No. Moses was the (adopted) son of a pharaoh’s daughter in Egypt for forty years (Acts 7:21,23), a shepherd in Midian for forty years (Ex. 3:1; Acts 7:30), and the leader of the children of Israel in Egypt and the wilderness for the rest of his life (see Ex. 3 to Deut. 34), but never […]
One of the Ten Commandments is ʺThou shalt not killʺ: if this is so, why does the Bible say God told his people to kill other people?
“Thou shalt not kill” is taken from Exodus 20:13 in, e.g., the KJV of the Bible. A better translation of this verse is “You shall not murder”.1 The Law of Moses, from where the Ten Commandments are taken, didn’t outlaw all forms of killing. For example, in some instances people were allowed to kill other people: see Numbers […]
Is Persia the same as Babylon?
Most often, Babylon is not synonymous with Persia. Babylon was the capital city of the Babylonian or Chaldean Empire, whereas Persia (along with the Medes) was the name of the country whose empire defeated and replaced the Babylonian Empire.1 However, after the Babylonian Empire was defeated by the Persians, the city of Babylon was still […]
Should we use God’s name, Yahweh, when talking about or to him?
The divine name YHWH appears only in the Hebrew Old Testament. It appears without vowels in the Hebrew text, and is read with the Hebrew word for ‘Lord’ both by Jews and in traditional Protestant Bibles. The spelling Yahweh occurs in some Bibles like the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible. Yahweh is also how scholars of […]
Why does the New Testament used the name of our Lord in different forms, like “Jesus”, “Christ”, “Jesus Christ” and “Christ Jesus”?
Sometimes, perhaps it was simply because they could function as synonymous terms, rather like referring to the current president of the United States by either their name or their role, President.1 Either way, it makes little difference at times. Although I don’t know of any specific examples, other times, perhaps, the variations were because Paul […]
Are Christadelphians the only ones who are going to be saved upon the second coming of Jesus Christ?
The simple answer is ‘no’, common sense tells us that no church is unique or perfect in doctrine in God’s eyes, much less in behaviour. But to these things we do not know. It is not our judgment to make, it is for Christ to judge (John 5:22; Matt 5:31), and so any attempt to […]
Can we date Adam’s “birth”?
The questioner says: My independent study of a biblical timeline agrees with Abraham’s birth of 1946 BC. I am thrilled that there are others who support this sound date. Why have you not placed any further dates that seemingly can go back to a birth date for Adam? Another date I have seen for Abraham’s […]
Why didn’t the Philistines who stole the Ark of God immediately meet their deaths?
1 Samuel 4:1-11, especially v10-11 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. And the ark of God was captured. The people of Israel treated the ark of the covenant as […]
What does the Bible say about what people would be like in the end of days?
One of the longest passages about what people would be like like in the last days is 2 Timothy 3:1-9: But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, […]
If only two people entered Canaan, how could they break the wall of Jericho?
Whilst the Bible states that of those who left Egypt only Joshua and Caleb entered Canaan (Num 14:30), there would have been many children born to the Israelites during the forty years in the wilderness.