“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with (a) God and the Word was (a) God.  The same (God–the Word) was in the beginning with (the other) God.  All things were made by Him (the Word), and without Him was not anything made that was made.  In Him (the Word) was life […]

The first five chapters of the Book of Genesis lay bare a fact that no one can honestly deny–mankind is rotten to the core.  It only took two chapters worth of time for man to become the vile creature he is today.  But let it be known that he was not created in that spiritual […]

Why do people, including church people, though having the Word of God readily at hand, refuse to believe it?  Note the Lord’s answer as declared through the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:3,4.  Here Paul, writing to the saints in the church at Corinth, states that the Gospel is hidden from those who are lost, […]

One member of the eternal Godhead came to earth as a man.  The Apostle John wrote about Him in the first four verses of his gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with (a) God and the Word was (a) God.  The Word was in the beginning with (the other) God.  […]

“What do you mean, we hate our Christian brothers?  We don’t hate people outside the church, and we most certainly don’t hate those in the church.  To say that we hate other people in the church is insane. ”  This is the attitude of billions  of people who attend church services every Sunday, celebrate Christmas, […]

In a previous posting (Lk. 10:4) we examined the meaning behind the Lord’s command to His disciples not to greet (salute) people, even family members, on their way to their ministry assignments.  In this posting we will pick up on His instruction to them in which He said: “… into whatsoever house you enter into, […]

“Let no man eat fruit of you forever.”  Jesus talking to a tree?  A little background information is in order.  Like so many other things that were done and said by people living in the Middle East, an explanation helps the Western mind to understand the relationship between what Jesus and His disciples did and […]

“She began to wash His feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head.”  Behind this demonstration of adoration exhibited by this fallen woman there lies a custom that was widely practiced among the ancients of the Middle East.  It was a widely practiced tradition to collect the tears of family […]

The Holy Bible contains dozens of strange statements that the Western mind cannot comprehend without help from those who have studied the Middle-eastern cultures of the past and present and have been kind and generous enough to share their findings with the rest of the world.  This series will consist of such findings.  I present […]

DIVINE: that which pertains to, proceeds from or is of the nature of God.  In Christian circles the word describes the God of the Holy Bible. SLAVERY: a social system in which human beings are owned as private property. In Old Testament times God’s chosen people–the Israelites– did not have “slaves” that were bought and […]