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one reason for ancient archaelogy, from a christian perspective,

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1624, 4th August, 2010
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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what eved-melek means to me

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1543, 5th April, 2010
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 [...]
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population growth, exodus, and numbers

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0416, 7th December, 2009
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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