Tag: #Biblediscussion
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Thoughts on Zechariah
So just who was Zechariah?His name Z’kharyah/זְכַרְיָה֙ son of Berekhyah and the grandson of Ido and he lived about just after the fall of Jerusalem which was about 587 or 586 BCE.The name Zekharyah means “the Lord remembered” and he is part of the 12 minor prophets in some traditions.Although his book is small ,his prophecies…
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On the Bible and being “Born Again”
Before I was a true believer I often thought when I was told you need to be born again that if this was so important then why does the Bible not mention this issue more?Mainly because most people primarily quote John 3:3 almost always. John 3:1-8 NIV 3″ Now there was a Pharisee, a man named…
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Is the ten Sefirot Christian or Messianic or is it occult?
What are the ten Sefirot ( סְפִירוֹת) ? Sefirot is a plural word meaning emanations or that source or origin.The Ten Sefirot are one of the most important aspects of Kabbalah which is Jewish mysticism and make up the aspects of the Tree of Life and in some ways out line the personality attributes of the…
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And to new readers and old ,please read!
I am still working out the bugs on this site and I admit it is not very user friendly.When you come to my site it only shows the latest article but if you scroll down it will show all of the about 50 total articles. If there is something specific you want to read I…
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Is Psalm 83 happening now?
Just to let you know the verse numbers are different in the Hebrew text than in the King James or ESV or most English translations,so do not be confused.In the original Bible actually there was not chapter or verse,I think the RCC put them in in the 4th century,so don’t worry if it may be…
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Is Jesus in the Zohar?
So first of all what is the Zohar? The Zohar is a Jewish sacred text first discovered in Medieval Spain by Moses De Leon in the late 13th century and the Zohar זֹהַר meaning radiance or splendor and was written in Jewish Aramaic and is the basis of modern Kabbalah.The true believers believe it was…
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Is the earth and universe as old as they say?
Modern science says that the universe is 13.8 billion years old but the Jewish year in 5784 from creation and the Dead Sea Scroll calendar says it is 5948 from creation.I have been long against pre Adamic type theories however my argument is more along the lines that the nature of time may have changed over…
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When was it first known that the earth was round?
This belief is dying but for a long time people thought that it was the voyage of Columbus that taught us the world is round. The second wrong theory which has been known by educated people for many many centuries if not millennia is that ancient Greeks first discovered this. 5th century B.C. In the 5th…
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Books left out of the Bible part II
What about extra Biblical Rabbinical literature like the Talmud or the Zohar or the Alpha-Bet of Ben Sirach. So that is very nuanced and so lets start with the Talmud.So what is the Talmud?Is the Talmud a commentary on the Torah? That is the Midrash that is a commentary on the Torah,the Talmud came from…
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What about reading books excluded from the Bible?
Then you are asking the wrong question,you want to ask ,”which books excluded from the Bible are ok to read”? Although the Jewish cannon with the exception of smaller traditions ,the mainline Orthodox Jewish canon is uniform.The Christian Canon varies a bit more.The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches have book in the old Testament…
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