Biblical numerology is the study of how numbers in Scripture sometimes carry meaning or significance beyond their numerical value. It can be a slippery endeavor. Sometimes it’s clear that a number carries underlying significance, and one is able with relative ease to determine what that is. Think, seven. Other times, however, a number’s significance is…
Teaching in higher education for ten years taught me that you cannot assume people will do what’s obviously right, and they will not admit to understanding what is obviously wrong. When people are left without marked boundaries to exercise their own free will, they will defy their own conscience, ignore any sense of right and…
Man was made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26, 1 Corinthians 11:7, and James 3:9). To what degree this is true, we cannot say, but the words in these passages seem to indicate that we resemble Him both in appearance and capacity. God has a form (Philippians 2:6), and apparently, ours bears…