The 1915 bookA Great Battle In Ecclesiastical Heavensmentions the 1884 incorporation of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. Following is a snippet from the 1945 Charter Amendment, where it lists its purpose as the "public Christian worship of Almighty God and Christ Jesus." For a copy of the ...
The historians of the 1st and 2nd centuries were barely aware of the Jewish messianic sect of Christianity and wrote nothing about Jesus Christ. The few mentions that exist are forgeries.
For Schonfield, Jesus had carefully planned his career of public ministry in accordance with his belief that he was Israel's Messiah.(2) Accordingly, he plotted events such as his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, on which occasion Lazarus helped him make the appropriate arrangements.(3) Jesus ma...
This chapter provides a useful history of Jesus research. It begins with Reimarus and Strauss, proceeds onto the nineteenth century lives of Jesus, tells of the collapse of the quest with Schweitzer and Wrede, continues to narrate the 'new quest' with an emphasis on the criterion of discontinu...
In the late 16thcentury, William Shakespeare mentions kissing comfits inThe Merry Wives of Windsor(‘hail kissing-comfits and snow eryngoes,’ says Falstaff). A Boston candy maker started making them around 1866, and didn’t stop for well over a century. Then, for a brief time, the conver...
It mentions that whether or not the stories have any historical content behind them, they attest to a singular struggle within rabbinic culture over how to define orthodoxy versus heresy. It emphasizes that Jesus demarcates the border between Christianity and Judaism, for he is at once a Jew ...
Near the end of the multi-generational saga “Here,” a character mentions that the time he spent caring for his difficult father in his last years helped them have a better, more understanding relationship. This is tell, not show, the opposite of what a movie is supposed to do. In this...
We also understand that the people of the Bible after the fall were sinners, especially before the redemptive promise of Jesus. 4. If there’s no such thing as evolution, how come snakes have legs, but evidence of once having legs? A. Honestly, there’s an account in the Bible of the...
'Downfall' Never Mentions The Führer's Extreme Flatulence Photo: Constantin Film What's the worst part about being stuck in a bunker with Hitler during the fall of Berlin? The fact that he was asubstance-usingmegalomaniac who refused to accept the truth 'til the end? Okay, but what's th...
Mentions in the episode: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton book recommendation. “While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!” –William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene 1. Ad link: Join Kimberly Woodhouse @ A Million Miles with Kim Posted on February 18, 2023 A ...