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Bible Term Discipline, Church
Discipline is actually a process of training that begins at the point of one’s conversion and continues throughout one’s life. It includes teaching, example, exhortation, admonition, etc. (2 Tim. 3...
Bible Term Exodus, Book Of
The name of the second book of the Old Testament means “departure” or “going out.” It contains Moses’ record of Israel’s departure from Egyptian bondage and the nation’s separation unto God as a ho...
Bible Term Father
God is often referred to as a “Father” (107 times in the Gospel of John alone). The Scriptures use the term in several ways:

God is the Father of all men in the sense that he is the Creator of hum...

Bible Term First Day Of The Week
This phrase appears eight times in the New Testament. It is the ancient term for what modern society calls “Sunday.” The significance of this day is readily apparent in the following cases: 
• It w...
Bible Term Fulness Of Time
This phrase appears in Galatians 4:4, where Paul describes Christ’s birth and earthly ministry as occurring when “the fulness of time” had arrived. The expression highlights how, over the centuries...
Bible Term Gap Theory
This is the erroneous theory that a vast span of time (billions of years) transpired between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. 

Allegedly, during this period, large creatures roamed the earth (e.g., dinosaurs)...

Bible Term Zechariah, Book Of
Zechariah was a companion prophet with Haggai. The latter sternly admonished the Hebrews to rid themselves of self-interest and to complete the work on the temple during the post-Babylonian captivi...
Bible Term Virgin Birth Of Christ
The doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus is one of the lines of evidence establishing the Lord’s identity as the Son of God. 

The angel Gabriel said to Mary, a “virgin” (Lk. 1:27): "The holy thin...

Bible Term Genesis
The opening book of the Bible is a document of “beginnings.” It consists of 50 chapters in our modern translations. 

Written by Moses some 1,500 years before Christ, it introduces the beginning of...

Question Are We Resurrected from the Dead When We Obey the Gospel?
Before we obey the gospel, we are dead in sin (Eph. 2:1). But the question is, to what does this refer: the physical body or a spiritual condition?

It refers, of course, to our spiritual conditio...

Question Should Christians Have All Things in Common?
No, it does not. Rather, Luke testifies to the voluntary, loving, and selfless disposition of Christians in Jerusalem:

““Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and n...

Question Is It a Sin for a Christian To Be Depressed?
Could anxiety be sinful? Yes, if we accept the testimony of Jesus and respect Paul’s apostolic command.

But the Bible certainly acknowledges that life’s complications can be depressing. The words ...

Question Did God Reward Midwives for Lying?
First of all, the midwives may have told the truth. It may have been that the Hebrew women, fearing the king’s commandment, did not call for the midwives in a timely way.

Second, one is not obliga...

Question Does God Change His Mind?
To begin with, it is important to refresh our minds with those principles that identify an actual discrepancy.

The law of contradiction briefly stated is this.

“A thing cannot both be and not be ...

Question What Is the Meaning of Romans 3:31?
The correct interpretation of this passage depends on four things — the meaning of “law,” the significance of “faith,” and a consideration of these terms in both the immediate and remote contexts o...
Question Do Psychics Really Have Mystic Powers?
The short answer to your question is this: psychics have no power, either to predict future events or to cause what they predict to come to pass. You are wise to avoid them.

To flesh out the answe...

Question Have You Been Called by God?
God calls every person who is saved. Not only does God pardon the sinner (cf. Rom. 3:26), but he also teaches him about the need and means of forgiveness. The Lord Jesus said,

““No man can come to...

Question How Many People Were in Jerusalem When Jesus Was Crucified?
There are conflicting data. We offer the following for your consideration:

In his book The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Alfred Edersheim estimates that the population of Jerusalem in the N...

Question How Many People Died in Noah’s Flood?
The Genesis narrative indicates that Adam and Eve were charged with the responsibility to multiply and fill the earth (Gen. 1:28).

After some ten generations of human history, a span of at least 1...

Question What About the Name Jehovah?
The term “Jehovah,” appearing in the American Standard Version (1901), takes the place of “LORD” (all caps) in the King James Translation, as well as in most modern versions.

It derives from four ...