In Ephesians 4:30 we are commanded not to grieve God’s holy spirit. What does it mean to grieve God’s holy spirit? How does someone grieve the holy spirit?

According to the Amplified Bible, the Greek word translated grieve in most Bibles, can mean to offend, vex, or sadden.

We can easily understand what it means to offend, vex or sadden a person. Since the holy spirit is a force (see reference at end of article). How can one offend, vex or sadden a force?

Can we grieve something? Can we grieve a force? Can we grieve something impersonal?

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Why do we eat? But why do we eat so much? Why do we eat what we eat, which more often than not, is not the best food to optimize our health?

Why do we eat?

We eat because we need to eat. We eat to live. We eat because it is one of the pleasures of life. Eating is a gift from God. In Ecclesiastes 2:24, we are told that eating is a great pleasure of life and that it is a gift from God to enhance our happiness. How happy would we be if we could not eat?

Is it really a necessity to eat?

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I can only imagine the many angels that appeared in the life of my parents. They survived WW1, the Spanish influenza, WW2, coming to a country where they could not speak the language, etc.

In her youth, my mother was a shepherdess and maybe like King David, often looked up at the stars and wondered about the mightiness of God. She may have looked at a baby lamb being born and thought of the marvelous gift of childbirth or the delicateness and fragility of life.

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In this third and last part, we will continue to discuss Bible passages that supposedly describe a fiery hell where the wicked are tortured forever. Do these verses contain any substance to the existence of a place of torture for the wicked? You will have to decide for yourself.

Try to put God’s personality and his loving qualities in perspective. Do you have children? Would you ever have the heart to torture them and to do so for eternity? If you would not have the heart to do that, how could God?

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Why should we multitask? What are the benefits and rewards of multitasking? Why should you learn to multitask?

There are many benefits and rewards to multitasking. What are some of these benefits and rewards?

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Disgusting, puzzling, strange, weird, that’s terrible! Those might be the reactions when someone reads Mark 8:23. Jesus spit in a poor blind man’s eyes. How would you feel if you went to the doctor for a solution to an eye affliction and he spit in your eyes? Why would Jesus spit in a blind’s man’s eyes?

That doesn’t make any sense or does it?

First of all, if a person reads the verse, it says that Jesus spit on the blind man’s eyes and not in the blind man’s eyes. Still, why would he spit at all?

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Some have wondered why God didn’t destroy Adam and Eve when they sinned and start over again with a new couple. He certainly could have done that but He didn’t. Why?

God may have his own reason why He did things the way He did. Let me share how I have come to understand the events. One reason could have been that there was something to salvage. How is that? Let me use use an illustration that I have come up with to explain how I understand the situation.

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There are different ways of measuring success in life. We set goals in our life to identify what success actually means to us, so that when we succeed we will know it. In the below article we will discuss about how to measure success in life....

Have you ever wondered if saliva has healing properties?

It is a well-known fact that animals lick their wounds to speed up healing. The saliva of animals contains a healing agent called nerve growth factor which speeds up healing. Experiments have shown that licking a wound speeds up healing time as much as four to five times when compared to a wound that the animal is prevented from licking. It is interesting to note that the saliva of humans also contains this healing agent.

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Bullying is much in the news these days and we can all see the harm this does. It makes others feel inferior, not good enough, fearful, and uncomfortable, and even pushing some to suicide. Spiritual bullying is no less dangerous and no less harmful to others.

What is a spiritual bully? How would we define a spiritual bully?

A spiritual bully is someone that browbeats, intimidates, or pushes their spiritual weight around. A spiritual bully is one that feels superior and better than others.

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