How many years of ‎famine did God threaten ‎David with as punishment – 7 or 3?‎

King David ordered a census to be done of the people in Israel and Judah. God’s anger burned against him and decided to punish him for it. Surprisingly, God gave David three scenarios to choose from to be carried out as his punishment. Here comes the issue—it seems as though the two verses that record this conversation between the prophet Gad and David contradict…

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Did Luke claim that Jesus rose from death ‎and ascended to heaven on the same day?‎

In Acts 1, the author tells how Jesus appeared to His disciples and others over a period of 40 days after His resurrection (Acts 1:3). At the end of this period, He ascended into heaven (Acts 1:9). However, some sceptics ask us to turn back to Luke 24, where there seems to be a contradiction. The events recorded in Luke 24 appear to have…

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