Bible Study & Reference
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Hill, C. E. [Hill, C. E.]

Crescens In what is known as Justin’s Second Apology we are introduced to the name of Crescens, a self-professed philosopher and opponent of Christianity in Rome who pursued a public ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Hans Josef Klauck

At a later date, the Church fathers drew above all on the Bible in their polemic against astrology (cf. Riedinger). The very fact that they continually had to fight a ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Robert M. Price

Luke 7:41-43 constitute a miniature parable (the Two Debtors) tucked into the heavily redacted Lukan version of the anointing. Luke has made the original into another lesson of the superior ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Robert M. Price

46a. Jesus said: The world and the hereafter are like two women which a man is trying to please at the same time; when one is pleased, the other is ...
( Category: Bible Study December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-19 | Author:Jenkins, John Philip [Jenkins, John Philip]

The Last Romans? By the 440s, the generation that had dealt with the Nestorian crisis was fading away. New leaders were in power in Rome, where Pope Leo succeeded in ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]

1.5 Second Attempt: Inventing a Second Governorship for Quirinius Even fishing a different date out of Luke would leave a contradiction within Luke, since the only chronological detail about Jesus ...
( Category: New Testament December 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Friedman, Richard Elliott [Friedman, Richard Elliott]

The Covenant Modern investigators were confused over these insertions about the Davidic covenant. Sometimes the insertions reiterated this promise that the Davidic kings would rule forever, even if they sinned; ...
( Category: Old Testament December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Randel Helms

Matthew enriches his account with a fascinating addition about Peter's effort to copy his Lord. After the disciples recognize the figure on the water as Jesus, the impetuous Peter called ...
( Category: New Testament December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Alan Dundes

Here is the first-person account: And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-02 | Author:Price, Robert M. [Price, Robert M.]

Romans 11:1-10 concerns the fall of Jerusalem. The allusions in verses 3 and 9 to the destruction of the temple and its altar (“table”) are anachronistic, given the usual dates ...
( Category: New Testament December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-22 | Author:Friedman, Richard Elliott [Friedman, Richard Elliott]

5:1 And the Philistines took God’s ark and brought it from Eben-ezer to Ashdod 2 And the Philistines took God’s ark and brought it to the house of Dagon and ...
( Category: Old Testament December 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Thomas Mann

CHAPTER FOUR Every day now, the bare-skinned, fiery-cheeked god piloted his heat-breathing chariot across the sky’s expanse, his golden locks waving in the simultaneously storming east wind. Silky white radiance ...
( Category: German November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joel M. Hoffman

5 ADAM AND EVE: FALLING DOWN AND GETTING BACK UP Judge a tree by its fruit, not its leaves. —LATIN PROVERB Perhaps surprisingly, their first question wasn’t how to survive. ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation November 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-08-31 | Author:Moore, Beth [Moore, Beth]

God’s Word possesses accomplishing power and achieving power. That’s a fact. But I want it to have accomplishing and achieving power in me. Thankfully, so does God. One of the ...
( Category: Guides November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:James Dobson

I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through ...
( Category: Family & Relationships November 19,2014 )