Beyond Religion The expression of ones religion through the various rites of passage is common amongst the diverse communities and their creeds throughout the world. All based upon some or other human attribute like goodness, kindness, love and compassion towards others. Some contain a required pilgrimage to a hallowed shrine in a hallowed city. Fasting [...]
This is an important question that we all have to answer at some point in our lives. I think it is best summed up in the following verse. 1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. The Apostle Paul’s Leadership was based upon [...]
Prologue Excerpt By F F Bruce When the Persian king Cyrus brought the Babylonian Empire to an end in 539 B.C., he authorized a body of Jewish displaced persons to return to their home in Judæa, from which they had been deported by Nebuchadnezzar two generations previously, and to rebuild their national shrine in Jerusalem. [...]
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THE EPISTI.E TO THE HEBREWS. by A B Davidson D.D LL.D Page 198/200 Christ is an High Priest after the order of Melchisedec (v. 20). The chief point of the Apostle’s teaching is that Christ is a minister, i.e. an officiating High Priest of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not [...]
This video link (at the bottom of this post) may come as a suprise to some , as this Rabbi points out that modern Judaism is not following the Torah. I was in a discussion with a Jew who has some weird ideas about Atonement. Bearing in mind that Paul states that Israel will return [...]
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