Some early Old Testament Greek manuscripts glorify God’s name by writing them in Hebrew characters. Some of my Jehovah’s Witness friends have made much of this fact, as properly reverencing the Divine Name is of central important to them. I have recently discovered, in “The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol I,” that these manuscripts [...]
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I have a “quote of the day” feature on my Google home page. This is the one I saw today: Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. – Bill Gates What is efficiency, and how [...]
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When I began my journey to becoming Catholic I was focused mainly on doctrinal issues, e.g. what is the nature of the eucharist, did Mary remain a virgin her whole life, did Christ intend for the Pope to be the head of the church, etc. After I was fairly far along in my studies I [...]
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Something I’ve always wondered about is whether the Bible book of Job was originally a play. To clarify, I am not suggesting that the story is not factual — rather that it was adapted to be performed. Why do I think this? A very limited number of scenes, actors, and props are required: There are [...]
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Many popular books, movies and websites have told us, based on 1 Thess 4:16-17: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (King James Version) King James Version (KJV) Public Domain [A Public Domain Bible] [KJV at Zondervan] [Zondervan] 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the [...]
A number of proponents of “Intelligent Design” attempt to show, possibly using the Drake equation, that the occurrence of intelligent life anywhere is extremely unlikely, that a miracle would have been required to create us, to explain our existence. I can’t help but think this backwards. Doesn’t this argument show that we were not part [...]
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I recently saw a show on the travel channel which mentions a sighting of UFO’s by millions of people in Mexico City during a solar eclipse. They also mentioned that there were about 17 videos of the object, and one was shown. It would make sense to see lots of reports if a UFO was [...]
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Cameron is claiming to have discovered the Tomb of Christ. Pros: The tomb contains Jesus Mary Mariamne (Mary Madalene?) James, Brother of Jesus Judah, Son of Jesus Matthew Yose The claim is that this conjunction of names is statistically unlikely to occur. It is a little unclear to me how this “Jesus” equation is supposed [...]
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