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Gary North on the recent unrest in Egypt
Gary North explains how the recent unrest in the Middle East is the result of the Internet, which makes the information control that oppressive governments rely on impossible. Brutal dictatorship as we know it is coming towards its last days. And the US government, which has so long armed the repressive government of Egypt, is [...]
one reason for ancient archaelogy, from a christian perspective,
is the belief that God has been acting throughout history in the various nations of the world. As it says in the book of the prophet Amos, Are ye not to me as the sons of the Kushites? O Sons of Israel, says Jehovah, Did I not bring Israel up out of the Land of [...]
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why i am a byzantine priorist
After reviewing all three sides of the argument for a good many hours, I’ve become quite certain that the Byzantine-priority approach, as outlined in Maurice Robinson’s The Case for Byzantine Priority, is the best way to approach questions about the original text of the Greek New Testament. No one, as far as I know of, [...]
Posted in textual criticism Also tagged alexandrian text, byzantine priorism, critical text, eldon jay epps, greek new testament, hippocrates, homer, kjv-onlyism, manuscript destructions, maurice robinson, modern eclecticism, the alands, the case for byzantine priority, transmissional normality, westcott and hort 4 Comments
what eved-melek means to me
When I was a little boy I had a little Bible book of cartoon pictures, a far more complete Bible than many children’s Bibles–if I remember right it even included the book of Hosea. Serious children’s Bible. Everyone did, however, look suspiciously European in skin tone. Except for Eved Melek. Eved Melek was black, and [...]
Posted in passage interpretation Also tagged babylon, bible, cartoons, ebed melech, ethiopia, eved melek, jeremiah, jeremiah 38, jewish history, king zedekiah, kjv, kush, kushites, nebuchadnezzar, nubians Leave a comment
population growth, exodus, and numbers
Often, people attempt to use what they call science to disprove the history in the Bible. One of the accusations concerns the rapid population growth recorded in the Bible during the Israelite sojourn in Exodus. This is the accusation: that to start with 70 Israelite men going into Egypt and end with over 2,000,000 people [...]
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Eric Margolis on the Muslim Brotherhood