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A review of Mondo Gonzales’ paper, “A Brief Survey of the Pre-flood and Post-flood Origins of the Nephilim”
Gonzales’s focus is twofold: 1. “the identity of the ‘sons of God’ and the Nephilim as found in the Bible” and 2. “the exact process of the recurrence of the Nephilim as found in Numbers 13:32-33 which is long after the flood.” I will bypass the “‘sons of God’ (Hebrew beney ha′elohim)” issue since we […]
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Timothy Yung’s “Nephilim, Og’s bed, the Defeat of the giants, and Jesus’ proclamation of victory”
I encountered a link to an article by a certain Timothy Yung which is titled: Nephilim, Og’s bed, the Defeat of the giants, and Jesus’ proclamation of victory. Upfront, he notes, “I agree with Pastor John MacArthur’s position that the fallen angelic beings didn’t directly procreate with humans”: I covered MacArthur’s views in my book […]
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Richard Syrett “Strange Planet”: Ken Ammi interview on Systematic Biblical Paranormology
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Dead Kings and Rephaim The Patrons of the Ugaritic Dynasty
Let us consider the paper by Baruch A. Levine and Jean-Michel de Tarragon, “Dead Kings and Rephaim: The Patrons of the Ugaritic Dynasty.”[1] They note that Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee have “made possible a more confident interpretation” so that their “confirmed readings afford new possibilities of interpretation”[2] of a text of canonical liturgy known […]
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New book, “Hollywood Aliens and UFOs, 5th Showing” by Ken Ammi & Charlie Robinson
My new book, “Hollywood Aliens and UFOs, 5th Showing,” subtitled, “Star Leaf Contact” has been published. It contains a contribution from the Macroaggressions podcast host Charlie Robinson. It is vol. 5 in my continuation of worldview-philosophy based reviews of movies featuring alien and UFO themes is the showing with a subtitle that is meant to emphasize […]
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Atheist and Darwinian Science and Story Telling, part 3 of 9 | True Freethinker
Richard Dawkins’ “Faith” and “Luck”: From an interview of Richard Dawkins by Jonathan Miller:1 “Um, there’s got to be a series of advantages all the way in the feather. If you can’t think of one then that’s your problem, not natural selection’s problem. Natural selection, um, well, I suppose that is a sort of matter […]
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Roman Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, part 3—Miscellaneous Roman Catholic Comments | True Freethinker
Karl Keating; Director of Catholic Apologetic Organization Catholic Answers: …the doctrine of purgatory is not at odds with other tenets of Christianity. In fact, as he [Samuel Johnson] may have known, there is considerable scriptural warrant for it, even if the doctrine is not explicitly set out in the Bible.1 Can it really be said […]
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Atheism – The New (Emergent) Atheists, part 2 of 4 | True Freethinker
What Is Their Appeal? Their appeal is at least two-pronged: One is their self-professed appeal, and the other is the facts of the matter (which will be considered from a Christian perspective). Their self-professed appeal is stated by Richard Dawkins as “intellectually fulfilled Atheist.”1 Atheism promises enlightenment-in the forms of scientific literacy, rationality, happiness, morality-and […]