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What If God Is Still God?

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There is a lot of fear being stirred up right now about artificial intelligence. We hear people talking about what AI might become, what it might be capable of doing, and what could happen if it becomes more powerful than anyone expected. Some of the questions being raised are worth examining. We should have wisdom about anything that has the ability to affect people's lives, and we should not just blindly accept everything we are told. But as I listened to some of the fear surrounding AI, my thoughts went somewhere much bigger than artificial intelligence. I started thinking about what happens when people allow fear of what they cannot control to become greater than their trust in God. Fear has been presented to mankind in one form or another since the creation. The thing people fear changes with the times, but the pattern remains. There are wars, diseases, economic troubles, political problems, natural disasters, new technologies, and predictions about what might happen ...
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Selah, What does it mean?

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Selah!   There is a little word in the Bible that we have probably seen so many times that we hardly notice it anymore. Selah . It is sitting there in the Psalms, sometimes right in the middle of something David is saying, sometimes at the end of a thought, and three times it appears in Habakkuk 3 .  Most of us have probably heard that Selah means “pause and think about it,”  and that is not a bad way to approach what happens when we come to the word.  But if we are going to really study it, we need to start by admitting something that makes this word much more interesting: we do not know exactly what the Hebrew word סֶלָה , selah , means. That may sound strange.  There it is in Scripture, seventy-one times in the Psalms and three times in Habakkuk, and yet we cannot simply open a Hebrew dictionary and find one English word that settles the matter.  The ancient translators did not completely agree about it either.  The Septuagint uses the Gre...
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Romans 7 Explained

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Romans 7 is one of those chapters that can make people stop and say, “Wait a minute.  What exactly is Paul talking about?”  The chapter moves through several connected ideas, and if we read it carefully, Paul is not blaming God's Law for the problem.  He is showing us what the Law can do, what it cannot do, and why we need Jesus Christ. Paul begins by speaking to people who understand law.  He uses marriage as an example because everyone could understand that a law has authority over a person while that person is alive.  A married woman, for example, is bound to her husband while he lives.  If her husband dies, that legal bond ends.  Paul uses that simple picture to explain something much bigger about believers and the Law. Then he brings the comparison directly to believers.  He says, “So then, my brothers, you also were put to death to the Law through the body of Christ,” Romans 7:4 .  Notice what Paul actually says.  He does not say...
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10 Questions Asked

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These 10 Questions were asked on my " mother site", YWPMI     ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️ Okay... these questions. 😂 I have to admit, some of them really made me stop and think. They cover a LOT of ground, and some of them go places I honestly hadn't thought about before. That's one of the things I like about them. They aren't just questions you can answer with a quick Bible verse and move on. Some of them made me dig a little deeper into what I actually believe and why I believe it. So I decided to answer them. These are my answers, based on my understanding of Scripture and my own walk with God. I'm not claiming that I've got every answer figured out, because I certainly don't. But I am willing to think through the hard questions, search the Scriptures, and be honest about what I believe. And some of these questions... whew. 😂 They really do cover a lot of ground. Anyway, here we go. Ten questions. Ten answers. Let's see where they take us. ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️ A...
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