In 2 Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan confronts David concerning his sin with Bathsheba and pronounces a judgment against David. That judgment included the death of David and Bathsheba’s infant son. “Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.” 2 Samuel 12:14. The fact that an innocent child dies—instead of the guilty pair—is troubling in light of what we know of God

The Ten Plagues of Egypt—also known as the Ten Plagues, the Plagues of Egypt, or the Biblical Plagues—are described in Exodus 7—12. The plagues were ten disasters sent upon Egypt by God to that would ultimately cause the Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves from the bondage and oppression they had endured in Egypt for 400 years. When God sent Moses to deliver the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt, He promised to show His wonders as confirmation of Moses’ authority (Exo

When you think of the first murder in the Bible, Cain killing Able, it informs us that they understood the concept of believing on the coming of the Messiah, which was the purpose of giving sacrifices until Jesus came. "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Ca

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughte

There are a few different things happening here, Gods omniscience has nothing to do with His ability to make people do things if it serves His will. There is also the advent of free will that God will not go against. There is an account in scripture where God hardened the heart of the Pharaoh of Egypt preventing him from letting the children of Israel go before God was able to demonstrate his wonders to Israel. "Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother

Paul was in prison long enough to write the prison epistles—Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon—they are so named because they were written by Paul during his incarceration in Rome. The exact date of Paul’s imprisonment, as well as the exact dates he wrote each of the prison epistles, is unknown, but the two-year period he spent under house arrest in Rome has been narrowed down to the years AD 60-62. Paul’s imprisonment in Rome is verified by the book of Acts, wh

The Bible has been translated into English a number of times, in 1380 John Wiclif, aka "The Morning Star of the Reformation" who was the first to translate the entire Bible into English. But, he did it using the Latin Vulgate. Tyndale in 1534, Cranmer in 1539, Geneva in 1557, the Puritan Bible, written by William Whittingham & Anthony Gilby, this Bible which the Queen Mary of England did NOT want translated into English had margins with over 300,000 notes to help in the under

Our knowledge of the original text of the Bible comes from ancient hand-written manuscripts. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, and the New Testament was written in Koine Greek and Aramaic. No one has the original articles, but thousands of ancient copies have been discovered. Since these copies are hand-written, there are variations in spelling, word order, and sentence structure among them. Even though those variations do cause some confusion about the biblical text,

The short answer is NO, Mary was a common female name in Israel during the time of Christ. The New Testament mentions six different women with the name Mary. The Hebrew form of the name is Miriam (or Miryam), given to the sister of Moses. The best-known Mary in the Bible is Mary, the mother of Jesus. She was the virgin chosen by God to bear His Son, the Savior of the world. Mary lived in Nazareth, a city of Galilee, when the Angel Gabriel made the announcement to her of the v