Tag: good
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What’s good about Good Friday?
15 April, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Looking for a question that will trip-up nearly any 21st c. christian? And since I have answered it before rather than answering it yet once more today on this GOOD FRIDAY, I will point you (my christian, jewish and anti-Christ friends) to previous Good Friday posts…
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Philip: Preaching to Good and Bad Samaritans
ACTS of Philip the Evangelist Φίλιππος Philip who? Jesus chose Twelve Apostles at the beginning His ministry in Galilee. The Apostle Philip was one of the Twelve. Philip has been an Apostle for about five years now. The year c. A.D. 32 or 33. When Simon Peter healed a lame man and spoke at Solomon’s…
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Good, good, very good & the knowledge of Good and Evil
January 4, In the year of our Lord, 2022: Good What do you know about good and evil? Short takes from Scripture: God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the waters He called “seas”; and God saw that it was good. The earth produced vegetation .. according to their kind; and God saw that it was good. .. day and…
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Suffer for Good – a letter from Peter – 6
To do good or evil? Previously, from the background of Psalm 34 Peter urges the church to be like-minded in doing good. The Christian Standard Bible labels these verses, “Do No Evil” and the New King James Version, “Called to Blessing.” Yet just five verses later Peter calls on us to suffer. Our action? “Seek…
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Disaster From Disobedience, A Savior From Before Eden – 5
Temptation: “Did God really say…?” Genesis 3: The Temptation and the Fall 3 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?” Here it begins, original sin. I…
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Reflections: Knowledge vs. Life
Man – adam, and woman made from man to be one with man and with God – Eve: now have knowledge of good and evil. NO more Paradise on earth – NO more Eden; no more garden of pleasure hedged in by the boundaries of righteousness. We must judge good and evil for ourselves (rather…
