What Is the Clarity of Scripture?

By Brent Niedergall | April 21, 2021

If Scripture is clear, why is there so much in here I still don’t understand? If you’ve spent much time in the Bible, you are no doubt well aware that not everything in Scripture is clear. And when theologians talk about the clarity of Scripture, they’re not saying every reader will understand everything. And to…

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What Is a Helpmeet?

By Don Johnson | January 15, 2019 |

What is a helpmeet? Or, for that matter, what is a helpmate? According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “helpmate” is “altered from helpmeet.” It is called a “ghost word, from the Biblical translation of Latin adjutoriumsimile sibi [Gen. ii:18] as ‘an help meet (i.e. fit) for him’ (Hebrew ‘ezer keneghdo ), which already by 1673…

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What’s in a Word?

By Edward Panosian | July 17, 2015

Edward M. Panosian This article comes to us from the pages of Faith for the Family, originally published in 1974. Some of the terms discussed in the article have shifted their meaning since that time, but that shifting nature of language is precisely the point the article is making. In consequence, you will have to…

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