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Mar 24, 2021 · We knew that we needed to go deeper into: What does the Bible say about aging? What will it mean for us to think biblically as older women and to live covenantally as older women? So the first place we went was Psalm 92 where the psalmist tells us at the end,
May 21, 2024 · 4 Biblical Perspectives on Women and Gender Roles. While feminism is well represented within Christianity, feminists have frequently argued that the Bible relegates women to second-class status. Yet biblical teaching on women is not only defensible but is based on absolute truth. Dr. Kenneth Boa. Author.
Jun 10, 2015 · Single adults in the Bible demonstrate that the single life is both a viable option and one that affords people the opportunity to live uniquely for the Lord—undistracted by particular concerns of the world. The following eight individuals were unconcerned with spouses, education, or lucrative jobs.
Sep 23, 2009 · Titus 2:3. “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.” Continuing his definition of what constitutes “sound doctrine” (Titus 2:1), Paul next moves to the behavior that must be evident in the lives of older women.
- Conceiving Aging in Old Testament Terms
- Salient Approaches to Later Life
- The Experience of Growing Older
- Aging in The New Testament
- Attitudes Toward Older People in The New Testament
- Theology For The Aging
At Scripture’s outset, God is said to have limited human lifespan of 120 years as a limitation on humanity. “My Spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh: their days shall be a hundred and twenty years” (Genesis 6:3 New Revised Standard Version Bible 1989). The theological assertion here is that apart from God’s “Spirit,” frail ...
Harris has observed that biblical texts urged the faithful to care for older people with “a fervor surpassing those found in other [ancient] literatures” (Harris 2008, p. 101). For example, in Israelite law there exists the sanction of capital punishment for any contempt toward older people, whereas a range of punishments commensurate with the perc...
Less is written in Scripture about the process and experience of aging. Shorter life expectancy made long declines in physical and mental health less likely for Israelites despite occasional evidences of chronic disease found in skeletal remains. Even so, biblical evidence suggests that some existential and personal experiences in aging remain comm...
Theologically speaking, the birth of Jesus into the world is understood in the Bible to inaugurate a process of new creation by God. The early writings of the New Testament focus largely on the coming kingdom of God, with people preparing for this “new creation” in the near future. Only later New Testament epistles see authors considering how faith...
In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word for an older person becomes the name for the community leader. Likewise in the New Testament, the Greek term for an older person or ancestor becomes the name for the congregational leader. The Greek term presbyteros sometimes simply refers to any older person (e.g., Matthew 15:2; Luke 15:25; John 8:9; Acts 2:17...
Readers of the Bible are many and varied, but its canonical status has meant that readers routinely search for themes, developments, and consistencies among its various literatures. This habit is premised on the view that this literature originates in God in ways transcending the human diversity of its writers and that the Old Testament’s long-awai...
Instead, they should teach others what is good. 4 These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, 5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God.
Titus 2:4-6. New Life Version. Update. 4 Older women are to teach the young women to love their husbands and children. 5 They are to teach them to think before they act, to be pure, to be workers at home, to be kind, and to obey their own husbands.
