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I'm not fighting for a mandatory rule (if you read overall post). I brought up Hebrews 7 because the NT calls this Abraham incident as a type of paying tithes. This incident might not be everything 'tithes' came to be known, but I didn't invent the comparison, the NT did, as the fundamental...

The biggest case in the NT is Hebrews 7, where it indicates that Jesus is according to the priesthood of Melchizedek. And it makes the further case that Levi (who received tithes) tithed to Melchizedek through Abraham (so to speak), because Abraham who had him [in his loins] tithed to...

Hey, So there are multiple external books/works referenced in the Scriptures (more examples = 1Kgs 14:19, 29 = not the books of 1/2Chronicles). The important thing is to realise that when the Scriptures mentions these by name OR quoting from them, that doesn't automatically 'in-Scirpturize' that...

1Tim 4:1, 3 reveals a line of attack that demons use. Not to persecute Christians (though they do), nor the Jews (though they do), but to TWIST the relationships humans have to proper created order - food and marriage. Now this is not to say that Climate Change Cultism is the ultimate...

All the scientific data aside (that which opposes it as even something remotely true), it is a matter of Christianity that you cannot believe both. How many times will these prophets keep saying the world will be destroyed in two years time and you will keep believing them... In Uni about ten...

Do not mix Christianity with the climate change cult (alternative religious-like apocalypse). The acts of the climate cult = (1) human population is bad, (2) cows and livestock are bad ... because CO2 and methane is bad ... (3) humans can throw the balance of the world's climate off simply by...

Psalms 12 - NASB {0} For the choir director; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David. {1} Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. How few (and Jesus confirmed it, Matthew 7:14) it seems are those faithful around us. Psalms...

The Cambridge Bible For Schools and Colleges says (John 3:36): [he that believeth not] This may also mean he that obeyeth not, and this is better, for it is not the same word as ‘he that believeth’ with the negative added. The same correction seems to be needed, Acts 14:2; Acts 19:9; Romans...

Good verse reference to Rom 10:16! And interestingly, in this case, it is the NASB ("not all heed") and the NIV ("not all...accepted") which steer away from rendering as 'obey' (CSB = "not all obeyed")... noted though a different word in use... NASB is trying to be the most 'literal' ("heed")...

The reason for some of the translations going with "reject" instead of the idea of "disobedience" has to do with what the context adds into the 'dictionary meaning' of the word alone. note context references e.g. = John 3:11, picked up again in John 3:32 and following, of course between these...

Initially I have to say, the Bible doesn't always record ones specific sins. As an extreme example, one might ask, Q) Where does the Bible say Epaphroditus sinned? But I get that most peoples answers here are just by fact of pointing out Mary is a human. And this is not a cop out. The only...

So you've got an array of expected responses to this, ones that you could have seen coming, encouragements, but that feel meaningless to your experience. So take this one or leave it, as I expect, you'll likely want to leave it. But if what you've been doing has been working then ignore this...

you're focusing on the wrong part of the verse to answer the question. Here's the broader set of statements: Matt 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matt. 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matt. 5:5 “Blessed are the...

The most interesting aspect from Revelation 21-22 is that heaven is portrayed as less about what you're doing and more about who you are with - finally, in full sense, one will be with God (those not 'in' will be 'outside'). Paul is a Christian but in Philippians longs to be "with" Christ...

paraphrasing slightly the overall gist: Jesus will bring about a conflict ('not peace but a sword', Matt 10) where people will take 'sides' concerning him (one who will really draw peoples' position out into the open / will be 'powerfully' divisive to illuminate - "many hearts...revealed")...

...as a challenging counter-balance... Matthew 10:37...

I think, in the case of 1Tim 5:8, the "household" should be considered as ones immediate family, which the "own"/"relatives" is based off vv3-7 leading up to v8, as a reference to children looking after their old parents/widows as opposed to the church having to (v16). Thus, although the word...