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Greek has eight different words for "love", including "agape", unconditional universal or God's love, "eros"; sexual love, "philia"; friendship or affectionate love, "storge"; familial love or the love between parents and children, "philautia"; self love, "xenia"; hospitality or love for...

Jesus says, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. And yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these" Matthew 6:28-29. This is perhaps the greatest environmental awareness statement in human history, spoken when...

In John, we find this concerning Jesus: "Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, where is he? And there was much complaining among the people concerning him. Some said, 'he is good'; others said, 'no, on the contrary, he deceives the people.' However, no one spoke openly of him for fear...

Eleanor Roosevelt is reported to have memorized much of the New Testament. She was fond of the Hebrew prophet Micah: "And what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy,and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8, the famous Jesus portrait of a true patriot found in Matthew...

According to astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, there is a certain type of black hole located within dark voids in the universe, where there is no light for many light years in every direction. This type of black hole, according to Tyson, contains an inner "sea of fire", left over from the...

The discipline of "philology" is applied by historians when attempting to understand the true intentions behind words spoken in a particular historical time-frame and context, rather than wrongly assuming that word definitions found in a modern dictionary necessarily apply. For example, "deism"...

Means both "letter" and "formal letter" in Koine Greek. While today one can look up the word "epistle" in a modern dictionary and find that it refers to a formal letter of special importance, in the First Century world of Paul and other authors of the New Testament, the Greek "epistole"...

Greek "mathetai"; means "student", "follower". It has no special religious connotation or significance, other than that to follow Jesus is both a significant and important choice. The word in Greek can be used in reference to a follower of anybody, from Karl Marx and Charles Darwin, to Ayn Rand...

Matthew 25 reveals Trump's anti-Christ agenda to Congress and American People

What is translated in most versions of the New Testament as "common people", means "crowd" in Greek. However, the vast majority of the "crowd" who followed Jesus around were most likely regular average people, rather than the elite of society. The religious leaders often hung nearby because...

The Greek "ekklesia", mistranslated as 'church' in modern bibles, means "assembly" or "called out ones" for a specific purpose. This was a term applied to a Greek political assembly and appears to have been deliberately chosen by Jesus himself. In the New Testament, this term always refers to...

CHRISTIAN: Paul never once refers to himself as a 'christian', while at least five times in the New Testament he refers to himself as a follower of "the way". The way was considered to be a revolutionary new way of life, centered on the true communism of sharing all things in common and...

Paul opens and closes every letter attributed to him with "grace" to you followed often by "mercy" and/or "peace", always listing grace first. He also says that Jesus gives us more grace and, we grow from grace to grace (more free, bigger and better understanding). Unlike many Christians teach...

Greek "christos" means "anointed" or "the anointed one". In Hebrew, "mashiach" means the same thing, which is translated as "Messiah" into English. Most English bibles leave this untranslated as "Christ", which is based on the Greek for Messiah. Whether we say Jesus Christ or Jesus Messiah is...

In Acts 20:17 The word translated as "apostle" in English, "apostolos", means one who is sent away or "sent one". Thus, it is correct to refer to Paul as "Paul the sent one", rather than as "the apostle Paul", as is the bad habit of modern Bibles. Several people besides the twelve original...

What are known today as the four 'gospels' represent a different individual insight and perspective into the same historical Jesus. Each one of them contains valuable information the others do not, while John in particular offers considerable insight and unique words and deeds of Jesus not found...

Paul opens and closes every letter attributed to him with "grace" to you followed often by "mercy" and/or "peace", always listing grace first. He also says that Jesus gives us more grace and, we grow from grace to grace (more free, bigger and better understanding). Unlike many Christians teach...

The unknown author of Hebrews writes, faith is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen Hebrews 11:1. Unlike many scientists, educators and others very wrongly assume here in the modern age, there is no such thing as faith-based religion found in the New Testament...

Psalm 33:15 says and, as the evidence is clearly revealed throughout human history, God fashions each one of our hearts "individually". And thus, we need to learn to rely on Jesus as our teacher, rather than relying on the bias of scientists, educators, priests, preachers, self-help gurus...

Unlike people in the past, today we have the advantage of the telescope and microscope, where we can understand that God is about both intricate microscopic detail, as well as unimaginable vastness beyond words. Even a human artist when painting a large mural, also takes time to enhance the...