Tag: genesis
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Jesus, Gender, and Marriage
4“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no…
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Jesus Believed That?
40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.–Matthew 12 There are some of you who doubt the story of Jonah and see it as a children’s tale. Jesus obviously…
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Moses, Genesis, and Exodus
13About Joseph he said: “May the Lord bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below; 14with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield; 15with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills; 16with the best…
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A Sovereign Reflection
34“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession…–Leviticus 14 Two basic interpretations here: 1, GOD PASSIVELY ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN. This would try to let God off of the hook or…
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God’s Wider Tent
6This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.–Ephesians 3 Promises were once made by God to Abraham and his descendants. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great,…
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The Oldest Verse in the Bible
4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence.–Ephesians 1 Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed…
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Bones
19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”–Exodus 13 The book of Genesis ended this way: And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God…
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Suffering and Sin
1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. –John 9 (with emphasis) Remember the famous…
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I, I Am
56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59So they picked up stones to throw at him, but…
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Joseph Wasn’t Bitter
15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” 16So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: 17‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression…
Joel M Bradshaw 