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Unfortunately, if you are going to make an impact like that, you are bound to piss off a lot of powerful people during your time here on Earth. The Son of God was no exception to the age old rule, "Haters gonna hate." Crucifixion was not a one-time s...
Luke 9:51 sn Taken up is a reference to Jesus’ upcoming return to heaven by crucifixion and resurrection (compare Luke 9:31). This term was used in the LXX of Elijah’s departure in 2 Kgs 2:9. Luke 9:51 tn Grk“he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation ...
As such, an informed reading of the New Testament, especially for a believing audience, will involve pursuing three main questions:(1) On the historical side, how did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape that it did? (2) The literary turn:...
(FWIW, on the original Jesus Christ, Superstar record, Byrd did the, er, music for the crucifixion scene.) Since one of the typical tracks on the proffered album was “You Can’t Ever Come Down” opening with the repeated phrase “waiting to die”, the tape copy went away after a ...
What did the Jews do? The Jews started a race war. The Jews made the most backwards Blacks hate White people. What did the Jews do in America? Make the most retarded blacks hate white people. In the Jews’ Talmud Jews hate every non-Jew. In Jew Communism the Jews expanded the number...
Or go back before movies to literature-—Shakespeare, Greek tragedy—everybody can find some fall guy for why they commit some act of violence. You can say ‘My family insisted I learn about the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.’ That’s a violent act where somebody is impaled on a cross.”...