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Essays by Moses Mikheyev |
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There is no time to spare with such message; we must act on what we know. Maybe our lives will be changed if we’d only realize how much we need and need each other; every one of us is going to be shaped by someone nearby. If our actions are really reactions, would not this lead us to examine the way others react to us and our own ‘actions’? Wouldn’t we start to examine things differently?
The Significance of Baptism: A Lost Art of Forgiveness We have found mikvaot (plural for mikveh) dating back to the first century A.D. and have even found one such ritual bath at Masada; a fortress built on a plateau, a thousand feet up in the dry desert region near the Dead Sea. The ritual baths are, usually, taken in moving water. Only dry places, like Qumran and Masada, which have no access to moving or standing natural water, have these man-made baths.
The Pharisees and I: A Devotional Approach to Scripture I stood there looking at the pastors and I felt a sense of bitter shame. Maybe it was guilt, I do not know. I had stood by this crowd far too long. I had watched my people suffer beneath the horrible, overly religious traditions. I have seen them turn to find joy in foreign places: now there was no Elohim, there was only requirement; now there was no joy, people turned to stupid toys to soothe their souls. They had forgotten Elohim. Why talk about Elohim when He has turned His back on us?
Tears of the Devil: A Critique of God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Why Do We Suffer? “The darkness is too deep, the suffering too intense, the divine absence too palpable. During the time that it took for this Christmas Eve service to conclude, more than 700 children in the world would have died from hunger; 250 others from drinking unsafe water; and nearly 300 other people from malaria.
The startling Epistle to the Laodiceans, Chapter 8, translated from Russian. And then will a stranger ask another stranger, “We have walked the earth, did you see peace anywhere?” And the other will answer, “Not in my homeland, not in a far-off place, not on land, not on mountains, not on sea, nowhere did I find rest.” And the one asking the question will sigh, lean on his staff and say, “Evaporating vapor is peace, escaping from the land to the sky.”
The Discovery of 1 Enoch Among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Today, 1 Enoch is not found in our Bibles, though it is included in the Ethiopian Church Canon (Prophet 9). Otherwise, it is generally considered pseudepigraphical, which means a book is written by someone else than it claims to be written by. The D.S.S. contained many manuscripts of “apocryphal” and “pseudopigraphal” writings. This fact alone shows the importance that “pseudopigraphal” books had among the original “owners” of the D.S.S. (Prophet 3).
The belief that modesty is a must for early Christianity is universally recognized by most, if not all, biblical scholars. The topic of modesty has been talked about by everyone from Paul to Clement to Tertullian to Commodianus to Cyprian. All said the same basic thing. So, in conclusion, early Christianity reserved make-up, jewelry, dyeing of the hair and what not all to those who were “outside” of the church. Even though such language comes across as harsh today, it is what Christianity taught for centuries.
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