In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIV Created – How are we to read the opening chapter of Genesis? With our current cause-and-effect model of existence? Or with the eyes of an ancient society surrounded by various gods? Is Genesis 1 an explanation of the origin of our cosmos even if it…
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 NASB Spiritual forces of wickedness – Churches before the Reformation were visual reminders of the power of Satan and the specter of Hell. When you entered, you almost always found something…
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household….
