laws to be followed or punishments inflicted. The most common Biblical number is 7. According to Genesis, the Earth and everything in it was completed by God in six days, and the seventh day is reserved as the Day of Rest (or Completion). Seven is considered the number of perfect time;...
We speak of Jesus as Master and we His bondservants, and in that relationship is the gratitude of knowing God’s mercy and grace in our deliverance from the bondage of sin and death. We are now bound by the love of God in Christ and that is a very different and positive, life giving...
The truth is, there is no animal named “Washington” that eats money. Most of what Washington does (in dollar terms) is write checks to people, so reducing a dollar of Washington’s spending generally takes a dollar, or close to a dollar, out of someone’s pocket. And the Republicans ...
What is less easy to understand, however, is why the theses-posting emerged as the critical moment in the early modern accounts, for there were many other moments with even more drama and proximate significance for the Reformation. Moreover, the posting of theses had little shock-value at the...
’What JewishPhilosophyisNotLetmefirsttell youwhatJewishphilosophy isnot.It is not philosophycomposedorstudiedin aJewish language, say, Hebrew.⁶We do speakofmedievalArabicphilosophyandmedievalLatinphilosophy, meaningmedieval philosophywrittenin Arabic orinLatin, butwe cannotdescribethe fullgamutofmedieval ...
Patterns - Bringing mankind out of a fog of contradictory voices of doubt. Hebrew defines what was said so we know what to believe. Join the journey thru The Lion of Judah!
WHAT IS A “FEMALE SLAVE”? CONTEXT AND COMPARISON ---— 36 —1.1 THE AMAH AND THE SHIFḤAH: BREEDER, DRUDGE, CONCUBINE OR WIFE?The terms אמהamah and שפחהshifḥah, found throughout the biblical text (as well as extra-biblical and post-biblical Hebrew texts), are...
(See Exhibit 60) And the Biblical "basis" of this is given as Exodus 34:27. But that verse states, instead: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel" — the opposite! (Talmud, ...
The idea, underlying all, is God's gracious manifestation in the world - the Kingdom of God; the meaning of all - the establishment of this Kingdom upon earth. That gracious purpose was, so to speak, individualized, and the Kingdom actually established in the Messiah. Both the fundamental...
"The Prince of Wales is poised to throw his weight behind an inter-faith scheme to celebrate the Queen's jubilee by encouraging voluntary time-sharing between people of different religions." — The Guardian (1) Professor Jonathan Sacks, The Very Reverend the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew ...