Revelation 11:3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
From your link to Abdul Baha's' interpretation of Revelation 11...
It is said they were “clothed in sackcloth”, meaning that they appeared to wear not a new raiment but an old...
Regarding your belief that God can't be wrong, I'd like to revisit the questions I posed to you in another thread. I hope you'll answer them this time.
If God is never wrong about anything, then why does the Bible state that he regretted creating human beings as well as every animal, every...
In the Middle Ages, whole religious orders were formed to pray for, and collect money to buy back slaves from Islamic countries. This is stunningly different from the history of every other religion.
Slavery began again, in 1435 in the Canary Islands. The pope immediately issued the bull...
The push for human rights developed because of Christianity. Christianity alone stubbornly insisted that each individual was of inestimable value, and the idea revolutionized the world.
The idea of the equality of human beings was introduced in the very first Christian documents...
The Song of Deborah is fairly straightforward and pretty much is what it seems to be.But what does that have to do with academic versus fundamentalist readings of the ancient Hebrew scriptures?
Perhaps you believe that one historically accurate (more or less) fragment of the text, dating to the...
Time the Pentateuch is relevant as well as the origin of the contents. It is a given that oral traditions, songs, stories, myths and beliefs are included in the Pentateuch when it was compiled along with Sumerian, Babylonian, Canaanite/ Ugarit. Phoenician sources found in their ancient known...
I believe the academic analysis dates this after 600 BCE based on the linguistic, cultural and vocabulary used.
Dating Deborah
The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) is often seen as an ancient text, perhaps one of the oldest in the Tanach, but analysis of its language and contents suggests that it is...
Where Carrier said that was actually about the James reference. He put together a paper in 2012 with a summary of the arguments as well as his own.
This James passage was unknown to Origen (despite his explicit search of Josephus for Jesus material in his answer to Celsus). All claims to the...
Adam and Eve is an older story, there are many versions. An African version has the serpent telling the woman to eat the forbidden fruit.
The serpent isn't a "devil", it's a being who gives knowledge to creatures. The story is a metaphor in many ways. Heavenly gardens, first man/woman and...
you still have nothing to say about Jesus’ miracle. You are still ignoring water into wine. Instead you talk of olive and cheese, and rivers and mountains, etc.
Thanks, I am going to ignore you.
Christianity - The push for human rights developed because of Christianity. Christianity alone stubbornly insisted that each individual was of inestimable value, and the idea revolutionized the world.
The idea of the equality of human beings was introduced in the very first Christian...
In the news, a US tax payer funded, nonprofit, national news organization; NPR or National Public Radio, which is supposed to be news neutral, has been shown to have used a totally Left Wing biased coverage of important news cycles since 2016. This was obvious for years, but covered up with...
Like healing the deaf, those who can't hear the words of the book?
"And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness". Isaiah.
Or healing the lame?
Or like healing the lame, making the crooked straight?
"The...
In the news, a US tax payer funded national news organization; NPR or National Public Radio, which is supposed to news neutral, has been finally shown to have totally Left Wing biased coverage of important news cycles. This was obvious for years, but covered up with misinformation. Now it has...
Hendel and Joosten date the oldest parts of the Hebrew Bible (the Song of Deborah in Judges 5 and the Samson story of Judges 16 and 1 Samuel) to having been composed in the premonarchial early Iron Age (c.1200 BCE).
If God is never wrong about anything, then why does the Bible state that he regretted creating human beings as well as every animal, every creature that creeps on the ground, and the birds of the air (Genesis 6:6-7)? There are other scriptures in the Bible that highlight his other regrets in...
"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man." Luke 17:26
What else could "Days of Son of man" mean, other than the time when Christ comes and stays on earth for the second time?
The way I see it, is, Scriptures is giving signs to recognize the true...
I cannot find any specific verse reference to the “Days of the Son of Man”. Do you have one in mind?
I do think the Day of Christ referred to in the scriptures is the removal of the believers/church from the earth. This is followed by the Day of the Lord, the Tribulation Period of judgment upon...
6 ... He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Baha'u'llah's geneology can be traced back, without equivocation, to Abraham and Keturah...
This refers to the seed/son of David, which according to Matthew 1:1 & 6 & 2 Samuel 7:12 & Mt 21:9, would be Yeshua, who will rule the kingdom when he returns (Mt 24:29-30 & Ez 34:23 & Rev 19:15 & Zech 14:16). This is all accomplished after the "fat" "shepherds" are judged with destruction...