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Why Context Matters
by: Gina Temelcoff
04/28/2025
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The Importance of Context
This week, the professor whose videos we are watching spoke on the importance of studying the Bible within its context and how it allows the reader a deeper understanding of God’s truth and grace He weaves into the pages of Scripture. He took a very simple sentence, “I’m mad about my flat," and showed how depending on where the person lives and their linguistics, this could mean two different things.
This could mean someone is upset about their fla
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Eastern Vs Western Ways of Thought
by: Gina Temelcoff
04/24/2025
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This week’s adult Sunday school lesson was on the way the Bible is written in story and how eastern ways of thinking influenced the way they are written. There are two patterns of thinking – the eastern way and the western way. In order to more fully grasp Scripture, it is important for believers to understand.
The west has been influenced by the Greek philosophers. Greeks are abstract thinkers. They search for truth by pulling things out of their place to study them separ
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The Shema
by: Gina Temelcoff
04/13/2025
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Shema - The Lord is God alone.
The Shema (which means "to hear" or "to obey") is a well-known prayer in Judaism. It is found in Deuteronomy 6:4-5. "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." The Christian version adds, "And love your neighbor as yourself" from Leviticus 19:18, "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the son of your own people, but y
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