including broken pieces of pottery known asostraca, not only offer insights into the Bible’s history but also paint a picture of how people lived in biblical and even prebiblical times. The ancients used ostraca the way we use paper: to record tax payments, tabulate receipts...
How the Bible Became a Book For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. As a result, the written Bible has dwelled in an historical vacuum. R... WM Schniedewind - 《...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
When a father, whose daughter was murdered at Sandy Hook, is asked to testify before Congress, Cruz shows there is no bottom. The father, one of Alex Jones’ first targets, moved to Oregon in the aftermath of the mass shooting, yet years after the murders — and 3,000 miles away from...
“Zion” has been a treasured concept to me for many years, the desire of my heart (and even a favorite word.) The Lord even walked me out of Babylon when I made it clear to Him I was committed to Zion and so I found myself divorced after 34 years. He will test us to see if...
I trust there will be a plan. I wrote this a few years ago. I have shared this with some pretty special people in my life. Now is the time to share it publically. Bring your sorrow to meI will find you rest during your time of grief. Bring your joy to me,We will celebrate in...
Act as a Biblical Translator Contributed by: @2xer I want you to act as an biblical translator. I will speak to you in english and you will translate it and answer in the corrected and improved version of my text, in a biblical dialect. I want you to replace my simplified A0-level ...
“The moon is a witness plate for a lot of solar system history going back billions of years,” says David. One of the Apollo 15 astronauts brought home an ancient hunk of anorthosite that was later determined to be 4.5 billion years old. They nicknamed it the “Genesis Rock.” ...
200. And I spent about 10 years in that cul-de-sac just going round and round and round. And that really was deleterious to my mental state. The depression that comes with being a debt peon is really, until you experience it, it is something else. And then around 2017, I think it...
“No faithful preacher wants to give someone a false assurance of salvation. Because of this, many have ‘thrown out the baby with the bathwater’ when it comes to giving gospel invitations.” Shane Pruitt My hope is that we will get back to giving effective gospel invitations and have the...