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Tag: #Tanakh

  • 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…

  • “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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Books left out of the Bible part II

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    The Hoosac historian

    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…

  • 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…

  • Was the King James Bible written in Old English

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    The Hoosac historian

    People often say the KJV was written in old English and in a sense yes was written in an archaic form of English (Jacobian English would be the technical term) but not old English.The King James version of the Bible or KJV for short was written in 1611 and that version went out of print…