There is nothing at all in the Bible that does not conform to common sense. What it tells us about the world having been destroyed by a deluge, and Noah and his family alone being saved, is no more wonderful than what is taught in the schools, that all of the earth we see now, ...
Mount Olympus.In Scandinavian mythology the rainbow was a bridge between the gods and the earth.In the Bible a rainbow showed Noah that the Biblical flood was finally over,and that God had forgiven his people.In the Chinese tradition,the rainbow is often taken as a common symbol for marriage...
SODOM (modern Sedom ) AND GOMORRAH (Heb. וַעֲמֹרָה סְדֹם), two cities in the "plain" of the Jordan, usually mentioned together and sometimes with Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela, which is identified with Zoar. Sodom & Gomorrah Location, New Archaeological D...
FIn the house where I grew up, it was our custom to leave the front door on the latch at night.I don't know if that was a local term or if it is universal; “on the latch” meant the door was closedbut not locked. None of us carried keys;the last one in for the evening ...
Where the birds build their nests, The stork’s home is in the fir trees.Amplified BibleWhere the birds make their nests; As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.Christian Standard BibleThere the birds make their nests; storks make their homes in the pine trees.Holman Christian ...
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come unto thee and bless thee.Brenton Septuagint TranslationYe shall make to me an...
According to Genesis in the Bible, Nimrod (grandson of Noah) built the Tower of Babel. The Babylonians desire was to make it “with its top in the heavens”. But god punished them for this deed, stopped the construction and scattered the people all around the world. Before that point sp...
Something in the Dirt. (Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson) Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. (Amanda Kim) Kuru Otlar Üstüne. (About Dry Grasses) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Le procès Goldman. (The Goldman Case) (Cédric Kahn) L’été dernier. (Last Summer) ...
The word organization does not appear in the Bible. For the first 2,500 years of human history there was no single organization and worship was not contingent on membership of a church. Yet we have records of the most God fearing men of all time; people such as Enoch, Joseph, Noah and...
God’s favor is mentioned countless times throughout the Bible- the common denominator in His favor being- faith. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Noah, Abel, David, Solomon, Job, Paul, Mary, Jesus, and many others- received God’s favor because they had Great Faith! We will never have ...