Knowing Scripture

The question remains why our average expectancy today, even with all the advances of modern medicine, is still just over half of that which God ordained it to be after the flood?

There is a lesson here for us today who would neglect God’s own revelation of himself and his will in favor of our own ideas about him.

Solomon’s request for a “hearing heart” was not a request to magically become some kind of insightful sage, but for ears to hear the word of God, for a heart that absorbs its specific content, and acts accordingly.

I am going to suggest in this article that there is actually very good reason to think that ultimately there will be a greater number who find life in Christ than who are cast away.

By being overly interpretive and giving the verse a positive spin, popular English translations have obscured the meaning.

So a “root of bitterness” is not an attitude, but a person who is presumptuous and flatters themselves in their sin, one who hears the word of God but shrugs it off as inapplicable to him or herself.