It speaks for itself that our word for extreme physical torment, excruciating, is taken directly from the Latin verb to torture (excruciare) which is itself related to the word to crucify (cruciare).One recent medical study into crucifixion described 'hours of limitless pain, cycles of ...
Describe three things that Jesus experiences before or during the Crucifixion and explain the symbolic meaning of each. How do the children feel about their prank at the end of the story, "All Summer In A Day?" In "The lion, the witch and the wardro...
Tradition and history tell us that Peter indeed laid down his life for Jesus, martyred by crucifixion, and that he always recognized his own weakness, asking to be crucified head-down because he was unworthy to die in the same position as Jesus had. Father Jegar brought the homily to a ...
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Before we examine the passage from John’s Gospel, a little background is in order. Some have questioned why John alone would chronicle this most remarkable of pre-crucifixion revivifications. One might reason that such an amazing incident should have been a keynote feature in the Synoptic Go...
The gifts in the book of acts are no more repeatable than is the crucifixion of Jesus. We contend that these are historical onetime events, not patterns to follow. (Reformed) Church History is cooperative with this. I highly recommend reading John MacArthur “strange fire ” and “charismatic...
This date comes 40 days after Easter, and is a Christian celebration of the belief that Jesus ascended into heaven 40 days after his resurrection, following his crucifixion, and burial in a Roman tomb. Christians will often hold a feast to celebrate the risen and ascended Christ. ...
The Great Flood of Noah and the darkness over the area around ancient Palestine and America at the Lord’s crucifixion are examples of miraculous catastrophic events described in the scriptures.[ii] An excellent documentary entitled “Secrets of the Solar System” (Horizon, BBC 2015) is now onli...
There are many variations of the story of Horus, which is unsurprising for a myth as ancient as this one. Different myths appear to have merged and become part of the Horus myth.Horus had a magical birth. His mother was the goddess Isis, who used her magic powers to reassemble her dead...
That One, the god-man Jesus, told his disciples the night before his crucifixion,“If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may ...