live in Nazareth, so that what the prophets had said, namely that he would be a Nazarene, was fulfilled," but a major problem arises when we realize that this prophecy simply does not occur anywhere in the Old Testament. Worse than that: none of the prophets even mentions the name ...
“remnant,” those purified by God’s judgment. The theme of the later prophets, thatmoralitymust be at the heart of ritual worship, is also taught by Elijah, who upholds the unity of law and religion against the despotic cruelty of a king influenced by a pagan wife. Elijah’s work may...
Cultures like that also tend to glorify law (or more general: algorithmic thought), which is of course a major step up from the lawlessness of animals, but if it stalls in that phase and never rises above the law, it becomes a soulless automaton. Transcending the law follows a mastery ...
"to save," andyah, in reference to the Hebrew god. The biblical Isaiah, son of Amos, was the most important of the major prophets, with an Old Testament book named for him. He prophesied that the Children of Israel would be exiled from their homeland, but that God would bring the ...
As I matured, I came to appreciate the beauty and power of my name. I love that my namesake, the archangel Gabriel, has a prominent place in all three major world religions.My friends call me Gabe these days.Also, and notably, I’ve NEVER encountered a Gabriel who was a jerk....
Its name is derived from Ancient Greek, meaning "bear guard"; this refers to the story in Greek mythology that Zeus placed Arcturus in the sky to look after Arcas and Callisto, who were turned into bears and then into the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor to protect them from Hera...
God really only had one major rule and that was not to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is an impressive way of saying The Tree of Knowledge of All Things, or even just The Tree of Knowledge. He decreed that the punishment for this crime would be an imme...
This teaching has been fully ingrained in the minds of nearly all Israylites to the point that extreme hatred is shown toward anyone who openly speaks or writes the one and only true Name of the Creator. Remember this, because the holy prophets both spoke and wrote the true Name. As a...
Many years later (in my thirties), I got onto the subject of God's name again. This time, a Christian friend was explaining to me that they had replaced the name of God in the Bible almost 7000 times. I told him I knew about the Tetragrammaton already; it was no big deal....
‘A major victory for Satan’ Raised in a non-religious home, Nelson read the Mormon scriptures at a young age and was convinced. So convinced that he went home and smashed his parents’ liquor supply. Since then, divine omens have played an important role in his life, Nelson says. A ...