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The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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Live the Story - An Excerpt From Genesis (The Story of God Bible Commentary Series)
The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. The first commenta...
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A Skeptic’s Guide to the Paradox of Humanity — Excerpt from “A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible” by John Dickson
Human nature is a bundle of contradictions.
In the words of Scot McKnight, we are both brilliant and bad: we give our time to the local PTA...
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What is Sin?
"Sin is one of those concepts that, on first glance, would seem to need no explanation. What is more central to the Christian faith th...
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Questioning Hell?
"Perhaps the fundamental obstacle in embracing the biblical understanding of what happens beyond death, in particular wh...
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Anne Rice and Our Modern Sin
by Michael Wittmer
by Michael Wittmer
Anne Rice has left the church again.  Raised in “an old fashioned, strict Roman Catholic” home, Anne left the church when she was 18 ...
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Three Presumptuous Sins of Teachers — By Ronald T. Habermas
In Christology today, two prominent doctrines stand out in need of particular attention: Image of God and Kenosis. All humankind was made i...
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Don't Stop Believing 3 of 5: The Bottom Line
by Michael E. Wittmer
by Michael E. Wittmer
My new book, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, examines the most hotly contested issues of our day: Is it possible...
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Can you not sin? — (Monday with Mounce 8)
Passage: 1 John 3:6
What is the difference between saying, “I studied” and, “I was studying”? Both are in the past time, but there is anothe...
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