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61 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142061 | ||
Now, I hate porn with a passion. But, It is not fornication. If it was, the woman would be married to him without knowing it. Remember the passage where one who goes to a prostitute is one flesh with her? Jesus, though, did make a point in Matt 5:28 A man who looks at a woman lustfully (porn is included) has comitted adultery with her in his heart. Not physically, so no grounds for divorce and remarriage (not maritial unfaithfulness a couple of verses later), but his sin in God's eyes is just as bad. Notice, I am trying to walk a careful line. I hold marriage as sacred, I want people in danger to be able to leave, and I want to guard against easy justification of divorce. Many people don't want to get healed. They would rather blame the other, even manipulate them into a hard place to feel justified in getting divorce. Thus I do not want to say just looking at porn sites would be grounds for divorce. Greentwiga |
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62 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142060 | ||
That long two letter response covers those things. It is a study that came out of my divorce. To sum it up, being widowed, adultery in the spouse, and a nonbeliever choosing to leave is the only grounds for divorce and being free to remarry. Physical Abuse, Emotional destruction, withdrawl of sex, and drugs have all been stated as giving a person the freedom to divorce and remarry. When my apparently believing spouse chose to leave, I had a terrible battle. I had a high sex drive and God said you must stay single. The verse is 1 Cor 10-11. If you need to get divorced, you must remain unmarried of get reconciled. I had to stay single. I cried, I prayed, I hurt, and God said, My grace is sufficient. Then she committed adultery, and I was free to remarry. I slowly looked, and finally 10 years after the divorce (9 after the adultery) I found a pearl of great price and married her. Read both halves carefully, and you should find a complete analysis of each divorce verse. needless to say, Physical or emotional abuse, or severe alcoholism that interferes with the ability to financially take care of the children is grounds to get divorced and stay single only. If you remarried without meeting the Biblical standards, divorce the new spouse to remarry the old, one disobeys the old Testament that forbids one to remarry the old spouse. Ask forgiveness and move on. Stay married to the new spouse. Your loving brother in Christ greentwiga |
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63 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142052 | ||
Here is the second half Next is the classical reason for Divorce. Matt 5:32, 19:9 says, “I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness…” Here Jesus clarifies a debate. Deut 24:1-4 allows divorce if the man finds something indecent. Rabbi Hillel said that could mean she burnt his dinner. Rabbi Shammai said it meant only marital unfaithfulness. Jesus statement is in the category of Rabbi Shammai. Though you hear many excuses to justify divorce, because action X or Y is an act of unfaithfulness, those actions are not unfaithfulness. Marital unfaithfulness only means sex with another after marriage. See Jer 3:6 plus The except clearly states that if a person divorces for another reason, then if the partner remarries adultery is committed. If the person remarries, adultery is committed. Some try to say that means if people remarry for any reason then adultery is committed. God put the word except in. He did it for a reason. It is clear “If a man divorces for any reason EXCEPT DIVORCE and remarries, he commits adultery. This is a warning that we do not force scriptures to say what we believe, but we change our beliefs to fit scripture. One important point is when adultery occurs. We all know that to come home and discover adultery is grounds for divorce. Notice that in Matt 5:32, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, the divorce occurs first, and then the Adultery. Even if a legal marriage occurs, it is still adultery. Therefore if a person is innocent and the partner divorces them, and the partner remaries, adultery is committed. In this case, the person is now free to remarry. Now, one cannot divorce another and then sit and wait for them to commit adultery. That is entrapment. In Matt, the person is condemned for having caused the other to commit adultery. Here, the person files for divorce and waits. If after the partner commits adultery, the person feels free and remarries, it is still adultery. The only exception is the one I mentioned. When one person is willing to remain faithful, but the partner chooses divorce. If the person stays single in hopes of reconciliation, but the partner remarries, the faithful person is then free to remarry. So your partner can commit adultery, and either can file for divorce, or the unfaithful partner can file for divorce and then commit adultery. In either case the faithful partner is free to remarry after both divorce and adultery. Focus again on 1 Cor 7:3-6. Withdrawing sex until the partner is desperate and commits adultery to justify yourself is wrong. This is just another form of forbidden entrapment. Though the partner sinned, the entrapper will still sin by getting married. Abstinence must be mutual and only for a short time. This goes along with the Old Testament passage (Deut 24:4) on divorce. Here, if a man divorces hie wife, she remarries, and the second husband also divorces her, the first husband is forbidden to remarry her. If on remarriage one is forbidden to marry the exspouse ever again, it is silly to insist the person could not marry anyone else. Thus, the exception for adultery. Even here, the divorce is optional, one can choose to forgive. Also see Deut 22:13-19 Here, a man falsely accuses a woman of sexual sin in order to justify divorce. This man is forbidden to divorce her ever! Again, trying to manipulate the system is forbidden. The person can’t file for divorce and wait for the other to commit adultery. The person can’t withhold sex and wait for adultery. The person can’t falsely accuse the partner of adultery. There are only two ways. The partner can commit adultery, and the person can file for divorce and get remarried. The partner can file for divorce. If the partner is the first to either have sex or get remarried, the person is free to remarry. Fourth, Paul adds a new reason. In I Cor 7:15 “If the unbeliever leaves” We have three situations, two unbelievers married, two believers married, and now a believer married to an unbeliever. The believer cannot leave except for adultery, but the unbeliever is not constrained by Christian rules. “A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.” To understand the meaning, notice the parallel to when the widow is released, and the believer is not bound, i.e. to the law. This has to mean something different than the case in the same passage where one has to remain single or be reconciled. One situation allows for staying single but not being free to remarry, and the other allows the person to remarry. Greentwiga |
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64 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142051 | ||
Marriage: Simple The women is to be subject to the man but the man is to die daily for the woman. The man's command is harder to obey. 1 Cor 7, Eph 5:22 plus. Divorce: Many people discuss divorce with only a partial use of scriptures. Scripture is very clear on when people can get divorced and when they can get remarried but to see it, one needs to see all the relevant scriptures. There are three situations that allow for remarriage. Another question is around the nonChristian. Finally we need to look to see when one is allowed to separate but not remarry. There are two basic scriptural ideas about marriage that one should always remember. Matt 19:5-6 and Mark 10:7-9, in a discussion on divorce, Jesus says, “the two will become one flesh…. Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.” In Mal 2:16 “I hate Divorce says the Lord.” So marriage is meant to be forever, and divorce is horrible. With that in mind, lets look at separation first. The Grounds for Separation Look at I Cor 7:10-11 “A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband.” Here we see allowances for extreme situations. When a partner is dangerous due to drugs, violence or a similar reason, God allows for escape from danger to protect the person or the children, but insists the person remain single in hope that healing would occur and the marriage could be renewed. Many use these types of events to say that the marriage covenant is broken and therefore justify being free to remarry. Though God hurts with them, He says it is only grounds to separate and stay single. There are very clear conditions for remarriage. The grounds for Remarriage First, there is a condition where nonChristians were divorced and remarried before salvation. If the person remarries and then becomes a Christian, the scripture does not clearly address this situation. I Cor 7:20 says, “Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him.” This seems to allow the person to remain in the second marriage in peace. It would be wrong to force a second divorce on top of the first. I have heard of Christian pastors doing just that. If you are remarried when you become a Christian, stay remarried in peace. Second is a reason that everyone agrees allows a married person to get remarried. Rom 7:2-3 “a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage…and is not an adulteress even though she marries another man.” No one disputes that a widow is free to remarry. She is released from the marriage covenant. This also applies to a widower. I cut it in half to fit Greentwiga |
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65 | Where did the Book of Mormons come from? | Bible general Archive 2 | greentwiga | 142047 | ||
I was quoting my friend and what I had heard about 1977. I had not quoted this site. I just found it when you challenged me. Thanks for updating my facts. I thought the infor was correct, but it had been changed (the handwriting) after I heard it. Since then, I have more focused on eastern religions to witness to them, and haven't kept up to date on Mormons. Greentwiga |
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66 | Isn't all sin the same? | 1 John | greentwiga | 141991 | ||
That is a common teaching. It is true that all sin leads to death Rom 2:12-13. There seems to be differences in sins. In 1 John 5:16-7, it says there is s sin leading to death and sins not leading to death. The problem is when a sin becomes popular in thinking. Refer back to the prohibition. I expect that they thought it was the worst sin. Thew sin that I find preached against the most in the Bible is oppression of the poor. This includes oppression by sharp but currently legal business practices. We could feel so righteous by our preaching against homosexuality or abortion and find ourselves condemned by God. I am speaking of us as American religious, and and not a saved person. As a saved person, I know there is no condemnation. Greentwiga |
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67 | Where did the Book of Mormons come from? | Bible general Archive 2 | greentwiga | 141989 | ||
This must have been the source of what I heard: http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/response/qa/spaulding.htm Nevertheless, some have continued to promote the Spaulding theory (e.g., see Holley). In 1977, graphologists claimed to have detected similarities between the handwriting of Spaulding and of one of the scribes who transcribed some of the Book of Mormon from Joseph Smith's dictation. After considerable media attention and further scrutiny, anti-Mormon spokespersons acknowledged that they had been too hasty. The handwriting evidence did not support a connection between Solomon Spaulding and Joseph Smith. The Question was, did they change their mind because of heavy pressure from the Mormons, to be politically correct, or because they had made a real mistake? The site also says: Hurlbut set out in the ensuing months to refute Joseph Smith´s claims for the origins of the Book of Mormon. He interviewed members of Spaulding´s family, who swore that there were precise similarities between Spaulding´s work and the Book of Mormon. If the family members swore then that there were the similarities, they would have passed the information down. If you hear the story from a dear trusted family member and a different one from the newspaper, which would you believe? I would believe the parent or grandparent. I don't think that contacting the family member would add anything. If you still want, email me. Greentwiga |
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68 | To keep records was there paper | Job 19:23 | greentwiga | 141967 | ||
In the time of Moses, The Egyptians, where Moses was trianed, they used papyrus scrolls. When they did international correspondence, they used clay tablets with cuneiform writting (see the Amarna taboets, a few years after Moses.) For scratch paper and notes, people used broken Potsherds. Stone carvings were frequently used for permanence and on statues.The invention of paper and a writing system adapted to paper (the proto canaanite writing) changed writing and the alphabet forever. That was about 1200 to 1000 BC. Thus much of the Old testament was written on paper, but not the earliest ones like the five books of Moses. Greentwiga |
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69 | what are the books of the Apocrypha? | Bible general Archive 2 | greentwiga | 141965 | ||
There are a variety of Apocryphal books. Some were written from a more Jewish legalistic point of view. Others were written by gnostics promoting their hidden truth. Some promote a type of Mary worship that would be comfortable to people from the mother goddess worship (Diana of Ephesus. All were written at least one century after the apostles, though they often claim an apostle as an author. Some were; 1. Pseudo-Jesus apocrypha 1.1 The Epistles of Jesus to Abgarus 2. Pseudo-apostolic (general) apocrypha 2.1 Teachings of the Twelve Apostles (Didache) 2.2 Epistle of the Apostles 3. Pseudo-apostolic (specific - by Apostle) apocrypha 3.1 - Andrew - 3.1.1 Acts of Andrew 3.1.2 Acts of Andrew and Matthias* 3.2 - Barnabas - 3.2.1 Acts of Barnabas* 3.2.2 Epistle of Barnabas 3.2.3 Gospel of Barnabas 3.3 - Bartholomew - 3.3.1 Gospel of Bartholomew 3.3.2 Martyrdom of Bartholomew* 3.4 - James - 3.4.1 Apocryphon of James 3.4.2 Book of James (protevangelium) 3.4.3 First Apocalypse of James 3.4.4 Second Apocalypse of James 3.5 - John - 3.5.1 Acts of John 3.5.2 Acts of John the Theologian* 3.5.3 Apocryphon of John (long version) 3.5.4 Book of John the Evangelist 3.5.5 Revelation of John the Theologian* 3.6 - Mark - 3.6.1 Secret Gospel of Mark 3.7 - Matthew - 3.7.1 Acts and Martyrdom of St. Matthew the Apostle* 3.7.2 The Martyrdom of Matthew 3.8 - Nicodemus - 3.8.1 Gospel (Acts) of Nicodemus (aka The Acts of Pontius Pilate) 3.9 - Peter - 3.9.1 Acts of Peter 3.9.2 Acts of Peter and Andrew 3.9.3 Apocalypse of Peter - version 1 3.9.4 Apocalypse of Peter - version 2 3.9.5 Gospel of Peter 3.9.6 Letter of Peter to Philip 3.10 - Philip - 3.10.1 Acts of Philip 3.10.2 Gospel of Philip 3.11 - Thaddeus - 3.11.1 Acts of Thaddeus (Epistles of Pontius Pilate)* 3.11.2 Teaching of Thaddeus 3.12 - Thomas - 3.12.1 Acts of Thomas 3.12.2 Apocalypse of Thomas 3.12.3 Book of Thomas the Contender 3.12.4 Consumation of Thomas 3.12.5 Gospel of Thomas 4. Pseudo-Pauline apocrypha 4.1 3 Corinthians 4.2 Acts 29 4.3 Acts of Paul 4.4 Acts of Paul and Thecla 4.5 Acts of Peter and Paul* 4.6 Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena 4.7 Apocalypse of Paul 4.8 Apocalypse of Paul - other version 4.9 Epistle to the Laodiceans 4.10 Revelation of Paul* 4.11 Paul and Seneca 5. Infancy Gospels apocrypha 5.1 Arabic Infancy Gospel 5.2 First Infancy Gospel of Jesus Christ 5.3 Infancy Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew 5.4 Infancy Gospel of Thomas - Greek A 5.5 Infancy Gospel of Thomas - Greek B 5.6 Infancy Gospel of Thomas - Latin 6. Relatives of Jesus apocrypha 6.1 Gospel of Mary 6.2 Gospel of the Nativity of Mary 6.3 Book of John concerning the dormition of Mary (transitus mariæ)* 6.4 History of Joseph the Carpenter* 6.5 Narrative of Joseph of Arimathaea 7. Sub-canonical (disputed canon) apocrypha 7.1 Shepherd of Hermas 7.2 II Clement 7.3 Diatession 7.4 Gospel of the Lord (Marcion) 8. Other significant Epistles and pseudomynous writings and apocrypha 8.1 I Clement 8.2 Avenging of the Saviour 8,3 Epistles of Pontius Pilate 8.4 Letter of Aristeas 8.5 Sentences of the Sextus 8.6 Alexandrians 8.7 Revelations of Stephen 8.8 Muratonian Canon (fragment) 9. Fragments of lost apocryphal books 9.1 Gospel of the Ebionites 9.2 Gospel of the Egyptians 9.3 Egerton Gospel (Egerton Papyrus 2)* 9.4 Gospel of the Hebrews 9.5 Traditions of Mattias 9.6 Gospel of the Nazaraeans 9.7 Preaching of Peter 10. Apostolic Constitutions (Didascalia Apostolorum) 10.1 Book 1 10.2 Book 2 10.3 Book 3 10.4 Book 4 10.5 Book 5 10.6 Book 6 10.7 Book 7 10.8 Book 8 11. Psuedo-Sibylline Oracles 11.0 Preface 11.1 Chapter I 11.2 Chapter II 11.3 Chapter III 11.4 Chapter IV 11.5 Chapter V 11.6 Chapter VI 11.7 Chapter VII 11.8 Chapter VIII 11.9 Chapter XI 11.10 Chapter XII 11.11 Chapter XIII 11.12 Chapter XIV 11.13 Appendices - Fragments from http://www.comparative-religion.com/christianity/apocrypha/ |
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70 | Why is NAS better than KJV | Bible general Archive 2 | greentwiga | 141962 | ||
Wow! I was in Kenya Africa, working with Hindus and Muslims for only three years. Like you, I tend to avoid the commentaries and search for myself. A good study Bible with cross references is essential to me. I am using the NIV, but it is getting worn out. Know a good way to get it rebound in leather? I once had a NASB rebound by a monk. I am thinking about returning to the NASB. The updated version sounds great. I have strongs and the NIV exhaustive concordances. Otherwise, I am a voracious reader of the ancient cultures. This keeps my interpretations fitting the Bible and ancient societies. (eg. Gen 6 - sons of God marrying daughters of men.) I am just getting into some internet Bible resources, especially ones that look up phrases instead of just words. I used to own a greek english interlinear, but it was left in Kenya. | ||||||
71 | Where did the Book of Mormons come from? | Bible general Archive 2 | greentwiga | 141958 | ||
I don't remember how much of the original was left. I can't remember if it was Dr. Martin or another researcher on cults that did the research on handwriting. What was fascinating was meeting a Dr. Spaulding and working with him and hearing the family story directly. Some Joseph Smith just wrote directly, as need arose. I would imagine that Dr. Spaulding and Joseph Smith would have both quoted from the King James. Thanks for reminding me about Dr. Martin's Book, it has been so long since I read it. Greentwiga |
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72 | Where did the Book of Mormons come from? | Bible general Archive 2 | greentwiga | 141882 | ||
It depends on who you talk to. They say from an angel. A few years ago, I worked with a man whose ancestor, a Presbyterian minister, wrote a fiction book. My friend told me the family story how the man looked for a book agent. Joseph Smith came and offered to get the book published. That ancestor never saw the book again, despite repeated efforts. It was a story about Jesus coming to america and preaching to the Indians. More recently, a man got photo copies of a few of the original pages of the book of Mormon. He took it to some handwriting Experts who agreed one of the pages had the same handwriting as the presbyterian minister. He theorized that Joseph had gotten tired of recopying and inserted a few pages of the original now and then. Both my coworker, and this researcher said a Presbyterian minister wrote the original book of Mormon. greentwiga |
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73 | Can the Hubble measure the universe? | Jer 31:37 | greentwiga | 141864 | ||
For years I have had some problems with what the astronomers are saying. Remember I have a college degree in Chemistry. Lets look at the information. Imagine that the Big bang is right. Then imagine that at the point of the Big Bang, the outermost edge of the universe was expanding at the speed of light, the fastest possible speed, they say. Then, 7.5 Billion years ago, the farthest stars were 7.5 billion light years away from the center. If so, and we were at the exact point of the Big Bang, the oldest stars we could see would be 1/2 the age of the universe (50 percent, not 5 percent as the site says.) Now if we were off center, on one side we could see stars considerably older than 50 percent, but on the other side, we would only see stars of a more recent age. For example, We might see stars at 75 percent to one side but 25 percent to the other. If there were some factor, such as the expansion of the fabric of the universe that allowed the outermost ring to expand at twice the speed of light, as some claim, and we were in the center (highly unlikely mathematically) we could see stars to within 25 percent of the age. It would have to be an expansion at 8 times the speed of light at a minimum for us to see stars around 5 percent the age of the universe. We would also have to be at the point of the Big Bang, or we would see a difference from one direction to another. Scientists keep repeating thet even the farthest reaches of the universe are the same to every direction. We can see very young stars (5 percent or 14.5 billion years ago, if the universe was created 15 billion years ago. This indicates we are not seeing the outer edge of the universe. It colud be twice as big as what we see. It could be ten times as big. We have no outer limit to the size. If you find anything confusing (I do) write and ask. I do believe that we are in the end times. I strongly believe it could be within 20 years from the signs that Jesus wrote, so I did not want to put down your enthusiasm. I just doubt we can measure the size of the universe. Greentwiga |
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74 | Why is NAS better than KJV | Bible general Archive 2 | greentwiga | 141858 | ||
What info besides what I had already put would you like to see? For years, I used the Nasb study Bible. It got me through Bible school and Mission work. Later, I switched (for some forgotten reason) to NIV and enjoyed it. Though it is not as word for word as NASB, with a concordance, I have done great Bible Studies. I was following information of Greek teachers when I said the old ASB was more literal than the NASB. I am willing to be wrong, though. Have you looked at Young's literal? It was written in the 1800, so the language is old, but it still seems to follow the Hebrew and Greek better than either the old ASB or the NASB. I have stumbled across a couple of other literals, but haven't looked at them. Though I personally would not use the Living Bible, I see why some do. The point is that people are without excuse to read the Bible, just as you said. One site I saw had the KJV and the NASB, both with the Strong's numbers for each word next to the word. At the rate I have been studying the book of Genesis, I seem to need that. Intense studying of the Hebrew has led me to some unique insights on some of the stories. One just has to believe each and every word and try to put them together so every word makes sense. greentwiga |
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75 | Is there danger of guessing what He did? | Job | greentwiga | 141809 | ||
Rom 1:20, 1:32, 2:14-15 Greentwiga |
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76 | Oldest Book of the Bible Job? | Job | greentwiga | 141808 | ||
True, I missed that totally. It is easy to just say God and let it go. So much of the law seems something people would develop logically. Thou shalt not murder seems like something that all societies would develop. In Romans, Paul talks about the facets that are obvious for all to see. this indicates that man would acquire some by logic and experience. Greentwiga |
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77 | Is there danger of guessing what He did? | Job | greentwiga | 141791 | ||
see my answer to EdB at 5:29 on 1/11 on another branch of this question. There is no guessing in what I said. I do not like speculating in thin air, as I think you don't either. Greentwiga |
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78 | Did Mary Magdalene see the risen Christ | John | greentwiga | 141789 | ||
Very good. It is smart to watch for people choosing the most awkward interpretation and then complaining about the Bible. We are warned about such people in books like the pastoral epistles Greentwiga |
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79 | Oldest Book of the Bible Job? | Job | greentwiga | 141788 | ||
We do know that Adam knew about evil, which had a specific meaning. Noah saw that his generation was condemned for evil, wickedness, corruption and violence.There were some other pieces of information, such as one man one woman marriage, and the man was the head of the house. Noah knew about clean and unclean animals. I am sure one can find more in Genesis. The other cultures that you refer to such as the laws of Hamurabi and laws before him can add to this picture. Greentwiga. |
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80 | provoked Me? | Ezek 20:5 | greentwiga | 141715 | ||
In http://www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm has this version: 20:28 I brought them to the land which I promised43 to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offering that provokes me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings. and theis note: 43tn Heb “which I lifted up my hand.” This site: http://www.e-sword.net/bibles.html Lets you download; Literal Translation of the Holy Bible and Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament plus many others. It even includes a Jewish translation of the old testament. Two of the downloads have the strongs numbers with each word. Though I don't know Hebrew, I still look at the hebrew in strongs. Strongs will point to related words that help me understand. At the depth you are looking, you need a way to look at the Hebrew. greentwiga |
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