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Did The Qumran community predict The coming of Jesus?

I'm going to start a new category here for "General Interest" which will be for things I see or read about that I think are interesting or informative about The Bible, Christianity or The Faith in general; but which aren't necessarily topics I could, or would need to, write a full blog post about. I'll kick off this new venture with an brief look at something I read The oTher day from The Dead Sea scrolls which is very interesting – Qumran text 4Q521. It gives us a glimpse of early Jewish expectations of The coming Messiah from The time before Jesus arrived, and shows just how Jesus did actually meet those expectations. For example, when John asks his disci...

He is risen!

  Blessed be The God and FaTher of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through The resurrection of Jesus Christ from The dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who are being protected by The power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in The last time. — 1 Peter 1:3-5...

Is it The end of The world as we know it?

September 28th 2015 will be a supermoon and a red moon at that. I last wrote about These four "blood moons" way back in April last year when certain self-styled prophets John Hagee and Mark Blitz's "End Times" teaching gained some popularity (and subsequent book promotions). One thing that I predicted in my previous article was that if nothing else comes from all of this "end is nigh" nonsense, is that These "prophets" would indeed profit from Their books – as has been shown to be true in which The "Four Blood Moons" book has been in The top 20 on The New York Times Best-seller List, and has also recently been turned into a docu-drama! OTher than th...

Does Jesus mean Hail Zeus?

A meme doing The rounds on The internet You may not have come across The image above before, or The similar variants of it, but it pops up on social media groups every so often. The underlying argument is quite ridiculous, but There does seem to be a sub-culture with Christianity which promotes this as fact quite vigorously. Having seen this get shared at least three times on Facebook in The last month, I decided to add a new category to The blog: Apologetics.   In here will be articles for defence of The faith, though sadly this particular one needs to be against those who are already meant to be a part of The same faith! But many people seem to accept...

Does The UN Statue Resemble The End Times Beast From Daniel And Revelation?

There’s been a lot of fuss on The internet lately about this new statue that The UN has erected outside Their headquarters on The Visitor’s Plaza. I’ve seen screenshots of The original tweet shared on Facebook and oTher social media platforms, as well as copious articles flooding my newsfeed, all suggesting The same thing: this is The beast from Daniel 7. This of course carries with it The implication that it is also a fulfilment of that prophecy and Therefore we should expect something more to happen soon, like “The antichrist” to rise up and consume The world. Or something along those lines. I don’t follow The Dispensational “end times” view a...

God before ages becomes an infant!

I saw a beautifully sung a capella song The oTher day of Facebook. It was about The Nativity, The incarnation of Christ. One of The lines in The song really struck me, The profound nature of what God did summed up in a single sentence: Glorify, with The angels and The shepherds, Him who by His own will has become a newborn child, yet is our God before all ages.   Let that sink in for a moment before reading this excerpt from one of John Chrysostom's sermons on Christmas (something else I saw shared on Facebook which I think sums up this day in better words than I could muster): "What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wo...