Difference between Pharisees and Sadducees?

In Luke. 18:13 I read about the Pharisee praying his prayer, thanking God that he is not like the other men. Then the tax collector prayed his prayer of humility. Somehow I always thought that the other man was a Sadducee; and I was surprised when I read it again...

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Sins of the fathers?

During a recent Bible study group session, we were reading 2 Chronicles 25:4; where it forbids that "the children be put to death for their fathers". All of us recalled reading Exodus 34:7; where it says that God visits the iniquities of the fathers on the children. We're questioning the...

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Dreadful Stories

"I believe by faith that all of the Bible is God-breathed; but I wonder why some of the accounts were important enough to God that He would ensure them to be recorded for all history. For example, tonight I read Judges 19:1-30, which is the account of the Levite and...

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Bishops and Cretans

Was Apostle Paul inspired by God when he wrote in Titus 1:5-14 concerning bishops? If so, how come White Baptists don't have bishops in their churches and Catholic bishops are not married? Also, if Paul can say "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons... Therefore rebuke them sharply," can't...

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Where are our souls before conception?

In the opening passage of Jeremiah's prophecy, we read: 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,' and in Psalm 139:16 David said: 'Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there...

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