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Why did the Spirit of God descend on Jesus in the form of a dove? Is that his default form? What do you make of him already incarnating Jesus at his conception and then landing on him as a dove? (Lesser importance: What do you think to my cute theory that it's symbolically the dove of Noah...

It sounds like he was in agony but an agony full of hope - Acts 2.24 https://www.stepbible.org/?q=version=ESV|strong=G5604&options=VHNUG

continuing from my last (I was too late to edit): The coming of the day of righteousness is a relief for the meek faithful because they will be able to live their good lives unharassed by injustice. (This is reminding me of Matthew 5:3-12.) It's a terror for anyone who contributes to...

It's the word שֶׁ֣מֶשׁ which means "sun" in Malachi 4:2 (še·meš, https://biblehub.com/hebrew/8121.htm, https://biblehub.com/interlinear/malachi/4-2.htm) The word for "son" is completely distinct so there's no connection intended (בֵּ֚ן bên https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1121.htm such as in...

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I guess when the disciples saw Jesus praying? Then there must be someone who is God but who is not Jesus.

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I've never noticed before this thing about Luke's account. From English translations it does seem like a lot happened in one day. (And that's not to say I'm about to reveal information about the original Greek - I don't know.) Luke 24 v1-12 is one episode, and clearly from v1 it's the third...

Hi everyone, I've just read right through this thread. I hope you're all okay. Please let's show patience and kindness with each other, I know this can be hard when we do frustrating or worrying things, but it is the will of God and the way of Yeshua. I just wanted to share, for what it's...

Dears, thank you all for your replies, which bring in a variety of interesting and useful perspectives. I ought to ponder further before discussing them. Personally, up till now, what makes most sense to me is that, like the snake on the pole in the wilderness, the way of salvation through...

The huge, huge majority of suicides are the result of illness, not a murderous decision. It's people who would not want to die if they were not ill; or do not want to die but cannot stop themselves because they are ill. Jesus came to heal all our illnesses and even raised people who had died of...

Very clear evidence here that Phil Joel too has previously died. https://genius.com/Phil-joel-changed-lyrics Or it's poetry.

I'm from the group that Jesus sought to save. Thank God.

How could this make sense? If the penalty for sin is the sinner's death, how could anyone else's death pay the penalty? So it sounds like the penalty for sin is "someone's death". Why is that a fitting penalty? If it was the sinner's death, that would make more sense. Perhaps it is not...

I thought this was like Pharaoh hardening his heart, but it's a different word used and as far as I can tell (I don't know Greek, I just use Bible tools) there's no connection between the words, except in the English translation...