Hi Teacher John and everyone When I was reading Bible today I found a passage in Isaiah 14:28, ‘In the year king Ahaz died,’ and in Chinese, it is, ‘in the year king Ahaz 崩(beng)’. I looked it up and it meant the death of an emperor. In ancient China, there were about a hundred ways to say ‘die’ according to hierarchy, like, the death of an emperor is called ‘崩(beng)’, meaning ‘collapse’; the death of princes and nobles was called 薨（hong）, meaning ‘fall’；high officials, ‘卒（zu）’, meaning ‘pass away’；scholars died ‘不禄’（bu lu） meaning ‘lose their salary’； and commoners simply died ‘死（si）’. there are even more words for the age, the way of death, even the gender. I know in the English Bible, there are also ways of saying ‘die’, like To die To fall asleep To be gathered to one’s people To return to dust To be with God To depart this life… In ancient Chinese culture, social hierarchy was strict, and even death was described with different terms based one one’s social status. Was there different expressions for ‘death’ based on status, age, and the way of death in ancient English culture? Gracias

Hola a todos, tengo dos preguntas. No. 1 Por que did David cut off (btw, can I use ‘hack off’ here?) Goliath’s head? He didn’t need to, as the slingshot had already killed Goliath, and it sounds very cruel. Other people in the Bible got beheaded too, like John the baptist, Saul and even a woman who was cut into twelve pieces! Beheading sounds soooo cruel. No. 2 Why aren’t there any giants nowadays? What happened to them all? Gracias

Hola a todos Why did God create bugs, some animals and fish 🦀 🪲 to have the ability to regenerate limbs, and even organs, while humans 👦🏼 and mammals🐰 cannot? I did some searching, and insects like spiders, young grasshoppers, and stick insects can regenerate body parts. If, for example, a spider loses its leg, it can grow the leg back again. Some things like worms even can regenerate heads. if they regenerate their heads, will they still have any memory? And zebrafish can even regenerate hearts and spinal cords. So why can’t humans and mammals regenerate limbs? Gracias 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

Happy new year (from 2026)! 🎉🥳🎊🥳🎉 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

Including today, three more day left this year! Thank you Lord for sustaining us!