Tag: Christianity
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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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‘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 Virgin Birth of the Egyptian Messiah -Horus & The Pattern for the Christian Nativity Scene
In this set of engravings we have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth, and the Adoration as described in the first and second chapter of Luke’s Gospel. These scenes, which were mythical in Egypt, have been copied or reproduced as historical in the Canonical Gospels. In the temple of Amun at the site of Luxor…
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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…
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The Importance of Disobeying God
One of my favorites points to bring up with those who defend middle eastern religion and their “God” is that it is actually of vital importance that we disobey “His” commands. Case and point: Take a look at the 10 commandments of the “Lord”. One of the most sacred of commands deals with how to…
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Quenching God’s Thirst for Blood
1) Capital Punishment Crimes: Kill People Who Don’t Listen to Priests As for anyone who presumes to disobey the priest appointed to minister there to the Lord your God, or the judge, that person shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12) Kill Witches You shall not permit a female sorcerer…
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The Athletes of God
Before the conversion of Constantine, martyrs and confessors (those who professed their Christian faith to Roman officials in the expectation of martyrdom) were Christianity’s heroes and spiritual elite. Martyrdom and openly professing one’s faith before Roman officials were supremely meritorious actions. They were the equivalent of a second baptism, fully atoning for a person’s past…
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 3 – Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius
There are three Greco-Roman pagan passages extremely important to the defenders of the Christian myth. They are the works of three major non-Christian writers of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries – Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger. Let’s closely examine these passages and see why they cannot serve us as justification for reliable…
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 2 – Flavius Josephus
When addressing the historical nature of Jesus Christ, one issue repeatedly raised is the purported “evidence” of his existence to be found in the writings of Flavius Josephus, the famed Jewish general and historian who lived from about 37 to 100 CE. In Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews appears the notorious passage regarding Christ called…
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 1 – Historical Silence
“Apart from the New Testament writings and later writings dependent on these, our sources of information about the life and teaching of Jesus are scanty and problematic” – F.F. Bruce, New Testament History. “The only definite account of his life and teachings is contained in the four Gospels for the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke…