Sentences with phrase «bible for years and years»

I have had a great study bible for years and years... it helps with the historical timing, context, who wrote the books, logistics, geography, demographic, everything that will take some confusion away from it.

Not exact matches

From her earliest years, Winfrey, singing for the choir and reading bible verses aloud, the rising star learned how to capture an audience.

Jason; so sorry you were so misled but the Bible refers to the earth as a circle (Isa.40: 22) some 700 years before Jesus ever came here and many other descriptions of what goes on here are so accurate as to make one wonder how man would know and if you are sincerely interested in finding what the bible really teaches (and having those misconceptions corrected) just ask and I will be glad to help or go to jw.org for all the free help you will ever need.

Problem is «the bible» is used by Judaism — namely those first 39 books and have been studied for some 2200 + years plus.

the bible says that jesus was foretold, lived then died and came backisn't a prophecy, it's a story told after the man had been dead for a few hundred years.

Same thing with the bible — many gospels were rightly left out, because they were found to be frauds used for social gain by crooked writers many years later, and not written by the actual apostles or their scribes, as they had claimed.

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

At that point there still was no bible and there would not be a Protestant reformation for another 1200 years.

There are so many contradictions in the bible, not only to what science has proven... (Adam was not created first and given dominion over the creatures of the earth as Genesis states) Dinosaurs inhabited earth for millions of years, millions of years before the first bipeds roamed.

You are dishonest to yourself if you do not acknowledge that this is possible: You where by your own acount in a stressfull state and you had been raised in a christian family, associated with a fundamentalist church, attended bible college, proffesing christianity for years and looking for answers in your church and faith.

Oh, and the religious friend who put bible references and crosses into kids goody bags for a 4 year olds birthday.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

Google «Muslims bible burning» to get all said references about Muslims burning the bible but note that once the «bowers» of Islam like Muneef see how they have been conned by their imams and ayatollahs for the last 1400 years, they too will burn their copies of the koran i.e. the angel Gabriel never existed so there is no way that the warmongering, womanizing, and hallucinating Mohammed got any koranic passages from some god.

I love how you have a piece written buy a guy who knows more about what the bible says in and out and in different translations than any poster here, someone who has studied it for years and years, knows its history, and the history of the time it was written, but people still don't believe what he is saying because of what they hear from a preacher on Sunday mornings.

I've been saying that for years... Too many Christians DO NT read their Bibles, and most have no idea what it says.

For hundreds of years all Bibles were in Latin and during the protestant reformation they used the Vulgate to translate Bibles into other languages.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

and jus a side not for critics of the bible, theres an interesting fact in which the bible has over 40 different authors from various backgrounds over a span of 1500 hundred years who wrote prophecies that were fullfulled to a t hundreds of years later.

Nothing we do is crazier than talking donkeys, boats full of animals surviving floods covering the entire planet, people living for 900 + years, etc etc etc that you believe and read in your bible (assuming your not agnostic).

If god is real as depicted in the bible, why hasn't he simply reached out to us and let us know, instead of letting people kill each other over it for 2000 years.

After years of participating in and serving a minister for the last 10 years — I awoke to the reality the particular sect was abusive, controlling, exclusive and contrary to the bible.

Bu tthe effort of trying to live a good christian life got to much ad i was disollutioned.Spent ten years as a backslidden barely believing christian and then in recent years as a transformed renewed Christian and i finally got it.It is all about a relationship with Jesus Christ and working in submission to the holy spirit he is the one that inspires his word he brings it to life.If you want to understand the word we must apply it to our lives then it becomes part of us thats the difference between knowledge and understanding not just knowing the word but living the word.The bible is a book useful for living not just a theoretical analysis or a history book.Jesus is the living word its through him that he opens his word to us without the holy spirit in us the carnal mind can not comprehend Gods word it a mystery.It was designed that way so only those who are truly seeking God shall find him.brentnz

i do nt understand what religous people really believe is waiting for them in an afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is well thats just good old conceited man made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion made me feel sick

I did however pray a lot for more than forty years before I left my Church and while I was there I read the bible several times cover to cover, so I would pit my knowledge of the bible against the most fervant of believers.

The bible is a collection of documents spread over a thousand years that itself is over 2,000 years old from an ancient culture no longer extant, and therefore should not be solely relied upon for a rule book for modern ethics.»

When one has been raised on the bible and «hearing from God» and does this full time and has been preaching for years, the temptation to consider yourself the expert is sometimes subtle but surely strong.

And trust me, I've known quite a few living in the bible belt of Texas for 15 years.

John Delaney, editor of Catholic books for Doubleday, has figured out that so many Americans have bought Bibles during the past ten years that one out of every three of them (excluding children who can't read) should he able to quote chapter and verse in unison.

Besides the obvious creation narrative of «6 days» of creation even when adjusted for the «thousand years is as a day» still leaves wildly inaccurate time frames, coupled with the Adam lineage down to Abraham all written thousands of years after the supposed events took place by Moses, set's a definate time frame for how old the earth and most bible scholars proclaim this to be between 6,000 to 9,000 years old.

That is so, so short of saying that essentially all human intellectual endeavour for the past 3000 years directly supports not only the existence of a God, but your particular views on the nature of that God and the truth of the bible.

I went through the same experience of studying the bible for years and realizing that it was full of contradiction and false teaching.

So what you're trying to tell me is that jesus can perform miracles, he did so for a crapload of people, but since it was also thrown into the bible that he can't perform for evil people (or wicked generation or whatever) and since we're all sinners he can't perform miracles so we just have to trust him, actually not him necessarily, a book written by a bunch of people 100's of years after jesus who also weren't seeing miracles done, so they decided that since no more miracles were happening, it's our fault.

in the greater scheme of things, as time was created for us as a means of seperating the day from the night but god, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years old.

even the mosaic code had landowners leave grain at the edge of their fields for the poor to harvest, let the poor pay less for sacrifices at the alter, forgave debt every seven years... go back and read your bible.

Marriage has happened for thousands of years before your bible was written, and many cultures world wide have same $ ex marriages, including many native american cultures.

I have been a fan for many years and I did not know for sure but felt that he was a believer because there are so many bible pasted themes to his novels.

I've been reading NP's blog for over a year, and the cartoons are * very * frequently jabs at ways of doing church, approaches to church, approaches to the bible, approaches to ministry, etc..

Scholars of religion are obviously totally uninformed, because you are qualified to judge exactly what Christianity is or isn't, just on the basis of having been a member of one subsect or other for your whole life, and maybe having read some small bits of the bible fifteen or twenty years ago.

I chose to disregard it for a very very long time, same as you, and it wasn't until 2 years ago when I examined the bible to prove it wrong that God proved Himself right to me.

I remember in college, many moons ago, thinking that since I was so very opinionated about religion, I really should make sure I was familiar with the Bible... So I read it... cover to cover... I can tell you, I honestly didn't enjoy it... it's NOT a great read... bits are interesting, and of course very familiar... I took me almost the whole year, but I got through it... So imagine my surprise some time later when I found myself at an after conference gathering, that just so happened to have an inexplicably number of overtly religious attendants (inexplicable because it was a hi - tech network security conference) and after listening quietly for a while, jumped in with the statement «well, you've all read the bible cover to cover, as have I»....

Any religion that teaches hate of anything but what God hates such as fornication idolotry or murder is not a true Christian there is only one Christian faith that has never been accused of doing nothing but teach people the bible going door to door but this is why people ridicule them for doing what the bible says they do nt charge for their material they do nt have communions they do nt pay their members for 2 years or send them to a college for doing so they do nt pay the speakers like other churches and they do nt hate anyone based on any reason they only give them bible knowledge then once they know the knowledge its their choice what to do with it.

Since the bible is a collection of individual books and letters, etc., written over the span of many years, by many different authors, some of which who wrote anonymously (including the authors of all four gospels), then we might say that it has no purpose other than what people use it for.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

If there are 90 % insects, and we consider them to be all very small, (which we know they are not), we could say that each pair, in order to fit on the «ARK» would need 4 square inches for two of them, plus their food for more than 40 days (Actually I think it was about a year, but we will go with about 40 days just to give the bible thumpers a chance, it supposably rained for 40 days).

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

This secular and non-religious man decided to live the bible to the letter for a year.

The bible was simply written by man 2000 years ago who had no clue how to cover all of the loose ends in their made - up stories for you to believe and follow.

Then I served the church as a pastor for about 30 years, studying the bible and theology day in and day out.

My theology continued do diverge from that of mainline protestantism, but there was room in our church for that, and the best «bible» study I ever took introduced me not only to the likes of Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, and Dominic Crossan, but also to a few fellow church members I'd known for years, but had no idea they held beliefs similar to mine.

b. burns all non-Christians — including innocent children — for all eternity c. condemns millions to die each year from starvation d. allows rampant evil, despite having the ability to stop it effortlessly 4) God hates abortions, yet is a prolific abortionist 5) The bible is the word of god and must be followed, yet... a. it is full of blatant contradictions b. it is acceptable to pick and choose what parts you'll follow