name is of later origin, the idea of a personal Messiah runs through the Old Testament. It is the...

"In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." (John 14:2-3 ERV) Heinrich Meyer: "The...

"One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are alway liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth."...

“Seventy weeks (490 years) are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place." (Dan 9:24, NRSV) "He shall make a...

I'm sure most if not all the brethren have experienced the following: "My bowels are in ferment and know no peace; days of misery stretch out in front of me. I go about dejected and comfortless; I rise in the assembly, only to appeal for help." (Job 30:27-28 REB) Such experience in life is not...

Using Bible software I did a vocabulary search on some key words in the Revised Standard Version. It is interesting as I checked various words whether whole or in partial match. The number of occurrences through the whole Bible was enlightening. Mind 217 Think 90...

Isn't the true faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3), expressed in explicit, didactic statements of Scripture? It is clearly seen by exegesis instead of eisegesis, correct? Can't it be seen in 2 or 3 agreeing witnesses/verses/passages so clear it can be shown by underlining the...

The KJV purposely left the literal and word for word principle when it used the ecclesiastical word "church" instead of the literal "assembly" or "congregation", and restricted its use to the New Testament. The English translations translated as follows: 1382, Wycliffe translates "church"...

There have been 3 main theories of eschatology held in the church; historic pre-mil, a-mil & post-mil. Good men of God have held the various theories. Here are some verses that prompt me to embrace the postmillennial theory. I'm not dogmatic on it nor do I consider it worth debating, but for...

"Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto* the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat...

The religious right, fundamentalists and evangelicals, scoffed and ridiculed Nancy Pelosi for her idea of a "spark of divinity"; but is that not what is taught in the vast majority of Christian churches today? Isn't that what is taught weekly in most churches, as John Wesley wrote: "It is more...