Author: The Hoosac historian
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What is Witchcraft and other modern occult practices?
So first off ,what is witchcraft in general would be the first question.I think that Derek Prince said it best as that witchcraft is the use of a spirit to gain power that is not the Holy Spirit.This can run a spectrum of clever incantations or spells used to control or manipulate to complex religions…
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Was 666 of Revelation about Nero ?
In short no and to the preterist is is not a popular viewpoint.You may ask what is a preterist,a preterist is a person who believes all Biblical prophecy has already occured.it is common in Catholicism and some liberal protestants groups.So the notion that 666, the number of the beast of the book of Revelations was…
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What was the original name for Jesus?
So what did people mainly his disciple’s call him? And we know Jesus is a Greek or Latin derivative and I do not know anything about Greek or Latin so we will focus on the Hebrew and Aramaic but think the Greek Iēsous and the Latin is Iesus. I will not call the Greek or…
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Is John 8:1-11 Authentic
The NIV 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said…
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Was Arphaxad the first Ubaid ?
Here are two questions, Was Arphaxad the first Ubaid and did the word Sumer from from the Shem in the Bible? We will discuss the matter today So who was Arphaxad, his name was Arpakhshad אַרְפַּכְשַׁד and he was a son of Shem from the book of Genesis. He had a son, Shelah which means…
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Thoughts on the Adamic period.
I am not going to quote tons of scripture on this one because it is already out there.We know the genealogies of Cain and Seth and we know Genesis 6 and the giants and flood from other articles or you can simply read the first six chapters of Genesis. Was there a pre Adamic period?…
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What is Calvinism ?
Let us start with ,who was Calvin? Born as Jehan Cauvin in 1509 ce in northern France and he was one of the important people in reformed theology which took a more radical view of the Protestant reformation.Although Cauvin himself did not know anything of Calvinism it was his theology that inspired his followers to…
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What is Christology??
What are Christologies and why do they matter or does it matter? Does one have to embrace one ? These are questions this article will try to answer.Christology is the theory of the nature of Christ and so first what does Christ mean? It is from the Greek word christos meaning anointed which evolved from…
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New evidence on a world flood.
“Marine scientists have uncovered evidence of one of the largest floods in Earth’s history in the central Mediterranean seafloor. The flood, known as the Zanclean flood, is thought to have ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), a period during which the Mediterranean Sea became partially dried up. Due to shrinkage of its connection with the…
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Do you have to believe in the trinity.
First let us start with what is the trinity?It is the belief that the creator God YHVH,Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three persons of one essence and character.That God exists in three aspects in a sense or God has three persons ,it is a very abstract thing.Does one have to believe in the trinity…
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