Tag: bible

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The book of Judges describes the period when the Israelites were settling into the Promised Land following the Exodus from Egypt. Because the conquest was not complete, warfare was frequent, and resulted in the hero stories preserved in Judges. These heroes were known as "judges", meaning, not peopl...

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PrehistoryAccording to the Bible, God destroys the world in a flood after telling Noah to build an ark. Noah's ark lands on Mount Ararat in modern Turkey, and Noah's descendents repopulate the world.4000 -3150 BCEPrehistoric nomads in the Sinai desert build tombs called Nawamis, the oldest surviving...

Archaeological discoveries have shed light on many Bible stories, providing evidence that these events may have actually happened. Here are a few examples:The city of Jericho: The Bible says that the Israelites conquered the city of Jericho by marching around it seven times and blowing trumpets. Arc...

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.—Mark 3:29, NIV Of all the hard sayings of Jesus, this one has caused the most serious pastoral problems. Even before I was a pastor, I can’t tell you how many times some guilt-ridden person came to...

AnachronismThis is something that is out of place in respect to the historical setting. This happens when something is referred to in a translation that did not exist at the time of the original setting. An example is the use of the word Bible, instead of Scriptures, in the New Testament.ApocryphaTh...

1 John 5:7-8 reads differently in the King James Version than in other translations because Erasmus lost a bet. If you compare this verse in the King James Version, you will find a Trinitarian formula (“the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one” ) that does not appear in mos...

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