State of the Bible 2023: Scripture engagement still down, but interest up
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ABS 2023 State of the Bible survey: “Scripture engagement remains down among Americans, but a widespread curiosity gives ground for evangelism” - BPNews
Hard Evidence for a Supernatural Book, Part 7: Trifecta!
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So we’ve seen that Daniel’s specific prophecy of the rise and fall of Alexander the Great was at best very unlikely to have been written after Alexander’s death in 323 BC; and if Daniel describes Antiochus IV in chapter 11, then the skeptic’s position is even less likely. Daniel is accurately predicting future events, not faking it.
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Is suicide an unforgivable sin?
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“It is a peculiarity of Catholicism and the issue of last rites that consigns suicide to the category of the unforgivable sin…. it is surprising how deep-seated that view of suicide is among Christians.” - Ligonier
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Christ’s Resurrection Means Our Old Bodies Will Be Made New
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“…we desire it precisely because God intends for us to be raised to new life on the New Earth. It is God who created us to desire what we are made for.” - Randy Alcorn
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Chairman of Bob Jones University trustees resigns after school’s executive leadership warns of ‘imminent jeopardy’
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President Pettit’s resignation “prompted 17 faculty and administrative leaders to write to the full board, declaring the university in ‘real and imminent jeopardy’ and demanding the resignation of both Chairman Lewis and Vice Chairman Hantz Bernard.” - BGN
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Jesus Teaches the Old Testament, Part 4: Midrash in the Gospels
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In my previous article, I mentioned how my specific use of the term “midrash” is one possible strand of meaning for this multi-stranded term. I use the term to refer to a New Testament midrash that I consider an elaboration of an Old Testament text. That’s it. I refer to the Old Testament text as the “mother text.” The mother text plus its New Testament midrash equals a couplet.
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"Certainty That You Are Not Mistaken" - Message on Matthew 22:29
Pastor Mark Minnick preached a superb message tonight on Matthew 22:29 that profoundly helps to explain where so many of our problems among God's people in our day stem from and why there is so much disunity in the body of Christ.
Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Certainty That You Are Not Mistaken
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Fragment of a 1,750-year-old New Testament translation discovered
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“Grigory Kessel discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, made in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century, on individual surviving pages of this manuscript.” - Phys.org
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Good Friday from 5 Angles
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“God’s perspective, Christ’s perspective, Satan’s perspective, sin’s perspective, and our perspective.” - D.A. Carson
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