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Tag: #god

  • Another look at science and Genesis

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    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…

  • So how should the Bible be read?

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    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…

  • Zach volume II

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    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…

  • Thoughts on Zechariah

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    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…

  • And to new readers and old ,please read!

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    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…

  • Is Psalm 83 happening now?

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    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…

  • Is Jesus in the Zohar?

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    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…

  • When was it first known that the earth was round?

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    The Hoosac historian

    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…

  • What about reading books excluded from the Bible?

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    The Hoosac historian

    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…

  • What are the true origins of Islam?

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    Thie will be controversial and a lot of this blog will be my own opinion and not that I don’t feel it is valid opinion,just that this will not be a by the books history of Islam.Also I have nothing against Muslims as people I feel we must speak against Islam for a pro Yeshua…