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Four times we are told in the book of Genesis that man was made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26, 27; 5:3; 9:6). The Hebrew word for “image” is selem. This word has the idea of representing someone or something. In the Old Testament, the word was sometimes used to refer to images of idols. The English form of the Hebrew word for ...
The Trinity. The third explanation is that God is a Trinity. That is the only view that satisfies the “Us” in the passage. The study series Jesus Is God explains the concept of the Trinity. It reveals that God is one. Then it demonstrates from Scripture that Jesus was God in the Old and New Testaments. The Holy Spirit is also God.
Idols Are Made By Human Hands. God teaches us in the Bible that idols or graven images are made by men and women. Isaiah 44:12-17 is a descriptive passage describing an idol or a graven image. The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm.
Revelation 7:2-3 refers to two seals: “seal of God” (v. 2) and the “seal of the living God” (v. 3). The “seal of God” will be worn by an angel who comes to the four angels standing at the four corners of the earth according to Revelation 7:1-2. After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the ...
Bible Answer: The “Promised Land” is so named because it was territory that God had promised to Abram, who was later renamed as Abraham. The territory was included in what is called the Abrahamic Covenant and it is described in Genesis 12:1-4. In the covenant God promised Abram that 1) he would become a great nation, 2) have a land of his ...
In Gen 15:17 a smoking oven and flaming torch represent the presence of God in a fiery theophany. 1. The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology end Exegesis defines tannur as an “oven, firepot or a furnace. 2 That is, the “smoking oven” was a portable firepot which was emitting smoke.
Conclusion: The manufacture of images for the purpose of worshipping them is sin. God is not interested in images. He wants our holiness, our love and our faith. In Isaiah 53:1-12 we see that God wants us to believe Him. To believe Him about His Righteous One – the Messiah!
God even used demons to prevent Paul from sinning with pride (2 Corinthians 12:7). Good Angels. The holy angels are organized too according to Ephesians 3:10.. . . so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. Ephesians 3:10 (NASB)
James 1:13-15 (NASB) This means it is not true that God has your life all planned out. God has not planned out every detail of our life. The evil we do is our choice. Since the first man Adam sinned, each person who is born into this world has inherited Adam’s sin nature. We are all born as sinners.
In order to understand these two verses, it is important to remember that after King Solomon sinned by worshiping other gods, God punished him (1 Kings 11:1-13). The punishment also included God dividing the nation of Israel into two smaller kingdoms: the northern kingdom called Israel and a southern kingdom called Judah.