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What You Can’t Have

Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous, the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning.  1 John 3:7-8a  NASB Practices – Rudolph Bultmann was one of the most important Christian theologians of the last…
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Not by Bread Alone

Then He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll. He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then…
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Misquoting the Commandments

“You know the commandments, ‘DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.’”  Mark 10:19  NASB Do not defraud – Recently a reader asked the question, “Why doesn’t Yeshua quote the commandments as they are written?  The commandment says, ‘Do not…
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The First Crusade

So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.  Acts 2:41 NASB Received – It is common to believe that this verse records the first Christian mass conversion, the first example of a Christian evangelical crusade.  Taken out of the context of the first…
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Are You Kidding?

Wake up, north wind, and come, south wind!  Blow on my garden and let its spices flow forth.  Let my lover come into his garden and eat its choice fruit.  Song of Songs 4:16.  (translation by Tremper Longman III) Come into his garden – The Bible and good sex?  Are you kidding?  Most of us…
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