[This was first posted October 16, 2012; contributed by Sinaite ELZ@S6K who has since passed away:  God is near, do not fear . . . Friend, Sinaite, goodnight. We revive it this November where two holidays are celebrated in the USA: Veterans Day and Thanksgiving.—Admin 1.] ———————– Absolute freedom of worship and religious practice was […]

[Here’s a repost from December 31, 2013.  We have our earthly father, but also address God as ‘Father in Heaven’ or ‘Heavenly Father’.  Did the real chosen people, the true and original Israel, the one referred to as ‘firstborn’ of the God of Israel ever address their God as ‘Father’?  This article does not answer […]

[This was first posted on APRIL 16, 2012. —Admin1.]     Paul who?   From the tribe of Benjamin,  born in Tarsus, a Roman citizen,  a pharisee who learned from Gamaliel—Paul introduced himself in his epistles with these words: Sha’ul, a slave of the Messiah Yeshua, and set apart for the Good News of God.  [Romans […]

[We are resurrecting posts that are relevant to the season of resurrection; this was first posted in August 2012. While it started to be about the film version of a book by Kazantzakis, it gradually focused more on Kazantzakis himself, a most gifted writer and deep thinker who struggled with his God.  His life is […]

 TSTL:  “Thus saith the LORD” or perhaps it should be TSTY for “Thus saith YHWH.”   Christianity teaches that every person born since the first couple ‘Adam and Eve’ are tainted with “original sin,”  a condition that all have inherited like a spiritual DNA.  All are helpless and will die with it and be damned […]

[This was referred to in the previous post, Genesis/Bereshith 49 — Genesis/Bereshith 49: Jacob/Israel’s Legacy and Last Farewell: 9 A lion’s whelp, Yehuda-  from torn-prey, my son, you have gone up!  He squats, he crouches,  like the lion, like the king-of-beasts, who dares rouse him up?    lion’s whelp.  According to the Midrash, the emblem […]

[This is the 3rd contributed article by “RS”, originally shared with his friend BAN@S6K, which we have been granted permission to post as a series.     If you have not yet done so, please read the earlier posts: Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” & Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” – 2.   The original article has been reformatted according […]

[Continued from James D. Tabor’s book, downloadable from amazon.com on kindle app. MUST READ: Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity MUST READ: Paul and Jesus – 2 Reformatting and highlights added.]   Based on Paul’s authentic letters I have isolated six major elements in Paul’s Christianity that shape the central contours of his […]

The previous article Gospel Truth? – 2  featured excerpts from the Introduction of the book FORGED by Bart D. Ehrman.   For further information of our readers, the Table of Contents of the book include:   A World of Deceptions and Forgeries Forgeries in the Name of Peter Forgeries in the Name of Paul Alternatives to […]