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I ask you, my brothers and sisters, to pray to the Lord our God for Lilian Lander who has lost most of the use of her legs at age 88 and needs much nursing care and to pray for David whose brother Steven died on Easter Monday at age 60 and shall be buried on Friday, 13th May 2022.
I have a collection of books that many would call devotional or liturgy of prayer.
I use some Protestant books such as
Daily Light from the Trinitarian Bible Society and
My Utmost For His Highest which has Pentecostal roots and
The Book of Common Prayer which is Anglican - the one I use is...
Holy Scripture can be read for several different purposes and in several different ways.
One can read for prayer - to listen for God's voice and to speak to God in return. This way of reading holy scripture may be the most life-changing of the different ways of reading that I intend to mention...
The Canon of Scripture
It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.
This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as...
The Lamb and the 144,000
Revelation 14:1And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of...
In the New Testament, the word basileia can be translated as "kingship" (abstract noun), "kingdom" (concrete noun) or "reign" (action noun). the Kingdom of God lies ahead of us. It is brought near in the Word incarnate, it is proclaimed throughout the whole Gospel, and it has come in Christ's...
Titus 2:13 waiting in hope for the blessing which will come with the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Christ Jesus.
This verse is translated according to the Granville Sharp rule. That rule was mentioned in the thread about 2 Peter 1:1-2.
So is Jesus the great God and...
Alive with Christ
1And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, 2Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief: 3In which also we all conversed in time...
The Beginning
(John 1:1-5)
1In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. 2And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
The First Day: Light
3And God said: Be light made. And light was made. 4And God saw...
Romans 9:5(NJB) To them belong the fathers and out of them, so far as physical descent is concerned, came Christ who is above all, God, blessed for ever. Amen.
Is this an accurate translation?
Some say no. The NAB says
And the bible produced by Jehovah's witnesses says:
In Greek it reads...
John 10:33 The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.
Are the Jews right? Was Jesus making himself the equal of God?
I would have made this a Catholics only thread but I may be the only active Catholic here.
Over a period of a few days I spent a couple of hours each day discussing theology with Jehovah's witnesses on Discord. The witnesses were mainly teens. They styled themselves "apologists" and read early...
What table of contents ought the bible to have?
Some might think that this topic is theological and from a certain point of view it may seem so but in reality is it in fact a matter for bible study.
My most used bibles have 73 entries in their table of contents for the bible text and usually a...
2Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord. (DRB)
The words our God and Saviour...
John 5:18(DRB) Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.
The verse appears to be the narrator's comment. It could be read as an assessment of the Jew's thinking which may be...
If you met a young JW apologist who wanted you to explain the Trinity how would you go about it and what objections do you anticipate? How would you reply to the objections too?
Some people desire medical and genetic studies to offer a way to extend human life times, a few hope for never ending life from medicine. Some want to be uploaded into a virtual eternal life in a simulated reality. Interesting material for science fiction. Interesting idea with moral and...
There are people who make a living out of predicting trends in technology and possible (they might say likely or highly probable) changes in society and culture that will be the result of new technologies when they are introduced. Some get called "futurologists". I've heard some of them as they...