"God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
This is most often interpreted as a requirement to worship with vibrancy and with the knowledge of Acts 2:38, rather than with the inner man and without pretension.
Right. IN TRUTH simply means in reality, and true worship.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
1Co 11:14
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1Co 11:15
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
In one verse, "long hair" means anything over the ears and collar, and in the other verse, "long hair" means uncut! LOL!
right. Classic!
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
At first reading in the KJV you get the idea that Nineveh was 3 days journey from wherever the whale (or great fish) had vomitted.
The NIV tells us:
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Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city--a visit required three days
The ASV and others follow the KJV, but the NKJV really helps us out:
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So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent.
Instead of the NIV which seems to say you need 3 days to see all of the sites, the NKJV tells us that the city huge - it took 3 days to circumnavigate it's walls.
So, Jonah may have travelled for a month to get there, but once he got there he found this huge city. We're not told that he actually walked around the city. The information discussed above seems to have been intended to related the size of the city in that day.
An apple has a seed in itself. God gave every tree which had a seed inside itself to be food for mankind. Therefore the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil could not have been an apple.
An apple has a seed in itself. God gave every tree which had a seed inside itself to be food for mankind. Therefore the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil could not have been an apple.
The fruit from the forbidden tree was FRUIT, with seed in itself. The seed in itself did not have to be for food for man. All FRUIT has seed in itself. And Eve ate FRUIT.
Gen 3:6 KJV And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 1:11 KJV And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
An apple has a seed in itself. God gave every tree which had a seed inside itself to be food for mankind. Therefore the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil could not have been an apple.
I have never heard that before, but I can just imagine that somewhere out there is someone who has and is proclaiming the eating of any fruit without seeds, a sin.
(Like seedless watermelons and oranges....)
The fruit from the forbidden tree was FRUIT, with seed in itself. The seed in itself did not have to be for food for man. All FRUIT has seed in itself. And Eve ate FRUIT.
Gen 3:6 KJV And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 1:11 KJV And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
You've made a good argument there, Bro Blume. However; I don't see any proof that the tree of knowledge of good and evil had a seed in itself.
There are three categories of fruit trees listed in Gen 2:9. We still have those that are good for food, and John saw the tree of life in heaven, but where is a literal tree of knowledge of good and evil? I reasoned that it could not reproduce itself, (which I cannot prove); otherwise we would still find some of that species today?
It probably didn't survived the Garden of Eden. It seems to me that it would have been dangerous for God to have left around for us to continue to eat of, although it is obvious that people are spiritually still making the same mistake that Mr and Mrs Adam made physically in the garden.
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