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Noah’s Rules

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. Acts 15:20 NASB Abstain – Can we finally put this one to bed? The council of Jerusalem issued this decision for Gentiles who wanted to join the Jewish way of…
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Bloodbath

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; . . . Genesis 1:26 NASB Image – You know, sometimes I think that all we do is circulate around poor exegesis of the Genesis text and as a result all kinds of doctrinal and ecclesiastical stupidities result. So I hate…
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Biblical Body Building

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty. 1 Corinthians 12:22-23 ESV Unpresentable parts – Paul’s body analogy contains some rather embarrassing…
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Ridley Scott’s God

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.” Exodus 6:1 NASB I will do – The typical cultural characterization of the God of the Old Testament is a…
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After the End (3)

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.  Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:10-12 NASB Sustain me – Sacrifice me….
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