According to the definition of a cult, there is a (or multiple) authoritarian leadership (gurus). Prior to John Walton and Michael Heiser circa 1990, this idea that the Bible must confirm to pagan writings was unheard of within Christianity. For nearly 2000 years no Christian scholar accepted ...
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Two things surprised me about McGowan’s case against inerrancy. The first is that (unless I’ve missed it) he nowhere provides adefinitionof the doctrine of inerrancy. It seems to me that anyone who wants to argue against a doctrine ought first to specify clearly what he understands that d...
The next year, in 168 BCE, a strong fortress, the Seleucid Akra, was built to the south of the Temple Mount and east of the Huldah Gates. These were the main gates that were used by people that went up from the Lower City to the Temple. The garrison that was stationed inside the f...
Instead, we should first focus on the massive injections of raw, potent, thin-air money (a.k.a. "credit easing") by the Fed into the financial system. Sometimes this is referred to as "liquidity," which it is. But that's too narrow a definition, because it is much more; it also...
(normal unemployment) set before the recession / depression was triggered. If you are a global banker today, however, this will not due. Instead, you simply change the definition of “normal unemployment”. Thus, the debilitating jobless rate which was originally thought of as “bad”, is ...
6. מַצפֶּה (σκοπιά:specula), "watch-tower." SEE MIZPAH. ⇒Definition of tower7. מַשׂגָּב (ὀχύρωμα; robur), "a refuge," only in poetry. SEE MISGAH. 8. Πύργος, the general term in the New Test. SEE ...
⇒Definition of serpentIt is not possible to say with any degree of certainty what particular species of serpent is intended by the Hebrew word; the ancient versions do not help us at all, although nearly all agree in some kind of serpent, with the exception of the Chaldee paraphrase, ...
The TOWER OF THE FURNACES (מַגּדִּל הִתִּנִּוּרַים, Migdal' hat- Tannurim; Sept. πύργος τῶν θαννουρείμ v.r. θανουρίμ, Vulg. turrisfurnorumn), i.e., of the Ovens (Neb. 3:11; ...
It was from the Judean valley of Eshcol "the torrent of the cluster" that the spies cut down the gigantic cluster of grapes. A vineyard on a "hill of olives" ("a horn the son of oil," Isa 5:1), with the "fence," and "the stones gathered out," and "the tower in the midst ...