The Old Testament had always represented the Jews as holding a peculiar position towards the Godhead. They were a chosen people endowed with high privileges and blessings, but so endowed because they were also intended for a unique purpose. They were the depositaries of revelation, and in due...
The Supernatural in Scripture--Its Scope and SignificanceThe Bible is a book of miracles. From Genesis to Revelation, the supernatural power of God is on display from the Creation, to the plagues of Egypt, to the Messiah's authority over demons and diseases, to the apocalyptic clash between ...
My heart literally skipped a beat. I had never before thought of my life in that way.I’m not much for football, but it’s a very solid and sobering metaphor. Given that the average life span of people in North American culture is 80 years … the old boy and I had solidly landed ...
The body that the soul is born into (reincarnation) is determined by karma. Sikhism repudiates a physical place called heaven or hell. Rejects the belief of a judgement day. Believes in reincarnation but merely the progression of the soul on its journey toward their god. One’s form on ...
He was definitely right about the New Testament part. Nowhere is there so much as a hint that the miracles were going to go away. In fact miracles are held out as proof of the authenticity of Jesus as the Son of God. From healing the paralytic to forgiving sins to feeding the 5000 to...
In theSumma Contra Gentiles, St. Thomas Aquinas explains why God did not repeat the miracles performed in the Old Testament or apostolic age throughout Church history and that the mass conversion of believers was itself a sign of the Church’s truth. But he adds, “Yet it is also a fact...
Of the major scriptures in the world, we have now three widely influential documents: the Torah or the Old Testament, the Bible or the New Testament, and the Arabic Quran, the Final Testament. Through the years, these scriptures were translated, and distorted, and copied repeatedly, at first...
One such claim is that the existence of God can be proven through various logical arguments. I have never seen such an argument that I found even slightly compelling. They all have gaping holes in their logic. The latest incarnation comes from Robert Nelson, who appears to be promoting his ...
god ,in fact more miracle commemorating shrines were born in Europe’s seventeenth century than any other.” (Craig Harline, Miracles at the Jesus Oak, Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe). In Miracles at the Jesus Oak, Harline recasts five of these testimonies into engaging ...
is the term commonly used today, mikvah is the Jewish term for what Yohannan was performing on the banks of theJordan, orYardenin Hebrew. In fact, the practice of the mikvah was instituted by God through Moses in the Torah, so this was a necessary and regular part of the Biblical Jewis...