Jade Emperor asked again: “Why didTang Sanzangnot come?” [4] The gods replied: “He has a history of travel and is quarantined at home, so he cannot come.” Jade Emperor asked again: “What about King Yama?” The gods answered: “Because too many people have died. He is still ...
The idea that Peter kept Passover on Sunday seemed to develop in the fourth century. It likely came about related to the sun-god worshiping pagan Emperor Constantine who summoned Greco-Roman religious leaders to Nicea in 325 A.D. Sculpture of Constantine’s Head (Photo by Jean-Christophe BE...
In 130 AD. Emperor Haddrian of Rome declared his intention to raise a shrine to Jupiter on the site of the temple, and in 131 he issued a decree forbidding circumcision as well as public instruction in the Jewish law. Having preached peace all his life, the 90-year-old Akiva gave his...