I believe Tenney must have also mentioned that the canon was confirmed at a church council - this point stuck in my head for years and many people have echoed this belief over the years. In fact, the exact list of NT documents was confirmed at the third Synod of Carthage (397 AD), bu...
In the How to Study the Bible podcast, Nicole Unice brings life back to reading the Bible through her Alive Method of Bible study.
Outdoors, the amount of time spent by the plant in the vegetative stage is determined by the sun and how long the days are. Plants that get a lot of direct sunlight can grow into trees over the course of one summer. As the days start growing shorter in the late summer or fall, your...
Scripture is holy writ containing the Law and the Prophets. The 66 books of the Bible is the canon of Scriptures which remains faithful to the Law and Prophets. Usually in common everyday use, a Scripture is a few verses or just one, whereas...
I Maccabees 8:9 Moreover how the Grecians had determined to come and destroy them;... Read verse in Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha
The gathering of citizens was called "ekklesia" - "ek" means "out of" and "klesia" means "calling." Jesus used this word when he said in Matthew 16:18, "upon this rock I will build my ekklesia." William Tyndale's 1535 ...
This requires the householder to often learn about the dharma on their own. Unlike some 2500 years ago when the Buddha taught the dharma, we now have multiple ways to accomplish this. In the Buddha’s time, the dharma was passed along as lectures as this was prior to any of the dharma...
A key component of Obama’s rise to power is rooted in Chicago, the Jewish breeding ground of Obama’s political career. A prime Jewish patron of Obama’s political ambitions was and remains, Abner Mikva, former Chicago Congressman, Federal judge and White House counsel to Bill Clinton. Mikva...
Do women become wives and do men become husbands? These questions are general and thus concern genders, not sexes (for sexes are always individual, medically determined by application of a general to the individual.) What comes first—a woman or a wife, a man or a husband?
When I explained that it was the same crappy dung-heap I was driving a few months earlier, but now restored externally, they then all changed their stories to "Oh, we always liked that car." My hot-rod cost me a third of what they paid for their forgettable Japanese appliances, and ...