Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Many people have wondered at the abilities of idiot savants. These are people who have very low intelligence, yet they can do seemingly impossible mental tasks. Some idiot...
Continue ReadingPsalm 34:8 “O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him.” Research is showing that we can forget just about everything we ever learned about how we taste food. To begin with, we don’t taste with o...
Continue ReadingRevelation 21:4 “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Despite modern medical advancements...
Continue ReadingNehemiah 9:6 “Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all [things] that [are] therein, the seas, and all that [is] therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of ...
Continue ReadingJoshua 8.30 “Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal.” In Deuteronomy 27:2-8, we read of how Moses instructed Joshua to build an altar on Mt. Ebal after the Israelites had entered the Promised Land. There, the peop...
Continue ReadingJeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” When talking about a baby’s expected time of birth, we have a...
Continue ReadingProverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Popular folk wisdom, heavily promoted by groups like Planned Parenthood, says that it is pointless to teach teenagers that premarital sex...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 45:12 “I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.” Would the early Indian settlers in North America have been able to understand modern twenti...
Continue Reading1 Peter 2:15-16 “For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.” I remember reading in grade s...
Continue ReadingMatthew 7:3 “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” There is a blind spot where the optic nerve enters the retina of your eye. Yet, we don’t see a hole ...
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