As one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, I grew up believing that I was a member of the only organization on earth that was truly patterned after the original Christian congregation. I believed that Jesus’ earliest disciples were organized much as congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses are today, but ...
Chief among these are the beliefs that the connections between The Holy Grail and the secret societies (Priory of Sion , Knights Templar , Illuminati etc).The Shugborough Code has been said to indicate the location of The Holy Grail because of the connections of The Anson Family, with the g...
“There has always been this belief that if you can just touch an object associated with Jesus, at the very least, it could help confirm one's faith,” Cargill explains. “And at the best, it might perform a miracle.” HISTORY Vault: Jesus: His Life The story of Jesus Christ through...
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He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ). / Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).John 1:45-46Philip ...
Instead of rivals at each other’s throats they are united in their mutual love of the Divine Child, and also united in fierce opposition to whatever lured him away from Aphrodite. (Assuming baby Dionysos didn’t wander off on his own.) Did our bricoleur have the Empedoklean flux of ...
, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:...
Neo’s buyer also jokes that Neo is his “own personal Jesus Christ,” a moment that sets up the many biblical allusions in the film — the city of Zion (a biblical name for Jerusalem as well as the idea of the city of God), Cypher’s Judas-like betrayal, a very important character...
Early Church authors such as Papias, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, and Eusebius of Caesarea are mentioned rarely and almost exclusively in relation to introductory matters: the authorship of a New Testament book, dating, language, early traditions about the martyrdom of Jesus’ Apostles...
many respondents to our questionnaires keep on saying that the biggest threat does not come from the outside but from within the church: ‘Will the next generation be prepared for the kind of persecution we are witnessing? Are they strong in their faith and in knowing Christ a...