God told Moses to speak to the rock but moses must not have believed so therefore Moses struck the rock. Water still came out but for disobident Moses was not allowed to enter the promise land.
There is a lot to think about when Moses struck the rock a second time. Our first strike is to know Jesus and His ever flowing stream of love and peace, yet so soon after, we forget who we really are and how we were led out of our own darkness and washed by the sea of blood, we want to command Jesus with another strike to prove our righteousness (bitter water). If we want to cross the Jordan into the promised land, we must remain humble and be led only by the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus to the washed and made clean heart.
i think i know what you may be driving at in one's anger out comes GD, this is a clear indication this person is absent minded and calls upon God in damning something or someone, in the bible jesus teaches not to swear by heaven nor the things in them, or by the earth nor the things in them, but to let your yes be yes and your no be no,if we call upon God we best have a reason not in vain...
no where in the bible does it says that Jesus was born on christmas its a lie and deception from the catholic church.. read the word sweetie.. stop being decieved! no man knows when Jesus birthday is.. its a pagan holiday just like sunday is sun worship! reasearch it please..
I pray u all come to the knowledge of the truth we are in the last days! hold on to Yeshua- Jesus nothing here is worth going to hell for!have a blessed day!
Micaiah your correct it is lieing when people say Jesus was born on Dec,25th its a pagan Sun God Day...its wrong to celebrate it.. all holidays are pagan and the Roman catholic church changed it all..to decieve the world so they will believe in fables and dellussions..also the sabbath was changed from saturday to sunday by the catholic church. saturday is the true sabbath we should be keeping..
The Ten Commandments You shall have no other Gods but me. You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. You shall remember and keep the Sabbath day holy. Respect your father and mother. You must not commit murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not give false evidence against your neighbor
This would change only after Constantine converted to Christianity. From the mid-fourth century on, we do find Christians deliberately adapting and Christianizing pagan festivals. A famous proponent of this practice was Pope Gregory the Great, who, in a letter written in 601 C.E. to a Christian missionary in Britain, recommended that local pagan temples not be destroyed but be convert into churchs
They claimed that because the early Christians didn t know when Jesus was born, they simply assimilated the pagan solstice festival for their own purposes, claiming it as the time of the Messiah s birth and celebrating it accordingly. More recent studies have shown that many of the holiday s modern trappings do reflect pagan customs borrowed much later, as Christianity expanded into northern
on a manuscript of the writings of the Syriac biblical commentator Dionysius bar-Salibi states that in ancient times the Christmas holiday was actually shifted from January 6 to December 25 so that it fell on the same date as the pagan Sol Invictus holiday.5 In the 18th and 19th centuries, Bible scholars spurred on by the new study of comparative religions latched on to this idea.6 They claimed
Despite its popularity today, this theory of Christmas s origins has its problems. It is not found in any ancient Christian writings, for one thing. Christian authors of the time do note a connection between the solstice and Jesus birth: It s not until the 12th century that we find the first suggestion that Jesus birth celebration was deliberately set at the time of pagan feasts. A marginal note
on December 25. Christmas, the argument goes, is really a spin-off from these pagan solar festivals. According to this theory, early Christians deliberately chose these dates to encourage the spread of Christmas and Christianity throughout the Roman world: If Christmas looked like a pagan holiday, more pagans would be open to both the holiday and the God whose birth it celebrated.
The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date s is that it was borrowed from pagan celebrations. The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe kept holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of Sol Invictus the Unconquered Sun ,
Tertullian c. 160 225 . Origen of Alexandria c. 165 264 goes so far as to mock Roman celebrations of birth anniversaries, dismissing them as pagan practices a strong indication that Jesus birth was not marked with similar festivities at that place and time.1 As far as we can tell, Christmas was not celebrated at all at this point.
.Celebrations of Jesus Nativity are not mentioned in the Gospels or Acts the date is not given, not even the time of year. The Catholic church changed it .The extrabiblical evidence from the first and second century is equally spare: There is no mention of birth celebrations in the writings of early Christian writers such as Irenaeus c. 1Tertullian c. 160 225 . Origen of AlTertullian c. 1
Why does man be a hater of God: Tim Coenen hates Christmas and Easter!? People accepted Jesus Christ on any day, so Tim, accept Christmas the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ and Easter the He rose for our sake not His. Aman Hallelujah !!!
I have been looking for the ten commandments. what I really want to read is the ten commandments without the different slants as to what each commandment means.and also what order they are in. I guess I should be reading the Jewish Bible. My question is where are the ten commandments recorded. It seems to me that every church has it's own interpretation of what each one means.
Carleton