Biblical Archives • Page 8 of 10 • Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, U.K.

How can the Lord Christ be the maker of peace and the king of peace, and at the same time tell His disciples “he who has no sword let him sell his garment and buy one.” (Luke 22:36) What did He mean by ordering His disciples to buy a sword? Why when they

The Lord Christ absolutely did not mean the sword in its literal sense. As an evidence of that, hours …

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Isn’t God the absolute goodness? How then is it said about Him that He is the maker of peace and creator of evil (Is. 45:7) while evil doesn’t agree with God’s nature.

We should know first the meaning of the word “good” and the word “evil” in the biblical terminology for they …

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(Gen. 6:2) describes before the account of the flood “that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful,. and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” Who are the sons of God? and who are the daughters of men?

The sons of God are the descendants of Seth and the daughters of men are the descendants of Cain. After …

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In Genesis there are two stories about the creation of man, the first is in the first chapter where God created man; male and female, and the second is in the second chapter where Adam and Eve were created. Do these two accounts coincide with each other?

The story of making man is one story for the same man. The account is mentioned as a whole in …

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Why did the evangelist neglect the names of some saintly women like Sara, Rebecca, and others, in the sequence of genealogies, while he mentioned adulterous women like Tamar, Rahab, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and Ruth who is a woman of a foreign race?

ANSWER He wanted to annihilate the haughtiness of the Jews who boast about their grandfathers. He showed them how their …

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