Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
“In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.”
Hebrews 5:7 NASB1995
What prayers and supplicati…
The Hebrew words תֹהוּ and וָבֹהוּ are translated to empty/formless and void in Genesis 1, but that isn’t what they mean.
In my research, I have found that one of the two words is unknown, and the other means chaos or waste. Throughout my …
John 5:18 (ESV):
18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
The concept of equality with God is…
In Matthew 11:10 we read that Christ said of John the Baptist in reference to his role of heralding and preparing the way for Christ:
Matthew 11:7-10 (DRB) 7 And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concernin…
In Mark 11:23, Jesus tells his disicples, “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.”
Does…
In 1 Chronicles 3:15 we find a list of king Josiah’s four sons:
The sons of Josiah:
Johanan the firstborn,
Jehoiakim the second son,
Zedekiah the third,
Shallum the fourth.
Then in Jeremiah 22:11-12
or this is what the Lord says about S…
I have appreciated the information on this site regarding the meaning of ἄφεσις and I am trying to compare that information to an accurate definition of χαρίζομαι. There may be no significance in the comparison and yet there might be. I ha…
1 Samuel 16:4 (KJV): And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
I just wanna know why the Bible didn’t provide David’s height to show the difference w…
In John 11:16, it is written,
ΙϚʹ εἶπεν οὖν Θωμᾶς ὁ λεγόμενος Δίδυμος τοῖς συμμαθηταῖς Ἄγωμεν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἵνα ἀποθάνωμεν μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ TR, 1550
which may be translated as,
16 Then Thomas (who is called “Didymos”) said to his fellow-di…
Acts 13:42-48 (ESV)
42 As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath. 43 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who…
MOUNCE renders it:
who, although he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with
God a thing to be grasped,
Westcott and Hort / [NA27 variants] ὃς ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ
ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ,
Whereas …
#114 (But I say to you): “Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Interpretation please. How difficult is this parable?
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