Matthew 15:21-28 describes an interaction between Jesus and a Canaanite woman—a member of the very people group that Israel had been called to exterminate from the Promised Land in the Old Testament.
The Apostle Paul warns the Corinthian church that participating in the Lord’s Supper in an “unworthy” manner is so serious that it may lead to sickness and even death (1 Corinthians 11:27-30). Why did Paul take the Lord’s Supper so seriously?
The idea that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the “unforgivable sin” has caused many people—even many Christians—to worry about whether they might have committed this sin.
When Jesus says “...it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God,” (Matthew 19:24), he is clearly using hyperbole (over-statement) to make a point.
The type of sin referred to here is comparable to the "unforgivable sin" mentioned by Jesus in Mark 3:28-29 (associated with "blasphemy of the Holy Spirit").
In Genesis 1:26, we read these words: “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness . . . .” Three times in this verse, God uses a plural while speaking.
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