Month: September 2016
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The Book of the Secrets of Enoch on the Nephilim
The Book of the Secrets of Enoch is one of the many apocryphal books of Enoch. The text is thought to have originally been Slavonic dating to the early Christian era and has been known only from a Russian version from fragmentary manuscripts found in Russia and Servia. Chap 18 is titled, “Of the taking…
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Lawrence Krauss claims “All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists”
My article Lawrence Krauss “can’t prove that God doesn’t exist” set the table for our consideration of Krauss’ article All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists, September 8, 2015 AD. One thing to immediately note is that he is not only making the radical claim that “All Scientists Should Be Atheists” but the militantly radical claim…
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VIDEO: Richard Dawkins on junk DNA
Christianity ————- Atheism ————- World Religions and Cults ————- Science ————- Movies & TV Shows ————- Fringe-ology (Transhumanism, Aliens/UFOs, Occult, Conspiracies) ————- Misc. and Resources (Nazis, Communism, Crusades, Morality / Ethics, Abortion, Rape, Homosexuality / Trans, Audio, Books, Debates, Videos, etc.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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VIDEO: The worst fire and brimstone preachers EXPOSED
Christianity ————- Atheism ————- World Religions and Cults ————- Science ————- Movies & TV Shows ————- Fringe-ology (Transhumanism, Aliens/UFOs, Occult, Conspiracies) ————- Misc. and Resources (Nazis, Communism, Crusades, Morality / Ethics, Abortion, Rape, Homosexuality / Trans, Audio, Books, Debates, Videos, etc.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Jewish / Judaism : Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's Anti-Missionary Assertions
In his book, “The Real Messiah? A Jewish Response to Missionaries,” Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan does the very things that he accuses Christians of doing. He offers wrong citations, takes texts out of context to make pretexts for prooftexts and tries very hard to find fault where there is none to be found. Following are some…
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Which Jesus?, Part 3 – The Three Sai Babas and New Age
Sri Sai Baba Of Shirdi: “(This is a translation of a Telugu article that appeared a long time back in the Telugu daily ‘Eenadu’.) It is seventyfive years since the Mahasamadhi of a Great Soul worshipped by millions as an incarnation of Lord Sri Datta – Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi…Sai is not a religious…
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The Bible Tap Initiative
The Bible Tap Initiative is very simply, a manner whereby to seek change via a simple action. If you are anything like me you are sick and tired of sermonizing. No, not of sermons but of sermonizing. You know the sort, it is tantamount to a short attention span theater wherein the pastor will say,…
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Some good and bad commentaries on Cherubim
I must admit that all commentaries frustrate me as the Christian ones do not satisfy my curiosities as a Jew and the Jewish ones do not satisfy my curiosities as a Christian. In any case, here are some good and bad points regarding Cherubim. Chuck Smith: Isaiah…saw a seraphim, which is probably in the order…
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Angels in the apocryphal texts of Maccabees
Herein we continued, from part 1, part 2, a series regarding paranormal entities in text generally termed the Apocrypha, Deutero Canonical, Pseudepigrapha, Gnostic Texts, etc. (see my article on the Apocrypha here). The quotations are of those sections within the text that refer to Angels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Devil, Satan, demons, serpent and dragon. The point…
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Atheist philosopher Crispin Sartwell encourages irrational Atheism
“I’m an atheist because I think of the universe as a natural, material system… I’m perfectly sincere and definite in my belief that there is no God ” —Philosopher Crispin Sartwell We continue, from part 1, considering Crispin Sartwell’s “Irrational Atheism – Not believing in God isn’t always based on reasoned arguments—and that’s okay,” The…