Numbers 14:29 Meaning – Your Carcases Shall Fall “Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,” (Numbers 14:29) Was this just a cruel punishment that God inflicted on people who had murmured and […]
Exodus 4:11 Meaning Does God Make People Blind? Many think that whatever happens to people – good or bad – God does it, after all, He is God and has all power. We need to correctly understand the sovereignty of God. It helps to look at stories in the Bible that might suggest that He […]
Elymas the Sorcerer: Did God Strike Him With Blindness? I received a comment to this website with the statement “It is obvious that God did kill people in Scripture, as hard as it is for us to accept.” Among other supporting points, the comment included reference to a story in Acts 13 – that of […]
What Does 2 Kings 1:10 Mean? “And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.” (2 Kings 1:10) Anyone reading the […]
Hebrews 9:22 Without Shedding Blood there is no Forgiveness Many people understand this verse: “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Heb 9:22) to be saying that God cannot forgive sins unless there is payment of death (shedding of blood). When you think […]
What Does Agape Love Mean? Agape – Get Your Copy Now – Information at bottom of page. From the Book’s Foreword Deep inside every one of us is the desire for peace, tranquility and the assurance of being loved. How can the human race move closer to this ideal? With all our advances in technology […]
Jesus Says “Judge Not” But What is Judgment? Traditional Legal Model – judgment is the legal determination of guilt or innocence and pronouncement of arbitrarily-imposed punishment to match the crime which is understood to be death in every case of unconfessed sin – “The wages of sin is death…” (Rom 6:23) Biblical Healing Model – […]
Blood in the Bible plays key roles but some of those are quite misunderstood. Traditional Legal Model – “Blood” (the bodily fluid) is the means or currency used to make payment for the legal debt the sinner owes. “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is […]
Why Did God Want Sacrifices? (Note that this is a supplemental page for the glossary definition of “blood.“) Why did God want sacrifices? – the answer will surprise you. Most of Christianity believes that a blood sacrifice (even the blood of God’s only Son) was necessary before sin could be forgiven. But even one example […]
What Are the Ten Commandments? Are what we call the Ten Commandments really that – commandments? Or can they be understood as the Ten Promises? Is it “Thou shalt not” or “Thou will not”? Prohibitions or promises? It makes a big difference in how one sees God. While they are commonly called the Ten Commandments, […]
