Pieces of Happenstance

Did you know that happenstance means “something that happens by chance?”  As bible-believing Christians, we don’t believe in luck, chance or coincidence.  We pray, hope and believe instead.

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The word coincidence is used only once in the New Testament, and it was by Jesus Himself in the parable of the Good Samaritan. In Luke 10:31, Jesus said, “And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side.” The word coincidence is translated from the Greek word synkyrian, which is a combination of two words: sun and kurios. Sun means “together with,” and kurious means “supreme in authority.” So a biblical definition of coincidence would be “what occurs together by God’s providential arrangement of circumstances.”

Hosea 12:6  Oh, come back to God. Live by the principles of love and justice, and always be expecting much from him, your God.

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