[There is an updated/revisited version of this post, contributed by BAN@S6K—please check out: Revisit: Is our God a “jealous, wrathful, and a vengeful God”? —Admin1.] ——————— Is our God, a jealous, wrathful, and a vengeful God? This is a perplexing question asked by believers and non-believers alike, not only in our times but in times past. It causes a […]
Read moreIn the previous post Want to cyber-eavesdrop? you got a glimpse of a commentary that went progressively nasty; we now feature a different kind of commentary where bloggers were much more respectful of one another, even if they did not agree with the article nor with each other’s opinion. As we have repeatedly stressed, often the comments […]
Read more[Now that we’ve opened up the “No God” discussion, we’re keeping it open by featuring bloggers who initially reacted to a You Tube lecture by Dr. Gerald Schroeder on Genesis and the Big Bang Theory, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAdDwLXO4Xg, then got into a long discussion of their own. First, click the link and watch the lecture, then you might […]
Read moreGrandpa VAN@S6K recounts the bible study he had with his grandson who has not had any Christian orientation regarding foundational Scripture. It went somewhat like this: VAN: What is the very first animal ever mentioned in the book of Beginnings, specifically Genesis 3? GS: Snake! VAN: So, when the first man and woman violated the […]
Read more[This is the 1st reply to Letters from an Atheist]. Dear DGN: Thank you for your visit to this website and the views you have expressed in your two letters. In our private email exchange, this is what I answered (which I now share with our website readers with some elaboration from the original): In […]
Read moreImage from www.stlucasucc.org [UPDATE 2017: This monthly “aid” for searchers has been replaced first by “Yo Searchers! Need Help?” Then to use a word closer to our cultural Filipino/Tagalog word for strangers, we resorted to “Hoy” shortened to “Oy!” And it became — “Oy Searchers! Need Help?” for every month of every year. The original intention was […]
Read more[I was tempted to post these chapters without any comment and echoed a title I had previously used in Exodus/Shemoth 35-39: Do we have to read these chapters? When you start reading through, you will understand why; it reads like a medical student’s textbook about excreted body fluids after childbirth that are considered impure; and […]
Read moreA Jew on the Gregorian New Year By: Asher Schwartz Published: December 31st, 2012 [From JewishPress.com] About the Author: Asher is the JewishPress.com’s incredible cartoonist. From: TORAH Is Isolating in a World of Man-made Traditions “As a community, we welcomed the “head of the year” on Rosh Hashanah (sundown of September 16 this year) and in fact changed […]
Read moreFrom: THE ISRAEL MUSEUM/The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Great Isaiah Scroll Temple Scroll War Scroll Community Rule Scroll Commentary on the Habakkuk Scroll The Great Isaiah Scroll Click to examine the scroll. The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) • Qumran Cave 1 • 1st century BCE • Parchment • H: 22-25, L: 734 cm • Government […]
Read moreRecent Articles Related to the Book: Paul and Jesus by James Tabor Tabor: “I have published several articles of late in the mainstream press that might be of interest to SWW folks [“SWW” stands for Synagogue Without Walls].They are all related to my new book, Paul and Jesus, but are designed to particularly address Christians in […]
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