Tag: faith
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The “Greatest Generation” and its Legacy: A Perspective
Just the other day, January 20, 2023, to be exact, I turned 75, i.e., the day that marked ¾ of a century of existence on Planet Earth. If you’ve done your math, you’ve figured out that I was born approximately four weeks into the new year of 1948, just 2 ½ years after the end…
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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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“You have opened My ears” or “A body You have prepared for Me”: An Examination of Psalm 40:5-7 (LXX)/6-8 (Hebrew)
Psalm 40:6 ~ 6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.[a]Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” Hebrews…
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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,…
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One Holy Catholic Church – Not!
This post is the result of having just read two volumes that offer convincing arguments against the quasi-ecclesiastical organization (this nomenclature is mine and should not be attributed to the authors) called the Roman Catholic Church: A Primer On Roman Catholicism by John Gerstner; and, Evangelical Answers: A Critique of Current Roman Catholic Apologists by…
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Church In Southeastern Türkiye Targeted Again, Early September 2022
The Turkish news website, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on September 8, 2022, posted an item in which an up close and personal account was given of the planned murder of three men, who represent the Association of Salvation (Kurtuluş) Churches [1] in the southeastern province of Malatya in Türkiye. The murder there in 2007 of…
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A 1500-Year-old Inscription Points to the House of the Apostle Peter
The TV and internet news organization, Sat 7 Türk Haber, which promotes its mission as “news for Christians from Christians,” issued the above-entitled Turkish language article on September 5, 2022, from an unidentified original report. [As translation by Lahbrais O’Coileain] A team composed of Israeli and American archaeologists uncovered a 1500-year-old inscription on a centuries-old…
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Retrospective on Archaeological Finds in Israel, Greece within the Last Decade Confirm Biblical Record, Late March 2018
While doing an internet search for reports pertaining to Biblical archaeological work, an item appeared that had been picked up by the Turkish internet news site, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on March 23, 2018, from The Christian Post, which it apparently carried on the same date. On its Twitter page, Sat 7 Türk Haber promotes…
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Book Review: Melanchthon, The Quiet Reformer by Clyde Leonard Manschreck
Most of us who have an interest in the period of the Protestant Reformation have heard of Philip Melanchthon, but how many are aware that the surname Melanchthon is an ancient Greek translation, and a sort of cryptonym, for the German Schwarzterdt meaning ‘black earth,’ which was the surname with which he was born. [Note:…
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Book Review: Martin Luther – The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
While reading three biographies of William Tyndale, each of the authors made a point of mentioning that in the course of translating the same into English, Tyndale had made extensive use of Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. Since the Tyndale biographies’ focus centered on his love for…
The Dragon is Slain 