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Is the Bible Skeptical About Miracles? – Moses as Skeptical Scientist
What would you do if you saw a burning bush? A bush that had every appearance of being on fire and yet, was not being consumed by it? Would you instantly say, “Lord God Almighty!!!!!!!!!” Would you say, “What a fascinating coincidence! The natural laws are interacting in a rather unexpected manner. Perhaps, someday we…
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Trinity : A Consideration of Anti-Trinitarian Views, part 2 of 2
Having concluded a consideration of various biblical statements which demonstrate that God is a Triune being, a Trinity, as each member of the Trinity is identified by likewise attributes, each is a person, each is co-equal and co-eternal let us now consider various anti-Trinitarian views. Jehovah’s Witnesses: The Watchtower Bible and Tract Association-the Jehovah’s Witnesses-deny…
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The Destroyed Bible – On How to Reconstruct the Bible, part 4
Extra-Biblical / Non-Biblical: But what if the works of the church fathers were destroyed? What could we learn about Jesus and about Christians from sources outside of the Bible and outside the writings of the church fathers? (note that in what follows I am not even referencing history and archaeology affirming the Old Testament and…
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Trinity : Are Jesus and the Archangel Michael the Same Personage?
This summary of scriptures relevant to the biblical statements that Jesus and Michael are different personages will be followed by the actual quotations: Zechariah 3:2; Matthew 4:10, 16:23; Hebrews 1:6, 13, 2:7-8; Jude 9 Zechariah 3:2 “The LORD said to Satan, ‘The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you!’” Matthew…
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The Destroyed Bible – On How to Reconstruct the Bible, part 1
This parsed essay will consider the various sources that we have for the Bible via a circumlocution whereby we will consider how we could reconstruct the Bible were it ever destroyed.1 The essay is parsed thusly: Part 1: Old Testament / Tanakh / Torah Part 2: New Testament Part 3: New Testament (concluded) and Early…
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VIDEO: University “Safe Space” show (trigger free politically correct socially sensitive)
University “Safe Space” show (trigger free politically correct socially sensitive). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A plea: I have to pay for server usage and have made all content on this website free and always will. I support my family on one income and do research, writing, videos, etc. as a hobby. If you can even spare $1.00 as…
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Who was the real Honi the circle maker?
Honi Hama’gel (aka Khoni or Choni and also Onias as this is the Greek form of the name) lived in the first century BC (born circa 65 BC) and came to be known as the circle maker or circle drawer. Who he was and what he did will become a relevant portion of a consideration…
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Rev. Dr. Mel White on Christian Homosexuality, part 16 of 21
When Widows Are “Ordered” to Have Intercourse Rev. Dr. Mel White claims that Mark 12:18-27 teaches that, “When a man died childless, his widow is ordered by Biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.” This statement is indicative of the way…
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Rev. Dr. Mel White on Christian Homosexuality, part 18 of 21
Homosexuals Are a “Distinct Class” Rev. Dr. Mel White wrote that in 1864: “German Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was the first social scientist to declare that homosexuals were a distinct class of individuals…We aren’t just heterosexuals choosing to perform same-sex behaviors…homosexuals had been around from the beginning of recorded time, that we were ‘innately different from…
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Here Be Giants
I ran across Christine Dell’Amore’s article “Ancient Roman Giant Found—Oldest Complete Skeleton With Gigantism,” National Geographic News, November 10, 2012 AD. It makes a point about ancient Rome that I made about “giants” during biblical times: It’s no tall tale—the first complete ancient skeleton of a person with gigantism has been discovered near Rome, a…