The Daniel Fast is a biblical method of intermittent fasting, but it is not your average fast. The Daniel Fast is not about eating or not eating for specific periods. Here, “fast” means restrictions on what food you can consume rather than when you may eat it. The Daniel Fast has the...
The origins of the Daniel diet stem back thousands of years. In the Old Testament book of Daniel, the story of Daniel and other exiles being taken to the court of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, is told. During a training period, where Daniel and the rest of the exiles were to learn ...
The Bible talks about the spiritual tool of fasting. What is biblical fasting? How does God want us to fast? What are the spiritual benefits of fasting?
the sentence in (20) expresses the intuition that Pedro needs to drive less fast because the distance he has to cover is smaller in the same amount of time. In this scenario, the sentence is false under the interpretation where it is disallowed for Pedro to drive faster...
Christ did what we do today when we fast: wrestle with temptation. This was not the first fast; biblical figures often fasted when petitioning God for something important. “So we fasted and implored our God [...], and he listened to our entreaty” (Ezra 8:23). The Israelites “mourn...
I ended up taking creative liberty in combining the two characters mentioned in the Bible into one person. It was risky for Biblical Fiction, but the core ofThe Crooked Daughterisn’t a historical narrative. It is a thematic one about healing, the purpose of suffering, and how pain can dis...
Readers also fail to realize that lots of biblical tales began as oral traditions, passed on until they were written down. Interestingly, while history is generally written in favor of those with power, the Bible is an exception to this rule. Rather than being penned by the rulers of the ...
There’s no such thing as a “good Biblical epic” coming from Hollywood these days and you could almost make a case for there having never been one. The Apostle Paul calls Satan “the god of this world” (some translations render II Corinthians 4:4 “the god… ...
Passover commemorates the Biblical story of the Exodus, where God freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. In order to protect their firstborn children from God’s final plague on Egypt, the Israelites were instructed to mark their doorposts and lentils with the blood of a lamb. The angel...
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