Tag: bible
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Inspiration
Every scripture is God-breathed and beneficial for teaching, for exposing wrongdoing, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the person of God may be fully competent, being equipped to accomplish every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Definition Inspiration is the method that God used to record His revelation in written form in the Bible.…
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Special Revelation
For whatever was previously written was written to teach us, so that we may have hope through endurance and through encouragement from the Scriptures. (Romans 15:4) As explained in the previous post, revelation is defined simply as God making Himself known to mankind. God created us to know Him, but we could not know God…
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The Bible is Sufficient
Every scripture is God-breathed and beneficial for teaching, for exposing wrongdoing, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the person of God may be fully competent, being equipped to accomplish every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Above is a picture of my snow blower. It came with an operator’s manual to help me know…
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First John 5:18-21: Proclamation Summaries
Proclamation Summaries 5:18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the One who was born of God keeps him, and the Evil One does not touch him. 5:19 We know that we are God’s offspring and the whole world rests entirely in the Evil One. 5:20 We also…
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First John 5:14-17: Epilogue
EpilogueFellowship is Maintained by Praying for Fellow Believers 5:14 And this is the confidence we have in ˹God’s˺ presence, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 5:15 And if we know that He hears us regarding whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests which we have…
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First John 5:5-8 / Overview: Epilogue
EpilogueRevelation of the Eternal Life – Divine Witness 5:5 Who then is the one who overcomes the world? None other than the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 5:6 This is the One who came through water and blood – Jesus Christ. Not by the water only, but by the water…
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First John 5:1-4: God is Love
Mature Love is Expressed through Love for One Another 4:19 We love because He first loved us. 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his fellow believer, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his fellow believer whom he has seen, cannot love the God whom he has not…
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First John 4:13-18: God is Love
The Presence of Mature Loves Provides Assurance of Fellowship 4:13 This is how we know that we abide in Him and He abides in us, by virtue of His Spirit whom He has given to us. 4:14 We have seen and we testify that the Father sent the Son as the world’s Savior. 4:15 Whoever…
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First John 4:9-12: God is Love
God’s Love was Revealed in Jesus Christ and is Expressed Through Us 4:9 And this is how the love of God was revealed among us: God has sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 4:10 This is love: Not that we have loved God, but that…
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First John 3:7-8: God is Righteous
Practicing Righteousness or Sin is a Result of Paternity 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world does not know us. And it is no wonder, because it did not know Him. 3:2 Beloved, right…
Koine Foundations 