People have been entering hypnotic-type trances for thousands and thousands of years; various forms of meditation play an important role in many cultures' religions. But the scientific conception of hypnotism wasn't born until the late 1700s. What Lies Beneath The predominant school of thought on...
Jesus, why change the thing that was good for 20 years, without asking anyone, and without an option to go keep the old look. 14 May 14, 2024 5:29 PM MA Matthias Adloff ··· Another vote, for that it might be reverted or at least optional in a ...
He always was pretty critical of what Jesus said. He was always the last one to believe. He always needed proof. If any of us were going to betray Jesus, it would be Thomas. But in the three years I had followed Jesus, I had learned to try to watch what I say. I was always th...
15Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He...
In the earliest centuries of the Church, its leaders had yet to carefully consider many of the issues that have since been clarified and defined. Somewhat surprisingly, one thing the Church did not define until the fourth century was the key question about the person of Jesus. Response to her...
Antiquities.From Josephus, "we learn that Jesus was a wise man who did surprising feats, taught many, won over followers from among Jews and Greeks, was believed to be the Messiah, was accused by the Jewish leaders, was condemned to be crucified by Pilate, and was considered to be ...
24And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. 25And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 27when she...
It was over three hundred years before the execution of Jesus that the Greek philosopher, Plato, would anticipate this type of moment. “The just man, then, as we have pictured him, will be scourged, tortured, and imprisoned, his eyes will be put out, and after enduring every humiliation...
I began blogging through the Bible in 2012 and have done so every year since then. These posts are the product of many edits and additions throughout those years. Some days I make major changes, other days fewer. A while ago, I read Jen Wilkin’s bookNone Like Himabout the attributes ...
the name of the Vandals that, since the Great French Revolution, the senseless destruction of cultural treasures has become associated (although, in fact, they were exporting, rather than destroying them). Nevertheless, the word ‘vandalism’ was then firmly embedded in many languages of the ...