Yo searchers, need help? – January 2016

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01/28/16  “why have humans have always built ‘artificial mountains’ such as ziggurats, pyramids, etc.” –  

• So what’s wrong with building a high tower?

Here is the Jewish perspective on why humans build such high edifices:

• http://www.meaningfullife.com/personal/yitro-skyscraper-heaven-meets-earth/

01/16/16  “christian vegans and peter’s vision of acts 10:10-15” – 

• Biblical Diet 4a: NT Perspective: Did Jesus declare all foods clean in Mark 7:19?
• Biblical Diet 4b: NT: Matthew 15:1-20
• Biblical Diet 4c: Peter’s Vision in Acts 10:9-23
• Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 11 – As a Torah-observant Jew, what would Jesus have eaten?
• Revisit: Biblical Diet 1
• Biblical Diet 2—UNclean Meat
• Biblical Diet 3—Leviticus 11
• Revisit: Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 11a – Dietary Laws

01/15/16  “what was israel’s occupation, which was abominable to the egyptians?” – Israelites were shepherds, so why should that be abominable to the Egyptians?  Because one of the gods Egypt worship ped was the ram/lamb.  Hence, the area designated for Jacob’s clan was Goshen.  And if you haven’t made the connection yet, the reason Israel’s God specifically commanded the details of their Passover —lamb is to be roasted so that its scent would waft all over neighborhoods and Egyptians would be horrified that one of their gods is slaughtered and eaten at passover dinner!  Add insult to injury, they’ve already been shown the power of Israel’s God YHWH through the 10 plagues which specifically targetted the gods of Egypt.  Read those chapters again in the book of Exodus and connect the dots if you missed it the first time around.  This is from: 

• Genesis/Bereshith 46 – “Now I can die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive!”

34 Then say: Your servants have always been livestock men, from our youth until now, so we, so our fathers- 

in order that you may settle in the region of Goshen. 

More posts to check out:

• Revisit: The Lamb/Ram in Egypt’s Pantheon
• Exodus/Shemoth 11-12: “on all the gods of Egypt I will render judgment, I, YHVH.”
• EXODUS: The 10 Plagues–Judgment of YHWH upon Egypt’s gods

01/06/16  “hasatan in the tanakh” – 

• Revisit: Ha Satan got a bad rap!
• TNK” ha satan” vs. OT “Satan”/NT “Devil”
• If the Tanakh does not promote belief in fallen angels, why are they so prominent in the New Testament?
• Ezekiel 28:1-19 is NOT about the Devil
• Isaiah 14:12-15 is not about the Devil
• The Christian Devil Finally Goes to Christian Hell
• So if there’s no devil and demonic spirits, explain the occult.
• If there’s no Devil, then there’s no hell?
• Q&A: “If there are no fallen angels, then explain the ‘Nephilim’ in the narrative account of the Flood.”
• Q&A: “If the devil doesn’t exist, how come the snake/serpent in the story was punished by the Creator for tempting Eve?”

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A wonderful progressive Truth-search  2016 to one and all, especially our webvisitors who keep returning to check out our over 800 posts!  Toward the end of the year 2015, there were less search items registering on our ‘site-stats’ . . . whatever that indicates, we choose to believe that visitors, old and new,  have figured out how to navigate your  way through the 800+ posts on our Site Map and few or none need help anymore.  May it be so!

And so we have reached the year 2016; it seems only yesterday when the world was bracing for all the unexpected dire predictions regarding the turn of the millennium to Y2K.  Remember?

Trivia:  Wikipedia provides the following background to the month of “January”:

January (in Latin, Ianuarius) is named afterJanus, the god of beginnings and transitions; the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin word for door (ianua) since January is the door to the year.

 

Traditionally, the original Roman calendar consisted of 10 months totaling 304 days, winter being considered a month-less period. Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year (354 days). Although March was originally the first month in the old Roman Calendar, January became the first month of the calendar year under either Numa or the Decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers differ). In contrast, specific years pertaining to dates were identified by naming two consuls, who entered office on May 1 and March 15 until 153 BC, when they began to enter office on January 1.

 

Various Christian feast dates were used for the New Year in Europe during the Middle Ages, including March 25 and December 25. However, medieval calendars were still displayed in the Roman fashion of twelve columns from January to December. Beginning in the 16th century, European countries began officially making January 1 the start of the New Year once again—sometimes called Circumcision Style because this was the date of the Feast of the Circumcision, being the seventh day after December 25.

 

Historical names for January include its original Roman designation, Ianuarius, the Saxon term Wulf-monath (meaning wolf month) and Charlemagne‘s designation Wintarmanoth (winter / cold month). In Slovene, it is traditionally called január. The name, associated with millet bread and the act of asking for something, was first written in 1466 in the Škofja Loka manuscript.^[1]

 

According to Theodor Mommsen,^[2] 1 January became the first day of the year in 600 AUC of the Roman Calendar (153 BC), due to disasters in the Lusitanian War. A Lusitanian chief called Punicus invaded the Roman territory, defeated two Roman governors, and slew their troops. The Romans resolved to send a consul to Hispania, and in order to accelerate the dispatch of aid, “they even made the new consuls enter on office two months and a half before the legal time” (15th of March).

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