Bible Dictionary: Define pesha, Definition of pesha

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

06588 עשׁפ pesha‘ peh’- shah
from 06586; n m; {See TWOT on 1846 @@ "1846a"}
AV-transgression 84, trespass 5, sin 3, rebellion 1; 93
1) transgression, rebellion
1a1) transgression (against individuals)
1a2) transgression (nation against nation)
1a3) transgression (against God)
1a3a) in general
1a3b) as recognised by sinner
1a3c) as God deals with it
1a3d) as God forgives
1a4) guilt of transgression
1a5) punishment for transgression
1a6) offering for transgression

Genesis 31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass <06588>? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Genesis 50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass <06588> of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass <06588> of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
Exodus 22:9 For all manner of trespass <06588>, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
Exodus 23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions <06588>: for my name is in him.
Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression <06588> and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Leviticus 16:16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions <06588> in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Leviticus 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions <06588> in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Numbers 14:18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression <06588>, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Joshua 24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions <06588> nor your sins.
1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression <06588> in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
1 Samuel 25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass <06588> of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
1 Kings 8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions <06588> wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
Job 7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression <06588>, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression <06588>;
Job 13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression <06588> and my sin.
Job 14:17 My transgression <06588> is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job 31:33 If I covered my transgressions <06588> as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Job 33:9 I am clean without transgression <06588>, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Job 34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression <06588>.
Job 34:37 For he addeth rebellion <06588> unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
Job 35:6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions <06588> be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Job 36:9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions <06588> that they have exceeded.
Psalms 5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions <06588>; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psalms 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression <06588>.
Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions <06588>: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.
Psalms 32:1 « A Psalm of David, Maschil. » Blessed is he whose transgression <06588> is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psalms 32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions <06588> unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms 36:1 « To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. » The transgression <06588> of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions <06588>: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms 51:1 « To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. » Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions <06588>.
Psalms 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions <06588>: and my sin is ever before me.
Psalms 59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression <06588>, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Psalms 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions <06588>, thou shalt purge them away.
Psalms 89:32 Then will I visit their transgression <06588> with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions <06588> from us.
Psalms 107:17 Fools because of their transgression <06588>, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins <06588>.
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin <06588>: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression <06588> of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 17:9 He that covereth a transgression <06588> seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 17:19 He loveth transgression <06588> that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression <06588>.
Proverbs 28:2 For the transgression <06588> of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins <06588> shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs 28:24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression <06588>; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression <06588> of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression <06588> increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression <06588>.
Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression <06588> thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions <06588> for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions <06588>, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions <06588> is your mother put away.
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions <06588>, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression <06588> of my people was he stricken.
Isaiah 57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression <06588>, a seed of falsehood,
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression <06588>, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 59:12 For our transgressions <06588> are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions <06588> are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isaiah 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression <06588> in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions <06588> are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions <06588>: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions <06588> is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions <06588>: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Ezekiel 14:11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions <06588>; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 18:22 All his transgressions <06588> that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions <06588> that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions <06588>; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions <06588>, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions <06588> are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
Ezekiel 33:10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions <06588> and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
Ezekiel 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression <06588>: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ezekiel 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions <06588>: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions <06588> have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Daniel 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression <06588>, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression <06588> of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression <06588>, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Amos 1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos 1:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
Amos 1:9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
Amos 1:11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Amos 1:13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
Amos 2:1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Amos 2:4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos 2:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions <06588> of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Amos 3:14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions <06588> of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions <06588> and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Micah 1:5 For the transgression <06588> of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression <06588> of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah 1:13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions <06588> of Israel were found in thee.
Micah 3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression <06588>, and to Israel his sin.
Micah 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression <06588>, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression <06588> of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

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