Those who read Vol. 231: “What You Should Know About King Solomon, Part 1” might remember this important answer, which ...
Access to divine life is cut off by man’s choice. Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger ...
The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
The Old Testament contains a record of the pact between ... The pact between God and Abraham was sealed by the circumcision (Genesis 17); the pact between God and the Jewish people, by the ...
Dearly beloved, our God loves every man woman and child on this earth. He wants to pour out his love and blessings on every ...
I hear people all the time in the context of church say to me, “Well, I believe in the God of the New Testament, it’s the God of the Old Testament that I can’t stomach.” But do you find that this ...
One of the Sistine Chapel’s popular and curiosity-provoking artworks of Michaelangelo Buonarroti – the reimagining of scenes ...
For centuries, the faithful and the curious have crowded to gaze up at the Sistine Chapel's ceiling in awe of Michelangelo ...
This is not God ordaining things, preparing things, or using things. This is the way in which sins grow and propagate, and we see that happening in the Old Testament and the New Testament as well.
The first five books of the Bible, often referred to as the Pentateuch or Torah, are foundational texts for Judaism and Christianity. They provide instructions for moral and ethical living, and they ...
Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...
He regarded the Bible and particularly Genesis of the Old Testament, to which he no doubt refers most of all in his Preface, as the divinely inspired Word of God. It was Luther’s firm belief ...