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Romans 5-16. MP4. Discover how the Gospel reveals God’s character and creates a new humanity in the book of Romans in the Bible. Explore the book’s main themes such as righteousness, covenant, love, and unity through videos, podcasts, and more from BibleProject™.
- The Struggle Between Herding and Agriculture
- The Emergence of Cities and Technological Progress
- The Reflection of The Agricultural Revolution in The Garden of Eden Story
- The Inevitable Pairing of Technology, Evolution and Ambition
Herding and agriculture began to coexist some ten thousand years ago; the herd provides fertilizer for the growing crop while the crop helps feed the herd. Nevertheless, the herdsman herding alone, in which the shepherd wanders with his flock, seems to have predated farming and the symbiotic relationship of animal and land. When farming began, it m...
Cain is cursed by God for his murder, and forced to wander the earth. Although he was once a farmer, he is now cursed from the land, which will not bring forth food for him. Despite God’s telling him to wander, Cain does nothing of the sort. (The Bible is probably being ironic when stating that he settles in a land called “wandering” [נוד].) Instea...
According to Genesis 2-3, humanity was first meant to live peacefully in a garden, with no clothes and no need to work. Only when Adam and Eve lose their innocence by eating from the Tree of Knowledge and becoming “like God,” that death comes to the world and God casts them out to live off the land and suffer. In this case, the life of the farmer i...
Perhaps it is impossible to disentangle ambition from aggression on one hand, and from motivation to build, invent, and succeed on the other. Chazal noted the double-edged nature of ambition in a surprising comment on the story of creation, when God calls the sixth day “very good” (Gen 1:31): And so, humanity lives with the tension between creating...
A city renowned in antiquity as a center of culture and learning, Tarsus was visited by such figures as Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra. Recent excavations have uncovered more remains of the city from Hellenistic and Roman times, including a paved, colonnaded street.
For many years, we have maintained that a great power, which the Bible calls "the Beast," will rise out of Europe as the last reincarnation of the Roman Empire (Revelation 13:1-10; 17:1-13). As described in Daniel 2:40-43 , it has ten "toes," composed of iron and clay and divided on two "feet" - Eastern and Western Europe, we have interpreted ...
Discover the meaning of Romans, Theology of in the Bible. Study the definition of Romans, Theology of with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.
How was the Roman empire structured, and how did Rome extend its power across the region? Rome was the major imperial power controlling the people, territory, and resources around the Mediterranean Sea from roughly the second century BCE to the fifth century CE.
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