What Does The Bible Say About The Burning of Bodies? There’s a story in 1 Samuel chapter 31 about how King Saul, the first King of Israel, and his three sons were all killed in a battle with the Philistines. And the Philistines, being a ruthless and godless people, found the body of Saul, and they beheaded it and fastened the body to a wall. I suppose…
What Does the Bible Say About Burial and Cremation ? Actually, the bible gives very few specifics about burial and it says nothing about what we know as cremation. So to gain an understanding of how God feels about these subjects, we need to look at the few examples that we are given, and also look to what God tells us about the physical body and about death. We also need to…
He Who Believes Shall be Saved The bible says in several places, that it’s the person who believes, that will be saved. In the previous lesson titled WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE, I gave several verses of scripture that say that very thing. That lesson began with these six verses.. John 3:16, John 3:18, John 6:29, John 6;40, Acts 19:4, and 1 Cor 1:21. And all those…
Reverence For The Word Of God The bible affirms again and again, that it is in fact the very word of God. For example the bible states in 2 Tim 3:16, “All scripture is inspired by God (the words “inspired by God” literally mean “God Breathed”) and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be adequate, equipped…
Bible Interpretation The question of how to understand the bible is really a matter of how we interpret the bible. As with almost any subject, there will always be some people who tend to go to extremes. With the bible, there are some who want to interpret everything literally. And then there are some who want to interpret everything figuratively. And of course there are those who…
Enter By The Narrow Gate Here’s a very disturbing fact.. The bible does confirm that most people will be lost. Isn’t that a sad thought? It’s very sad, but the bible says it’s true. And because of that truth, most people will spend an eternity, separated from God, in what is commonly referred to as “hell”. Now I certainly don’t want to be mean, and I don’t…
The Bible Teaches Faith In the last couple of posts, we’ve been looking at how God uses examples to teach us. I’d like us to look at some examples of faith from the bible, but before we do that, I want us to learn some things about faith itself. The first verse of Hebrews chapter 11 gives us a short definition of what faith is. Here’s the verse.. “Now…
Spiritual Thoughts In our previous “Spiritual Thoughts” lesson, Jesus made it perfectly clear, that there are obviously things that we MUST DO, to get to heaven. He Asked in Luke 6:46, “Why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and not DO what I say?” Obviously those who where calling him, Lord, Lord, did in fact believe in Him. But Jesus said, “That’s not enough just to BELIEVE,…
Spiritual Thoughts Just the other day I was talking to someone about God and the bible. And I asked him, “Do you know that the bible says you must do to be saved?” And his answer was, “Believe in Jesus”. That’s by far the most common answer that people will give to that question. And the bible affirms, you MUST believe in Jesus. Jesus Himself…
Examples From God This is our third lesson in the series called Command, Example, and Necessary Inference. We’re examining the various ways in which God has left His instructions for us concerning how He wants us to live our lives. The bible is indeed an “instruction manual” which reveals to us the nature and Spirit of God, ie.. “Love is from God, for God is love”.. 1 John 4:8; “Our God…
God Commands, God Gives Examples, God Implies This is the second part of our lesson about how God gives us instructions to teach us how to live our lives, through His Holy Word. In the previous lesson we were introduced to three methods of instruction that God has used, namely, Commands, Examples, and Necessary Inferences. If you’re not sure of what “necessary inference” means, please go back to the FIRST…
Has God Given Us Instructions That We Must follow ? Today we’re going to look at three different ways that God gives us instructions within the bible. Those three ways are by direct command, by example, and by what we must necessarily infer based upon what God has implied in His word. Do you believe that God has given us SPECIFIC instructions which we must obey in order…
Old Law and New Law In this article we’ll be discussing a couple more differences between the Old and New Testaments. In the previous article, Part 2 in the series, “DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OLD TESTAMENT AND NEW TEATAMENT”, the first major difference that we learned was that the Old Covenant was made with the nation of Israel only. But the New Testament, although given first to the children…
What’s The Difference Between The Old and New Testaments ? In this article we’ll look at one specific difference between the Old Testament law given through Moses, and the new Testament law given through Jesus Christ. The New Testament book of Hebrews is rich in comparisons between the two testaments. And so we’ll be looking at several verses from that book as we answer the question, What’s…
Old Testament vs New Testament There is a lot of confusion about the differences between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Some people think that the Old Testament describes a harsh and unloving God, while the New Testament describes an all loving God. Some people think that the Old Testament has been replaced by the New Testament, while other people think that we live under a combination…
. Can I Understand The Bible ? The simple answer is; Yes, you absolutely can understand the bible. There are many people who share the view that understanding the bible is next to impossible for the average person. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Understanding bible scriptures entails not much more than just reading them and using some common sense. The biggest problem with understanding…