07/12/2017 8.5k This may be shocking to some readers, but the Bible has been translated into Arabic. In fact, if you open your Bible right now and peruse through all of the translations of John 3:16, “Allah” is the word used to refer to God in the Arabic version […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Police in the central city of Aksaray have confiscated an ancient Bible, believed to have been written in the 11th century, after two suspects tried to sell it. Local museum officials are now examining the authenticity of the holy book inscribed with figures of Jesus Christ and […]
Harry Farley Junior Staff Writer – 19 April 2016 Recent analysis of pottery fragments by researchers at Tel Aviv University caused a spate of headlines along the lines of “The Bible is much older than we thought.” The researchers claim the discovery that inscriptions, dated to around 600 BCE, were […]
By Gary F. Zeolla What do the Bible and the Book of Mormon have in common? They both claim to be the Word of God. Also, major portions of both describe supposedly historical events. The Histories The historical portions of the Old Testament in the Bible primarily focus on the […]
by Igor Petrov, swissinfo.ch December 1, 2013 – 11:00 Rene Weber was a dental technician before deciding to sink his teeth into a new calling – the life of a Protestant pastor. Does the Bible provide him with an answer to every problem? Of course not, he says, but it […]
Bible Contradictions: Chapter 23 of the Book PAUL SAID, “God is not the author of confusion,” (I Corinthians 14:33), yet never has a book produced more confusion than the bible! There are hundreds of denominations and sects, all using the “inspired Scriptures” to prove their conflicting doctrines. Why do trained […]
Source: The Huffington Post By John Shelby Spong: Retired American Bishop of the Episcopal Church Almost any poll of regular church goers will reveal that their favorite book in the New […]
Source: NY Times. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington National Cathedral, where the nation gathers to mourn tragedies and celebrate new presidents, will soon begin performing same-sex marriages. Cathedral officials tell The Associated Press the church will be among the first Episcopal congregations to implement a new […]
Christmas Day is a holiday in the Western world observed to commemorate the birth of Jesus(as). Jesus Christ(as) is amongst the best known and most influential historical figures and yet […]
The Power of Prayer Brilliant!!!!! “When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible & we had the land. They said `Let us pray’ We closed our eyes, when we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land” Bishop Desmond Tutu
Huff Post: Alan Jones. I wonder if there’s anyway to recapture just how weird and peculiar Christmas is? We’re so used to it. The religious observers take it for granted and the Winter Solstice crowd keep dreaming of a White one. Christmas trees are everywhere and Christmas carols are heard […]
Huff Post: Shane Hipps. The long slow decline of religion in America has produced much hand wringing among Christians. The grief and anxiety are inevitable, but not entirely necessary. After all, Jesus didn’t come into this world to start a new religion. His stated purpose was actually to announce the […]
The Hebrew Scripture, or the Jewish Bible, consisting of three sections—Torah or Pentateuch, Nevi`im or Prophets, and Ketuvim or writings, is called ‘Tanakh’ which is an acronym formed by the first letter of the Hebrew names of these three sections. Each section consists of the following books in this order: […]
Source: CNN The author of Revelation hated Rome, but he also scorned another group – a group of people we would call Christians today, Pagels says. There’s a common perception […]
The seventy some books of the Bible got into the canon, sacred collection of books to make the Bible, not by divine revelation, but by human vote and the Bibles […]
Reuters: Turkish authorities have confirmed that an ancient bible thought to be 1,500 years old is being kept safe after being seized from a gang of smugglers. The document is […]
Bishop John Shelby Spong Bishop John Shelby Spong has evolved into an atheistic Christian, for a lack of a better term. His scholarship is very helpful in exposing the limitations of […]
Source / Courtesy: The Huffington Post By Harris Zafar For those who may not know, we are in the midst of National Bible Week, sponsored by the National Bible Association. This is a week, especially identified to raise awareness of the Bible’s importance and relevance to the nation and the […]
Reuters:John Lloyd ……….This “hunger to be more serious” is acute now, in Christmas week, when, in the countries of long Christian tradition, the broadcast air is replete with carols, sacred music and invocations to rejoice in a miracle birth. It is a hunger which also contains something of a languorous […]