Author: The Hoosac historian
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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
So for some context many people are starting to argue that this scripture below in John chapter 8 should not be in the Bible. First I want to look at what it says. The NIV 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the…
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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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A couple of scriptures with history predicted in advance.
A big thing in history is the discovery that the world is round and of coarse many believe Christopher Columbus discovered this.This is not so actually because almost all educated people in the time of Columbus (the 15th century ce) knew the earth was round.So when was it first proved that the world was round?…
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Why is the Messiah so cryptic in the Tanakh (or Old Testament)
What we will examine is if Jesus is the Mashiach which I believe he is then why is his identity not screamed from the rooftop in the Old Testament or Tanakh.I hope our Orthodox Jewish readers will especially take notice of this article. Let us examine some Messianic prophecy in the Old Testament which we…
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Another look at science and Genesis
I think we have talked before about science and Genesis but I wanted to have anothe discussion on this topic.Today I want to go into big picture thinking and I think where people get caught up in the Bible vs science debate is excessive attention to detail ,often details unproved also.Today I want and overview…
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So how should the Bible be read?
People like me are often called Biblical literalists and I am and I don’t mind being called that way. What does that mean really, people ask?No one thinks you believe the Bible without some metaphor or poetry at all,no one see’s it that way.So how should a truly saved person read the Bible with 66…
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Zach volume II
Here is a link to part one Chapter 13.6 in the Hebrew וְאָמַ֣ר אֵלָ֔יו מָ֧ה הַמַּכּ֛וֹת הָאֵ֖לֶּה בֵּ֣ין יָדֶ֑יךָ וְאָמַ֕ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֻכֵּ֖יתִי בֵּ֥ית מְאַֽהֲבָֽי: “And was said to him ,what are these wounds between your hands?And he said,that which I was wounded in the house of my friends.” I think that says it all,that is…
