rdlb's Blog

There is a common tendency with people to make negative judgments about other people. In high schools, this tendency shows itself in cliques. A few popular kids get into a group, and gradually begin to think that they are better than others because they are better liked. Kids who aren't "in" may become objects of pity, or contempt, or even of cruel jokes....

Name  From a presumed derivative of the base of γινώσκω (G1097) ( ὀνίνημι oninēmi (G3685)) A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur), for which another prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses [unless indeed it be identical with the base of ὄνομα (G3686) through the idea of notoriety]
1097 to know, to learn to kn...

Joseph and Jesus Compared

Joseph was a shepherd
Jesus was our Shepherd

Joseph was a beloved son
Jesus was a beloved Son

Joseph was stripped of his tunic
Jesus was stripped of His tunic

Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver by Judah
Jesus was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver by Judas

Joseph was abandoned by his brothers
Jesus was abandon...

Matt. 13:3-10 .  
The Sower is the Son of Man, or Jesus Christ, in His Divine Humanity. He is called the Sower, because the seed sown is the Eternal Truth, or the Word of God, and all Truth, properly so called, is from Jesus Christ, who on that account calls Himself the Truth.  
By sowing, when spoken of Jesus Christ, is to be understood the insemination...

Luke 17:20  
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said,  The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:    
Luke 17:21  
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.  
Luke 9:27  
But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which...

Jehovah Himself descended and assumed a Human in order that He might effect redemption. The name Lord is used and not Jehovah, because the Jehovah (יְהֹוָה  Yᵉ hôvâh,  yeh-ho-vaw'  of the Old Testament is called the Lord (κύ ριος  kýrios,  koo'-ree-os) in the New, as is shown in the following passages.

Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah ; and...

Here are three very important MUSTS that are in the Bible.

The Greek dictionary/lexicon meanings: for the word MUST using Strongs numbers.
*NT: 1163
dei (die); third person singular active present of NT: 1210; also deon (deh-on'); neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding):

*KJV-behoved, be mee...

In the beginning when I first came to acknowledge the existence of a "God" the first scripture that came to my mind was John 1:1. Interesting that this particular scripture was one of the few I had memorized as an Atheist. If I wanted to know God it would have to be through His Word and what ever Jesus did I must do, since Jesus was the pattern son.

Has...

After my initial acknowledgment that there is a God, I entered into a interesting conundrum or enigma with people. Those Christians who then began to accept my newly found belief indicated that I had accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour. Frankly I had no real idea of just who He was, my acceptance was that there is a God. Others of whom I car pool...

I was raised going to Church on a intermittent basis attending various denominations throughout my early youth.  As an avid reader of anything at even a young age I read the Bible (KJV), all of the Seventh Day Adventist Bible stories and Uncle Arthur's bedtime stories,(Parents bought the whole set but did not attend), and the World Book Encyclopedia.  Ove...