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What does the Greek word morphe mean?

Answered by Bible Q · 2 June 2023 · Add Comment
The word μορφὴ (morphē, form, appearance) is a classical Greek noun best known from Mark’s brief mention of Jesus having appeared to two disciples in another morphē – which is expanded in Luke 24:13-35 where Luke says that Cleopas and the other unnamed disciples’ eyes were “holden” to not recognize Jesus. And also from Philippians [...]
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What is Tartarus?

Answered by Jason Grant · 2 June 2023 · Add Comment
Tartarus occurs as ‘the deep’ in the Septuagint of Job 40:20 about the mythical beast Behemoth, and again in 41:32 (numbered 41:24 in LXX) about the lair of another mythical beast Leviathan. 20 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. (Job 40:20 LXX ἐν τῷ ταρτάρῳ, [...]
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Why are there different churches with different names? Isn’t it against the will of God to separate the church?

Answered by Bible Q · 2 June 2023 · Add Comment
This is a big question and the answer is not as straightforward as you might think. On the one hand, the New Testament encourages believers to live in unity with one another (e.g. Eph 4:3). On the other hand, the New Testament warns against those who spread false teaching (e.g. 2 John 1:10-11). Imagine there [...]
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If Jesus was alone then how did Matthew know what happened during Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness?

Answered by Bible Q · 2 June 2023 · Add Comment
Question: Did an angel tell Matthew about the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness? Or did Jesus tell the disciples during his ministry? Answer: There are at least four reasons to think that the answer is the second of the above; that Jesus himself told the disciples the account of the temptations in the wilderness: (1) if [...]
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What did Paul mean by “baptised for the dead”? (1 Corinthians 15:29)

Answered by Bible Q · 2 June 2023 · Add Comment
Paul’s reference to “those who are baptized for the dead” is one of the more obscure references in 1 Corinthians: Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? (1 Corinthians 15:29) Christian readers [...]
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Who is the “one like a son of man” presented to the “Ancient of Days” in Daniel 7:13?

Answered by Bible Q · 24 May 2023 · Add Comment
The question relates to one of Daniel’s visions – of the future.   13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven     there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days     and was presented before him. 14 And to him was given dominion     and glory and [...]
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Why does the ESV have “Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt” (Jude 1:5 ESV)?

Answered by Bible Q · 22 May 2023 · Add Comment
The ESV is the only version to have “Jesus” following the Alexandrian text where other versions have “the Lord” following the majority of manuscripts. The United Bible Society committee which produced the UBS Greek text NA27 in Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament has this comment on Jude 1:5: Despite the weighty attestation supporting [...]
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Will there be animal sacrifices in the Third Temple in the Millenial kingdom age?

Answered by Bible Q · 17 April 2023 · Add Comment
As BibleQ does not have an answer on this question we duplicate here an article by George Booker:   Animal sacrifice in the Kingdom? It is proposed, first of all, to consider the main issue: the fitness of animal sacrifice in the millennial kingdom; then, secondly, to outline an alternative view to the traditional interpretation [...]
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What is the origin of the word “Easter” in Acts 12:4 of KJV?

Answered by Bible Q · 17 April 2023 · Add Comment
What is the origin of the word “Easter” in Acts 12:4 of KJV? In the Greek text the original word in Acts 12:4 is just πάσχα Pascha, Passover, so how did the KJV end up with the English word “Easter” in just one of 29 instances? Passover had been marked by Jewish Christians as the [...]
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What is correct: God fixed the boundaries of the Gentiles according to the number of “the children of Israel” (Deuteronomy 32:8 KJV) or “sons of God” (ESV)?

Answered by Bible Q · 15 April 2023 · Add Comment
The Masoretic Text has “When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” (Deuteronomy 32:8 KJV) 4QDeutj “When Elyon gave the nations as an inheritance, when he separated the sons of [...]
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