For several centuries, Western readers of the English text utilized the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible originally completed in 1609 at Douay, France which was a direct translation of Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Across the channel in Great Britain between 1585 and 1611, the original King James Version was issued. This followed Stephan’s Received Text for…
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Is the New Testament a Gnostic Document?
There’s much deception in the air today from a few leading scholars regarding the New Testament text. This is a spin-off from the days of Rudolf Bultmann. The main target was the Gospel of John and its so-called Docetic influences upon the New Testament corpus as a whole. While this notion of proto-gnostism certainly had…
The Eternal Aspects of Marriage
The sacrament of marriage in the western church has not been connected with coronation as it has in eastern tradition. The concept of a royal wedding that mirrors a coronation of a king and queen is almost alien in our western train of thought. In the ancient world, human bodies were often viewed as being…
Eden, Sex and Original Sin
The body is seen as holy and its activities are divine. National identities were based on the type of activities moral, social and religious in which the people engaged. Such an indictment is found is Ezekiel 23 where the following descriptions apply regarding the misuse of the qualities God has provided. This lustful appetite for…
The Mystery of Monotheism
For centuries, the people of God had fought an uphill battle attempting to defend the one God concept. Monotheism is defined as the belief in one deity. Amenhotep of Egypt believed the Great Monad was the sun god Ra. The mountain god El, in Hebrew traditions, was known as Elohim. Until our time, much of…
The Temple Scroll and the Reign of God
The drama of the cosmic temple liturgy the purpose of which has not been understood by most Christian communities. Since temple scroll was originally was originally published in the Dead Sea Scrolls collection found in 1947. These liturgical texts often use dates and cosmic time sequences to show the action of Yahweh in His Temple…
Should Church Leaders be Educated?
In today’s world of fad oriented Christian teaching, one could certainly ask the question whether or not education serves any real purpose in the life of most Christian believers. Even the Sabbath School Quarterly approach used by Sabbath and traditional churches was developed by D. L. Moody to reach the illiterate classes in the Chicago…