Tag: Bible
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Christians too often settle for less
In Numbers 32, the Israelites are pursuing the Promised Land when some of the tribes decide that they would prefer to stay outside the land. The chapter begins with: “Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the…
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Pope Francis decrees that capital punishment is an “attack on the dignity of the person” – The Bible disagrees
Pope Francis is reversing the teachings of the Catholic Church in saying that capital punishment is inadmissible. One of the significant differences between Catholics and Protestants is the approach to scripture and tradition. Tradition is weighted more heavily in Catholic than Protestant theology. Tradition is significant to dogma and interpreting the Bible. However this reversal…
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The danger of bad Biblical teaching
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. -James 3:1 Words matter. We can use words to bless, words to harm, words to boast, words to give instruction, and words to deceive. Through words we can tell a person that we love…
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Meaning of the bronze serpent: the gospel in Numbers
In Numbers 21, the Israelites experience victory over the Canaanites but soon fall back into grumbling and complaining. God brings a plague of snakes upon the people. It’s a divine judgment. Their grumbling against God was to their downfall. But the people beg for mercy. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and…
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Parents allowing children to decide their gender: why?
A recent article from NBC talks about a Massachusetts family who are raising their twin boys without a gender. The idea behind this parenting philosophy is to allow the twins to decide for themselves when they’re older. In the story, the mother made the fair point about how we do have ways how we stereotype…
Josh Benner 