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Jan 10, 2023 · In his book, 40 Questions About Interpreting the Bible, Robert Plummer gives 8 qualifying statements to further help us understand what is meant by inerrancy: 1. Inerrancy applies only to the autographs. 2. Inerrancy respects the authorial intent of the passage and the literary conventions under which the author wrote.
James 5:16. Confess your faults — Whether you are sick or in health; one to another — He does not say to the elders; this may or may not be done, for it is nowhere commanded. We may confess them to any pious person who can pray in faith: he will then know how to pray for us, and will be more excited so to do.
Sep 28, 2022 · The firmament in the Bible is the tremendous dome-shaped expanse of sky separating the upper atmosphere or “waters” from the lower waters of the earth. On the second day of the creation account, God created the firmament: Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the ...
Jan 31, 2019 · The word Bible itself is simply a transliteration of the Greek word bíblos (βίβλος), meaning "book." So the Bible is, quite simply, The Book. However, take a step further back and the same Greek word also means "scroll" or "parchment." Of course, the first words of Scripture would have been written on parchment, and then copied to ...
May 10, 2020 · These verses aren’t a contrast between faith and works. They’re a contrast between true faith and false faith. These verses aren’t a contrast between faith and works. They’re a contrast between true faith and false faith. Anyone can say they believe in God, even demons (James 2:19)! True faith is proved real because it results in good ...
James 2:1-4. My brethren — The equality of Christians intimated by this name is the ground of the admonition; have — That is, hold; not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory — Of which glory all who believe in him partake; with respect of persons — So as to give undue preference to any on account of their external circumstances; honour none merely for being rich ...
James THE CROWN Jam 1:12. MY purpose is to bring out the elements of the blessed life here, by grouping together those New Testament passages which represent the future reward under the metaphor of the ‘crown,’ and so to gain, if not a complete, at all events a comprehensive view of the elements of the blessedness of the perfected life hereafter.
