Truth in Mikra

Tag: #christianity

  • What is Witchcraft and other modern occult practices?

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    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…

  • Was 666 of Revelation about Nero ?

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    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…

  • What was the original name for Jesus?

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    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…

  • Is John 8:1-11 Authentic

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    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…

  • Who were the Anunnaki?

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    So who were the Anunnaki? The name itself means seed of princes or offspring of An (the sky god) The Anunnaki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒀀𒉣𒈾, also transcribed as Anunaki, Annunaki, Anunna, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians. In the earliest Sumerian writings about them, which come from the Post-Akkadian period, the Anunnaki are deities in the pantheon, descendants of An (the god of the…

  • “Once saved always saved” is it a true doctrine??

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    We will address the Calvinist belief of once saved always saved and it’s nuances. We all agree as truth that salvation can never be lost by a bad deed or failure to do good deeds and that salvation is not performance based.But can salvation be lost by loss of faith? Some say they believe in…

  • What about reading books excluded from the Bible?

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    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…