The Lord Christ absolutely did not mean the sword in its literal sense. As an evidence of that, hours after He said this statement, and during His arrest “Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest servant and cut off his ear… then Jesus said to Peter: put your sword …
We should know first the meaning of the word “good” and the word “evil” in the biblical terminology for they have more than one meaning. The word “evil” could mean sin which is not the case in the verse “creator of evil” in (Is. 45:7). “Evil” meaning sin doesn’t agree with the goodness of the …
The sons of God are the descendants of Seth and the daughters of men are the descendants of Cain. After the slaying of Abel the righteous, Adam begot another son and named him Seth, “for God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel” (Gen. 4:25) “And as for Seth, to him also a …
The story of making man is one story for the same man. The account is mentioned as a whole in the first chapter but in detail in the second chapter. In the first chapter, the making of man was part of all the process of creation. Then the details came in the second chapter about …
ANSWER He wanted to annihilate the haughtiness of the Jews who boast about their grandfathers. He showed them how their grandfathers had sinned. Judah committed adultery with Tamar, his son’s widow, and engendered Perez and Zerah from her. David fell into adultery with the wife of Uriah the Hittite. Boaz, the great grandfather of David, …
