Look at the Old Testament’s prophetic predictions and you’ll see what I mean. When God said he’d bring calamity on a nation or an individual for their specific sins, He did it. We know that the nations will be judged in the Valley of …
He said that he had read the Old Testament, but not the New. Leslie had her heart set on finding a bible for him, so he could read the New Testament and learn about JESUS. She looked in the book store on the ship, and any book store she …
Do we look at the loving God of the New Testament and reject the barbaric God of the Old Testament on that basis? How do you know the New Testament author was right about God being loving? What it comes down to is this: if not all of …
The activity of the Holy Spirit is evident in the life of the people of God throughout the Old Testament, but with today’s Feast and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, the Holy Spirit begins to work in the world in a new …
This is a very common practice in scripture and even more so in the Old Testament. For God’s desire is to make His message clear and not to be obscured as a collection of vague stories with people who might or might not be real. …
My reading of the Old Testament (and I think the New Testament too) leads me to answer the question, sometimes. As I have previously written, we do not live in the best of all possible worlds. In fact, we live in a world that has been …
Since the Jews take the Old Testament to be the exact word of God as do the Christians to we can skip over that. Islam is a different story, or is it? Well, to be honest, much of the Hadith is taken directly from the Bible, …
Mears, the author of the book “What the Bible Is All About,” has included a list of how Jesus Christ is portrayed throughout the Old Testament. I’m not sure if she created the list on her own, or if she borrowed it, but I think it’s …
It’s not exactly the same, but you’ll get a glimpse of the bloody mess worship in the Old Testament really was. This is not for the squeamish, so be warned, it’s not the pretty buildings and pleasant music we’re used to in our worship, …
In the Old Testament, the Passover sacrifice was a type and shadow of Jesus Christ, the true Lamb of God. The Passover lamb was slain, and the children of Israel were told to put the blood of the lamb on the door posts of their homes. …
