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 …
ORIGEN: Pharaoh‘s heart was hardened in the following way: God did not want to punish him immediately and completely. Although Pharaoh‘s wickedness was enormous, God in his patience did not withdraw the possibility of conversion from him. Instead he struck him lightly at first and then gradually increased the blows. But although God acted with …
“The quantity of New Testament material is almost embarrassing in comparison with other works of antiquity…Next to the New Testament, the greatest amount of manuscript testimony is of Homer’s Iliad, which was the bible of the ancient Greeks. There are fewer than 650 Greek manuscripts of it today. Some are quite fragmentary. They come down …
