Posts Tagged ‘Christian’

Romans, Grace, Faith, Law

October 17, 2009Matt No Comments »

I hear Christians referred to a lot as New Testament Christians, but what does that actually mean? Christians didn’t exist prior to the New Testament, before the New Testament there were no Christians, Christians only came into existance after Christ came to earth, prior to that there were no Christians, or I guess you could [...]

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Leviticus Chapter 12 and Christ

February 21, 2009Matt 4 Comments »

I find it quite interesting that, even before Christ came to be the ultimate sacrifice, God made it as easy as possible for the poor to come to Him, as well as the wealthy, as is illustrated in Leviticus 12:8, if a woman can’t afford a lamb, she is to provide doves or pigeons as [...]

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Exodus Chapter 18 to 34 (Ten Commandments)

February 15, 2009Matt 5 Comments »

This part of Exodus is largely based around God’s Ten Commandments, and has some really good life advice in general.
In chapter 18, Jethro, Moses’ father in law and the priest of Midian comes to visit after hearing everything that God is doing with the Israelites. In verses 13 to 26, after seeing how Moses is [...]

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Exodus Chapters 1 to 17

February 14, 2009Matt 1 Comment »

Exodus is an interesting book to read. As it’s name suggests, the main focus of the first half is on the oppression and the Israelites exodus of Egypt. It then covers the ten commandments, and then almost all of the second half is focused entirely on the development of the tabernacle.
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AD - Anno Domini

March 3, 2008Matt No Comments »

I was having a chat with Rhi this evening. I’m not entirely sure how we got onto the topic, but, as I’m a Christian, she asked if I could explain why there are 30+ years missing between BC and AD. Since BC means Before Christ, so before Christ was born, and AD means After Death. [...]

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