Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
(John 12:24) NKJV
Can women preach?
Err, that would have to be a YES.
A writer, scribe: γραμματεὺς – grammateus
And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
(Matthew 13:52) ESV
Deduction is a wonderful thing. When applied to practical life situations it’s as straight forwards as: when one door closes, another door opens. When the doors are closed the conclusion that we may deduce is: it’s time to stay put.
Continue reading “A writer, scribe: γραμματεὺς – grammateus”Unintelligent Design
This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.
(Titus 3:8-9) NKJV
Is Intelligent Design an intelligent choice? The short answer: NO
But let’s take a step back and see if we can parse this in a way which will be the most benefit to as many people as possible.
Continue reading “Unintelligent Design”Blueprint for a Garden
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
(Genesis 2:15-17) ESV
During the time that we (that’s me and the Holy spirit) were at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill we were the teaching assistant for Biology 43, Local Flora, for two spring semesters.
Continue reading “Blueprint for a Garden”Noah’s Deduction
To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
(Genesis 10:25) NKJV
Animals spread out from the site of Noah’s ark and people spread out from Babel. Then something caused tectonic plates to form, Pangaea broke apart, and the continents moved into their present locations.
Continue reading “Noah’s Deduction”Relationship of Cause and Effect
For as the churning of milk produces butter, And wringing the nose produces blood, So the forcing of wrath produces strife.
(Proverbs 30:33) NKJV
Reasoning, or logic, can follow a pattern like this: IF > THEN > THEREFORE. Or IF > AND > THEN. This establishes the correct relationship between cause and effect.
Continue reading “Relationship of Cause and Effect”Origin of Gender
And He answered and said to them,“Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
(Matthew 19:4-5) NKJV
The Holy Trinity is the origin of gender. God refers to himself as male, Alpha, the Father. Jesus Christ, the begotten, is the Son. Simple deduction gives the gender of the Holy Spirit, Omega, to be female.
Continue reading “Origin of Gender”Matty’s Harmonization
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
(2 Timothy 2:15) KJV
We’re harmonizing science with the Bible. How can this be possible if, superficially, science and the Bible look completely different? We have to know what’s real science and what’s not.
Continue reading “Matty’s Harmonization”Sheol
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
(Psalms 16:10) KJV
Sheol refers to life beyond the grave, quite literally an underworld realm of the dead. It’s also modified in a variety of ways which can be grouped to correspond to the main regions of the interior of the Earth.
Continue reading “Sheol”Tehom was Wet. Sheol is Dry
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
(Luke 16:23, 26) English Standard Version
The space in the interior of the Earth formerly occupied by the great deep is now a great gulf (chasm) of open space that Jesus spoke of in Luke 16:26. The open space is no longer referred to as tehom, it’s now sheol.
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