Matthew 2:1- "After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi [*] from the east came to Jerusalem." (* Footnote: Traditionally Wise Men).Matthew 2:7- Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared....
Who were the wise men of the Christmas story? Despite popular opinion, the Bible never says there were three Magi, nor that they visited Jesus in the manger. Just who were the wise men who brought gifts, and why is this so important for the Christmas sea
Long Christmas Season Ends; Feast of Three Kings Who Worshipped Infant Jesus Observed TodayByline: BRENDA PIQUERO TUAZONManila Bulletin
Who are these wise women? They are Mary, the mother of Jesus, Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, and Anna, the prophetess in the temple. Let's look at their stories and see how they were so wise.
Unfortunately, while in Indian history there were 2 Chandraguptas who were the founders of empires, the Gupta Chandragupta is not mentioned in the Puranas. The Puranic account of the kings of the Kaliyuga end when the Guptas were just a minor dynasty in Magadha and Chandragupta I had not...
And sure enough, Jesus explained what we were missing. Children were to become our focus. They were the ones who we were to emulate and esteem. The radical thing to us was understanding that these ‘little ones’ were that significant. I must say that this was a powerful jolt. “Let ...
Where kings have "subjects" who are subjected to the king's will, democracies and republics have "citizens" who rule themselves. The Greek city-state of Athens had about 6,000 citizens, who were called out of their homes to ga...
Note: this post is just a partial list of Black Women who were lynched in America. More research has revealed there are 148 documented cases of African American women lynched in America. Four of them were known to have been pregnant. Two of them had th
Who were called ‘Jews’ were really Edomites – but were still called ‘Jews’ because they lived in the Roman province of Judea? If these Judeans weren’t all Judahites (or even Israelites), then how misleading is it for them to also be called ‘Jews’ as the O.T. Judahites were...
the Ephesian Artemis. Those were seen as being the same goddess, but neither of them were seen as being the same goddess as Hera or Athena or any other. So it’s not that sort of all the pagan gods just devolve back into hypostases of one male and one female god; it’s that there...