I'm not exactly new, but it's been awhile since I've been here, and my status says that I'm new, so I figure that I should come in and introduce myself a bit again.
In a different thread, I was asked about reasons to vote for Mitt Romney. Not reasons to vote against Obama, but positive reasons to vote for Romney.
Here's the place to be positive and ask questions.
I'm working on a project involving ancient Egypt and the Exodus.
One of the things that I know (and have since relearned) is that goats (and I guess sheep) were one of the animals that the Egyptians worshiped.
But when I looked to find "what people of ancient Egypt ate", in order to get a...
Heneni asked me in a different thread:
I don't know that I've learned enough to give a definitive answer, but I can tell you what I've gleaned over the years.
It isn't a place. It is more of an existence of souls in a spiritual realm.
It comes after death.
What goes on there?
Well...
I am a Jew, and I want to better understand the ideas around Jesus' burial, and the fact that the tomb was opened three days afterwards.
One of the more ancient forms of Jewish burial was to place a body in a cave. It worked for Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah.
Jesus' body...
Hello! This is a friendly forum. My brother told me that this was an interesting new forum (well... at least, it is new for me), and I wanted to drop in and see what is going on.