As a Pharisee, Paul would have been preoccupied with the body. He would have been a fan of baptism for ritual cleansing. Even so, what the Pharisees thought about John’s baptism of repentance is mixed, according to the Gospel accounts. John wasn’t a Pharisee, for one. And though he...
one of our leaders, Yelana, coined the term “positive insubordination”. The janitors had gone beyond the written requirements of their jobs and worked for and towards others with their hearts.
nician woman, and of the teaching as to the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. We cannot get beyond a conjectural explanation of these phenomena, but it is possible that, as a matter of fact, he simply did not learn these facts in the course of his inquiries, and therefore did ...
become the equivalent of the ancient Jews, with their highly educated lawyers running the show, perpetuating rules and looking beyond the mark for exaltation outside the core gospel. Blind to their situation, they do not recognize that they have become like the scribes and the pharisees of old...
According to certain biblical scholars, Beelzebub was also known as the “god of filth,” which later became a term of contempt in the mouth of the Pharisees. As a result, Beelzebub was a particularly despised deity, and the Jews used his name as another name for Satan....
Some Rabbis through the centuries have placed their belief in Y’shua or Jesus as the promised Messiah. Their short biographies or testimonies are on this website.
And this of course is part of the message here, as is explained not much later when we are first introduced to David. 6 When they came, he looked on Eli′ab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.” 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his ...
background, lifestyle, and interests. Obviously your faith and Catholic values are an important part of matching and include questions from, how often you attend mass, to what Church's Teaching you believe in (Sanctity of Life, Papal Infallibility, Premarital Sex, Immaculate Conception, and Holy...
Apparently, the Pharisees and Sadducees caught the eye of John the Baptist as he preached in the wilderness, evoking a sharp rebuke for the hypocrisy of their self-righteousness. His words cut us as well, for they serve as a reminder that the evidence of repentance is not mere confession,...
This includes the Judaic cultists who follow the Pharisees, The Talmud, Kabbalism, Sabbateanism, etc.; as well as the Slavemasonry and other forms of Luciferianism; as well as those who believe in Jewish “racial” supremacism; and those who call themselves Jews and who promote typical ...