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Does God care only for those who are Christians? Impossible, for He is God of all (cf. Romans 3:29). That He cares for all people and nations, even for those who are in enmity with His chosen nation - …

Probably, if considering the passage with precision, the question should be "Does Matthew 12:31-32 put Holy Spirit higher than Jesus, the Son of God, the God-Incarnate, for the passage claims that blasphemy … The only solution of this dilemma is that before Jesus enlightens their consciences by this infallible logic (Matthew 12:25-28) they can be excused for holding wrong opinions agains Him, but after their …

But John the Baptist calls so those pharisees who come to him for being baptised (Matthew 23:33). Did John the Baptist sin? Not, of course, for the context in which something is said, is everything. … In Matthew 5:22 the context is that anger and hatred is to be eradicated from heart, otherwise it will ruin a person who bears this hatred. …

Of course we, Christians, will face it! There is no way that we do not undergo the same what our Lord has undergone - the suffering and death, the cross; for otherwise, unless we participate in His …

“Lord” and “Lordship” here means that the one who is Lord is not under subjection of that over which He is Lord and over which He has the lordship, but rather vice versa. Here the Lord Jesus Christ as …

Yes, He will save His people from their sins, as promised in Psalm 130:8, which parallelism indicates that He is the same one, the same Lord mentioned in this psalm, because from political oppression …

In both cases "fire" features as a metaphor. a) In the case of God, fire is a metaphor of His activity, and with reference to us, He is "consuming fire" (Hebrews 12:29), which must mean that He throug …

A very good and original question, for it deals with an apparent illogicality of the question: if the disciples think that the boat is to sink, then it will sink with all aboard, the sleeping Jesus in …

The outcome of the passage is clear: Jesus regards human hearts and sincerity of faith in love, responding to those things and not to genetical-national-cultural belonging of a person. And was not it …

But Matthew 11:25-26 is more difficult, for here some other nuances appear, I think even more theological than in Luke's above passage. …

Take an analogy: if, say, Gaius has been given an authority to enter the Emperor's chamber freely, of course it means that Gaius can enter the room of the Emperor's servants equally freely. In fact, …

Christians should grow in Spirit so, as to fear only God and not anything or anyone else. To interpret the passage as referring to fear of Devil, will be to infinitely lower a dignity of a Christian, …

It is a metaphor, so as a metaphor it does not directly relate to the actual thing said (namely, the biological plant), for all biological plants are planted and grow by God, the Creator of nature. …

incumbent at all for a follower of Christ to leave a spouse, for otherwise Jesus would belie His own statement about a radical responsibility of a husband to a wife (and vice versa for that matter) (Matthew … (Matthew 16:26). …

an example: law "you shall not kill" is not fulfilled not only when one actually kills a neighbor, but it is not fulfilled also when one hates a neighbor, for he kills him in his heart by this hatred (Matthew … And this is "fulfilling" or "perfecting" the Law, for now through this new dimension man should become perfect as Christ Himself (Ephesians 4:13) and as the Father Himself (Matthew 5:48). …