Tag: truth
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Don’t Play Bible Math
6Do not add to his [God’s] words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.–Proverbs 30
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Compromise and Love
13Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 14Do everything in love.–1 Corinthians 16
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Jesus and Empiricism
24Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into…
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Jesus and Pilate
35“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?” 36Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” 37“You…
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Quick Holy Spirit Lesson
12“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14He will glorify…
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A Big Question about Jesus
16Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.17Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory…
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Denial Is Stubbornness
1Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?” 2And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without…
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Seven Attributes of a False Teacher
1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will…
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Pilate and Postmodernism
37Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”–John…
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Do Not Add [1-minute read]
[6] Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.—Proverbs 30 2 things I have noticed people add to the Bible in terms of importance. Both are wrong. And yes, I have at one point done both.
Joel M Bradshaw 