Are there dragons in the Bible? Yes, there are dragons in the Bible, but primarily as symbolic metaphors. Scripture employs dragon imagery to describe sea monsters, serpents, sinister cosmic forces, and even Satan. In the Bible, the dragon appears as the primal enemy of God, who is used ...
Samaritans claim they areIsraelite descendants of the Northern Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, who survived the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) by the Assyrians in 722 BCE. Who did the Samaritans worship in the Bible? The Samaritans believe that, since more than 3600 y...
There are strong connections to Baal worship in conjunction with the worship of Beelzebub. Baal was a Canaanite fertility god in the Old Testament. The term zebub means “exalted dwelling.” When we combine those two terms, we have the name "prince of demons."...
Paul was actually born as Saul. He was born in Tarsus in Cilicia around AD 1–5 in a province in the southeastern corner of modern-day Tersous, Turkey. He was of Benjamite lineage and Hebrew ancestry (Philippians 3:5–6). His parents were Pharisees—fervent Jewish nationalists who adhere...
Here is a sample of some ideas and traditions people have come up with about Theophilus’ identity that are interesting, but almost no evidence exists to back them up. A Jew from Alexandria in Egypt A tradition from the Coptic (Ethiopian) church says that Theophilus was a Jewish person of ...
1The Story of Esther in the Bible 2What we can learn from Esther in the Bible 2.1God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things 2.2Beauty should not make us boastful 2.3With God’s help, we can step out in faith and fight our fears. ...
Authors Dave Barry, Adam Mansbach and Alan Zweibel claim that keeping kosher is “the system of Jewish dietary laws that makes the U.S. tax code both simple and reasonable.” Moreover, “The Bible says you’re not supposed to cook an animal in its mother’s milk, because ‘that’s su...
They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.”“Are you the [promised] Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” Christian Standard Bible “What then? ” they asked him. “Are you Elijah? ”“I am not,” he said. “Are you the Prophet? ”“No,” he ...
God Will Judge People Who Are Not Jewish 14For example, whenever non-Jews who don’t have the laws in Moses’ Teachings do by nature the things that those laws contain, they are a law to themselves even though they don’t have any of those laws.15They show that some requirements found...
15 We are Jewish by birth, not sinners from other nations. 16 Yet, we know that people don’t receive God’s approval by any effort to follow the laws in the Scriptures, but only by believing in Jesus Christ. So we also believed in Jesus Christ in order to receive God’s approval ...