[First posted May 17, 2012; part of a whole series IN HIS NAME: IN HIS NAME – Whose ‘Word’ is the Bible? – 2 God Has Two Names? IN HIS NAME – Where in What Bible is His Word? – 3 IN HIS NAME: YHWH True Name of our Creator – 4a IN HIS […]
Read more[First posted in April 2012, reposted April 2014. This year, 2016 from April 22 to 30, Jewry commemorate two feasts that recount the history of their liberation from Egyptian bondage: Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.] ————————— The starting point of any journey is significant in the […]
Read moreO YHWH, Master of the universe, Creator and Giver of life: You birth us into existence within earthly soils and historic times, individually designed but equally gifted with freedom to rightly choose. May we persevere within communities that nurture us in good times and bad to mature into responsible people for destinies You purpose for […]
Read more[For a list of ALL articles, please click SITEMAP, upper right box above the active Sinai images.] 04/17/16 – “yhwh will bless you” – The blessings from the God of Israel, YHWH, the universal God of all peoples and nations, are promised in many verses of the Torah but are conditional—specifically in relation to obedience. […]
Read more[First posted 2012. Continuing “What did Paul Achieve,” Chapter 5 of Charles Freeman’s A New History of Early Christianity; condensed and slightly edited. Please get a copy of the book for your library. —Admin1]. ———————— When he was on one of his visits to Corinth, Paul wrote his Letter to the Romans. (It is recorded as having […]
Read more[First posted in 2013. If you’ve checked out the links we have listed on this website, most of them are Jewish: some with anti-missionary agenda, meaning they counter the claims of Christian missionaries whose target converts are Jews who are ignorant of their own faith-heritage; some Jewish websites reflect Jewish viewpoint or opinion on current […]
Read more[Posted March 26, 2015 & Jun, 2015; worth revisiting. What happened on Sinai? A lot. Not the least of which the Creator speaks to representative humanity —the mixed multitude —and cuts a covenant with the people He formed from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The wonder of this God is He condescends and goes down […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS [Original Tune: “Praise the Name of Jesus”/Revised Lyrics—-a capella] Light one Sabbath candle as His blazing sun sets, darkness fills all the spaces, not in minds where His True Light dwells, Let His Tree of Life be your Light. Light two Sabbath candles, Brighten up the darkness, One is […]
Read more[We are into the Resurrection Season so here’s a resurrected post from t 2012, reposted every Holy Week celebration. You’ll understand why.—Admin1.] ——————————– JCS – “Jesus Christ Superstar” Andrew Lloyd Webber is such a musical genius whose contribution to musical theater includes Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and two biblically-based musicals […]
Read more[First posted January 23, 2014, part of a series about the problem with biblical translations and Christian translations of the Hebrew Scriptures in their version renamed “Old Testament”. In the postscript, sequels are listed if you care to read the whole series.—Admin1.] ——————— “Languages are said to mirror the character of the […]
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