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SUMMARY: In Emotions and the Psalms: When the Heart Needs Words, Abraham Kilian reviews Dr Rochagné Kilian’s twelve-lesson course on bringing our emotional lives before YHWH. The article begins with a question many believers know well: what...

Do any of them differ substantially in substance or contradict one another? They’re not the exact same each time they appear in scripture. They differ slightly without changing the message. It doesn’t describe an Orange in one and a banana in...

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Yes, Jesus and Paul didn’t preach against God’s eternal instruction. They rejected the rabbinic, Pharissaical human additions and interpretations designed to exalt self, not the Almighty. Unwise and poorly trained expositors contend otherwise.

@Otto and @Mojo : There are five popular versions of the Ten Commandments; The Jewish (Talmudic) Tradition, the Augustinian-Lutheran Tradition, the Eastern Orthodox and Reformed Tradition, the Ritual Decalogue, and The Deuteronomic Variation...

You need to post this in its own thread. I look forward to looking it over.

Yes, Jesus and Paul didn’t preach against God’s eternal instruction. They rejected the rabbinic, Pharissaical human additions and interpretations designed to exalt self, not the Almighty. Unwise and poorly trained expositors contend otherwise.

Those verses are referring to Human rules - not God’s eternal law. Things like not eating fish on fridays, or washing your hands before eating. That same Paul wrote that he loves God’s law (Romans 7:22), and we need to uphold it (Romans 3:31)...

Yes, Jesus and Paul didn’t preach against God’s eternal instruction. They rejected the rabbinic, Pharissaical human additions and interpretations designed to exalt self, not the Almighty. Unwise and poorly trained expositors contend otherwise.

Those verses are referring to Human rules - not God’s eternal law. Things like not eating fish on fridays, or washing your hands before eating. That same Paul wrote that he loves God’s law (Romans 7:22), and we need to uphold it (Romans 3:31)...

Shalom and welcome

Yes @MemeFan is being as the Pharisees in trying to define every command into a set of finite laws that nobody can misunderstand. It’s a form of legalism. Yah’s commands are a rough outline for life. Emergency appendix removal on the Sabbath...

Welcome! Thank you for sharing your story and journey thus far. Understanding biblical marriage is a key to understanding feminism. To me even as a christian you still have so much feminism in your life until you realize your husband is not yours...