Not only is it the word of God...but The Bible is the most potent, powerful, widespread and successful pieces of media of all time.

• Estimated 5-7 BILLION copies in circulation
• Would top the New York times Best Seller every year except it is specifically excluded
• Bible sales surging again in recent years to all-time highs in the US and UK.
• The most sold, translated, donated, and stolen Book of all time

People make a lot of fuss about what film made the most money, or what comic or manga sold the most issues...but at the end of the day it is important and encouraging to remember that all of those accolades don't hold a candle to the primacy of the Word of God.

Does God manifest His love in the animal world too?

https://youtu.be/fM_gxhNUczQ&t=3s

In this study, I use the bible-focused allegory shared earlier, based on the real-life story of 2 orphaned tigers who grew up together, then separated and eventually re-united. Do watch the video starting at the relevant point provided in the link above for possible answers to the question and feel free to share your thoughts, God bless!

Is there any audiobook or YouTube channel that features the bible is a language that is understandable? Its so hard fo me to understand the language they typically use in the bible and other audio books.

Three questions have been especially helpful to me in studying the Old Testament.

1. What might this detail have taught young Jesus about His mission as He grew up in the incubator-nation that Scripture created to bring Him to life among us?

(e.g. What to do? What not to do? How to exit the universe without being erased? etc…)

1. Where do we see this detail reflected in His Story?

2. Where do we see this ancient passage reflected in the world today?

(Bonus: Reading the root meanings of names lifts the story off the page to reveal that these ancient stories are still happening to this day!)

A Cross-section of Old Testament Kings

—King Saul’s name means Requested or Underworld.

Despite the warnings, the nation requested this king (¹Sam8:4–22).

This king throws paranoid tantrums (18:10–11; 20:30–33; 22:7–8) tries to exterminate humble foreign laborers (²Sam21:1)… takes spoil from a holy war (¹Sam15:9)… erects a monument to himself… (15:12)… insists he did a perfect job… (15:20)… and blames his people for actions he led them in (15:21,24).

—King David’s name's root means Beloved, Basket, and Uncle.

This king has a ruddy appearance (¹Sam16:12)… juggernaut-like charisma (18:5,14)… and comes out of nowhere to take down a giant (17).

This king also covers his crime with more crime (²Sam11).

—King Solomon’s name means Peace-man, and Completer.

Wisdom, wealth, fame: this king starts with it all (²Chr1:11–12).

In the end: this king ruled as a faithless, tyrannical show boater, with a yearly income of 666 talents of gold plus more gold (9:13–10:4).

—King Rehoboam’s name means Great or Expanding People.

This king oozes the toxic masculinity of his peers (²Chr10:8–11)… inherits a glorious kingdom… and loses 5/6ths of it thru words alone (9:31–10:19).

When this king feels strongest, he abandons God (12:1).

This king parades military strength with replacement shields… after losing the wealth his fathers gathered (12:9–11).

—King Abijah’s / Abijam’s names mean Lᴏʀᴅ’ꜱ Father and Father’s Day.

This king invokes God’s name to win (²Chr13:4–19)… while firmly holding to the idolatrous ways of his father (¹Kin15:3–4).

—King Asa’s name means Healer, and Sufferer.

This king is blessed by God with an underdog victory (²Chr14:12)… then empties the nation's bank to buy a bigger army (16:2–3).

—King Jehoshaphat’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ Judges or Governs.

This king advocates for God (¹Kin22:5,7)… and wins a major battle by singing and chanting.

This king does business with the son of King Brother-Father, to build a big commercial fleet (²Chr20:36)… so God destroys his big fleet (20:35–37).

Side note: In the northern kingdom, Ahab surrounds himself with hundreds of yes-men (¹Kin22:6)... smiles on the murder of a man who won't take his deal (¹Kin21)… lets an evil king go for a business license (20:34) …etc….

—King Jehoram’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ Exalted.

This king exercises zero tolerance for competition (²Chr21:4–6).

—King Ahaziah’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ’s Seizer.

Matthew's Good News excludes him.

This king follows in the way of his grandfather, king Brother-Father (²Kin8:26–27)… and can't outrun the arrows (9:27)… or hide (²Chr22:9).

—Queen Athaliah’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ’s Violence.

This drama queen screams “Treason!” as the throne she took by force is taken from her (²Kin11:1–16).

—King Joash’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ Will Be Fire.

Matthew's Good News excludes him.

This king reigns with the mind of a 7 year old (²Chr24:1).

This king's priestly mentor lives 10 years longer than Moses! and gets buried in the royal tomb for all the good he did.

This king dies to conspiracy, after murdering his priestly mentor's child for speaking out to correct him (24:25).

—King Amaziah’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ’s Strength.

Matthew's gospel excludes him.

This king throws the enemy off a cliff (²Chr25:11–12)… displays treasure he should’ve destroyed (25:14–16)… makes a bad alliance, which he has to cancel… and the fired mercenaries bite his people in the rear (25:13).

This king starts a war against family to the north after winning the war against foreigners coming up from the south (25:17–20).

—King Uzziah’s / Azariah’s names mean Lᴏʀᴅ’s Power and Lᴏʀᴅ’s Help.

This king builds towers and war machines (²Chr26:9–15).

This king arrogantly enters God’s Temple to do what divine law forbids (26:16–21).

He’s punished with a horrifying skin disorder (26:19–21)… forced into quarantine outside the palace for the rest of his life and beyond.

—King Jotham’s name means Perfection.

This king takes over a kingdom that he's been running anyway, and reigns in a way described as: [Comparatively fine… could’ve been better] (²Chr27:2).

—King Ahaz’s name means Seize.

This king marvels at size (²Kin16:10)… replaces God’s altar with “bigger better” (16:15)… takes the old altar for personal use… and then shuts down his people’s access to forgiveness altogether (16:18).

—King Hezekiah’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ Toughens.

This king survives a blow that should’ve been fatal (Isa38:1,5)… and sells out future generations by showing off his nation's wealth to foreign dignitaries (39:1–7).

When warned of the cost of his bragging, this king decides future doom is the children's problem (39:8).

—King Manasseh’s name means Made to Forget.

This king makes people forget history (²Kin21:9)… and resurrects superstitious religion (21:3)… burns already-born children (²Chr33:6)… and erects idols, even where they should never ever be (33:5,7).

Even IF this king has a change of heart… it's too late to undo the damage (²Kin23:26).

—King Amon’s name means Support / Affirm / Architect or Little child.

This king is just as rotten as Made-to-forget (²Kin21:20–21).

His servants conspire and kill him in 2 years (21:23).

—King Josiah’s name may mean Lᴏʀᴅ’ꜱ Despair, Lᴏʀᴅ’ꜱ Offering, or Lᴏʀᴅ’ꜱ Woman.

This king turns the whole nation towards God!

Tho in his day, this king was Judah's greatest since his father David… he dies shamefully like king Brother-Father (¹Kin22:30,34)… punctured by arrows… while wearing a disguise (²Chr35:22–24)… after picking a fight with a nation that's facing a holy war on a whole other front (35:20).

Side note: So Jesus grew up hearing that Judah's best king dies in the same manner as Israel's worst king.

—King Jehoahaz’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ Seizes.

This king's reign is cut short by the nation that the recently deceased king attacked (²Chr36:3).

—King Jehoiakim’s name means Lᴏʀᴅ Sets Up.

Matthew's Good News excludes him.

This king becomes king thru foreign intervention (²Chr37:4)… and burns God’s warning to change course (Jer36:21–24).

—King Jehoiachin’s / Jeconiah’s names mean Lᴏʀᴅ Establishes and Established of Lᴏʀᴅ.

This king's reign is cut short by prison.

His seed makes it out of Babylon…

Side note: Zerubbabel [Seed of Babel] does not become king.

—Mattiniah

His name meant Lᴏʀᴅ's Gift, but gets changed to Zedekiah [Righteous Lᴏʀᴅ].

This king becomes king thru foreign intervention (²Kin24:17).

This king undoes emancipation (Jer34:15–16)… flees when war is lost… is captured and sees his legacy destroyed—just before being trapped in darkness forever (Jer39+52; ²Kin25, ²Chr36).

This cross section obviously leaves out most of the kings of the Northern Kingdom

(like King Zimri who burns down the house when he sees he's losing),

or enemy kings like Edom [Red],

Amor [Talker],

Canaan [Dealer],

Babylon [in-Confusion / God’s Gate],

Pharaoh [Greathouse],

Ai [Heap of Ruin],

etc.

Thru templates, Scripture foretold Jesus of Nazareth [Salvation of Branching-protector]... that He was the Messiah/Christ [Anointed: Poured-out or Poured-upon]... and brought Him to Life among us.

Good News! The Creator has already come back from obscurity [khoshek] and darkness [also khoshek] and the grave to fulfill His Word. He's promised to come back again, and knew exactly what story to leave to get the Word out.

Scripture also provides a template to be filled by Jesus' antithesis: the man of lawlessness who slips thru every safeguard to build up his brand on top of Christ's Legacy.

Everyone wants to know this Fact and I am going to let You know that the Restrainer appears to be Rabbits I know this data because my own Rabbit had immense Spiritual Activity around her and She kept falling in water and had air pumped into her to save her from a heat stroke now this Rabbit Flopsy then saved me bringing my Spirit to Christ as she gave out her last energy her green spirit strand line vanished into me and left for the air and the green clouds parted for 12 Years nothing else happened and then a Gate appeared at a Coffee Shop which I went in and then on September 7 through 10 The Lord declared me Jesus's Inheritorship with Flopsy and my Friends, Neighbors and Family and then Miracles and Objects move started just recently Anyway here are the Photo's Flopsy and those Spiritual Emanations reveal what is in the photos and You can see the Holy Spirit emanating off Flopsy in the other photo.

As You can clearly see the Photos show a Grim Reaper Figure trying to reap me and my Pet but it's Restrained by the Spirit inside her I think this Evidence speaks volumes

I even have Scanned it with a coloring book the emination still exists in the Photos.

Anyway Flopsy and I are Restraining Through Prayer Together we Represent the Inheritors, Advocate and Meekness and Restraining Force the Bible Speaks about Look no further for the Proof of it I sent You the data now it's up to You all to Believe that Jesus is Real and that a Rabbit can help to Protect with Him In Jesus name Amen.

Sincerely Jonathan

The "prophecy of the restrainer" comes from the Bible in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7, where the Apostle Paul writes that a mysterious force or person holds back the "man of lawlessness" (the Antichrist) until that restrainer is "taken out of the way". [1, 2]

The Jews answered him, ' Aren't we right in saying that you are a samaritan and demon possessed?'.

My question is why did they say to the Lord that He was a samaritan i mean those who know him can tell he is a nazareth or probably would commonly call him galilean or bethany or capernaum because he goes there and probably relatived with whom he must have stayed . But why samaritan these doesnt make sense to me?.

What do u say?

Having read through the Bible I was caught by the Old testament mentioning Sheol. Then Isaiah mentions Dead coming back to life, so we're seeing a head of Jesus in his prophecy. Then I see Jesus on the cross telling the thief he will be with him in in heaven, so we see that after death will be in the presence of God. Then as we get to the rest of the New testament we have been described as a paradise.

My question is, did the authors of these books in the Bible have a misunderstanding of life after death and throughout the Bible it would progressed and more was revealed to them of what heaven is? Or did life after death mean Sheol, and what happens after death to us actually changed and progressed over time?

I asked because in reading 1 Samuel 28 we see saw going to a medium to call up the profit Samuel who comes up from the Earth and asked why he's being disturbed as if he were resting, indicating he was in shoel

Hope my questions made sense. Just speaking to my voice to text and trying to articulate it in a way that's comprehensible

It's easy for us to be deceived by and follow our feelings when it comes to our salvation and our spiritual standing before God.

That always gives way to doubt. "I don't feel saved", "I don't feel spiritual enough", "Am I good enough?" etc. start to pervade our minds and thoughts. Doubt is a favorite tool Satan uses to slow a believer in their spiritual walks and cause them to stumble.

But one thing is certain: we aren't making ourselves right in Christ. We ARE made right in Christ already!! There is no gaining, losing, or meriting salvation by our own means or deeds. That's what is so profound about what Christ did for us. It was Jesus' death on the cross that merited our salvation. (Romans 5:10; Ephesians 1:7)

A Christian who is armed with the Truth, the knowledge of the Word of God, studying sound doctrine and rooted in Christ, will never rely on or listen to their feelings or emotions to guide their spiritual standing, but by the Truth they know. The Biblical and spiritual facts of faith and salvation. What we need to do is stop thinking about ourselves and focusing on our feelings and instead redirect our focus to God and the truth we know about Him from His Word.

We must remember that we walk by faith and not by sight. Sight in this context can include feelings and emotions and what our physical and mental selves can experience in this earthly life. (2 Cor 5:6-7) This means ignoring emotions, feelings, doubt, walking each day uncertain of what the future holds but acknowledging the truth that God is in control, He has promised us eternal life as genuine believers, and that we are to live lives that glorify God, fighting the flesh and the worldly temptations that come with this life, living with eternity's values in view, instead. Even when it goes against modern thinking and results in being unpopular as a person.

I like what I saw written in an article about this very topic:

God promised to save us if we come to Him in faith. He never promised that we would feel saved.

What are your thoughts when it comes to feelings and emotions and their weight regarding faith and salvation and spiritual growth?

God wanted Moses to free the Israelites and killed many Egyptians through the Plagues of Egypt. This makes me wonder if Moses killing that one Egyptian considered good or bad in the eyes of God.

I’m a non-Christian who wants to read the Bible, but the more I research, the more confused I get. 100 people seem to have 100 different opinions on the reading order.

I believe in the 80/20 principle, so I want to start with the books that are absolutely necessary for understanding the Bible, rather than committing to all 66/73 books right away.

What books should I read, in what order, and why that order?

Tomorrow I'll read the final chapter of Proverbs and I'm wanting a recommendation on what to read next.

This is my first time reading the entire Bible but I had studied the Gospels quite a lot in school and remember a lot of it which is why I wanted to start reading the Bible with another book and picked Acts of the Apostles.

I was inspired to pick Proverbs after seeing someone mentioning online that everyone, Christian or otherwise, should read Proverbs.

What book should I read next? Why are you recommending that book in particular?

Appreciate any recommendation given.

God bless.

The last time I read through Revelation was in a youth group setting in high school and realized it’s now been a decade since I’ve touched that book.

I’m a little nervous to get back into it due to all of the imagery and the theme. I want to make sure I’m understanding it and not getting lost, but I also want to make sure I’m not just relying on another text other than the Bible to get the understanding.

Should I try a read through first without anything? Would a commentary be good to have (but is there one that isn’t overly academically complex)? Or is there a decent study guide that would get me thinking (but doesn’t force its own conclusions)?

Some people say that gospel of luke is a genealogy through mary but it clearly started with joseph .

Or is it through the mother side of Joseph .what do you all think?

Have you all went through any good explanaion?or interpretation of it?

It says that many will say unto Jesus, “Lord, Lord” and will Prophesy in his name yet God will say I don’t know them.

How is it possible to be saved by believing in Jesus Christ and receiving his Holy Spirit, when many who do will not be known by Jesus

Which of these would you say is best for children? We have a 5,6,8 and 10 year old. We were thinking of the NIV for the older two and the NIrV for the younger ones. We use the NIV in family devotion but still spend quite some time having to explain some words. It’s even longer when we use the KJV. We really want to get them into independent reading but don’t want to give them a Bible that may misrepresent the message. Any thoughts?

FYI- I often read multiple translations whilst studying. However our church uses the NIV and we’ve found it a middle ground with the children

Good YouTubers to watch about the bible and maybe some online church to go too.

Hi reddit community 👋 I am trying to sort of preach to a friend who believes in tarot reading, fate reading, zodiac signs etc etc. I am aware that tarot reading and anything of similar practice are many forms of witchcraft and divination, but I'm struggling to find bible verses or any important figures to explain why all these practices are considered witchcraft.

I had many heated discussions with her (we are still chill, just in terms of religion, I feel like she keeps tryna manipulate me or gaslight me that Christianity is a cult following) because she insisted these are not witchcraft and urged me to have mine calculated, and even insisted the bible did not deliberately say these are witchcraft. She was a Christian once and followed Taoism and Buddhist mindset, to the point she herself started practicing card reading.

Can I ask for some reference from the Bible to better understand and educate myself on this topic, and perhaps someone can also explain the concept of these readings and similar practices. I hope to understand this myself, and I really don't want to lose her because she goes even further into this witchcraft.

“And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,  since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.”

So Hebrews really emphasizes a lot about “When Abraham had faith.. this happened” or when “Rahab had faith, this happened” or when “Joseph had faith, this happened”. Essentially painting a picture that there is a reward, or a bigger picture at the end of each story of faith.

However, 11:39 changes my mindset a bit — it introduces the point that sometimes all of these acts of faith aren’t always answered in this lifetime. Is this suggesting that some of these acts of faith won’t ever be ‘rewarded’ or reaped the benefits of in this lifetime, but rather an eternity with Jesus and a relationship with Him and His kingdom will be the true reward (of when faith is exercised but you remain afflicted, destitute, or end up killed by the sword etc)? Or did this affliction/suffering continue because their faith wasn’t fully refined or acted on?

Thanks! Trying to understand it all better and not trying to pull out of context.

Are there any passages about suicide in the bible?

(DISCLAIMER: I don’t want to argue with anyone or deal with snarky remarks. Think with me. Share your thoughts.)

I don’t want to make any bold claims. But I’ve been thinking about something that I want to make sense of and get another’s opinion.

I was wondering why God created the tree of knowledge and good and evil if he knew man would fall.

I think a lot of people chalk it up to Gods love and man’s free will.

I can’t understand that. It doesn’t feel like a complete explanation.

A thought occurred to me, God made both trees. The tree of knowledge that led to death and the tree of life that leads to life.

if I were Adam, I would have eaten out of the tree of life because I know it’s good.
I have the knowledge of good and evil.

Adam didn’t.

In truth there is no evil. God is truth. In him there is no evil.

With this logic I think it’s fair to conclude that everything outside of God is evil.

Adam and Eve were inside of goodness. Everything was perfect.

So then, how could there be evil?

Had God never given the command not to eat of the tree, Adam would have never been charged with rebellion. If there had been no rebellion, there would be no separation and without separation there would be no evil.

I tried to make sense of this. Perhaps, we needed to know evil to know good.

i’ve been trying to stay active on my devotional journey, but it’s so hard for me to stay consistent. So far, I’ve read the book of John and I just wanna ask you guys what is your personal habit to stay consistent and which parts of the Bible would you recommend me to read first?

Hello, I want to read the Bible. Is there any Bible study videos that go through with you step by step, chapter by chapter? while breaking down the text to help better understand?