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Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Sight of God's supernatural works and retribution would militate against faith in God's Word. [5] William Lane Craig says, in Paul's view, God's properties, his eternal power and deity, are clearly revealed in creation, so that people who fail to believe in an eternal, powerful creator of the world are without excuse. Indeed, Paul says that ...
In Luke's Gospel, the parallel text has God giving the Holy Spirit to those who ask, [4] but David Hill suggests that Matthew's wording is likely to have been closer to the original. [5] The reference to good things might be linked to the idea that God will only give good gifts, that if you ask for something that will end up harming you God ...
75. “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.” – Carl Sandburg 76. “You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard.
The third is oppression of the poor, fatherless children, and widows. How God punished Pharaoh and the Egyptians for oppressing the Israelites, the scripture doth show. Oppressors cannot escape God's vengeance. The fourth sin that crieth to God for vengeance is to keep back the wages of the hired servant of workman when he hath done his service ...
The destroying angel passes through Egypt. [1]In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (מַשְׁחִית mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural: מַשְׁחִיתִים, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
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The verse is a quotation from Jeremiah 31:15.This is the first of three times Matthew quotes Jeremiah, the others being Matthew 16:14 and Matthew 24:9. [1] The verse is similar to the Masoretic, but is not an exact copy implying that it could be a direct translation from the Hebrew.