This 1587 map by Urbano
Originally posted by Ansley Orfila in the Pentecostal Theology Facebook group. View on Facebook. This 1587 map by Urbano Monte was the largest world…
Dr. Terry Wiles: Johann Albrecht Bengel, Morgan Edwards, and Joseph A. Seiss (Part 2)
IV. Johann Albrecht Bengel: An Eighteenth-Century Witness Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752), Lutheran pastor, Pietist, textual scholar, and commentator, is particularly important because his work…
In 2 Chronicles 35:20-22 why did Josiah fight Necho?
From 2 Chronicles 35 (NIV):
20 After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Necho king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah marched out to meet him in battle. 21 But Necho sent messengers to him…
Looking for highest possible resolution images of MSS P66 and P75
I’m looking to find a source for some high resolution images of some pages of Biblical papyri, such as John in P66 or Corinthians in P46. I need them to be high enough resolution that I can look carefully at the paleographic writing charac…
Ezekiel 1: Difficult Visions
Originally posted by Ansley Orfila in the Pentecostal Theology Facebook group. View on Facebook. Ezekiel 1: Difficult Visions — Ezekiel’s vision of the cherubim…
While I consider myself Pentecostal…
While I consider myself pentecostal, and was raised in a classic holiness-pentecostal denomination, I am moving away from self designating as such because I…
In What Sense did King Ahab "Serve Ba’al"? 2 Kings 10:18
I have been trying to understand better the religious attitude of King Ahab. He was famously denounced by the usurper King Jehu, who, in the generation after Ahab, massacred his 60 sons along with his queen (Jezebel). In 2 Kings 10:18, Jeh…
What are "the things of the Spirit of God"? 1 Corinthians 2:14
1 Corinthians 2:14
and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because spiritually they are discerned; (YLT)
The natural person does not accept …
How was Philip’s testimony established in Samaria, Acts 8:5-6?
Acts 8:5-6 NASB
Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming the [d]Christ to them. 6 The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what was being said by Philip, as they heard and saw the [e]signs which he was perfor…
Historically, what was considered the context of 1 Timothy 2:11-12?
1 Timothy 2:11-12 has been variously understood. One view I recently heard is that it teaches women to be silent not only in church, as is the case in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, but also in secular matters. After making several contextual arg…
1 Cor 12:4-6 – Trinity or something else?
Note the text of 1 Cor 12:4-6 is written in parallelism:
There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
There are different ministries, but the same Lord.
There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all peop…
BABYLON HAS FALLEN Revelation 18:1-20 1 And after these things…
BABYLON HAS FALLEN Revelation 18:1-20 1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth…