Tag: Bible
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The Real Reason for Passover
Passover is right around the corner. We all know that story, right? Tell me if you ever noticed this little detail. Ever wonder why Pharaoh didn’t let the Israelites leave? “God” hardened Pharaoh’s heart against freeing the Israelites, so as to provide the occasion for visiting plagues upon the Egyptians, who as helpless subjects of…
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The Many Christian Gospels NOT Approved by your Church
Hi, I wrote an article back in 2013 arguing that Christianity was created and defined by men in closed-door meetings in which I summarized the major Church meetings in chronological order. Please read The Many Councils of Christ: How Christianity was Created in Closed-door Meetings. I now want to write about the many gospels that were…
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John 3:16 Explained
Hi, I want to quickly explain John 3:16. Arguably, the most repeated verse of the New Testament. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.“ What it actually means: God created himself to sacrifice himself…
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On Blasphemy, Free Speech and Religion
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about this trade-off between freedom of speech and freedom of religion like there is some kind of balance to be struck. I’d would like to make that case that this trade-off is completely false and that there is absolutely no balance to be struck. Freedom of speech never infringes…
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Women in the Bible
Any honest, thinking person reading through the bible cannot ignore the blatant misogyny and barbarity towards women. The eminent ‘men of God” who wrote the bible were the product of patriarchal, tribal, violent, intolerant, monotheistic society. It is no accident that from the very beginning the bible cements women’s inferior status. In 1Timothy 2:11-15 we…
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Art and Architecture of Early Christianity
Waldemar Januszczak shows how Christianity emerged into the Roman Empire as an artistic force in the third and fourth centuries. Early Christians had no art but practised in secret and Januszczak purports the Rotas Square found throughout the Roman Empire such as at Pompeii were early Christian symbols along with the fish and anchor. With…
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So there’s this man, whose name was Job (God v. Job)
So there’s this man, “whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” Job is the story of a devout Jew named Job whose faith is tested by Satan. Job challenges God to explain “why the righteous suffer” and God answers: “Who was it that…
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EL – The Middle Eastern God That Judaism Stole
Did the Jews steal some other civilization’s god and make it their own? YES! In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, Eli or Il was the supreme god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the goddess Asherah as recorded in the tablets of Ugarit. [1] El appears…
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‘In three days, you shall live’ – Gabriel’s Revelation
In July of 2008 a flurry of academic journals and news sources reported a new archaeological artifact that might “shake our basic view of Christianity”—especially about first-century messianic expectations and the resurrection accounts. The find was a large stone tablet on which was written eighty-seven lines of Hebrew text in ink, but much of the…
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The Lord’s Prayer Instructions
It’s Christmas and the Christians are praying up storm, as they like to do this time of year. Interestingly enough, most of them have no clue as how to actually pray. Let me explain… Jesus gave his followers very clear instructions on how to pray. This is called the Lord’s prayer and can be found in the…