THE VERY last book of the Tanakh, on it's very last page, reads: "Remember the Law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel." Mal'aki (Malachi) 4:4 How in the world do we go from reading that to turning the...
"But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase to more ungodliness. And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of...
I love WIKIPEDIA. Pick an article. Practically any article. Reading Wikipedia is like watching the official narrative perform mental acrobatics, complete with barking seals and fiery hoops, all in hopes of telling the psycho-dramatic hoax that is history and keeping...
IN JERUSALEM there’s a community of Jews who live like the Amish. No twentieth or twenty-first century conveniences are afforded to them. No electricity. Word on the street was that they made the best prayer shawls. And it only makes sense. I mean, if you’re in the...
CHRISTIANITY IS NOT the same religion as Scripture. Far from it. The early church fathers have already established that fact. Though, to be fair, if we’re dealing with the 66-book Canon, then thirteen of the epistles attributed to Sha’ul of Tarsus are most certainly...
SCHOLARS HAVE long sought to find traces of the stoic soul in Sha’ul. This may be partly due to the fact that his own home city of Tarsus was a hotbed for stoicism. That being said, some have claimed to discover one. But that in and of itself is hardly the issue here,...
Sha’ul. She’ol. A person and a place. What’s the difference? Aside from the fact that one leads to the other—none, whatsoever. In ancient Hebrew, they were the exact same word. שְׁאוֹל is She’ol. שָׁאוּל is Sha’ul. The second word presented here, Sha'ul, has a hardly...
What is Christian thinking, exactly? I ought to know. I used to call myself one. Christian thinking can best be explained in one word. Theology. It is the study of the nature of God and religious belief and theory when developed systematically in an attempt at a new...
WE DO NOT KNOW precisely when Yehudah, the second documented brother of Yahshua Messiah, contributed his own rebuttal against the ministry of Sha’ul. Knowing what we do of Sha’ul’s contempt for the Yerushalayim group, and the Christians of Antioch who arose as...
HE WAS SENT to Rome in a detachment of ten soldiers to be executed. Ignatius of Antioch. At a fork in the road somewhere in the midst of Asia Minor, probably Laodicea, his jailers made an impromptu decision. Knowing that the self-proclaimed Image-bearer maintained a...
STRANGE INDEED. If the thirteenth apostle is to be believed, then Ya’aqob, Kepha, and Yohanan sent Sha’ul and Barnaba to the nations in order that they might remain with the circumcised. This—in spite of the great commission. I do not lie. Then why does tradition hold...
“Elohim has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.” Acts 10:28 IN REALITY, SHA’UL DID not get along with the actual Apostles. His biographer had good reason to gloss right over the specifics of their dispute in hopes of smoothing things...
And Yahshua said to them, “Truly, I say to you, when the Son of Adam sits on the throne of His esteem, you who have followed Me in the rebirth, shall also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisrae’el.” Mattithyahu 19:28 ALAS, THE ROPE AND THE BRANCH...