re. Dan Butler comment Just a line to say that using a bible wide search program, I have not been able to find a reference to a "Judith" except where Esau takes several wives, with one being named Judith. There is a reference in the Apocrypha, specifically the book of Judith, but th...
ApocryphaIn the Deep Space Nine relaunch series novel Unity, by S.D. Perry, Sisko returns from the Celestial Temple on the day of his daughter's (Rebecca Jae Sisko) birth. The novel establishes that Sisko was to be made an admiral for his actions during the war. Starfleet offers him ...
20But any prophet who claims to give a message from another god or who falsely claims to speak for me must die.' 21You may wonder, 'How will we know whether the prophecy is from the LORD or not?' 22If the prophet predicts something in the LORD's name and it does not happen, the...
All this is a simple fact of my religious life, perhaps of all religious life. Does that mean, therefore, that all religious doctrine is irrational, that all the events of Mormon history are beyond discourse, that one cannot make an argument for Mormon beliefs? Obviously not. Those ...
15/16. “Piper Maru”/”Apocrypha”:Watch it.Mythology two-parters, as mentioned before, tend to be “Watch it”s, and this one does introduce some key stuff. 17. “Pusher”:Must see.This might be one of my favorite episodes of all time; it’s certainly the episode that made me ...
[788] There can be no question that, despite its strong polemical tendency against Christianity, the Fourth Book of Esdras (II. Esdras in our Apocrypha), written at the close of the first century of our era, is deeply tinged with Christian doctrine. Of course, the first two and the las...
Does that make you an idolater? Does that mean you worship your family or friends because you value the power of their prayer? Of course not. We, as Catholics, are merely honoring Mary and the saints by asking them to join in our prayers. That does not make us idolaters anymore than ...
They are available for viewing as part of the New Testament apocrypha, however. Interest in the Gnostic Gospels is said to have grown exponentially following the release of the controversial book and movie The Da Vinci Code. While the idea of finding secret teachings or hidden codes in ...
Scripture is God’s inspired word, but what exactly does that mean? The biblical word for inspiration is the Greek word theopneustos, but it appears only once in Scripture (2 Tim. 3:16). There is no OT word for “inspiration”; one will search the Septuagint in vain fortheopneustosor...
But this does not mean that God’s people did not have his word in Scripture before then. All the way along, at least from the time of Moses, the nation Israel had some portion of God’s covenantal word in written form, given through prophets, poets, and historians. You can ...