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  • Corporal punishment of a child and the Bible

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    Stress-free child rearing in Scripture

    The children referred to in the article do not refer to toddlers who do not distinguish between right and wrong, but to children and teenagers who are aware that they are doing wrong.

    Is stress-free parenting a good thing? What does Scripture say about corporal punishment of children? The answer may seem surprising to some, but the Bible has nothing against the use of corporal punishment for sons. This is

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  • Psalm 51, Prayer of Penance

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    Psalm 51, Giving thanks to God for rescue from oppression
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    A Prayer of Repentance. To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

    A psalm written by David after the prophet Natan admonished him about his shameful deed of adultery with Bathsheba and the devious plan by which her husband Uriah was killed along with

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  • How many days did God create the world

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    How many days in the Bible it took to create the world

    Any person who questions the creation of the world as depicted in Scripture puts God in the position of a liar. Those who supposedly believe in the biblical creation, yet add the erroneous theory that it took millions of years, also fall into the group of people who call the Creator a fraud. The big bang theory and the theory of evolution are fictions based on theories, not evidence, that atheists

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