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Does the qal in Amos 3:6 automatically imply causation?

I am looking at Amos 3:6 and I expected a permissive rather than causative verb but I found a perfect qal. Does this qal actually mean cause here? Amo 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and ...
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Does Peter intend to identify the Pauline Epistles as canonical?

In 2 Peter 3:15-16, Peters states: And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his ...
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Why the human brain is never mentioned in the Bible? [closed]

Why the human brain is never mentioned in the Bible? Has this matter ever been discussed by the scholars of the biblical texts? I mean, people knew about the existence of the human brain even in the ...