Questions tagged [layers-of-meaning]
A literary technique where an author expects his audience to see additional meaning other than what a literal reading of the text conveys.
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Luke 14:25-33 (Discipleship Tested/Counting the cost Parable) as instructions for Personal Financial Planning/Project management/Business Planning
Is evaluating Luke 14:25-33 verses which discusses the Parable about Discipleship Tested / Counting the cost as instructions for Personal Financial Planning/Project management/Business Planning be ...
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Exodus's hardening heart of Pharaoh similar to Romans 1:24 & Romans 1:26's claim that God gave over women & men to their homosexual lustful sex acts
I suppose this is question to challenge the Calvinists/ Reform Baptists/Presbyterians who support the predestination doctrine.
Romans 1:24 & Romans 1:26's claim that God gave over women & men ...
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( "Darkness", "Light", "Night", "Dark") in Psalm 139:11-12 verses be interpreted to have multiple meanings, and possibly even overlapping meanings
Could the Psalm 139:11-12 verses be interpreted to have multiple meanings, and possibly even overlapping meanings?
To elaborate, does the author of psalm 139 take on?
a) -the role of victim of ...
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What does phrase in Psalm 139:9 "the wings of the dawn/the wings of the morning" mean?
I might be asking the obvious.
What does phrase in Psalm 139:9 "the wings of the dawn/the wings of the morning" mean?
(Psalm 139:7-10) (NASB1995)
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Elaborate on what Psalm 138:2 "For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name." means
Psalm 138 (New American Standard Bible 1995)
1 I will give You thanks with all my heart; I will sing
praises to You before the gods. 2 I will bow down toward Your holy
temple And give thanks to Your ...
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What is the meaning of the Words בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ֤ בְּבֵיתֶ֙ךָ֙ in Deuteronomy 6:4-9?
A very well known prayer for jewish people is the Shemah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) which is found in the book called Sidur, and during the reading of it, I came with two words whose meanings I still don't ...
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What does Acts 4:22 mean by referring to the age of the man that was healed?
In Acts 4:22 (NIV) one reads
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
What was the purpose of mentioning the age in this context?
I understand that it may be a way to note ...
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What are some of the Major themes associated with God's Flood recounted in Genesis 6-9?
Genesis 6:5-18 seems to suggests that God saw man's wickedness, and decides to only allow a relatively good man named Noah, and his family, but then destroy all others belonging to mankind.
Genesis 6:...
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Major themes associated with the narrative related to Jotham's censure of people of Shechem for killing off Jotham's full brothers in Judges Book
(Related question posting: What deeper understanding/What can we infer when we read the account of Jotham's censure of people of Shechem for killing off Jotham's full brothers?)
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What is the significance of the insertion/interleaving/interlinearing of Melchizedek's sub-narrative into the Genesis 14's historical-political story?
( Credit Related Reference: Should we read Melchizedek in Genesis 14 to be metaphorical? )
Before discussing Genesis 14, this question posting is Not about whether the Biblical character of King ...
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What deeper understanding/What can we infer when we read the account of Jotham's censure of people of Shechem for killing off Jotham's full brothers?
What deeper understanding/What can we infer when we read the account of Jotham's censure of people of Shechem for killing off Jotham's full brothers?
( Judges 9:1-21) And Abimelech the son of ...
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What is the "substance" of things hoped for?
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1, KJV)
ἕστιν δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ
βλεπομένων (TR)
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What deeper understanding can the bible reader get from the 2 Samuel 8:2's account of how David killed off the defeated people of Moab?
( Related Posting: Was the use of a measuring line literal or symbolic in 2 Samuel 8:2?
Related Posting: What are the Dangers of the Judgemental side of David's life in the Bible?
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King Saul asks who David's father was in 1 Samuel 17 for rhetorical effect in response to seeing how a young boy like David killed a giant, Goliath?
There is confusion as to why King Saul asked who David's father was in 1 Samuel 17 because the preceding 1 Samuel 16 chapter already recounts the story of how King Saul came know and meet David.
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(Psalm 141:5) the righteous should correct us in a kind manner Or saying correcting by and in itself is kindness
Psalm 141:5 New American Standard Bible 1995
5 Let the righteous smite me [a]in kindness and reprove me; It is oil
upon the head; Do not let my head refuse it, [b]For still my prayer is
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