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What does the phrase 'sons of God'/בני אלוהים mean throughout the Hebrew bible?
Let me break this answer about the "Sons of God" into two sections:
OLD TESTAMENT
In the OT, the phrase "sons of God" fall into two categories:
Extra-terrestrial beings, (...
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What does the phrase 'sons of God'/בני אלוהים mean throughout the Hebrew bible?
בני אלוהים can mean
Sons of God
Sons of the gods
Sons of judges or rulers
Angels or other heavenly beings
Among those identified as such are the fallen angelic fathers of the Nephilim (Gen. 6); ...
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Was the term " these little ones" used as a code word for believers?
"These little ones" is a technical phrase, used only by Jesus, as a phrase of endearment describing literal children who are children of Christians. It occurs in the following places in the ...
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Was the term " these little ones" used as a code word for believers?
Barnes' Notes on the Bible says on Matthew 18:6:
These little ones - That is, Christians manifesting the spirit of
little children, 1 John 2:1, 1 John 2:12, 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:28.
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Was the term " these little ones" used as a code word for believers?
Believers in the Bible are often compared to children. The Bible makes several references that true believers should be like children:
He called a little child and had him stand among them.And he ...
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What are the many Sabbaths referred to in scripture?
There is the weekly seventh day Sabbath but YHWH also invited us to join him in his set apart feast days throughout the year throughout our generations. Some of the feast days are holy set apart ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
The answer must be taken in full context.
Certainly, the people before the flood were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage. But none of those activities warranted God's decision to ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
Matthew 24:38 NIV
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
The phrase 'eating and drinking, marrying ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
Which Narrative Did Jesus Have in Mind?There is absolutely no connection between the OT story of the marriage between the Sons of God and the daughter of men. Jesus is specific in mentioning only the ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
There were 8 generations inbetween Adam and Noah. Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech (Noah's father.) Bear in mind that, back then, age-spans were phenomenal, being ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
Marrying and giving in marriage:
Genesis 6:1-4 speaks of them multiplying on the face of the earth which Jesus may have had in mind:
6 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of ...
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Was there a term in OT times to describe the relationship between two wives of the same man?
The word for a co-wife is צָרָה (which appears in the Hannah-Peninnah story at 1 Samuel 1:6), from the root צרר, "to take a co-wife" (used in this sense at Leviticus 18:18, though usually ...
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Was there a term in OT times to describe the relationship between two wives of the same man?
Short Answer: There is no specific term.
What we do know is that God's design for marriage established at creation is described as a monogamous relationship between “a man…and…his wife” (Genesis 2:24)...
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