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3 hours ago · Water and Spirit, stuff of earth and things of heaven. Being born from above, from Spirit, is to follow Christ and live in a new way, a way where Nicodemus may have to let go of his earthly attachments to his wealth and his high rank in society to adopt the new life that is guided by the Spirit. We, too, have to consider the cost of following ...
3 hours ago · The Last Days. The end of the world. It’s been a question in the heart of man for millennia. We all want to know how much longer we have - and what will happen at the end of days. The threat of nuclear war menaced the world during the second half of the 20 th century as the United States and the U.S.S.R. aimed warheads at each other.
3 hours ago · There was the exception of a few, like Nicodemus in John 3 who stole away to see Jesus at night: “There was one of the Pharisees called Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, who came to Jesus by night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher; for no one could perform the signs that you do unless God were with him ’”.
3 hours ago · Page from the Gospel of Judas. Mandaean Beth Manda ( Mashkhanna) in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD ...
3 hours ago · The word κύριος appears 717 times in the text of New Testament, and Darrell L. Bock says it is used in three different ways: . First, it reflects the secular usages as the "lord" or "owner" of a vineyard (Matt. 21:40, Mark 12:9, Luke 20:13), master or slaves, or a political leader (Acts 25:26).
1 day ago · Elijah is the only person described in the Bible as returning to Horeb, after Moses and his generation had left Horeb several centuries before. He seeks shelter in a cave. Elijah is told to "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the L ORD, for the L ORD is about to pass by." [43]
1 day ago · Satan. Satan, [a] also known as the Devil [b] and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination".
