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Matthew's gospel records that while concluding the last supper, Jesus and the disciples sang a hymn. 'Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.  This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured...

Like so many concepts in the Bible, they begin as something physical.   Then, as the scripture proceeds, the Lord uses that physical thing as a symbol for a greater reality. For example the physical temple of the Old Testament becomes a spiritual temple.  No longer do...

Abraham is both remarkable and ordinary. The Ordinary Abraham Abraham was just one man, with a barren wife, who lived in ancient times surrounded by idol worshippers in Mesopotamia.  He lived in tents, had sheep and goats, had some servants, and otherwise lived an unremarkable existence.  He...

You can’t see God. He is a spirit (see John 4:24) so he isn't visible to us unless he does something to make himself visible. But Colossians is saying that because in seeing Jesus you see God. It isn’t that Jesus in his physical appearance represents...