Many people believe that the bible is founded on a lie. Some believe this because the scientific evidence supports Man's gradual evolution as opposed to his discrete creation in one day under creationism. Others believe this because the order of the creation of the universe in genesis...
Humanity, orAdam, was "born" when the first words had been accepted as legal tender in an economy of information that began to rise from the animal world and began to form its own hydrological cycle of reason (Genesis 2:7). With his first words, man began to name the other animals (...
That means that when folks began to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, they stripped the stories of their humanity (only humans wear clothes: Genesis 3:7, 3:21), their billowing robes and garments with their intricate patterns and meaning, and surrendered the violated naked core to ...
In Genesis Chapter 49, Jacob, Judah's father, blesses Judah on his deathbed. He states that Judah is a like a '"...lion's whelp"', or lion's cub. This symbol would go on to represent the House of Judah throughout history up to the present time. The lion would symbolize Judah's...
The name appears especially in the Edomite genealogy of Genesis 36 and in the history of the two Israelite kingdoms to the downfall of the northern kingdom in 722 b.c. Hadad was the deification of natural forces and war. He was viewed as the god of the storm, who displayed his power ...
(Genesis 12:2) but this time God was more specific.“Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so shall your descendants be.”Now most of us tend to live in cities, and if we look up, we can see the moon and perhaps a few more stars and that’s it, today ...
Jesus taught us to pray that God's will would be done "on earth as it is in heaven." Comparing the first chapters of Genesis and the last chapters of Revelation suggests that man's original purpose is nothing less than building the City of God, the New Jerusalem. Edenic motifs are ...
Each of these four spots was the scene of some special revelation of Yahweh; possibly to the third of them (Hebron) we may attribute the memorable vision and covenant ofGenesis 15. These sites became, in after years, the most venerated and coveted perquisites of the nation, and fights for...
See Genesis 24:2 and 47:29. 42. Elazar,Covenant and Polity, 66. 43. Gene M. Tucker, “Covenant Forms and Contract Forms,”Vetus Testamentum15, no. 4 (1965): 487–503. 44. D. J. McCarthy,Treaty and Covenant(Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1982), 175. As cited in Niehaus, ...
25 Ye shall do no manner of servile work; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto YHWH. Numbers Chapter 29 1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a day of blowing the ...