True Christian Universalism believes that within the Story of God, summarized by the historical creeds, there lies a bigger picture yet to be acknowledged by most in the Body of Christ. We are thinking it, wishing it, singing it, speaking its language, and even living as if it were true!
Born in the "Cradle of Civilization" the ancient Jews struggled against all odds to survive. The Old Testament Ancient Near East was made up of Canaan (Palestine), Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the Zagros mountains located on the westernmost edge of Iran. It was...
Islamisation for example has had a powerful and irreversible impact on Iran (Persia) but Arabisation has completely failed! Iran is firmly Islamic but the country has proudly retained its Persian cultural and linguistic roots. The stanzas at the start and end of this essay illustrate this. Even...
The Russians have complained bitterly about the US-promoted 2014 coup in Ukraine, the eastward expansion of NATO, the installation of missiles in Romania and Poland, the pretense that the missiles were for defense against Iran, the 2019 US withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces agreement,...
Liberals, often hostile to all Christian beliefs, also distort the issue by an over emphasis on the small number of extremists and fanatics.Other examples include some Orthodox and Hassidic Jews, most Shiite Muslims in Iran, and most Sunni Muslims elsewhere. Christian but not Protestant examples ...
God used Daniel in amazing ways during his years there. Later on, the Persian empire (Iran) conquered Babylonia and God used their King Cyrus to rescue the Jews and send them back to their home country of Israel! An amazing story, to be sure. My point here is this: Could it have be...
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Both non-immigrants (tourist, student, etc.) and immigrants (including legal permanent residents – although Priebus later said that, actually we didn’t mean THEM and a “waiver” process was subsequently added) from seven countries (some friends, some foe) – Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Su...
Iran had to know, though, that Israel wouldstrike back, and strike hard, and reallyhasn’t gotten too directly involved.With friends like that, who needs enemies?Lip service aside, the Arab world has leftGaza hanging out to dry. This disturbing history of the Palestiniansbeing the black ...