Category: Christianity
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An Examination of Paul’s Teaching on the LORD’s Supper in I Corinthians 11:17-34
It occurred to me that over the years of worshipping in various denominations, I have been exposed to the LORD’s Supper being celebrated to differing degrees of significance. But for the most part, as I remember, there were few, if any, strictures placed on those taking Communion, perhaps the most common restriction being, to be…
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Theoretical Reconstruction of the Derivation of the Conceptual Word ‘Church’
This fascinating study on the derivation of the word ‘church’ and its adoption into most translations of the Bible as the proper translation for the Greek εκκλησια (transliterated as ekklesia, Greek-based; or ecclesia, Latin-based) was spurred by a discussion in a book my wife and I read recently. The author claimed that in Hebrew, the…
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Turkish President Erdoğan Issues Paschal Greeting, mid-April 2022
I greet our Christian countrymen on the Paschal Holiday. Our country, where everyone is able to experience their own faith, culture, and tradition freely, and our nation, in which brotherhood and solidarity are interlocked one to the other with their feelings, continues its incomparable example for the whole world. From the past up to today,…
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Book Review: The Bible in Translation – Ancient and English Versions by Bruce Metzger
Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-2007) was for many years a professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. According to the brief biographical sketch on the back cover of the volume under review, he was an expert in ancient biblical manuscripts and as such was a member of three major Bible translation projects…
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Book Review of “God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal”
To those with some knowledge of the tension that existed within western Christendom in the late Middle Ages, the title of Brian Moynahan’s book tells the story in a nutshell. There is the protagonist, William Tyndale, the man of languages, whose love for God and His Word led him to translate the New Testament and…
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Cyril and Methodius: A Sketch History of Their Lives and the Development of the Slavonic Writing System
[Translator note: The brief history that follows is just that – brief. There is much that could be added by researching almost every paragraph. This article was written as a sketch to commemorate the “Apostles to the Slavs” (the term does not appear here), Cyril and Methodius, in the Russian Orthodox Church. In the translation,…
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On the Issue of Election—Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen
The same Spirit, Who directed the writers of both the Old and New Testaments (or Covenants), also instructs those who desire to understand the Scriptures. As such, here is an insight that I believe He has allowed me to glean concerning the above topic while reading Mark 10:17+, where Mark describes Jesus’s encounter with the…
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Book Review
Istanbul, City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World In his 360-page narrative history, the author, Thomas F. Madden, encapsulates the progression of events that eventually led to the establishment of the ancient Greek city of Constantinople through to its present representation in the form of the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. Madden focuses on…
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Subject: Regarding Sunday to be “the Lord’s Day,” i.e., the Day on which Jesus Rose from the Grave
I believe every Christian desires to know Jesus Christ (Yeshua ha Moshiach, i.e., our Promised Salvation/Deliverance/Freedom) to the fullest extent possible. I also believe that this desire has been thwarted, not by the teachings of outlier sects or cults that may have brought some confusion to the minds of believers; rather, by the teachings of…
The Dragon is Slain 