Category: Church
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Interpreting Paul’s Argument for God’s Faithfulness to Israel in Romans 9-11 through the Lens of the Case of Balaam in Numbers 22-24 Incorporating the Dual Nature of The Word of God
We will begin our examination of the thesis as stated in the title at Romans chapter 9 verse 6 where Paul writes, “[οὐ] εκπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ ~ the word of God has [not] fallen” (i.e., that God has kept His word), which I take to be the infallible word of God as revealed…
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The Miracle That Is Israel, The Apple of God’s Eye – Take #2
Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens initially, followed by Carlson’s interview with Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, have blown wide open the issue of antisemitism as it relates to the ‘Church.’ The word ‘church’ itself is a misnomer, but I will use it since it serves as the unwitting baseline for those identifying as Christians, among whom…
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Flint aka Rocky and the Rock: Peter and Yeshua
Originally, this post was intended to be a succinct examination of Yeshua’s exchange with Simon Peter, according to Matthew’s gospel in chapter 16 verse 18, “And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my ekklesia, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.” However, no…
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Putin’s Social Media Pitbull, Dmitri Medvedev, Offers Selective Review of 2024, Late December 2024
In his December 30, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia and current Russian National Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, employing his sarcastically perverted sense of humor, engaged in a ‘year in review’ of events. While at times it is unclear to what he was referring, his selective reminiscences of the past year do…
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Armed Attack on Church in Burkina Faso, Africa; Many Casualties, Late February 2024
The Turkish internet news site Yeni Çağ [New Age] reported on February 25, 2024, that unknown persons carried out an armed attack during the Sunday service at the Dori Catholic Church in the village of Essakane. The statement, made from the scene of the crime, claimed that in the attack 15 persons perished and 2…
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Book Review: God Was Not In The Fire – The Search For A Spiritual Judaism by Daniel Gordis
I began studying Biblical Hebrew seriously when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a hiatus from the daily requirements of work and other mandatory activities. This enabled me to devote more time to other pursuits, one of which was the desire to gain a level of proficiency in biblical Hebrew, the primary language in which the Old…
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“We Have Faith, They Have Religion”
Thus Russtrat director, Elena Panina, begins her May 5, 2023 opinion piece in which she reasons that Russia will prevail in Ukraine because the former is united under the rubric of ‘faith,’ i.e., that ‘God is on our side’ because of the justness of the cause under the banner of which the SMO [Special Military…
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Dostoevsky and the [Russian Orthodox] Church
This is a translation, from the Russian, of a 3-part article by Vladimir Malyagin, an author and dramatist who serves on the publishing council of the Russian Orthodox Church. The reader is invited to engage in a critical review of the author’s commentary, remembering that it is the viewpoint of an apologist of Russian Orthodoxy,…
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Christians Experiencing Discrimination in Iraq; In ISIS-Controlled Northwestern Syria Suffering Persecution, early-December 2022
Turkish internet Christian news site, Sat7, on December 9, 2022, disseminated for its Turkish readership two articles that had originally been published in English. The article concerning Iraqi Christians was based on a FIDES wire that was picked up by several internet sites. One can be found at: https://www.worthynews.com/80474-iraq-christian-families-are-leaving-in-droves . The article on the persecution…
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Christian Humanism – A Panacea for the Russian Condition?
In his editorial, In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct of Self-Preservation (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/125354824/posts/4359682819 for my translation), Russian intellectual Aleksandr Tsipko addresses Russia’s propensity, because of its authoritarian power structure, to “eternally intrud[e] into the world of the unpredictable.” This tendency, he argues, is based on an autocratic leader’s irrational intuition,…
The Dragon is Slain 