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What is the meaning of 2 Corinthians 9:7
What is the meaning of "decided" in your heart, if decisions are made in the mind!?
2 Cor 9:7 - Each one should give what he has decided in his heart
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What does it mean for food to be "received with thanksgiving" and "sanctified by ... prayer" (1 Tim. 4:3-5, NKJV)?
In his letter to Timothy, Paul wrote that the food some would forbid was actually created by God “to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth”:
3 forbidding to marry, ...
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Is there any value in "giving thanks with one's spirit" when the person doing the thanksgiving lacks the gift of interpretation of tongues?
1 Corinthians 14:13-19 (ESV):
13 Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. 15 What am I to do? ...
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Why isn't there a taxonomic distinction between clean and unclean birds?
Leviticus 11:13-19 has a list of non-kosher birds that match a list in Deuteronomy 14:11-18 (NJPS):
You may eat any clean bird. The following you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black ...
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How did the Thanksgiving offering work?
A thanksgiving offering is mentioned in Leviticus 7:11-15 (NJPS):
This is the ritual of the sacrifice of well-being that one may offer to the Lord:
If he offers it for thanksgiving, he shall offer ...
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Does Paul reject the idea of celebrating holidays in Galatians?
Paul has some very strong words against the Galatians implying that they are returning to their former state:
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not ...
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When did Jonah compose his prayer in chapter 2?
Almost the entity of Jonah, chapter 2 is a prayer to God:
Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish. He said:
In my trouble I called to the Lord,
And He answered me;
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Is Psalm 19 an example of the Teleological Argument?
This morning, on the way to work, I listened to a philosophy lecture that offered Psalm 19 as an example of the Teleological Argument. The quoted portion is Psalm 19:2 in the NJPS translation:
The ...
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What sort of disaster is Joel addressing?
In the first two chapters, Joel seems to be talking about an ecological disaster.
Joel 1:20 (NJPS):
The very beasts of the field
Cry out to You;
For the watercourses are dried up,
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Did Job believe in an afterlife where wrongs could be righted?
At the end of his life, Job seems to have been content with his lot despite his time of suffering recorded in the rest of the book. Some have suggested that the reason he had for contentment is that ...