... understand what God is communicating it is necessary to learn not just general principles of interpretation but also specific rules for each different form. It is also necessary to understand how these different forms function in communicating God's word. For example, in historical narrative, always make a distinction between the "voice" of the narrator and that of a character. The Biblical narrative is ... serpent in Genesis 3:4 "You will not surely die" that it contradicts what God said in Genesis 2:17, but we understand this contradiction because we know what the serpent said is a li...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... at ten symptoms of apostasy. (PAUSE) 1. The Bible How do we as evangelicals treat the Bible today? Well let's take a look at what the best and brightest of the Evangelical World are telling us! The New Bible Commentary Edited by our very own D.A. Carson says that Mark Chapter 16: 9-20 "cannot be said to be part of ... Don't tell me that Bible versions don't matter. They do! 2. Hell. Tell me the last time you heard a sermon on the doctrine of Hell? How rarely we hear the warning to flee the wrath to come and yet Roman Catholicism for all of it's faults in the 16th century never forgot to ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... two most important literary writings that America has ever had or revered; The Constitution and the Bible. Hideous people are getting minimal punishment for hideous murders. We as a nation need to implement the death penalty to stop the reoccurring murders and deter the population from continuing to murder. The punishment needs to be ... relaxes the commandments of the Law, will be considered least in heaven. And as we saw in the Law, the Law requires death to the one who takes life. Later in the book of Matthew we find in chapter 26 verse 52 that we are to, "put you sword back in its pla...

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Does God have Gender? To answer this 1st we go to Christian Theology An introduction chapter 9 "The doctrine of God. Is God male Both new and old Testaments use male language about God. The Greek word theos is unquestionably masculine, ... male,she writes: God as Mother does not mean that God is mother (or father). We imagine God as both mother and father, but we relize how inadequate these other metaphors are to express the creative love of God Never the less, we speak of this love in language that is familiar and dear to us, the language of ... masculine and feminine. At times God is referre...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School