By Stephen P. Willis The Greek word kosmos is used by the author of the fourth gospel 78 times.1 It generally means: an apt and harmonious arrangement, an ornament, decoration, or arrangement.2 It has several specific uses that shed a different light on passages according to its meaning. In John, kosmos is used to mean the …
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A Study of John the Baptist
By Johnny Stringer] Preparing the Way (Isa. 40:3-5) When an Eastern monarch entered upon a journey, it was customary to send harbingers ahead to make certain that the way for the king was prepared. This was especially true when he was to be traveling through barren, little-traveled country, where there would be no path in a …
Did the Jesus Christ of the Bible Really Live?
By Ron Halbrook Notice carefully that we ask whether Jesus the Messiah really lived, not whether one of any number of Jewish peasants, politicians, priests, prophets, or teachers might have lived and worn the name “Jesus.” We do not ask whether some Jesus who claimed to be some kind of “savior”-national, social, political, religious, or other-lived, …
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“The Virgin Shall be With Child”
By L.A. Stauffer The conception of human offspring, according to natural law, occurs only when the sperm of a man unites with the egg of a woman. In the case of Jesus, though, writers of the first century report that he was born of a virgin. The writers agree that a power outside of nature made …