All the prophets who have ever walked the earth were foreordained to be prophets. Jeremiah, for example was told that he was called before he was formed in the belly. Many of the great prophets through the ages were called to serve when they were still in their youth. Probably because their minds had not…
Tag: Bible
On Fools
Some people think of a fool as someone who is mentally slow or handicapped, but that way of thinking is erroneous. A fool is defined as: “A person lacking in judgment or prudence.” The Bible has many references to ‘fools’ with the term most frequently directed to those who were leaders and teachers who had…
On Genes
I recall as a young boy attending my Lutheran Sunday school class, learning Bible stories, such as: Noah’s Ark, Daniel in the Lion’s den, Jacob’s ladder and Abraham blessing Isaac. These stories were all in little bible story books with pictures that we could color. When my mother passed away twenty some years ago, one…
On Saints
In the book “Verse by Verse. Acts Through Revelations”, written by BYU Faculty members, Kelly Ogden and Andrew Skinner, there are explanations of how words were translated from the Hebrew. The Hebrew word Kedoshim, for example, means ‘holy ones’ which in the Greek translation is Sanctus or saints. It is interesting to see how the…