Timeless Truth Archives

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. God the Father is an invisible spirit, so He does not have literal physical appendages. Scripture, however, speaks of Him in physical terms called ‘Anthropomorphisms’, because, even though He has no body, He still...

How Should We Understand the Nose of God?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Though God is an invisible spirit, Scripture speaks of Him in human terms called anthropomorphisms (Read: What is Anthropomorphism?). Since the Bible attributes these characteristics to God, we are helped in...

How Should We Understand the Ears of God?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Anthropormorphic expressions attribute human forms, acts, affections and characteristics to God and allow us to better understand and appreciate Him. They also help us relate to God as a personal Being. Scripture...

How Should We Understand the Eyes of God?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. When we encounter another human being, whether friend or stranger, without even thinking, we subconsciously look at their face giving special attention to the eyes. Why do we do that? Because, as it has often...

How Should We Understand the Face of God?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. One of the first things we notice about any human being we encounter is his or her face. Though Scripture teaches that God is a spirit and cannot be seen by human eyes, still the face of God is mentioned in many...

How Should We Understand the Mind of God?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Anthropomorphisms are figures of speech which attribute human forms, acts, and affections to God. Obviously, being created in the image of God, we have a mind because God has a mind. But He is the master-mind...

What Are The Anthropomorphic Expressions of God?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Nave’s Topical Bible defines anthropomorphisms as “figures of speech which attribute human forms, acts, and affections to God”. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia’s definition is “the attribution to God...

Messing with the Words of the Word

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. It has become all too common to see someone’s attempt to offer a new Bible for the bookstore shelves. In the “Bibles” section there are so many different Bible versions that it’s difficult to figure...

COVID-19 — When There’s No Solution In Sight

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Most of us, at some time in our life, have faced an insurmountable problem with no apparent solution in sight. This can lead to fear, confusion, panic, or despair. For many, the COVID-19 disease is a real and...

Fear, Anxiety, Craziness…and COVID-19

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The other day while shopping at the local Wal-Mart I watched as people scurried to fill their hands and arms with packages of toilet paper. Shopping carts were filled with multiple packages of what appears to have...

A “Jonah and the Whale” Experience

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Many skeptics claim that the prophet Jonah could not have been swallowed by a whale. The whole story, they think, was impossible. But was it? Perhaps an incident that happened recently will give them a reason to...

A Silenced President: Kennedy’s Words, Never Spoken, Offer Insight for Our Day

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. More than half a century has passed since the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Our world has changed greatly and Americans wonder, now more than ever, what the future will bring. God’s...

Bible Versions or Translations?

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Sometimes nothing can seem more confusing to Christians and non-Christians alike than the subject of Bible translations. Many Christians are hard-pressed to respond to the questions that are directed at them...

Israel Celebrates 70 Years As A Nation & the Significance for Christians

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. After 1,878 years of dispersion from their homeland, in 1948, the Jews were regathered in the land that God promised to their forefathers. On May 14, 1948 (on the Gregorian calendar) David Ben-Gurion, the Executive...

Prayers from Billy Graham

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Billy Graham prayed this prayer during a crusade in Sacramento, California. We face a great crisis in our world today, and we will continue to face more crises until Jesus returns. Pray this prayer for our world...

National Old Stuff Day! Is it Biblical?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Every year on March 2nd is National Old Stuff Day. Really? Is National Old Stuff Day a real day? Well yes, it is — at least according to nationaldaycalendar.com. National Old Stuff Day is clearly more of...

A New Year, A New Start. . .Another Resolution?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. It’s the dawn of a new year. For some of us this past year was a good one, for others a difficult one, and for some perhaps it was a year of little consequence or significance. But consider this. God graciously...

The Case for Christ: Movie Review

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. While God certainly draws people to Himself via apologetic arguments and evidences, He certainly has many more resources in His arsenal than that. This truth is illustrated beautifully in the recently released...

Which Presidents Prayed and Professed Faith in God?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Presidents throughout our nation’s history have prayed to God and invoked His name and His will to direct them and to bless our country. Watch as Presidents proclaim their faith, and evangelists speak about...

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