A mentor of mine used to say, “faith is the opposite of certainty.” It took me a little while to get my around the meaning of this. I guess what he was saying is that there are some things we […]
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The Sea of Galilee is actually a freshwater lake. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth at approximately 680 feet below sea level, and it is surrounded by hills. It measures 21 km in length, and 13 km in width, and
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The Ancient Israelites believed in the ‘end of days’, a time when God would bring the present age they were living in to an end and usher in a new age where Creation would be as God intended it to
The Age of Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were integrated into a worldview that gained wide favour in Western society and launched revolutionary developments
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There is no way of knowing for certain which of the words credited to Jesus in the gospels were actually spoken by him. What we do know, is that the gospels were written by people who were not eyewitnesses to
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The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from the Latin trinitas, meaning ‘three’) is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in the Christian faith. It defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father,
I recently wrote that in order to truly understand the books and letters of the New Testament, we need to read them through a ‘Jewish lens.’ The reason for this is that all the books and letters of the New
Chapter seventeen in the Gospel of John is one long continuous prayer that Jesus prays to God. Apparently it’s the longest recorded prayer of Jesus, and it takes place immediately before Jesus goes out with his disciples across the Kidron
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As twenty-first century Christians, we perhaps at times forget that Christianity evolved from the ancient religion of Judaism. The very first Christians were Jews. Jesus himself was a Jew. The Old Testament as we know it, was in fact the
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As twenty-first century readers of the Bible, we are faced with several challenges when it comes to our understanding of what we are reading. For a start, the books of the Bible were written between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago,
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