in the bible does it say anything about olive wood?
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Olive trees were a common tree in Biblical times. The wood was used as seen in the previous verses posted by others. Also, probably more important symbolically was the tree or oil itself. For example, the two witnesses in the books of Revelation and Zechariah are called the two olive trees. Olive oil was used to burn for light, also was used in annointing such as annointing kings and priests etc. Olive oil seems to be used a number of  times when speaking about the Spirit of God. Not sure if this means it is a symbol for the Spirit or not, but does seem to be related somehow.  Also of interest is when Noah sent the dove out from the Ark it brought back an olive leaf. Here is a search on olive tree for you... \n\nhttp://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=olive+tree&searchtype=all&version1=31&spanbegin=1&spanend=73\n\nYou can also do a search on other terms such as olive oil, annoint, oil, olive branch, olive, etc.\n\nHope this helps
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The parables --- from both the Tanakh, and New Testament -- are figurative.  Object lessons for us to learn from.\n\nThe proverbs --- which are found throughout the Bible --- are bits of wisdom, to guide us in our life.\n\nThe historical records.  These are literal.  If somebody did something, somewhere, it did happen.  [There is only one major event in the Tanakh, for which there appears to be no supporting archeological evidence --- The Exodus from Egypt.  This probably is a result of looking in the wrong place.  (There are some very interesting artifacts in the territorial water of Saudia Arabia, which have implications about the crossing of the Red Sea.  There also is some tantilizing evidence in the Arabian desert, that has implictions about them wandering for forty years.) ]\n\nThose historical records are also meant as object lessons.  Whilst one can debate whether or not 1 Chronicles 4:10 deserves the attention it has received, it is an object lesson ---  to pray to God for help in overcoming evil, and to not cause pain to others --- in how to live.\n\nThat leaves Revelation, and the related  prophecies about the end of the world.  \nAre they understandable?  At present time, not really.\nAre they literal descriptions?  Possibly.\nAre they figurative descriptions?  Yes.  \nObject lessons in how god expects us to behave?  Yes.\n\nWhat Revelation 20 means by its usage of 1,000 years is unclear.  It probably is a literal 1000 yers, the only question as to being when, and how it occurs.
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According to babynames.com, it means "elf army." That sounded amazingly unlikely, so I looked it up at babyzone.com. They say it means "peaceful or the olive tree, which symbolizes fruitfulness, beauty, and dignity." That sounds a little better, I think. -yk
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Well...I would say some of the things Jesus said were only relavant to the time. Since you are Catholic, and I am as well we can probably relate with some of this better. So here it goes:\n\nObviously some of the things that Christ talked about (such as the references to the types of clothing and locations in the world etc...) are general and relevant only to those of the time. I don't know many people who walk around wearing cloaks anymore and we don't execute people by crusifixion anymore so...some of those things are irrelevant, but are important for us to understand.\n\nThe whole thing about not eating pork could be taken a few ways. I don't know if that was because of refigeration...I doubt it, but it could be. Catholic's do not do it because we don't think it's needed. Food is food is food. To have something kosher just means that it must meet certain dietary laws. Jewish followers, as far as I know, are the only individuals who follow that law. It could be for refrigeration purposes, but I think it has more to do with how the passages and laws are interpreted than that. Probably something to do with passover or something...I really don't know, might want to ask a Jewish person that one.\n\nIs it possible that some of Jesus' words were only relevant to those he was talking to at the time? Sure! But Jesus came for the world, so his words are for the world! He may have said he gave the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, but he didn't give them to me or you. They were for Peter and whoever Peter gave them to later on. So yeah, I'd say that's a fair statement.
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It could be said that the Bible is a book of history -- and it is. The bible describes places, people, and events in various degrees of detail.  It is essentially an historical account of the people of God throughout thousands of years.  If you open to almost any page in the Bible you will find a name of a place and/or a person.  Much of this can be verified from archaeology.  Though archaeology cannot prove that the Bible is the inspired word of God, it has the ability to prove whether or not if some events and locations described therein are true or false.  So far, however, there isn't a single archaeological discovery that disproves the Bible in any way.\n     Nevertheless, many used to think that the Bible had numerous historical errors in it such as Luke's account of Lysanias being the tetrarch of Abiline in about 27 AD (Luke 3:1).  For years scholars used this "factual error" to prove Luke was wrong because it was common knowledge that Lysanias was not a tetrarch, but the ruler of Chalcis about 50 years earlier than what Luke described.  But, an archaeological inscription was found that said Lysanias was the tetrarch in Abila near Damascus at the time that Luke said.  It turns out that there had been two people name Lysanias and Luke had accurately recorded the facts.  \n     Also, the walls of Jericho have been found, destroyed just as the Bible says.  Many critics doubted that Nazareth ever existed, yet archaeologists have found a first-century synagogue inscription at Caesarea verified its existence.  Finds have verified Herod the Great and his son Herod Antipas.  The remains of the Apostle Peter's house have been found at Capernaum.  Bones with nail scars through the wrists and feet have been uncovered as well demonstrating the actuality of crucifixion.  The High Priest Caiaphas' bones have been discovered in an ossuary (a box used to store bones).  \n     There is, of course, a host of archaeological digs that corroborate biblical records such as Bethsaida, Bethany, Caesarea Philippi, Capernaum, Cyprus, Galatia, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Rome, etc.  For more on this see, Archaeological Evidence verifying biblical events and places.\n     \n\nAn inscribed stone was found that  refers to Pontius Pilate, named as Prefect of Judaea.’  (The New Bible Dictionary, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; 1962.)  \nLuke 3:1, "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea..." \n"A decree of Claudius found at Delphi (Greece) describes Gallio as proconsul of Achaia in ad 51, thus giving a correlation with the ministry of Paul in Corinth (Acts 18:12)." (The New Bible Dictionary)\nActs 18:12, "But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat." \nExcavations have revealed a text naming a benefactor Erastus which may be a reference relating to  the city-treasurer of Rom. 16:23.  (The New Bible Dictionary)\nRom. 16:23, "Gaius, host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer greets you, and Quartus, the brother." \nAt Ephesus parts of the temple of Artemis have been uncovered as is mentioned in Acts 19:28-41. (The New Bible Dictionary)\nActs 19:28, "And when they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians." \n"It is known that Quirinius was made governor of Syria by Augustus in AD 6. Archaeologist Sir William Ramsay discovered several inscriptions that indicated that Quirinius was governor of Syria on two occasions, the first time several years prior to this date...archaeology has provided some unexpected and supportive answers. Additionally, while supplying the background behind these events, archaeology also assists us in establishing several facts. (1) A taxation-census was a fairly
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Very good question!  Nowhere in the bible does it say that the tree of knowledge was an apple tree.  How rediculous does that sound?  The apple and the apple tree was simply an artists rendering of what s/he thought the event would have looked like.  The artwork was probably done sometime in the 8th century in Europe anyway.
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You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.
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Of what this huge ark was to be built was made plain by Jehovah:  “Make for yourself an ark out of wood of a resinous tree [literally, trees of gopher].”  (Genesis 6:14)  This resinous wood here prescribed is thought by some to be cypress or a similar tree.  In that part of the world what today is called cypress was in abundant supply; it was particularly favored for shipbuilding by the Phoenicians and by Alexander the Great, as it is even down to the present time; and it is especially resistant to water and decay.  Doors and posts made of cypress are reported to have lasted 1,100 years.  In addition, Noah was told not merely to caulk the seams but to “cover [the ark] inside and outside with tar.”
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Jesus never said that and they verse you are thinking of is \n\nGen 38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled [it] on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.\n\nread the whole chapter
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The Apostle Paul writes of this very thing in Romans 11.  And God gives the prophecy to Ezekiel of all the Israelites who have died without knowing the salvation of Christ.\n\nEzekiel 37:11 -- "Then he [God] said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel [including the Jews]: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.\n12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.\n\nPaul uses the metaphore of an olive tree and its branches:\nRomans 11:17 -- "And if some of the branches [Israelites, including Jews] be broken off, and you [Gentiles], being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;...\n23 And they also, if they [Israelites] abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.\n26 And so all Israel shall be saved..."
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*****Does anyone /really/ know what the forbidden fruit was?****? \n\nif your looking for a literal fruit? the Bible does not say.\n\nwhat the Bible does say is it was of the Tree of Good & Evil.
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no, the bible says His ways are above our ways, talking about God. There are somethings we wont know until we get to heaven.
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God told Noah: "And as for you, take for yourself every sort of food that is eaten; and you must gather it to yourself, and it must serve as food for you and for them.”  (Gen. 6:21)\n\n"Later on the dove came to Noah about the time of evening and, look! there was an olive leaf freshly plucked in its bill, and so Noah got to know that the waters had abated from the earth. 12 And he went on waiting still another seven days.  Then he sent out the dove, but it did not come back again to him anymore."  (Gen. 8:12,)  This indicates that vegetation was growing again on the earth, like the olive tree.  After Noah sent the dove out the third time, it did not come back, which most likely shows that ample vegetation had grown on the earth to feed the dove.\nYet, some olive trees in the Flood apparently retained their vitality, enabling them to sprout fresh shoots when the waters receded.\n\nConcerning the olive tree, 'The New Bible Dictionary' states:  “If cut down, new shoots spring up from the root, so that as many as five new trunks could thus come into being.  Moribund [near dead] olives usually sprout in this manner also.”  It is “as if its vitality were indestructible,” says The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.  No human today knows the details, such as salinity and temperature, of the floodwaters. Hence, we cannot be sure about their potential effect on olive trees and other vegetation.\n\nIf you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall.  Or visit http://www.watchtower.org
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See if you can see the LAST SUPPER CUP in this picture of the last supper...\n\nhttp://impiousdigest.com/last_supper.jpg\n\nALSO I BELIEVE THAT THE LAST SUPPER MAY HAVE LOOKIED LIKE THIS:\n\nThese are Wooden Cups made from Authentic Olive Wood in Jerusalem maybe the same style Jesus used... these cups are  on Auction at Ebay - obviously not the originals hehe...\n\nhttp://i23.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/e5/3f/77_1_b.JPG\n\n\n--------------------\n\nTo asnwer your 2nd Question:\n\nYou had a good response.\n\nWhy did they not put GIFTS at the feet of Jesus?\n\nwell the first answer would be: Obviously he was on a Donkey, it would be hard to put gifts at the feet of someone who was riding a donkey... however, I do imagine they might have put gifts at the rode where Jesus intered. Although the bible does not say anything about it does not mean that it didn't happen...\n\nThe second smart answer would be: They were all too buisy putting Palm Branches down before him...\n\nhere is a thought: Maybe the Gifts were the actual PALM BRANCHES? \n\nMaybe they couldn't afford gifts... hmmmmm?\nMaybe All they could afford were palm branches to lay before him...\n\nJust a thought lol :)\n\nTell your Brother I said - Good thinking, almost stumped me... \n\nthank you,
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Well-intentioned bible students might point to this Scripture and infer that Jesus' eyes are red. However, this Scripture refers to the man and tribe Judah, and not to Jesus specifically.\n(Genesis 49:10-12) The scepter will not turn aside from Judah... Dark red are his eyes from wine\n\nSince Jesus was a Semite, his eyes were almost certainly brown.
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no it's not a commandment he would have stated it was had he wanted it to be followed and  I have not seen "thee that washes thine hand will be thrusted unto the depths of" well you get the point honestly do you really think that's the message in this chapter?  let me put it here for everyone to see\n\n\n\n1 THEN came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,\n\n2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.\n\n3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?\n\n4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.\n\n5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;\n\n6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.\n\n7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,\n\n8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.\n\n9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.\n\n10 ¶ And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:\n\n11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.\n\n12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?\n\n13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.\n\n14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.\n\n15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.\n\n16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?\n\n17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?\n\n18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.\n\n19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:\n\n20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.\n\n21 ¶ Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.\n\n22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.\n\n23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.\n\n24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\n\n25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.\n\n26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.\n\n27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.\n\n28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.\n\n29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.\n\n30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:\n\n31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.\n\n32 ¶ Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat
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Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? \n\nYou can read the chapter for more details.\n\nRemember, the Jews are His own. God gave them honor even though they did not give honor to Him\n\nIsa 43:4  Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.