Ethel, I don't particularly like the translation you cite, but thanks for the URL. The KJV at the same cite gives the verse as: It is he that sitteth upon the...
LDS Scriptures, then Pearl of Great Price and then Abraham ( I answered this before but it didn't post. If you get it twice I am sorry. Scotty ... in ... ...
Hi Llyod, I'm not so sure this particular verse is "racist". The "wine" they may be speaking of may be the literal wine used in the pagan practice of...
Hi George, I cant' back up ANYTHING that happened in the past. Ask me to prove to you that there was ever a George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and I'll...
Hi Ian, The below reference was underresearched and the 511BCE dating discovered in the text subsequent to this. In addition, the eclipse mentioned in the text...
Hi Ian, After much debating about Bible chronology, I've decided I don't have to be RIGHT. It's only necessary to give your REFERENCE. For instance, some try...
Hi All Well it's my first post... and I've been a member for quite a while :o) ... Very true... watch your references... ... They weren't frozen solid suddenly...
Holly, Thanks for your thoughts on the two Jesus's. Jesus #1 was the Galilean, a zealot ... Jesus #2 was Jesus the Nazorite who was ... Unless I read through...
Ethel, Back in the time of kings, to call something a commonwealth was pretty significant I think. Apparently there was a little known period of Tyre's...
Dear Lars, Thank you again for two further excellent postings. You obviously spent a lot of time and effort into researching the subject and I profoundly...
Lloyd, You write: " George, I wonder if there was an actual tribe called "Judah." It is a rather vast area so I am inclined to think that it actually denotes...
Scotty, Isn't there a URL *path* that you could copy paste here? It would seem you are making it as hard as possible to access the mormon verses you quote...
Lars, It just goes to show you that statistically speaking, there has to be at least one person who believes something. You are the first person to suggest...
Adam, You write: " Personally I think Noah was real, but his Flood has been greatly ... This is one of my favorite topics.... discussing the necessity that the...
George, With all due respect I believe you are wrong to foister the idea that Judah was a mythical person. He was Jacob's fourth son by his wife Leah (Gen....
Ethel, your references made me think of some material I had gathered from 'Everymans Talmud', (Cohen, Abraham., 1949, (1995 reprint) Schocken Books, New York....
Ian, The serious use of a "critical" methodology usually leads one to conclude that the story of the 12 sons of Israel is an etymological story, designed to...
Lloyd, Coincidentally, you asked about what history tells us about the Transjordan kingdoms or tribes. I have been looking into this already. Here's one...
Hi Michael You asked ... become "Greek" until their 5th king Amphictyon. Do we know approximately when he ruled? Didn't the Greeks (the Indo-European Greeks)...
Michael asked ... Psalms their is a verse that refers to God sitting upon the circle of the earth, or something like that. -Michael Smith ... Yes, it was felt...
Lars writes ... A flat Earth was a common belief throughout the whole of the Ancient Near East, as Babylonian and Egyptian cosmologies confirm. It was only...
George: Jesus #1 (Jesus as a title meaning savior) was Judas the Galilean (I know he was from Gamala but Acts 5:37 says he was the Galilean) whose followers...
Holly, You write: "Jesus #1 (Jesus as a title meaning savior) was Judas the Galilean (I know he was from Gamala but Acts 5:37 ... Followed by: "His sons, Simon...
Lars wrote ... Lars - An ice canopy would cause the Earth to have a planetary albedo of almost 100%, with the result that you would have a "run-away icehouse"...
Holly, The reason I doubt a 2nd pacifist form of Jesus is that I am inclined to see James (the Brother of a Jesus) was also anti-Roman... and *not* a pacifist....
... George: Perhaps pacificst is not quite the right word. Perhaps Jesus #2 was trying to establish a pro-Mosaic climate before proceeding to an independent...
Ian, I don't think you can necessarily deduce that the earth was a globe from that text. Phenomenologically, the horizon appears to be circular as if the...
Lars, The text says that the "wine-venom" is poisonous. This sets aside your interpretation. Lloyd ... L.M. Barre' http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/AncientIsrael...