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What attracted Abimelech to an old woman in her 80s or 90s?
Note: the following explanation is not necessarily what I believe personally. However I think it is important to include it as a possible answer since it is based on an important school of biblical ...
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What attracted Abimelech to an old woman in her 80s or 90s?
It could well have been the case that king Abimelech was no spring chicken himself. He could have been an old, wrinkled prune of a man, given to trophy-wife-collecting. And Sarah would have been some ...
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What attracted Abimelech to an old woman in her 80s or 90s?
The very nature of this site prevent me from providing a link to pictures of very beautiful women that, even today when women live much shorter lives than the ancients, are still very attractive.
Here ...
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Did the Israelites pay one, or two tithes?
I think it is one tithe, it just depends if you want to hold it or give it right away to the poor. However holding it sometimes was seen as offensive when there was someone in need and refused to give ...
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Did David and Joab Kill 'Every Male in Moab' (1 Kgs. 11:15) or Every Other Male (2 Samuel 8:2)?
The two passages are not contradictory because Edom is not Moab. On the usual maps, Moab is east of the Dead Sea and Edom is south.
Having said that, your observation that "they were still a ...
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Which fell first the manna or the quail in Exodus 16 & Numbers 11?
Exodus 16 puts two events together: the manna and the quails. They receive the manna as they are going to mount Sinai, stay there for almost a year (without a few days-Exodus 19:1 and Numbers 10:11), ...
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Did God command the making of graven images, in Exodus and Numbers?
Any man can twist the words of God to suit him self and base their beliefs of what scripture means by this twisting of words. Their is as well a difference between a bauble, trinket,, statue or other ...
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Why is there no 40 days of Temptation in John's Gospel?
In overview the entire Gospel of John, the majority content is the record of Jesus' speeches and conversations. Contrary to the synoptics which focus on recording events, this book emphasizes ...
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Why is there no 40 days of Temptation in John's Gospel?
John's Purpose in Writing
John was aware of many things Jesus did which he purposely did not report:
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I ...
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Why is there no 40 days of Temptation in John's Gospel?
Why is John's Gospel Unique?
The expectation of reconciling and harmonising it with the synoptic Gospels betrays a traditional misconception which thought that they should be reconciled or should be ...
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Why is there no 40 days of Temptation in John's Gospel?
There is no chronological problem here. The two time periods are as follows:
The three days of John 2:1 is the period between the wedding at Cana and the previous incident which is the calling of ...
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Who Killed Saul?
Obviously, the Amalekite was lying. Who would be standing still leaning on a spear if people in chariots were in hot pursuit? That doesn’t seem plausible. The Amalekite took advantage of a ...
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In Luke 16 : Are the Uses of "Mammon" Contradictory, in the Same Context?
Mammon represents the worldly wealth, the actual money, contrary to the true riches (Luke 16:11), the eternal dwellings.
Jesus used the Parable of the Shrewd Manager to teach His disciples, even the ...
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