Many Christians start off with the intention of reading the Bible all the way through. Then, somewhere in the middle of the book of Leviticus, their Bible reading comes to a grinding halt. For many years, I was one such Christian. I had read bits and pieces of the Bible many times, but had never […]
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Jews believe that God’s name is more than a title. In fact, the name Judaism signifies how the Jews identify with their divine nature. The sacred names of God were also used to describe how God relates not only to the Jews, but to the people of the whole world. In Hebrew, the 72 Sacred […]
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Living under The Laws of God, the Bible’s Old Testament women – and men – were held to strict and exacting codes of high behavior and conduct. Some Old Testament women fell trying to scale the heights of God’s Laws. Among the Top Ten Fallen Women of the Bible are Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah of […]
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Eleven-year-old Olaudah Equiano is carelessly tossed aboard a slave ship as cargo. He looks around helplessly at the horrible men with their light complexions and long hair and is sure that they mean to eat him. After he refuses to eat the food they offer him, he is tied down and severely flogged. The Interesting […]
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night to keep and do all that is written in it, then you shall direct your way and then it shall be well with you. The Book of the Law is the Holy Bible, the Word […]
I intentionally chose this article title to spark a reaction and stimulate discussion, for it is pretty well accepted by Christian men and women alike that the authors of the 66 books of the Bible were most likely all male (with the possible exception of the Book of Hebrews, which some believe may have been […]
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More recent printings of the New Vulgate (or Authorized Version) omit the fourteen books of the Bible that appeared in the Apocrypha with the Vulgate Version (also known as the Vulgate Version) in 1611. The Roman Catholics include eleven of those books. in their versions of the Bible, and other Christian groups receive the Apocrypha […]