Tag: #Biblediscussion
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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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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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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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Where all of Pauls letters authentic?
This is a major debate these days but is not new because the authorship of letters like 2nd Thessalonians and Hebrew were questioned by the early church actually.Turtullian who live in the 3rd century CE questioned the authorship of some of the letters of Paul,so this debate is not anything new. So who was the…
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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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