Classical dispensational teaching makes a clear distinction between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven as used in the Bible.
Bible Dictionary entry. The word, abase, came from Latin though the French to the English. To abase literally means to bring to the base (the base being the lowest part of a column); to bring down low.
Most theologians agree that, if Jesus were here today, He would oppose the death penalty. Most theologians are wrong.
You know how preachers are always telling you to be enthusiastic? Well, it's also important to be heading in the right direction.
Is knowing God nothing more than an intellectual exercise to the Bible-believer? Are we allowed to have an experiential knowledge of Him?
Are you able to concentrate on the task at hand? Jesus expected His disciples to have this trait.
No other holy book for any major religion stakes its claim to authority on its ability to foretell the future.
Apocrypha is the name for 14 books written between about 200BC and AD100. Apocrypha, meaning “hidden” or “secret”, refers to the mysterious nature of their origin. Neither their authors nor the circumstances of their writings are known. Neither the Jews nor the early Christians accepted them as inspired scripture. The books themselves do not claim inspiration. There are no “Thus saith the Lord’s”. Although the New Testament has 263 direct quotations from and 370 allusions to the Old Testament, there is not a single reference to the books of the Apocrypha. It was at the Council of Trent, on April 8th, 1546, that the pope declared tradition and the Apocrypha to be canonical and authoritative. These books teach several false doctrines and contain many inaccurate historical facts.
