Questions tagged [law]
The legal codes and specific laws of the Bible.
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Is Mtt 23:24 Jesus' counter- statement for Mtt 11:19?
Jesus says in Mtt 11:19( NKJV):
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!'...
Going ahead, the Lord says ...
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Is abstaining from food a law in the written torah? [duplicate]
I can find no law in the written law of Moses to tell the Israelites to abstain from food. Some websites give a list of verses but when those verses are looked up it says to do no work on the day of ...
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Why does Jesus repeat the predicament of Old Wine-skin in Mk 2:22?
Jesus says in Mk 2:22(DARBY):
And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into ...
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What does Rom. 4:15b mean in context: "And where there is no law there is no transgression."
In Romans 4:1-15, Paul has argued that Abraham was justified by faith apart from works of the law and apart from circumcision. Then comes 4:15a, "because the law brings about wrath;" But ...
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How To Read the 17 Prophetic Books (Repeat) [closed]
(I originally posted this question in https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/111250/how-to-read-the-17-books-of-prophecy/111269#111269 || but I want to post it here for visibility sake among ...
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Was the High Priest Required to Serve Until he Died? (Numbers 35:25-32)
There was clearly no age limit requiring the High Priest to leave office when he became too old to serve effectively. But was he required by Law to serve until he died? In favor of this idea several ...
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In Exodus 22:16-17, is it showing God's love and care for women?
I came across this verse in a sermon, talking about Exodus 22:16-17. This two verses appeared on this forum before, but my question is from another perspective, please don't label this as 'duplicated.'...
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Why did Jewish leaders take contradictory stances on death penalty during Jesus' trial?
We see Jewish leaders take contradicting
stances on capital punishment during Jesus' trial. Their initial statement is in John 18:31 :
Then Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him ...
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Was David fully / wholeheartedly / completely devoted to God or not?
Kings - implies that Solomon was not fully devoted to God but David is. However, we know that David broke one of the commandments by committing adultery.
So was he fully devoted or not?
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Does Acts 15 law on meat of strangled animals have an OT parallel?
Acts 15 speaks of a letter sent by the Apostles to the Gentile Believers of Antioch .It says in Verses 28-29: .....................................
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not ...
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Did God command a priest to break the Torah in Ezekiel 5:1 by shaving his beard?
In Ezekiel 5:1, God commands:
“Take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and pass it over your head and beard...”
This action is explicitly priest-prohibited in the Torah:
Leviticus 21:5 — “...
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Why did the Israelites leave Egypt which was a land they had to water by foot, to a land that drinks water from the rain of heaven, Deut. 11:10-11?
10 `For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb;...
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Why must the stone be rolled away? [duplicate]
Why must the stone be rolled away from the well for Rachel (lamb) to water the flock in Genesis 29:8, from Lazarus (God is my help) in John 11:39, and by Jesus (God is salvation) in John 20:1?
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Why was the strangling of animals prohibited in Acts 15?
In Acts 15, there was a debate between the apostles about circumcision and also about other practices covered in the Law (Torah). The result was a letter inspired by the Holy Spirit that read in part ...
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Why does the Priest appeal to Purity as the reason for giving the Shewbread?
And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread— if the young men have kept themselves from women.
1 Samuel 21:4 ESV
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