Tag: #jesus
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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
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…
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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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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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What is Christology??
What are Christologies and why do they matter or does it matter? Does one have to embrace one ? These are questions this article will try to answer.Christology is the theory of the nature of Christ and so first what does Christ mean? It is from the Greek word christos meaning anointed which evolved from…
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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…
Truth in Mikra 