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301: Jerusalem Temple Mount: The Charles Wilson and Charles Warren ...
... patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, which is called the "Palestine Exploration Fund," the first meeting of which was held on the 22nd June 1865, his Grace the Archbishop of York in the chair, and I am much gratified to state that, from the very satisfactory manner in which Capt. ... and above comes the later work, of the same date as the great rebuilding of the walls by Suleiman the Magnificent. At the south-west corner another species of masonry is found, which, from other remains of the same kind in the city, appears to be of the Saracenic period, prior to the Crusades; the stones are small, and have a deeply-chiseled draft round their margins, so as to leave the faces projecting roughly two or three inches. ... joints, as is here usually the case; some of this defect is due to weathering, but the part thus destroyed can easily be seen, and at Hebron and Baalbek, where the masonry has been less disturbed than at Jerusalem, the joints are so close that it is difficult to insert a knife. ... ...
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302: 1001 BC: Papyrus Moscow 127: Wermai's Odyssey & Tragic Tale of ...
... They are supposed to use the Syriac tongue, but this is not the case; their language is quite different.' And the king when he understood all the facts of the case ordered a letter to be written to the Jewish High Priest that his purpose (which has ... out the best of these, the men who were in the prime of life and distinguished for their courage, and armed them, but the great mass of the others, those who were too old or too young for this purpose, and the women too, he reduced to slavery, not ... 15 Since the law which we wish not only to transcribe but also to translate belongs to the whole Jewish race, what justification shall we be able to find for our embassy while such vast numbers of them remain in a state of slavery in your kingdom? ... Upon this there was a mosaic, worked in the form of a rhombus, having a net-like appearance and reaching right up to the brim. 75 In the middle, small shields which were made of different precious stones, placed alternately, and varying in kind, not ... ...
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303: What Christians Need to Know about Scientology
... The biography continues: Ron spent his early childhood years on his grandfather's large cattle ranch in Montana, said to cover a quarter of the state. It was on this ranch that he learned to read and write by the time he was three and a half years ... The lust of centuries at his very fingertips. To stroke and taste the environs of the Great Beast, to fondle Crowley's books, papers, and memorabilia had filled him with pure ecstasy! In London he had acquired, at last, the final keys; enabling him to take his place upon the "Throne of the Beast," to which he firmly believed himself to be the rightful heir. "The books and contents to be kept forever secret," he says. "To reveal them will cause you instant insanity; rip your mind apart; destroy ... That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others. That all men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own kind. That the ... ...
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304: Official creed of Reformed Baptist church
... although it be different in degrees, and may be weak or strong, yet it is in the least degree of it different in the kind or nature of it, as is all other saving grace, from the faith and common grace of temporary believers; and therefore, ... Such of the elect as are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature, and therein served divers lusts and pleasures, God in their effectual calling giveth them repentance unto life. (Titus 3:2-5) 2.Whereas there is none that doth good and sinneth not, and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall into great sins and provocations; God hath, in the covenant of grace, mercifully ... the week, which is called the Lord's day: and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath, the observation of the last day of the week being abolished. (Exod. 20:8; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10) 8.The sabbath is then ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-baptist-ref.htm
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305: Doctrinal Flip Flops of Jehovah's Witnesses!
... Click to View Pick another/Go to top . . Jw's Accuse others who were false prophets??? If ever there was a case of the pot calling the kettle black... This is it! 1930 "The false prophets of our day are the financial, political and clerical ... The poisons that produce the impulse to commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood.' And Dr. Americo Valerio, Brazilian doctor and surgeon for over forty years, agrees. 'Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, ... While it may produce seemingly beneficial results at the moment, it may ultimately take its toll in disease and stillborn children as a direct result of such an ill-advised course. Even if no physical harm results to the patient or to one's ... Only eight persons went in and eight came out of the ark. (1 Peter 3:20; Genesis 8:18) That would appear to indicate that it would be proper that those who will form the "great multitude" should wait until after Armageddon to bring children into the ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/Jw-changes.htm
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306: Peutinger Map: A Translation of Bible Cities and the Exodus Route
... So it is hardly a surprise that a mere couple even remotely compara-ble to this one have survived, both of them as original stone monuments in fact (now fragmented), rather than through copying by scribes. In the present case, while any serious study ... kind, a fact that should raise no surprise if the original map predates the promotion of Bethogabri to Eleutheropolis around 200 c.e." (THE TABULA PEUTINGERIANA: Its Roadmap to Borderland Settlements in Iudaea-Palestina, Ron E. Tappy, Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 75, No. 1, March, p48, 2012AD) 5. Several Christian notations are made in the Sinai Peninsula: a. The Red Sea and both Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez are on the map. b. Mt. Sinai and the city of Aqaba is on the map. c. There is even a notion ... Conclusion: 1. The Peutinger Map was likely produced in the great expansion during Constantine the Great between 325-381 AD but factors could change this in hundreds of years either way. 2. The Peutinger Map may in fact be a primarily religious map ... ...
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307: Ancient Synagogue Literary Sources: Jews persecuting Christians ...
... and drew away some people after him; he too perished, and all those who followed him were scattered. "So in the present case, I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will be overthrown; ... Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Some devout men buried ... Furthermore, we pray for you that you might experience the mercy of Christ; for He in-strutted us to pray even for our enemies, when He said: "Be kind and merciful, even as your Heavenly Father is merciful." We can observe that Almighty God is kind ... Churches that oppose "replacement theology" including John Hagee, are in the minority. Those who believe in Replacement Theology love the state of Israel and are among her strongest supporters! Just because we do not feel modern Israel is any more ... ...
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308: Jehovah's Witnesses, Anti-semitism and the Third Reich
... This of itself should be sufficient proof to show that we receive no support from Jews and therefore the charges against us are maliciously false and could only proceed from Satan, our great enemy. The greatest and most oppressive empire on earth is the ... For example, in a brief evaluation of that document, she makes what, from a Witness standpoint, is a rather damning remark. She says: "The document is a master of its kind and worthy of the other four sects [the Christian Scientists, the Latter-day Saints, the Seventh-day Adventists and members of the New Apostolic Church] all of whom supported, in one way or another, the Nazi state." [18] In another paragraph, she remarks: "Having attempted to assure the authorities by ... It was distributed widely throughout Germany in 1932. 14 1974 Yearbook, pp. 111-12 15 Ibid., pp. 131-33 16 17 18 Christine Elizabeth King, The Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity (New York & Toronto: The Edwin Mellen Press, ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/jw-penton-3rdreich.htm
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309: Evidence for Creation: FOSSIL RECORD
... of orthogenesis ["straight-line evolution"] ...it can no longer be considered a valid theory...we find that once a notion becomes part of accepted scientific knowledge, it is very difficult to modify or reject it" FOSSIL HORSES, 1994, p.27 ... GOULD & ELDREDGE, "In fact, most published commentary on punctuated equilibria has been favorable. We are especially pleased that several paleontologists now state with pride and biological confidence a conclusion that had previously been simply ... sections meeting these rigid requirements. As an ardent student of evolution, moreover, I was continually on the watch for evidence of evolutionary change. ...The great majority of species do not show any appreciable evolutionary change at all." ... the gradual descent of one species from another in the fossil record. ...In any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist or punctuationist, uses the fossil record as evidence in favour of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation." ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/tracks/fossil-record.htm
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310: FORGERY: Fake Bulla of Baruch son of Neriah, Jeremiah's Scribe ...
... This is clearly evident by areas where small holes were drilled in the bullae in order to perform TL (thermal luminescence) laboratory testing to determine what kind of soil they were made of. (pictured below is the 1975 AD Baruch bullae) 4. WRONG ... Gealiyahu 1 is identical to them, most likely from the same forger's hand. These technological misconceptions and technical errors represent the state of the research at the time when these counterfeits were revealed, sold to collectors, and ... While many other bullae from the antiquities market that we examined, including some mentioning royal names (to be published elsewhere), were found to be authentic with great certainty, the Berekhyahu bullae raise again the problem of unprovenanced ... 3. Given the overwhelming solid scientific evidence presented herein, we don't expect one to ever be written and consider it a closed case. 4. Think about the chances of finding not one, but a second Baruch bullae from the same seal 21 years later. ... ...
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311: Petra, Jordan: Biblical Kadesh Barnea, Sela, Joktheel, En-mishpat ...
... That a sanctuary of this kind should have been gradually transformed into an emporium and thoroughfare of commerce, as was the case with Petra during the Roman empire, would be one out of many instances with which oriental and ancient history ... Part II: Sources who affirm Kadesh is at Petra: It is moreover one of the few facts localised by anything like an authentic tradition,-in this case preserved by Josephus, the Talmudists, Eusebius, and Jerome, --that Kadesh was either identical, or ... They then made a public funeral for her, at a great expense. She was buried upon a certain mountain, which they call Sin; and when they had mourned for her thirty days ... Now when this purification, which their leader made upon the mourning for his ... He was a lone voice of truth, who needed the help of modern archeology to make the correct conclusions we are making today almost 150 years later. In 1867 AD Keil & Delitzsch state they are certain that Mt. Hor is located at Petra. In a most puzzling ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra.htm
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312: The border Between Judah and Egypt: River of Egypt, Wadi el-Arish ...
... Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, 1906 AD, Vol 3 p 50-67, The Great Edict of Horemheb, 1300 BC) Against Requisitioning Boats Used for State Corvee Duty: "If a private individual makes for himself a boat with its on-board shelter, in order to be able to serve Pharaoh, l.p.h., and if ... Unfortunately, the stela does not give the year of Ramses II in which it was erected. Wiedemann dates it, as it seems to me with probability, at Ramses II's death. In any case, the knowledge of the lapse of 400 years between the Hyksos Nubti and some year of Ramses II is of great value. (Ancient Records of Egypt, James Breasted, 3.538, p288, 1906 AD) b. "In the year 400, in the fourth month of the ... Then follows another continuous tract of this kind as far as Casius; and then one comes to Pelusium." (Strabo, Geographia, XVI,2,31-32) "Rhinocorura (or Rhinocolura, as it is sometimes called) is the true equivalent in Isa. 27:12 for the נחל מצרים, or "river of Egypt," usually called the ... ...
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313: The Number of the Exodus Jews. The population of the Exodus Hebrews
This makes it pretty certain that there were at least 100,000 Jews in the Exodus. c. This also helps us reject the false notion that "eleph" means clans because such a false view would peg the exodus population at no more than about 5730 who left ... If the modern fiction that "eleph" means clans as a counting system was true, we would find countless examples of it in ancient literature. 6. "Eleph" = clans never used in scripture as a counting system: a. There is not even a single certain case in ... This system of counting by clans in census taking is never found anywhere in the Bible, but is a modern human invention read back into the text. e. The Jews never counted this way. f. There are no examples in archeology of this kind of counting. 8. ... in 760 BC: a. "The total number of the heads of the households, of valiant warriors, was 2,600. Under their direction was an elite army of 307,500, who could wage war with great power, to help the king against the enemy." (2 Chronicles 26:12-13) b. ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route-population-of-jews-hebrews.htm
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314: BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK FRAUD: Embryology: The "biogenetic law" Earnst ...
... It's shocking to find that somebody one thought was a great scientist was deliberately misleading. It makes me angry ... What he [Haeckel] did was to take a human embryo and copy it, pretending that the salamander and the pig and all the others ... and reproduced widely in English language biology texts. (Elizabeth Pennisi, Michael Richardson, 'Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered', Science 277(5331):1435, September 5, 1997.) Pitman: "To support his case he [Haeckel] began to fake evidence. ... There is considerable manufacturing of scientific evidence perpetrated. Yet the author has been very careful not to let the reader become aware of this state of affairs." (Referate, L. Rutimeyer, in Archiv fur Anthropologie, 1868). [Notes: In 1868, ... A.E. Wilder-Smith pointed out, we normally recognize in human engineers the principles of creative economy and variations on a theme. That's what we see in human embryonic development. The same kind of structure that can provide food and blood cells ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/tracks/textbook-fraud-embryology-earnst-haeckel-biogenetic-law.htm
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315: Testimony of H. F. Brown Ex-member after 80 years!
... Deity did not sink and die, that would have been impossible." -Letter #250 1904 (Review and Herald 1882 article "The Upward Look.') I took this down to Elder Louohborough. I didn't know at the time that he was in the uncertain state he could not ... Elder Conradi, the leader of our work in Europe, had done more than any other man to spread the beliefs of Adventism his case was pitiful also. The same difficulty, Mrs. White in her method of writing "God revealed" material. Finally he joined the Seventh-day Baptist Church and left our work entirely. One time, while in Battle Creek, I went to see Frank Belden. He was a very old man. His daughter was middle-aged. She was very kind to me but said that her father was too old and he became so ... The effects that are now being, discovered add a lot more to that. With W. C. White (actually Arthur) he says in the earlier books that he had found a great many difficulties in his grandmother's books but that he solved most of problems. At one time ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-Elder-H-F-Brown-testimony.htm
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316: The Story of Sinuhe confirms Gen 36:15-18 in 1900 BC
... II. Detailed information about the Story of Sinuhe: The oldest extant manuscript dates from Amenemhat III (1800 BC) "Papyrus Discoveries: A great many documents written on papyrus have been discovered in Egypt. Some of these are noteworthy for ... The two principal manuscripts are: (I) P. Berlin 3022 (abbr. B) which dates from the Twelfth Dynasty. In its present state, it lacks the beginning of the story and contains a total of 311 lines; (2) P. Berlin 10499 (abbr. R) which contains 203 lines ... The similarities are so striking that it is possible to identify them as variants of a particular kind of hero tale from the ancient Near East, what folklorist A. Dundes calls an "oicotype" (a recurrent, predictable, cultural variant of a general ... A night is made for you with ointments and wrappings from the hand of Tait. A funeral procession is made for you on the day of burial; the mummy case is of gold, its head of lapis lazuli. The sky is above you as you lie in the hearse, oxen drawing ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-edomites-story-of-sinuhe-1900bc.htm
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317: Aramaic: Native language of Jesus
... There is a reasonable chance, however, that most of the early users read the LXX as a Greek text, without any knowledge of the Hebrew original. This is certainly the case when one turns to the members of the early Christian church for whom the LXX ... In Alexandria a knowledge of Greek was not a mere luxury but a necessity of common life. If it was not required by the State as a condition of citizenship, yet self-interest compelled the inhabitants of a Greek capital to acquire the language of the ... The adoption of the Greek tongue was a tribute gladly paid by the Alexandrian Jews to the great Gentile community which sheltered and cherished them." (An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, H. B. Swete, p8, 1914 AD) Jesus taught in Greek: a. ... Jesus used the Greek Septuagint as his Bible: The Greek Septuagint was the standard issue Bible of every synagogue in the world including Judea. e. "there is ample literary evidence for the notion that Scripture was read in Greek in religious ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-default-working-language-Jesus-first-century-Aramaic-Greek-Hebrew-Latin.htm
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318: Synagogue Moses' Seat: Metaphor of Pride: Mt 23:2-3; Jas 2:1 ...
... In the Diaspora, the apse at the western end of the building at Sardis was clearly reserved for prominent members of the congregation, and such may also have been the case at Naro."4 An inscription on the side of the nave in the synagogue at Elche ... The stone chair of Korazim with its animal hand-rails could be compared to the biblical description of the elaborate throne of Solomon (I Kings 10:18-20; Chronicles 9, 17-19), that is described as a great ivory throne overlaid with pure gold, with ... Hence, it is pos-sible that the stone chair of Korazim reflected the notion of an ancient throne. (Ancient Synagogues - Archaeology and Art: New Discoveries and Current Research, Rachel Hachlili, p218, 2013 AD) c. "The location of the 'Seat of Moses' ... Nehemiah stood on a special elevated platform the same way preachers do today at the pulpit as a kind of special area. b. Often in our churches, the front pews are designated for special people participating in readings, leading singing or presiding ... ...
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319: Official creed of the Evangelical church
... We deny that holiness can be defined by means of any extra-biblical rules or regulations. Legalism is not holiness, but rather another kind of sin. The Christian's only standard of holiness is found in the Old and New Testaments (2 Timothy 3:16). We ... To this end, Christian education, however administered, is essential (Deuteronomy 6:1-6). We deny that the state or the church has the obligation to rear our children. That responsibility belongs to the parents (Ephesians 6:4). We believe that ... We deny that the grace of God in Christ has changed in any way the definition of right and wrong. Rather, the Spirit works in us to accomplish the righteous requirements of the law (Romans 8:4). We believe a great commission has been given to ... a dispute is brought to the attention of the Elders (see Section B.5), they will ascertain whether or not the appropriate steps have been taken to resolve the matter privately. The Elders will also seek to carefully ascertain the facts of the case. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-evangelical.htm
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320: Official creed of The United Church of Canada
... The proper subjects of baptism are believers and infants presented by their parents or guardians in the Christian faith. In the latter case the parents or guardians should train up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and should ... worship of God, to hallow the Lord's Day, to preserve the inviolability of marriage and the sanctity of the family, to uphold the just authority of the State, and so to live in all honesty, purity and charity, that our lives shall testify of Christ. ... Canada's major churches can no longer be called mainline churches, Phipps said, because they now have relatively little influence. But he believes Canadians are increasingly conscious of a moral void kind the church can contribute much to debates ... by Christian individuals who loved Jesus." It is not enough to go to church, pray and live an upright personal life. "Some of the great giants of Canadian commerce were upstanding, moral people in church. But they paid low wages and opposed unions. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-united-Can.htm
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321: The Fortresses King Solomon Built to Protect His Southern Border ...
... When David fled from Saul, seeking refuge in the wilderness of Judah, he stayed in mesadim (fortresses) (1 Samuel 23:14). This same kind of fortress or stronghold is later referred to in 1 Samuel 24:22 as a mesudah. The numerous fortresses that have ... This is unfortunately the case even though within its long time-span Negbite ware appears to have undergone some changes. For example, in the Central Negev fortresses, which I date to the tenth century, virtually the only forms of Negbite ware were ... In the period embraced by the 11th and tenth centuries, Israel underwent a major transformation: It developed from a loose confederation of tribes into a unified state. (David's reign began in about 1000 B.C.) The earlier or later dating of these ... Of particular interest to us here are nine place-names formed with the component p.h\-q-r, which can be readily associated with the Semitic root h\-g-r ("fort"). The list includes, for example, the fortress of Great Arad, which clearly refers to the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/fortresses-king-solomon-built-to-protect-his-southern-border-rudolph-cohen-1985ad.htm
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322: The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
... "It appears," says Bishop Newton, "from the writers of the history of the church, that before the destruction of Jerusalem the Gospel was not only preached in the Lesser Asia, and Greece, and Italy, the great theatres of action then in the world , ... Thus completely was fulfilled a prediction contrary to every conclusion that could have been grounded on moral probability, and to the accomplishment of which every kind of impediment was incessantly opposed. The reputed son of a mechanic instructs a ... refractory spirit ; but after Judas the Gaulonite and Sadduc the Pharisee had tau ght them, that submission to the Roman assessments would pave the way to a state of abject slavery, this temper displayed itself with increasing malignity and violence. ... While Jerusalem was a prey to these ferocious and devouring factions, every part of Judea was scourged and laid waste by bands of robbers and murderers, who plundered the towns; and, in case of resistance, slew the inhabitants, not sparing either ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/pre-destruction70AD-george-holford-1805AD.htm
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323: The New World Translation: A corrupt sectarian paraphrase. 1666 ...
... C. The NWT translators were: Nathan Knorr, Albert Schroeder, George Gangas, Fred Franz, M. Henschel "Fred Franz however, was the only one with sufficient knowledge of the Bible languages to attempt translation of this kind. He had studied Greek for ... "As he determines" changed to "as it wills." The NWT finds many ways to disguise the personality of the Holy Spirit. In this case the third person pronoun exercising individual conscience and will is replaced with an impersonal pronoun. 1 Corinthians ... The revision suggests that death and being with Christ are two separate steps in an extended process, as the JWs believe in soul sleep (i.e., the unconscious state of the human spirit awaiting the resurrection). In Phil 1:23-24 several words are ... If Jesus was created by God, why would He be considered humble for not thinking of himself as equal to God. That is not humility, but reality! However since Jesus was equal to God, it would require great humility to give up his status as God and ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/Jw-NWT.htm
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324: Four positions on the day of Christian worship
... the week, which is called the Lord's day: and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath, the observation of the last day of the week being abolished. (Exod. 20:8; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10) (Reformed Baptist ... There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." (Dr R W Dale, Ten Commandments, page 127-129) "The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively ... Neither is there any example whereof they make more than concerning the changing of the Sabbath Day. Great, say they, is the power of the Church, since it has dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments!" (Augsburg Confession of Faith art. 28; written ... Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the Church, has no good reason for its Sunday theory, and ought logically, to keep Saturday as the Sabbath. The State in passing laws for the due Sanctification of Sunday, is unwittingly acknowledging the ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-4-positions.htm
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325: Official creed of the Orthodox church
... Q. What is our religion called? A. The Christian Religion. Q. Why is it called the Christian religion? A. Because Christ gave it to the world. Q. State its teachings briefly. A. God made the world and created one pair of human beings upon the earth. ... A. To the autonomous Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America; which Church is dependent upon the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the so named Great Church of Christ, (because its throne is first among all the Orthodox Churches) and therefore since ... A. It differs in this respect: The autonomous has some liberties in government but is dependent on another Church, while the autocephalous is free in its government but is compelled to keep the same Dogmas and Canons; in case any of them are broken ... dead while she liveth." (I Timothy, Chapter 5, Verse 6). 4. For man to be considered as the reflection of the infinite, a kind of God, contradicts reality which presents man as being finite in all respects. 5. If man did not fall, then who is in ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-Orthodox.htm
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326: The Amarna Letters and tablets 1406 - 1340 BC. Conquest of Joshua ...
... 1995 AD) e. "While the title of a Canaanite chieftain was "man" (awīlu: man with legal status) of such-and-such a city-state, and his appointed office, under an Egyptian overseer (a rabiṣu-official), was that of a "mayor" (ḫazannu), ... The bible is viewed as the most reliable historical document to date Egyptian dynasties etc. It is certain that Akhenaten lived at the exact same time as Joshua. In fact, since Joshua died in 1356 BC when the great land battles had ceased and the ... It quite possible that Akhenaten's father had converted to sun worship before he died and it was Akhenaten who enforced it upon the empire! If this is the case, it clearly parallels David conceiving the idea of a temple in Jerusalem and Solomon his ... Now in this third letter, Labayu defends himself from Biridija's charges by saying that he was not aware that this sons had crossed over to the Hebrews side. It is kind of like saying, "Pharaoh it is 11pm and I DON'T know where my children are" kind ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-maps-conquest-amarna-tablets-letters-akhenaten-habiru-abiru-hebrews-1404-1340bc.htm
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327: Saul Hunts David. Timeline, maps, chronology, sermons of Judges ...
... Qur'an 3:28 Islamic commentators interpret the meaning of Qur'an 3:28: "meaning, except those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers. In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the ... O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together. I sought the LORD, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears." (Psalm 34:title-22) When David faked insanity, the Hebrew word for "madness" in 1 Sam 21:13-14 is "Shaga" ... The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is insane [Strongs 7696: Shaga], Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great." (Hosea 9:7) In the New Testament, the holy men of God were called insane: Of Jesus: i. "When ... The Ziphites were the worst kind of selfish opportunists and once again in the near future, they will betray David. Saul hunts David in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah south of the desert. The text says David was "in the wilderness of Maon, in ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-maps-timeline-chronology-1samuel-21-31-saul-david-on-the-run-1012-1004bc.htm
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328: Dr. Don Patton's Rebuttal of NAMI Dec 10, 2010
... If true, they could invite ANY top rated archeologist alive today and he would be very eager and willing to participate in documenting such a remarkable find of this great magnitude. Instead, NAMI has chosen to produce a Hollywood style documentary ... We sincerely invite those who are genuinely concerned and care about our work and ministries to be patient and to bear with us for the time being. We promise we will release more information about the discovery in the near future. Noah's Ark ... So...just in case you don't believe Patton would lie about everything, go here: Since early 1989, Don Patton, a close associate of Carl ... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kMroa8JFhCsJ:digbysblog.blogs pot.com/2009/04/... This is a collection of quotations from Don Patton on the subject .... and I will here only state that I believe the answer mainly lies in ... http://www.ooblick.com/text/patton/ -Cached -Similar 11. Annals of the Texas Board of Education : ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/ark/NAMI-noahs-ark-discovered-found-made-in-china-fraud/NAMI-noahs-ark-discovered-dr-don-patton-randall-price-made-in-china-fraud-rebuttal-10-dec-2010.htm
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329: Ein El-Qudeirat is not Kadesh Barnea: : Wrongly identified as ...
... Meshel comments on the fortress at Quseima: "The summit, 390 m above sea level, rises some 140 m above the surrounding plain, permitting excellent observation in three directions. Among the more prominent points visible from the summit are the tip of the Qadesh ... Detailed scholarly treatments of this important ostracon will shortly be published by A. Lemaire and H. Verenus. The author would like to state his preliminary opinion that, in view of the repetitive character of the list (with the numbers written several times, sometimes with shekel signs and sometimes without). the ostracon probably comprises a kind of exercise in scribal recording. Hieratic numerals have already appeared on other ostraca from Arad and elsewhere in ... It could be argued that the lack of any evidence for pre-10th-century B.C.E. settlement on the site supports the position of those who maintain that there is no historical basis for the early traditions of the Old Testament-specifically, in this case, for those ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-fortresses-ein-el-qudeirat.htm
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330: Gifts ceased: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal objections and their ...
... At the close of Moses' life the phrase "face to face" is again used to describe not the heavenly bliss into which he had undoubtedly entered, but his position as the great prophet who had clear revelations from God. But we have to admit that in the Old Testament, it is the contrast between partial and fuller revelation and not as the case in 1 Corinthians 13 which is the contrast between partial and final revelation. Nevertheless the contrast ... James 1:25 [referring to new covenant] and Ps 19:7 [referring to old covenant] are speaking of the overall codes of law, not their actual state of revelation. Psalms was written 300 years before Isaiah wherein are many unique prophecies of Jesus. Yet the Old testament was able ... Such unbiblical events are then taught as the norm then people expect the same to happen to them! "Experience" and observation, is the most powerful argument against 20th century tongues. We have attended MANY Pentecostal meetings: "signs and wonders revivals", "healing ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-ceased-pentecostal-arguments-refuted.htm
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331: Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ...
... In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word ´eloh'ah (god) has two plural forms, namely, ´elo·him' (gods) and ´elo·heh' (gods of). These plural forms generally refer to Jehovah, in which case they are translated in the singular as "God." Do these plural ... We call these false dilemmas where you sew three unrelated Bible verses together to prove something. Here is some of the same kind of logic for JW's: 1. An angel is not a man. 2. Jesus was a man. 3. Jesus was never an angel. Of course, as part of the ... Obviously then, Jesus who was uncreated God, could become man through the incarnation. The fact that JW's cannot understand this merely confirms what 1 Tim 3 says: "Great is the mystery of godliness: God who was revealed in the flesh". There are many ... "As a result of the teaching of Christ, the definite personality of the Third Person of the Trinity is clear. However, in most cases, the phrase "spirit of God" reflects the OT notion of "the power of God." And "Although the NT concepts of the spirit ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm
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332: Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ...
... In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word ´eloh'ah (god) has two plural forms, namely, ´elo·him' (gods) and ´elo·heh' (gods of). These plural forms generally refer to Jehovah, in which case they are translated in the singular as "God." Do these plural ... We call these false dilemmas where you sew three unrelated Bible verses together to prove something. Here is some of the same kind of logic for JW's: 1. An angel is not a man. 2. Jesus was a man. 3. Jesus was never an angel. Of course, as part of the ... Obviously then, Jesus who was uncreated God, could become man through the incarnation. The fact that JW's cannot understand this merely confirms what 1 Tim 3 says: "Great is the mystery of godliness: God who was revealed in the flesh". There are many ... "As a result of the teaching of Christ, the definite personality of the Third Person of the Trinity is clear. However, in most cases, the phrase "spirit of God" reflects the OT notion of "the power of God." And "Although the NT concepts of the spirit ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm
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333: Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying)
... So now I knew that Robert Olson either had a very short memory or was telling a white lie. In any case, it was obvious that the White Estate people knew much more that they were telling. The files of the White Estate had referred to a book by William ... We much acknowledge that since the beginning of the 1844 movement a great many people have regarded Ellen White as Adventism's principal authority. They must now find room for adjustment in their thinking (and, for many, in their living) on a level ... It is not possible to view all these aspects in one lump. But we will touch on what circumstances make a "true believer," what kind of supersalesmen have sold the wares, and what happens to those who buy. Books such as The Status Seekers, The ... In this odyssey that we take together, the supersalesmen will be the clergymen, the preachers, the reverends, the divines-who more than any professionals have been granted license (both by the people themselves and by the state) to peddle their wares ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-prologue.htm
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334: Mormonism: God had sex with Mary to conceive Jesus
... Inasmuch as God was the first husband to her, it may be that He only gave her to be the wife of Joseph while in the mortal state, and that He intended after the resurrection to again take her as one of his own wives to raise up immortal spirits in ... He recognized God as his Father. He referred to himself as being the Son of God. This is not a mystery. But strange to say, because of the great spiritual darkness which has covered the earth and blinded the minds of men, these simple, plainly stated truths are turned into a mystery without warrant or reason. It is true of Jesus Christ, as it is of any other son, he was begotten in the image of his Father and in his case his Father is the Eternal God, and the scriptures inform us that Jesus was ... the capacity and possibilities of mortality; and this through the ordinary operation of the fundamental law of heredity, declared of God, demonstrated by science, and admitted by philosophy, that living beings shall propagate -- after their kind. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/mor-god-had-sex-with-mary.htm
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335: The Exodus Route: A scriptural proof, with the witness of history ...
... Their answer, if they can even think of one, is "I don't know" or "no one" or "it was a barren waste land nobody wanted" or "it was a caravan crossroads between nations" or "it is kind of like asking who owns the Atlantic Ocean: everyone and no one at the same time. The Sinai Peninsula was a kind of ... him, in that his nose shall be cut off, and he shall be sent to Tharu. (James Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, 1906 AD, Vol 3 p 50-67, The Great Edict of Pharaoh Horemheb, 1300 BC) Against Requisitioning Boats Used for State Corvee Duty: "If a private individual makes for himself a boat with its on-board shelter, in order to be able to serve Pharaoh, l.p.h., and if people] ... "It is moreover one of the few facts localised by anything like an authentic tradition,-in this case preserved by Josephus, the Talmudists, Eusebius, and Jerome, --that Kadesh was either identical, or closely connected with Petra." (Sinai and Palestine, in connection with their history, Arthur Penrhyn ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route.htm
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336: Ein El Weibeh: K. Von Raumer's choice for Kadesh Barnea in 1831 ...
... Covenant, vol. iii. p. 225, (History of the old covenant : Johann Heinrich Kurtz,1872, vol, 3 p 225) where the current notion, that Kadesh was situated on the western border of the Arabah, below the Dead Sea, by either Ain Hasb or Ein El Weibeh, ... Click to View In about 1880, Keil and Delitzsch presented this idea: The "king's way" is the public high road, which was probably made at the cost of the state, and kept up for the king and his armies to travel upon, and is synonymous with the ... This is very likely the "great route through broad wadys," which the Bedouins who accompanied Rowland assured him "was very good, and led direct to Mount Hor, but with which no European traveller was acquainted" (Ritter's Erdk. xiv. p. 1088). It ... Surely no one who has actually climbed up from the `Arabah to Petra would ever think of that pass as the route by which Moses wished to cross Edom's territory. And in any case, being refused by the king, is it probable that they would deliberately ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-ein-el-weibeh.htm
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337: The Samaritans: 720 BC The pagan half-Jews of the Old Testament ...
... The Samaritans were a population of 100% mixed marriages and had a long history of idol worship up until 561 BC. g. The Samaritan's initial request to help the Jews was IN GOOD FAITH, and when refused, we have a case of THE JILTED LOVER that is first ... Large number of Samaritans were settled in Alexandria, Egypt before the translation of the Septuagint: b. "This is what Agatharchides relates of our nation. But when [general] Ptolemy had taken a great many captives, both from the mountainous parts of Judea and from the places about Jerusalem and Samaria, and the places near Mount Gerizim, he led them all into Egypt, and settled them there. (8) And as he knew that the people of Jerusalem were most faithful in the observation of oaths and ... When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of; for the Son of Man did ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-samaritans.htm
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338: Thutmoses III was Pharaoh of the Exodus in 1446 BC
... If the observation of Sothis was also made at Thebes, the most natural solution, then it would lead us to set the accession of Amenhotep I at 1525 b.c., and the beginning of the 18th Dyn. (and NK) with the accession of Ahmose I at ca. 1550 b.c. If, ... This is a case of using the inspired text of the Bible to teach Egyptologists how to correctly spell the Thutmoses 18th dynasty of pharaohs! Click to View Thutmoses III was Pharaoh in 1446 BC: (1485-1431, low chronology) Thutmoses III was Pharaoh in ... Second: (1464-1446) after Hatshepsut died Thutmoses III ruled as Pharaoh for 18 years until the exodus. Third: (1446-1431) Thutmoses III ruled another 15 years after the exodus. Thutmoses III was great, powerful and prideful vs. weak Amenhotep II ... Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen." So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-date-1440bc.htm
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339: Quattuordecim (XIV): Ezra Translated the Paleo-Hebrew manuscripts ...
... The Quattuordecim is born: In 458 BC Ezra makes the long trip from Babylon to Jerusalem and begins work translating the Paleo-Hebrew scriptures into the Hebrew script that will be used by Jesus and in the modern state of Israel today. The translation process for all the extant books of ... at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed." (Deuteronomy 16:16) p. "If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses." ... Gerizim to Mt Ebal as he converted the Paleo-Hebrew Tanakh into Aramaic Hebrew. Noah got drunk, Moses struck the rock, David committed adultery. Perhaps this one textual corruption was Ezra's great sin. Notice that in historic both cases of 458 BC and 160 AD, the entire collection of ... ...
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340: Herodotus 484 - 424 BC (Greek Geographer/historian)
... so great and so busy? [12] [1] As for Egypt, then, I credit those who say it, and myself very much believe it to be the case; for I have seen that Egypt projects into the sea beyond the neighboring land, and shells are exposed to view on the ... land army met and defeated the Syrians at Magdolus, taking the great Syrian city of Cadytis after the battle. (Herodotus, History 2.158.1-159.2) b. "There are also other mouths, built by the hand of man, about which there is no special need to write. ... land he would be responsible for the submergence of Egypt, for they pointed out to him that the Red Sea was higher than Egypt. 11 At a later time the second Ptolemy completed it and in the most suitable spot constructed an ingenious kind of a lock. ... Herodotus believed in a flat earth and did not know the Gulf of Aqaba existed. At the time Herodotus wrote his history, the Jews remained a tiny occupied vassal-state under Persian control down to the time of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. Herodotus ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-ancient-geographers-maps-sinai-egypt-midian-arabia-kadesh-barnea-shur-herodotus-484bc.htm
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341: 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 Weekly giving on Sundays
... He said that this contribution was "meat" of some kind, for in 1 Cor. 16:4 Paul said: "And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me." But others had to help him carry it, according to verse 3, and Dugger thinks that proves it was not money. Well, I wonder how many bushels of figs, raisins and dates a few brethren could carry from Corinth to Jerusalem. Could they carry enough that it would be called a liberal contribution for a whole church, or for a number of churches as in this case? ... H. Sabbatarian falsely argue that the greek actually says, "every Sabbath" Some over-zealous, but under-learned Sabbath keepers, will state the actual Greek words used in Acts 20:7 & 1 Cor 16:1 actually refer to the weekly Sabbath, not the first day ... Of course Sabbatarians do not take the text as a literal exact pattern for the Lord's supper, but are using our own logic against us, since we do! Great for trying! God's word doesn't specify time of day, only "first day of week." The first day of ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/7-sunday-weekly-giving-1-corinthians-16-2.htm
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342: The Water Supply and Distribution System of the Nabataean City ...
... With the decline of Seleucid and Egyptian influences, a Nabataean state emerged in 64 BC. Roman intervention began when Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15:1, 93-109 © 2005 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research DOI: 10.1017/... Piping in the Great Temple area and theatre shows rippled interior patterns of this type. Experiments (Walsh 1980; Cary et al. 1980) indicate drag reduction for ripple geometry similar to that observed in Nabataean piping elements. The use of such drag-reduction methods in Nabataean piping designs permits a higher flow rate (on the order of 5 to 10 per cent) for the same head than for smooth interior piping. This may constitute the earliest empirical observation that minor internal roughness in ... It is traditional to look for Roman technical advances that improved the Nabataean system, but few are found. This indicates that Roman engineers may have viewed the Nabataean system as near-optimum. In that case, it is likely that the several ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-water-supply-of-petra-charles-r-ortloff-2005.htm
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343: Beidha, Jordan: Biblical Kadesh Barnea: mass food production ...
... A great number of querns, both open-ended and closed and the fragments of such are scattered throughout the site, in situ, built into walls, made into steps, or occurring in the fill and in the rubbish dumps. They are chiefly limestone boulders and ... Individual objects are lumped into three general categories of high, medium and low elevations within broad archeological vertical columns. Although a Nabatean platform was noted on the surface, no record of any pottery of any kind was found on the ... From the objects found in these buildings it seems they were workshops rather than dwell-ings and so it is probable that the heavy baulks were interior buttresses upholding some lightly built upper storey. In this case the cubicles would have been ... A detailed presentation of the stratigraphy and phasing of the tell is contained in the following chapter." (Early Village Life At Beidha: Neolithic, Brian Byrd, 2005 AD) 4. CRITCAL OBSERVATION: Never are two plastered floors found in situ one above ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-beidha.htm
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344: Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans!
... While this had been the original way in which Pagan idolatry had represented the Triune God, and though this kind of representation had survived to Sennacherib's time, yet there is evidence that, at a very early period, an important change had taken ... Anu's share was the sky. The earth was given to Enlil. Ea became the ruler of the waters. Together they constituted the triad of the Great Gods." ... The essential privilege of the gods was immortality. But they had the same needs and passions as ... He [Bel] was called 'King of the Land' or 'Lord of all Regions'. ... the word of Bel was all-powerful. (Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, p 54-55) "(b) Although the notion of a divine Triad or Trinity is characteristic of the Christian religion, it ... But in reality it legitimized in its midst the Hellenic speculation, the superstitious views and customs of pagan mystery-worship and the institutions of the decaying state organization to which it attached itself and which received new strength ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan.htm
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345: The Septuagint, LXX, origin, textual transmission 282 BC
... corrupt the Greek Septuagint (LXX) in synagogues to counter Christianity, then abandoned it altogether. 160 AD: Jews corrupt their own Hebrew Masoretic (MT) Bible to counter Christianity. 160 AD: Shem as Melchizedek: Test case for accuracy of LXX vs. ... Anyone who has ever studied these writings must admit they are jumbles of disjointed material, without order, continuity or unity of any kind. The 66 books of the Bible on the other hand, weave a unified message from Genesis to Revelation. The Muslim ... It is almost certain that complete variant manuscripts of the Koran have been found in mosques in the last 100 years. After all, Abu Bakr who burned the great Library of Alexandria in 642 AD which provided the precedent and inspiration of today's ... Conclusion: The key observation in all the textual variants we have highlighted, is that none of them make any practical or theological difference to the overall plan of salvation and the gospel message. While it is true that variants exist in the ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/septuagint.htm
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346: What the Bible says about Abortion!
Since these terms are used for unborn children, then we have evidence that human life is present before birth The Bible makes no distinction of any kind in the terms used to describe a fetus. Body without spirit is dead: Jas 2:26 The blood is the ... But Luke 1:41,44 also calls unborn children "babes," so how can it be acceptable to kill them? Hosea 13:16; 2 Kings 8:12 -- When children or infants are dashed to pieces, it is a great tragedy to any nation. Yet unborn babies are children or infants, ... The operation was designed to close the gap and protect the cord, the body's motorway for nerve signals to the brain. So, on an unborn patient no bigger than a guinea-pig, the operation was performed without removing the foetus from the womb. The ... With assisted abortion technically legal here under the Supreme Court ruling in the X Case, pro-life organisations still continue to lobby for yet another referendum on the substantive issue. Dana's election to the European parliament last summer was ... ...
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347: 495-399 BC: The Judean Elephantine Egyptian Papyrus letters to ...
... of the Jewish nation during the Persian period. (Ancient Israel, Exile and Return: From the Babylonian Destruction to the Reconstruction of the Jewish State, James D. Purvis, Eric M. Meyers, Biblical Archaeology Society, 2004 AD) 3. "13.6.2. The Elephantine Jewish Community: The Elephantine papyri allow us to get much closer to the daily lives of the community than is the case for most Jewish communities in the Second Temple period, sometimes even closer than in Yehud. ... Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance." (Jeremiah 40:11-12) b. The army simply hid in the Judean hills ... Two kings of Judah sent troops to help Egypt defeat Nubia: Manasseh and Zedekiah. The Jewish controlled fortress so far from Judah, was a kind of pledge of cooperation between the King of Judah and Pharaoh. When and why the Hebrew YHWH temple was built is ... ...
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348: The Dugger-Porter Debate on Sunday as the Lord's Day
... The agreement or covenant was on their part, they were to obey Go, and keep his commandments. On God's part the agreement was that he would make of them a great nation, and continue with them protecting them in Canaan forever. The old covenant ... The readers are going to see that you are evading these important matters. 4. I showed from Exodus 31:13-16 that the Sabbath was to be kept by Israel "throughout their generations." This is the very kind of language sed-concerning the passover, ... Then the law says nothing to God's people, to Christians; they are not under the law, and the law says nothing to them. In that case they would not be responsible at all if this law continues in force today. And if the Sabbath is contained in "the ... It must, according to my friend's position. The man in the death cell who is pardoned by the governor is just as much under the law of the state after his pardon as he was before he committed his crime. The grace of the governor does not remove the ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-debate-porter-dugger.htm
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349: Trinity Proof Texts: 58 Triadic Bible Texts
... But they rebelled And grieved His Holy Spirit" (The angel of His face is YHWH himself not a created angel: Ex 23:14-15, 20-23; 14:19; Num 20:16; Ex 33:12. Trinitarians expect to find this kind of passage in the Old Testament, that would not be fully ... If there was no pattern, then you would not also see any functional distinction between PJJ and the other 9 apostles. In this case the argument for the 8 triadic PJJ passages being merely co-incidence and random would be stronger, although still not ... And He was transfigured before them; " (Mark 9:2) In the Garden of Gethsemane: Matt. 26:37; Mark 14:33 "And He took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled. " (Mark 14:33) Further observation shows that these ... The Jews thus far have likewise failed to grasp, many OT ideas taught in the NT. No where in the OT do we find any clear indication of... baptism the Lord's supper second coming great judgment resurrection of dead at the end of time. that Jesus was ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-text-triadic.htm
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350: Difficult Questions for Mormons to answer
... 13:21) vs. (1 Nephi 1:6) Lord instructs Noah to build the Ark (Genesis 6:14) / Lord instructs Nephi to build ship (1 Nephi 17:8) / Lord instructs Jaredites to build barges (Ether 2:16) Jaredites brought flocks, two of a kind, seeds. (Ether 2:1) vs. ... Why were there missionaries in the Book of Mormon before Christ? That certainly wasn't the case in the Old World. Why is King Benjamin's oratory like a 19th century camp meeting? Revival gathering (Mosiah 2) Guilt ridden falling exercise (4:1-2) ... On pages 377-378, he wrote the following about the Indians: "Through the whole continent, and in the remotest woods, are traces of their ancient warlike disposition. We frequently met with great mounds of earth, either of a circular, or oblong form, ... that enveloped the world...He told him the Gospel was not among men, and that there was not a true organization of His kingdom in the world." (Wilford Woodruff - JOD Volume 11 p.196 1855). "How did the state of things called Mormonism originate? ... ...
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