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251: 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 mentions elders and presbyters and seems to indicate the existence of such a bench for these leaders."' The last stages of the 1.1ammat Tiberias building (seventh to eighth centuries) also exhibit a bench ... 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 over the Lord's supper. c. Churches today, therefore have a "kind of" Chair of Moses, as in a special seat. d. The church needs to guard against the clergy-laity division. e. As noted, women were NOT segregated from the men in early synagogues and churches, and for good reason: Segregation of ... ...
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252: Excavations At Kadesh-Barnea: 1976-1978, Ein el-Qudeirat, Rudolph ...
... One, in the eastern side, yielded a wealth of wheel-made pottery from the 7th-6th centuries B.C.E., several handmade vessels, fragments of an ostracon on which were several lines in the hieratic writing of ancient Egypt (evidently composing some kind of list), and various other small objects, including an iron ... The handmade vessels, by contrast, are specific to sites in the Negev, and the last four seasons of excavations at Kadesh-barnea have produced both new types and insights. Left: Handmade lamps of the 7th-6th centuries B.c.L.; Top right: Handmade cup of the 8th-7th centuries B.C.E.; Bottom right: Handmade chalice of the 8th-7th centuries B.C.E. As ... Fortress of the 10th century B.C.E. overlooking Nahal Besor (Wadi Ghazzeh). ledge-handles, or combinations of both" (Glueck 1938: 14). Originally, he supposed that such pots had served as crucibles in the regional metal industry. Subsequently, however, similar handmade pottery began to appear at numerous other Iron Age ... ...
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253: The office of Elders, pastors and bishops
... V. The office of the paid Overseer/Elder/Shepherd: A. Some believers go beyond the organization God provided for in the New Testament by making it more complex than it is. This is seen in the organization of the Roman Catholics and many protestant churches. B. Some believers reject that there is a formal office of overseer. They view him as being on the same authority level as the rest of the ... The modern day "pastor system" as employed by most denominations, where one man is over the church rather than a group of men is unscriptural. C. An elder can only oversee one local congregation Each church is self governing and autonomous A bishop from one church can not oversee another church D. Churches in the Bible began with no elders but in time elders were appointed Churches can scripturally exist either with or without elders Further study: Click to View John Paul II Catholic, Bishop of Rome, Pope Click to View Graphical Mouse Rollover of gradual change of organization over time ... ...
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254: The Temple in Jerusalem over the threshing floor which is presently ...
In 325 AD Constantine tore down the Temple of Jupiter and assumed Hadrian built the temple of Jupiter on top of the spot where the temple of Solomon once stood. Constantine built an octagon church on the site. In 700 AD the Muslims found the ... Jerusalem the capital city of the Roman world for the worship of Jupiter. He also built an temple to Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon that is still standing today. Just as Hitler deceived British Prime Minister Chamberlain in 1938 AD that there would be "peace in our time", so too Hadrian deceived the Jews to believe that he was peacefully rebuilding the Jewish Temple, when in fact he was constructing the world headquarters "Temple of Jupiter". As construction began, the Jews probably even helped in ... The dog started digging at the entrance of the cave while tracking a fox. There is nothing in the Bible that connect Zedekiah with any kind of cave. The story in Jeremiah 39:4; 2 Kings 25:4 is often suggested, but clearly not related. Click to View ... ...
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255: Tongues Ceased in AD 100: Introduction: Cessation of Spiritual ...
... VI. Witness of History: Gifts ceased! 1. AD 172: Montanus claimed the same supernatural gifts that the apostles yet he was universally condemned by the church as a heretic. Think hard about this fact! a. "Montanus, a Phrygian Christian, began to prophesy in the small village of Ardabav in Phrgyian Mysia about A.D. 172. Two women, Priscilla and Maximilla, who also prophesied, became his devoted followers and were ... And again, after going on further, he says this about one of the confessors of their time: 'Moreover, Themiso, who was clothed with plausible covetousness, who did not endure the sign of confession but cast off prison bonds for much wealth, when he should have been humble on this account, boasting that he was a martyr, in imitation of the Apostle he had the temerity to compose a kind of catholic letter to instruct those who had more faith than he, and to contend with babbling words and to blaspheme against the Lord and the Apostles and the holy Church.' And again, about another ... ...
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256: Pre-tribulation Rapture Refuted: 1948 Israeli nationhood did ...
... Daniel was one who was actually deported and lived in Babylon. b. Daniel prophesied the four successive kingdoms of Babylon, Mede-Persia, Greece and Rome. c. Daniel said that the Kingdom of God would be start during the days of the Roman Empire. d. This was fulfilled in 30 AD on the Day of Pentecost. e. The kingdom of prophecy is the church. f. The "last days" prophesies of Daniel were fulfilled in the first century. g. Learn that the first days began when Jesus walked the earth. 4. Zechariah 8:1-8 "Then the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I am exceedingly jealous ... Obviously then, the rebuilt tabernacle of David is the church. If not, then James was a liar and no gentile can be saved yet until the tabernacle of David is rebuilt. e. This kind of clear refutation is ignored by Rapture false teachers because they ignore the context in blissful ignorance. F. Prophecies of destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD: 1. Zechariah 14 "Behold, a day is coming for ... ...
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257: The Error of the Catholic Nicene Trinity
... of Glasgow, 1969, page 226) "The word Trinity is not found in the Bible, and, though used by Tertullian in the last decade of the 2nd century, it did not find a place formally in the theology of the Church till the 4th century. (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) TRINITARIAN PROBLEM AS POSED TODAY This article may now return to the contemporary scene in an attempt to pinpoint problem and perspective. The Pastoral Question. There are few teachers of Trinitarian theology in Roman Catholic seminaries who have not been badgered at one time or another by the question, "But how does one preach the Trinity?" ... The trinity of God is defined by the Church as the belief that in God are three persons who subsist in one nature. The belief as so defined was reached only in the 4th and 5th centuries AD and hence is not explicitly and formally a biblical belief. The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of "person" and "nature" which are Gk ... ...
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258: Acts 20:7 Proof of weekly communion on Sunday
We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas within five days; and there we stayed seven days. And on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, ... The only ones who say this are those who have no knowledge of Greek. All translations of the Bible say "first" of the week. We know of no Bible of any kind that says "seventh" day of the week. (Note: Seventh-day Adventists don't usually make this argument.) Although Seventh-day Adventists never make this argument, the fact that other Sabbath keepers do make the argument proves that it is quite possible that this "breaking bread" refers to a communion service of the church, It proves that a ... that this must be a Sunday evening communion service and Paul actually left early Monday morning. The entire argument is based upon the assumption that the expression "Next Day", using Roman time, proves the Christians gathered on Sunday Night. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-sunday-weekly-communion-acts-20-7.htm
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259: Friday crucifixion three days and three nights Nisan 14 sign ...
... This one should be in the "twisting and contorting the word of God hall of fame". This an argument made by Herbert W. Armstrong of the Worldwide church of God who rejected both Sabbath-keeping and Saturday resurrection. (a recent split with WWCG has called into question ... Preparation for the Passover "Preparation day" for Feast of unleavened bread Friday the 14th of Nisan is the day before the Passover meal. Remember the Passover began after Sunset of Nissan 14, which would be Nissan 15. Nissan 14 started at sundown of what we call today 6 PM Thursday and ended at sundown Friday 6 PM our (Roman) time. Lev 23:5 Friday is also Preparation day for the Feast of unleavened bread. Some are confused by the ... Anti-typical of Lord's supper in 1 Cor 11:23ff "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes." i. 1 Pe 1:19 "redeemed ... with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ." j. Rev 5:6-14 "And I ... ...
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260: Ancient Synagogue Literary Sources: Jerusalem (Palestinian) Talmud ...
his entire life. [B] "It was a kind of large basilica, with one colonnade inside another. [C] "Sometimes there were [55b] twice as many people there as those who went forth from Egypt. [D] "Now there were seventy-one [Y.: seventy] golden thrones set up there, one for each of the seventy-one elders, each one worth twenty-five talents of gold, with a wooden platform in the middle. [E] "The minister of the synagogue stands on it, with flags in his hand. When one began to read, the other would wave ... These traditions are called baraitoth ("external [sayings]"), in that they reach back to the tannaitic period but are external to the Mishnah. Although the Talmud postdates the NT by several centuries, it offers potentially useful background ... Master introduction: Summary overview is the place to start to tie it all together. Providence: God's eternal plan: The providential transition from Temple to Synagogue to Church Origin: Synagogues originated at Alexandria Egypt in 280 BC spawned by ... ...
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261: Inherited Sin: definitions and official creeds
Although entirely inconsistent with Calvinism as an interdependent system of domino theology, the idea that newborns go to hell is not politically correct and offends the common sense of many people. This kind of theological inconsistency is common among Baptists, for example, when they maintain we are saved by faith only (see ... From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions." Roman Catholic: Council of Trent 1545-1563: "Adam's first sin has been transmitted to all his descendants". Questions of Catholics Answered by W. Hebst: "Yes, ... Church of the Nazarene: Manual, Article 5: "We believe that sin came into the world through the disobedience of our first parents, and death by sin. We believe that sin is of two kinds: original sin or depravity, and actual or personal sin. We believe that original sin, or depravity, is that corruption of the nature of all the ... ...
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262: Peutinger Map: A Translation of Bible Cities and the Exodus Route
... Archeology has located Byzantine churches at all of the locations on the Peutinger map. 4. "Suggestions generally range from the first through the fourth or even early fifth centuries c.e. Those favoring the later end of the chronological spectrum generally point to the presence and prominence of the name ... Archeology has excavated Byzantine churches at all the locations in Judea and Samara on the Peutinger Map so the buildings could clearly be churches! b. I have personally have excavated a Byzantine church at Ai as well as hundreds of pieces of the ceramic Roman clay tiles that were put on the "Red" roofs of the buildings seen in the Peutinger map. c. The shape of the ... Even the regional hub at Beth Guvrin appears without an icon of any 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 ... ...
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263: Ancient Synagogue Literary Sources: Philo of Alexandria: 38 AD
he hated; (134) and, as they wished to curry favour with him by a novel kind of flattery, so as to allow, and for the future to give the rein to, every sort of ill treatment of us without ever being called to account, what did they proceed to do? ... For, in the first place, one may derive them from about ten kings or more who reigned in order, one after another, for three hundred years [ie. Since 262 BC when they began in Alexandria], and who never once had any images or statues of themselves ... A. About the Philo Fragment in photo above: 1. Fragments of early papyrus codex in Greek: Old Testament scripture interpreted by Philo of Alexandria. reco-Roman Egypt, 3rd century CE, found at Oxyrhynchus, 8 x 12 in. (20.3 x 30.5 cm), MS. Gr. class. ... Master introduction: Summary overview is the place to start to tie it all together. Providence: God's eternal plan: The providential transition from Temple to Synagogue to Church Origin: Synagogues originated at Alexandria Egypt in 280 BC spawned by ... ...
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264: The Sinner's Prayer: Modern apostasy and false teaching that ...
... For instance, Germans followed Martin Luther. There were also Calvinists (Presbyterian), the Church of England (Episcopalian), various branches of Anabaptists and, of course, the Roman church (Catholics). Most of these groups were trying to revive the waning faith of their already traditionalized denominations. ... He took the Mourner's Seat practice, which he called the Anxious Seat, and developed a theological system around it. Finney was straightforward about his purpose for this technique and wrote the following comment near the end of his life: "The church has always felt it necessary to have something of this kind to answer this very purpose. In the days of the apostles, ... By the late 1800s it was standard technique for 'receiving Christ' as Moody's influence spread across both the United States and the United Kingdom. This was where a systematic Sinner's Prayer began, but was not called as such until the time of Billy Sunday. Click to View R. A. Torrey succeeded Moody's ... ...
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265: Masoretic Text (MT) born in 160 AD at Zippori
... Second, using Seder Olam Rabbah the Jews in 160 AD used this compressed history to redefine the Messianic 490 years of the 70 weeks of Daniel 9:24-29 so that it extends between the destruction of the first temple (587 BC) to the Roman destruction in 70 AD. Taken at face value it was almost universally believed in ... Genesis 5&11 that calculate the older age of the earth as seen in today's Septuagint, were identical to the Hebrew Masoretic text at the time of Christ and the first century church. Then in the second century AD, the Jews began deliberately corrupting key messianic passages and the chronology of Genesis in order to disqualify Jesus as the messiah of prophecy. b. ... He said to rabbis, "I am the Messiah." (Babylonian Talmud, Sanh. 11:1, I.46.V-X) ii. "The Mishnah is made up of sayings bearing the names of authorities who lived in the late first and second centuries. (The book contains very little in the names of people who lived before the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem ... ...
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266: Rapture Refuted! Pre-tribulation Rapture and Premillennialism ...
... Christians are God's true "Jews" today. 1. Christians are the true Jews and true Israel today 2. The church is God's Israel today. 3. Physical Israel is equal to the gentiles today and like the Gentiles, must believe Jesus rose from the dead in order ... More truth Click to View When did the last days begin? Take the interactive Bible study and learn for yourself! The End Times began when Jesus walked the earth. We have been in the last days for 2000 years. Last Days/End Times: Hebrews 1:2; 1 Peter ... The disciples asked when the Temple would be destroyed, not the second coming Prophetic language of Matthew is used throughout the Old Testament The "abomination desolation" is the Roman Armies surrounding Jerusalem in 70 AD The signs of war, ... But when the Rapture did not happen, Camping proclaimed his prophecy came true because Judgment came invisibly. The last time we saw this kind of psychotic delusion, was when the Jehovah's Witnesses predicted the second coming in 1914 AD and when it ... ...
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267: The Myth Of Psychotherapy, Thomas Szasz, 1979 AD
... Like so many boys of that age, I had sympathized in the Punic Wars not with the Romans but with the Carthaginians. And when in the higher classes I began to understand for the first time what it meant to belong to an alien race, and anti-Semitic feelings among the other boys warned me that I must take up a definite position, the figure of the Semitic general rose still higher in my esteem. To my youthful mind Hannibal and Rome symbolized the conflict between the tenacity of Jewry and the organization of the Catholic church. And the increasing importance of the effects of the anti-Semitic movement upon our emotional life helped to fix the thoughts and ... He sought clarification among his fellow pupils in school, to no avail. Then came his confirmation and the "Communion, on which I had set my last hopes." This was, I thought, merely a memorial meal, a kind of anniversary celebration for Lord Jesus who had died 1890-30=1860 years ago. But still, he had let fall certain 162 The Paradigm of ... ...
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268: Official creed of United Pentecostal Church International
... Jesus, in Acts 1:5, said, "...ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence." Luke tells us in Acts 2:4, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues (languages), as the Spirit gave them utterance." The terms "baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire," ... Likewise also the cup after supper saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you." (Luke 22:19-20). Paul instructed the church how to observe it (I Cor. 11:23-34). Thus was instituted the use of literal bread and the fruit of the vine, which are partaken of literally, as emblems of His broken body and shed blood. There is also a spiritual significance and blessing in ... We disapprove of school students being forced to be taught by or listen to those who promote or advocate sexual activity of any kind other than that within the bonds of the marriage relationship of husband and wife. RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY The annual Conference is declared to be an International Religious ... ...
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269: The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
... This disturber, having excited the attention of the magistracy, was brought before Albinus the Roman governor, who commanded that he should be scourged. But the severest stripes drew from him neither tears nor supplications. As he never thanked those who relieved, so neither did he complain of the injustice of those ... synagogues ye shall be beaten :" Mark xiii. 9. "and some of You shall they CAUSE TO BE PUT TO DEATH."- Luke xxi. 16. In the very infancy of the Christian church, these unmerited and unprovoked cruelties began to be inflicted. -- Our LORD, and his forerunner John the Baptist, had already been put to death ; the Apostles Peter and John were first imprisoned, and ... 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 few simple fishermen in a new dispensation destitute of worldly ... ...
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270: b-canon-NT-collections-macdonald
God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their selecting the canon, only that God had his eye on the scriptures the ... Phlm 1-2 Pet Heb (?) 1-3 John Jude Catholic Epistles (7?): Jas Jas Acts Pet Rev John Jude (?) Rev (?) Table D-2, continued: New Testament Lists from the Fourth Century Muratorian Fragment The Muratorian Fragment. While many scholars contend that this was a late second-century C.E. fragment originating in or around Rome, a growing number hold that it was produced around the middle of the fourth century (ca. 350-375) and that it originated somewhere in the eastern part of the Roman Empire, ... Others (? rejected): Herm. Works of Arsinous Valentinus Miltiades Basilides Table D-3: New Testament Lists from the Fifth and Sixth Centuries Eucherius Eucherius, Instructiones (ca. 424-55, Lyons). Gelasius Decretum gelasianum de libris recipiendis ... ...
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271: Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ...
... Thus, even some religious scholars admit that the idea of Jesus' being God opposes the entire testimony of the Bible. There, God is always the superior, and Jesus is the subordinate servant. Now you know the kind of scholars that the JW's rely upon to promote their doctrine... Bible trashers! The Rylands Bulletin article was ... And "Although the NT concepts of the spirit of God are largely a continuation of those of the OT, in the NT there is a gradual revelation that the Spirit of God's a Person." Hence, neither the Jews nor the early Christians viewed the holy spirit as part of a Trinity. That teaching came centuries later. As A Catholic Dictionary notes: "The third ... Jehovah's Witnesses know they cannot explain John 8:58 and are all "over the map", trying to convince themselves why a simple present tense Greek phrase, should not be translated as present tense "I am" in English. The circus of Watchtower grammatical flip flops in translating John 8:58 is fully exposed by clicking here. At ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm
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272: Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ...
... Thus, even some religious scholars admit that the idea of Jesus' being God opposes the entire testimony of the Bible. There, God is always the superior, and Jesus is the subordinate servant. Now you know the kind of scholars that the JW's rely upon to promote their doctrine... Bible trashers! The Rylands Bulletin article was ... And "Although the NT concepts of the spirit of God are largely a continuation of those of the OT, in the NT there is a gradual revelation that the Spirit of God's a Person." Hence, neither the Jews nor the early Christians viewed the holy spirit as part of a Trinity. That teaching came centuries later. As A Catholic Dictionary notes: "The third ... Jehovah's Witnesses know they cannot explain John 8:58 and are all "over the map", trying to convince themselves why a simple present tense Greek phrase, should not be translated as present tense "I am" in English. The circus of Watchtower grammatical flip flops in translating John 8:58 is fully exposed by clicking here. At ... ...
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273: How to commit your unwanted, naggy or rich wife to a mental hospital
The rise of wicked husbands throwing their virtuous, rich wives in jail began around 1720 AD. First you have Haywood's novel "Love in a mad-house" in 1726, then in 1728 AD, Daniel Defoe, writes about this evil in his, "Augusta Triumphans". It is clear that mad houses were systems of social control: "As Foucault points out in Madness and Civilization, the mental hospital emerged during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a means of social control." (The distress'd orphan or, Love in a ... In a twisted kind of way, it cost both of them their "heads"! The poor "street people" were cast into asylums to clean of the streets and parks of lazy, dirty vagrants. There were many people in these asylums that were intelligent and sane, like the ... Whereas mad houses had been run for altruistic purposes by church ministers, Defoe shows the rise of many new mad houses by non-church ministers for profit by housing the relatives of rich people or their unwanted wives. "the vile practice now so ... ...
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274: First Century Synagogue Top Plans: Gamla 76 BC
... A wooden cabinet was place in this niche area to house the Septuagint scrolls. 9. The synagogue features a stone bema in the center of the synagogue for either the reader or preacher to stand on. a. See also: The bema: Prototype of the Church Pulpit ... any kind of death, nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends, nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord; (24) and since this immovable resolution of theirs is well known to a great many, I shall speak no farther about that matter; nor am I afraid that anything I have said of them should be disbelieved, but rather fear, that what I have said is beneath the resolution they show when they undergo pain; (25) and it was in Gessius Florus's time that the nation began to ... Josephus spent two years in jail until he was hired by Titus as an interpreter and to record the wars and the final siege of Jerusalem. d. "By 67 A.D. a general rebellion against Rome engulfed Palestine. Jerusalem had repulsed a Roman attack and the ... ...
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275: The ministry of Dr. Hugh Ross exposed
... To those who do not know what the Big Bang is, it is the theory that at some time in the past, now generally believed to have been about fifteen to twenty billion years ago, all the matter in the universe was concentrated into a single mass, which exploded with a "big bang." The idea began with a Belgian astronomer, Georges ... Denying hell, Origen reasoned that humans, demons, and even Satan can, and in the end will, be reconciled to God, anticipating the Universalist heresy. He said there is to be "a purging baptism of fire," and thus he anticipated the idea of purgatory, which became a doctrine of the Catholic Church at the First Council of Lyons in 838 ... Another Christian critic makes the following evaluation. "Part of his benevolent image is that he remains cool under fire, a gentleman to the death, so to speak, one who is always kind to his sharpest critics as to his closest friends. He's magnificent at this. I've seen him and been totally impressed by his gracious good ... ...
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276: First Century Synagogue Top Plans: Ostia, Seaport of Rome, Italy ...
... The four monumental columns in the entranceway to the Ostia sanctuary were clearly intended as a kind of propylaeum [entrance of architectural importance to the Synagogue]." (The Synagogue in Late Antiquity, Lee Levine, p340, 1987 AD) 3. The ... See also: Synagogue Benches: Metaphor of Equality in Christ 6. The synagogue Bema: a. See also: The bema: Prototype of the Church Pulpit 7. The Synagogue Mikveh: a. See also: Mikvah for Ritual Purity: The Christian Maker b. There is a beautiful mikveh located just outside the synagogue entrance used for ritual purity immersions before the Jews would enter the synagogue. 8. "One of the most important Diaspora buildings clue to its early date and use over several centuries, this synagogue was ... It was here that I raised questions of Squarciapino's conclusions. As her articles make clear,' Squarciapino began by assuming the Jewish identity of the building in its final stage based upon, appropriately enough, the presence of the Torah niche ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Ostia-Port-Rome-Italy-bible-ancient-synagogues-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Jesus-archeology-top-plan-Mazzot-oven-unleavened-bread-ark-of-scrolls-bema-Mikveh-50ad.htm
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277: David's New Spiritual Order: Timeline, maps, chronology, sermons ...
... In 1010 BC Saul and Jonathan die. j. Saul was 72 years old when he died k. Jonathan was 57 years old when he died. l. David was 30 when he began to reign as king in Hebron between 1010-1003 BC m. In 1005 BC Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, is made king by Abner, who has been out of job as army ... Herod was so angry at the Maji, that he slaughtered all the children: Matt. 2:16 6. The joyful worship and celebration of David and Israel was rejected by God because of disobedience. a. This is an important lesson for us in the church today. A church that appears to be "full of the spirit" with beautiful music and joy filled, spiritually uplifting atmosphere may, through moral or doctrinal error, actually be under the ... g. "Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many." (Matthew 24:11) h. "The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-maps-timeline-chronology-2samuel-6-7-1chron-13-17-22-king-david-new-spiritual-order-temple-reorganizes-levitical-priesthood-997-964bc.htm
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278: Date written: John the Gospel of John in AD 98
The only way it makes sense is if John is very old, like 100 years old, having outlived all the other apostles. Obviously then, the rumour that John would never die began to be widely believed in AD 98 AND FOR GOOD REASON, or so they thought, when he wrote the Gospel of John. ... Aelia replaced Jerusalem under the emperor Hadrian in 135 C.E. after the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome. The site would therefore have become part of the Roman cult, namely, a Serapeum or an Asclepium, which may account for the underground chambers at the site. Further evidence for the continued importance of the site is the erection of a Christian church in the 5th century just E of the pool. Its courtyard school on arched pillars and buttresses directly over the E end of the double pool. The presence of the church would overthrow and obliterate the local cult." (ABD, Beth-Zatha) 7. Conclusion: The Pool of Bethsaida was not destroyed in AD 70 but preserved by the Romans and continued to be used for centuries ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/revelation/Bible-Only-Revelation-commentary-Steven-Rudd-Date-Revelation-written-66AD-Gospel-of-John-98AD.htm
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279: The White Lie: Walter Rea: Chapter 1: How To Change History
... It didn't take long for one group to buy up the franchise. What the Catholics and Protestants had been fighting about for centuries in Europe a group of leftovers from the Millerite movement decided to market in America. They had no thought initially of a worldwide movement. But if the product ... Other studies in the same area have asked, and failed to answer, the question of why both authors, some two hundred years apart, came up with these same non-biblical accounts, although the later writer claimed she knew nothing of the work of the former. One by one, Ellen White began to accentuate in her writings (which she claimed came from "visions") each and every point of Protestant and Catholic ... At the same time, her account also closed the door that had been opened for Adventism to make a markedly different contribution to the world concept of religion. 7 And the door remains closed to this day, because the church of the advent cannot get past the interpretations of the Canon ... ...
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280: Haruskah Anda Percaya Kepada Watchtower???
... Thus, the New Testament established the basis for the doctrine of the Trinity. The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. (Encyclopedia Britannica, Trinity, Vol. X, pz.126, 1979) Terjemahan Kata Tritunggal ... Those who disliked the Nicene formula took every opportunity of attacking its principal adherents and succeeded in condemning several of them on charges of doctrinal error or uncanonical conduct. Their chief victim was Athanasius, who became bishop of Alexandria in 328 (see ATHANASIUS, SAINT). At first Constantine supported him, acquitting him of several charges, but he eventually lost patience. The emperor's cherished aim was to reconcile Arius with the church, but Athanasius stubbornly refused ... Terlebih lagi, dari latar belakang dibentuknya Kredo Nicaea tsb memperlihatkan bahwa doktrin Tritunggal sudah diterima oleh sebagian besar gereja pada waktu itu, hanya sebagian kecil dari petugas gereja yang tidak sependapat. Catholic Encyclopedia, ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-indonesian-watchtower-booklet-haruskah-anda-percaya.htm
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281: Freestanding Columns: Antitype of Church and Christians: 1 Tim ...
Floorplans and Furnishings of Pre-70 AD Second Temple Period synagogues "I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth." (1 Timothy 3:15) "'He who overcomes, I will make ... a purely ornamental purpose. The four monumental columns in the entranceway to the Ostia sanctuary were clearly intended as a kind of propylaeum." (The Synagogue in Late Antiquity, Lee Levine, p340, 1987 AD) c. While some argue the design is borrowed from Greek or Roman architecture, it is more likely the pillars were somehow symbolic of Solomon's temple with its two large freestanding pillars out front of the temple. d. ... The crown (capital), which is the principal characteristic of every pillar, consisted mainly, as did the brazen sea, of an open lily-cup. The Hebrew named the lily simply "the white," (שׁוּשַׁן from שׁוּשׁ, to be white;) it is, therefore, a natural symbol of purity and of ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Columns-Pillars-Freestanding-Antitype-Christians-Architectural-ancient-Synagogue-pre-70AD-standardized-typology-incorporated-spiritualized-similarities-church.htm
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282: Comparison list of 26 Moses/Paul Shadows, Types, Antitypes and ...
Click to View List of 14 similarities of Joshua as a type of Christ Click to View List of 13 similarities the Jewish temple was a type of the Church Click to View List of 15 similarities of Abraham as a type of Christians Click to View List of 13 ... Sinai to fulfill the antitype of Moses as the primary lawgiver of the New Testament who would go on to write 14 of the 27 books that contain the majority of theological and doctrinal instruction. Just as Moses went to Mt. Sinai to learn the law ... And she had pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." (Exodus 2:6) b. Paul was a Roman Cilician foreigner born in Tarsus heir to the Sanhedrin, who lived among the Jerusalem Elite: i. "But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of ... Paul murdered innocent Stephen: "When they had driven Stephen out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul." (Acts 7:58) c. Paul wanted to kill many Christians: "Now Saul, ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Messianic-prophecy-Moses-Apostle-Paul-Christ-types-shadows-antitypes-similarities-comparisons-1446BC-AD36.htm
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283: Jehovah's Witness leaders sympathized with Hitler
... Such actions can only described as the persecution of Christians by other Christians, since the accusations - which have led to these actions against us - primarily are of clerical, especially catholic origin and untrue. We are absolutely convinced of the impartiality of the government officials dealing with ... We are fully convinced that, once we have been judged impartially, based firstly upon God's word and secondly upon the above mentioned paragraphs, the national government of Germany will find no reason to prevent us from our church services and missionary activities. We are looking forward to your kind approval, which we hope to receive soon, and want to assure our highest ... That period of waiting has now come to an end and God has sent forth his beloved Son to oust the enemy and rule in righteousness. (Psalm 110: 14; Hebrews 10: 12,13) The world, or uninterrupted rule, of Satan has ended, and this began to be evidenced by the World War in 1914, and since then until now is the ... ...
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284: Ancient Synagogues: 24 New Testament Synagogues
... There was a hundredweight of gold, more or less openly seized at Apamea, and weighed out in the forum at the feet of the praetor, by Sextus Caesius, a Roman knight, a most excellent and upright man; twenty pounds weight or a little more were seized at Laodicea, by Lucius ... Bible passages: "So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus. When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper." (Acts 13:4-5) 22. Smyrna: a. Bible passages: "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this: 'I know your tribulation ... A. Galilee: 1. Mt 4:23; 6:2-5; 9:35; 12:9-14; Mark 1:39; 3:1-6; 5:22-23; 35-43; Lk 4:14-15; 44; 6:6-11; Lk 8:40-42; 49-56; 13:10-17 2. "Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Ancient-Synagogue-Archeological-Literary-Sources-Bible-Jesus-Israel-diaspora-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Christian-infallible-inspired-Scripture-New-Testament-50ad.htm
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285: Songs of Sabbath Sacrifice: Template for book of Revelation
... church but the Angelic Liturgy was viewed as a composes song not a vision. I. Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice as a template/prototype for Revelation 1. Why is Revelation written to the 7 churches in Asia and not to Jerusalem? a. The book of Revelation is John's Olivet discourse warning of the destruction of Jerusalem: Mt 24, Mk 14, Lk 21. The gospel of John was written after 70 AD and this is why it makes no mention of the destruction of the city. b. 7 men would arrive at Jerusalem with 7 identical copies and the Saints there would follow them back to their 7 Asian churches for security far away from Jerusalem. A kind of crossing the Red Sea, out of harm's way of the Roman ... Most basic chronological question like: Date of the Exodus, how long was the conquest, when was the tabernacle set up at Shiloh and for how long, when David began to rule in Jerusalem, when Solomon completed the Temple, The year and date of the crucifixion, the year Paul was converted, when did the first Jewish ... ...
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286: The Bema: Prototype Of The Church Pulpit: Neh 8
"Ezra read from to all the people the book of the law as he stood at a wooden podium which they had made for the purpose." Neh 8 THE BEMA: PROTOTYPE OF THE CHURCH PULPIT: Nehemiah 8:1-8 1. The origin of the Synagogue BEMA is likely copied from Ezra's ... Jericho, Modein, Gush Halav and Ostia: a. "Modiin-Hurvat Umm el-Umdan: Synagogue I (Stage 2): The earliest synagogue was built above the Hellenistic structure and has been dated to the end of the 2nd-late 1st centuries BCE (the Hasmonean period). ... his entire life. [B] "It was a kind of large basilica, with one colonnade inside another. [C] "Sometimes there were [55b] twice as many people there as those who went forth from Egypt. [D] "Now there were seventy-one [Y.: seventy] golden thrones set up there, one for each of the seventy-one elders, each one worth twenty-five talents of gold, with a wooden platform in the middle. [E] "The minister of the synagogue stands on it, with flags in his hand. When one began to read, the other would wave ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Bema-Prototype-Christian-Pulpit-Architectural-ancient-Synagogue-pre-70AD-standardized-typology-design-incorporated-adopted-similarities-into-church.htm
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287: Ancient Synagogue Inscription from Schedia, Egypt 240 BC
Literary date: none 6. Contemporary Rulers: Ptolemy III Euergetes King of Ptolemy (246-222 BC) 7. References: a. JIGRE :Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt: JIGRE #22 b. Photo of inscription: CIJ: Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum II, ... Here is collected the duty on merchandise, as it is transported up or down the river. For this purpose a bridge of boats is laid across the river, and from this kind of bridge the place has the name of Schedia. Next after the canal leading to ... Although no synagogues are clearly attested during the period of Ezra and Nehemiah (late fifth and early fourth centuries bce), the tradition traces the practice of translating Scripture from Hebrew into Aramaic during a public reading to Ezra's ... Master introduction: Summary overview is the place to start to tie it all together. Providence: God's eternal plan: The providential transition from Temple to Synagogue to Church Origin: Synagogues originated at Alexandria Egypt in 280 BC spawned by ... ...
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288: Does God Approve Instrumental Music in church?
Does God Approve Instrumental Music in church? Click to View Click to View Mechanical instruments of prayer: Buddhist Prayer Wheel: Pictured left are two Buddhist prayer wheels. You put prayers inside and spin them. The prayer wheel is used by ... One of these historical occasions is when God dealt with the first of mankind, Cain and Abel, the children of Adam and Eve. The jealousy which ended in Abel's murder began when Cain made sacrifices to God that was not of faith. Abel, however, in ... In the Old Testament, God commanded Jewish worshippers that musical instruments were to be used, and when and where - God was specific (see II Chron. 29:25-28). Likewise, God has commanded, in the New Testament, the kind of music He wishes in modern ... Also, clear, well-documented historical evidence shows that the Christians of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth centuries worshipped without using instruments of music. As shown in Part I of this series, the Bible commands singing; ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/ntx-instrumental-music.htm
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289: Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD
... Each soul will feel and know itself to be immortal". Although the son of a church minister, he had very confused religious views that were a mix of atheism, humanism, Bahai, Buddhism, John Lennon, Shirley Maclaine while firmly parroting (but ... months the evolution of the human race, physically considered, from the initial unicellular form in which individual life began through all intervening phases between that and the human form, resuming in each day the slow evolution of millions of ... the individual at the average age of about three years, made its appearance in the race certainly more than a thousand centuries ago, while the musical sense, which does not appear in the individual before adolescence or puberty, cannot (to judge by ... Lozynsky, 1977 AD p 31) On the death of vulgar humanist Walt Whitman: "To J. W. Wallace and John Johnston 10 April [18]92 Dear Wallace and Johnston Many thanks for your good kind letters. [-] I cannot write to you yet-my heart is as heavy as lead.' ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm
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290: Ezion-Geber, Nelson Glueck, Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh ...
When we first examined the potsherds, copper slag, bits of copper ore and implements on the surface of Tell el-Kheleifeh, it was seen that the pottery remains dated from the 10th to the 5th-4th centuries B.C. Frank had correctly adjudged them to be older than Roman. Among the surface finds that Frank mentions, in addition to some copper arrow heads, is "an inch high animal ... The site can, however, easily be bypassed. Its position is not a commanding one. Fig. 2. The low mound of Tell el-Kheleifeh. In order to have our backs to the winds and sandstorms, we began excavating at the northwest corner of the mound, unearthing a building that seemed to us to furnish the logic for the ... We have, however, come to the conclusion that these apertures re-sulted from the decay and/or burning of wooden beams laid across the width of the walls for bonding or anchoring purposes. There are numerous analogies to this kind of construction both inside and outside of Palestine. After the walls containing ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-ezion-geber-nelson-gluecks-tell-el-kheleifeh-1965ad.htm
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291: "Acts 29" Paul's 4th & 5th Missionary Journeys!
Acts 19:22 56 AD 1 Corinthians written Ephesus Acts 20:2-3 57 AD Romans, Galatians, 2 Corinthians written from Macedonia Acts 28 61-63 AD 2 year Roman imprisonment: Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, Philemon (and Hebrews, if Paul wrote it) written ... Phile 22 And at the same time also prepare me a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be given to you. (Philemon hosted the church of Colossians in his home: Archippus = Phil 2 + Col 4:17. Epaphras founded the Colossian church: Phil ... E. Paul didn't go to Ephesus 1. Acts 20:37 "And they began to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him, grieving especially over the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more." 2. Paul then tells Timothy later ... But the preferred year for the death of Paul is 67, toward the end of Nero's persecution, as Eusebius' account seems to suggest. This chronology is not, however, without its difficulties. 6. Catholic tradition holds that Paul was buried on the Via ... ...
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292: The poor and famous Hollywood Scientologists
... My instincts tell me you're not the one. Pass-adena." Scientology leaders later agreed to a two-day interview with this reporter, which they began by saying they weren't surprised that no Scientology stars would talk to PREMIERE because Cruise's ... lunch with Reverend Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, and investigated Scientology's charges against CAN. The actor says he found them to be based on "sham, invective, and distortion." Later, at a CAN convention near the L.A. airport, Farrell encountered more angry Scientologists. "Not only did they picket, but they sort of get in your face and give you this loud and incessant spiel that doesn't allow for dialogue--it's just a kind of attempt to intimidate." ... "We all felt a little cheaper for having cut the line," Mankiewicz says now. "It was such an innocuous little joke--a tiny pinprick. God help you if the Catholic church felt like that and you made Sister Act." The Delirious campaign was not an ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/scientology-poor-famous-members.htm
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293: Messianic Bible Prophecy Fulfilled: Matthew 2:23 "He shall be ...
... disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you," (Acts 3:14) "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who ... Nazarite was directly called THE HOLY ONE OF GOD in the standard synagogue Bibles at the time Christ began his ministry. Jesus was already reported to be THE HOLY ONE OF GOD. Therefore the Messianic prophecy that the Messiah would be CALLED holy was metaphorically fulfilled through the similarity of the words Nazarene and Nazarite through the translation of the Septuagint in 200 BC. This kind of connection may seem strange to Christians today, but to the Jerusalem elite priests and experts in ... It is the most common way he was referred to in the first century. Even the pagan Roman soldier asked Jesus at his arrest, "Are you Jesus the Nazarene?". The fact that Matthew does not explain how the prophecy was connected with Jesus being called a ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Matthew-2-23-triple-messianic-prophecy-Jesus-called-Nazarene-branch-from-branchland-holy-despised-Nazareth.htm
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294: Hysteria: Great blunders in the history of psychiatry
... During the first ten centuries of Christianity, medical thought stagnated under the influence of Galenic teaching. As the perspective on sickness changed from naturalistic to theological-demonological, the phenomena associated with hysteria began to ... This so amaz'd and terrifi'd the People, that in very great and disorderly hast, they all ran out of the Church, and left my Relator in his Pew upon a Seat that they plac'd him, and whence he could not remove without help : But he being no less frighted than the rest, as they forgot him, he forgot his Disease, and made a shift to hamper off the Pew, and follow those that fled; but it quickly appearing, that the Alarum had been a false one, his Friends began to think in what a condition they had ... speculated in his "A treatise concerning enthusiasme" (1655) that such events were contagious (learned and imitated), "should be contagious: though not contagious in the same manner, as the Plague, or the Pox is; yet contagious in their kind". ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-myths-hysteria.htm
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295: Objections to baptism being essential to salvation REFUTED!
... of your sins Moulton's Modern Reader's Unto remission of sins New American Standard for the remission of your sins New Catholic Version for the forgiveness of sins New English Bible for the forgiveness of your sins New International version for the ... In the context of this passage the Corinthian church was full of division and they need to become one again. Some were claiming to follow Paul, some Cephas, some Apollos and some were following Christ (1 Corinthians 1:12-13). The context indicates that Paul often followed the example of Jesus in teaching baptism but leaving the actual baptizing of new converts to others (cf. John 4:1-2). Some at Corinth were saying "I am of Paul" (1:12). This kind of attitude is sinful and should never exist ... We read on and find the first gospel sermon after Christ gave these instructions. It was given by Peter in Acts 2. Peter, of course, began with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ (for is this not the foundation of the gospel?-->1Cor ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/baptism-objections-refuted.htm
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296: The Fortresses King Solomon Built to Protect His Southern Border ...
... Were the inhabitants of the settlements civilian farmers who enjoyed the protection of the nearby military stronghold? Or, on the model of the Roman limitanei, were the inhabitants soldier-cultivators who took refuge in the fortress in time of danger? Clearly, the three ... Israelite settlement in the northern Negev began towards the end of the 13th century, and by the end of the 11th century it had reached the Negev's southernmost corners."18 I believe this argument is applicable to the Israelite expansion into the northern part of the area, ... The excavators of Beer-Sheva and Masos attribute the beginnings of Israelite sedentarization in the Beer-Sheva Basin to the beginning of the 13th and start of the 12th centuries B.C. While I am convinced that they have set the dates of their lowest (earliest) levels too far back, I basically concur with their description of the 11th century as a kind of efflorescence in that region. This corresponds with what is known as the Period of the Judges ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/fortresses-king-solomon-built-to-protect-his-southern-border-rudolph-cohen-1985ad.htm
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297: The Founding of Aelia Capitolina and the Chronology of the Jewish ...
... The question becomes the more pertinent when we find that the impression was shared by the church fathers. A goodly number believed that Hadrian had given permission to the Jews to restore the temple, while others assign an early date for the ... The rebellion of the Jews which began under Trajan (about 115) was a very serious affair, a r6Xeym rather than a wrbots, and the papyri show that the war was going on when Trajan died and continued for at least some tune after Hadrian's accession.' ... When we add to these considerations the fact that it was absolutely necessary for any pretender to the Roman throne to control the province which was really a part of the crown domain, and which supplied the capital with food for so large a portion ... Cf. Mommsen Herows six, pp. 5-218. The most obvious interpretation of the document is that there was a war of some kind going on between the Jews and the Romans at a date from three to four years earlier than any that can be inferred from ... ...
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298: Saul Becomes king. Timeline, maps, chronology, sermons of Judges ...
... When God defeated the armies who attacked Israel, he did so by striking them with madness so that they began to kill each other in a psychotic panic of confusion and delusion. Originally madness simply means: "one who has sudden, unpredictable, wild ... of the lands. "Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled [mehumah, 4103] them with every kind of distress." (2 Chronicles 15:3-6) j. "Better is a little with the fear of the Lord Than great treasure and turmoil ... Punishment of Babylon: "They will drink and stagger and go mad (Nebuchadnezzar) [halal, 1984, Hithpoel] because of the sword that I will send among them." Jeremiah 25:16 c. "Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, Intoxicating all the ... Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Amos and metaphorically for the highest office in the church. a. Being a shepherd means you love and fearlessly protect the flock without regard to your own personal peril. It is a denial of self. b. But the good ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-maps-timeline-chronology-1samuel-16-20-saul-jonathan-david-1019-1012bc.htm
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299: Official creed of Reformed Baptist church
... Gal. 2:20; Acts 15:11) 3.This faith, 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, though it may be many times assailed and ... Chapter 26: Of the Church The catholic or universal church, which (with respect to the internal work of the Spirit and truth of grace) may be called invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ, the head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fulness of him that ... to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to a holy use, and to take and break the bread; to take the cup, and, they communicating also themselves, to give both to the communicants. (1 Cor. 11:23-26, etc.) 4.The denial of the cup to the people, worshipping the ... ...
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300: Refuted: The Christadelphian view of Resurrection, Judgement ...
... Jeremiah 49:12 "For thus says the Lord, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.". The idea of ... In the case of Ezekiel also (Ez. 37:1-14), the resurrection of the dead which he beholds is something more than a figurative representation of the people that were buried in captivity. The church of the period of glory on this side is a church of ... This man, according to Christadelphian theology, is already subject to resurrection and judgement. We love watching Christadelphians do the big flip flop when we point this fact out. Before we point out that it is a "backsliden Jew" they say "rest in ... Prov 7 not only says her tracks lead to death, but that "none return again or reach life". Christadelphians only wish to God this kind of language had been used in Proverbs 21:16. The Jewish adulteress: ""I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I ... ...
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