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Amenadiel is a figure from the DC comic Lucifer – a Neil Gaiman comic subsequently released as a 6-season television series in 2016. Amenadiel is portrayed as the older brother of Lucifer and the eldest of the angelic siblings,...

Christianity is a very old, very widespread religion, and so there has been a lot of terminology built up over the centuries that can get confusing. There are bishops, deacons, vicars, cardinals, elders, and popes - to name jus...

What does the Bible mean when it says “a man shall leave his father and mother” and that him and his wife will become "one flesh"? In short, the Bible sees marriage as creating a new single unified body out of two individual bo...

If you’ve been around traditional religion enough, you may have gotten the sense that “the church” is not a huge fan of pleasure. Restrictions on food, alcohol, or sex can give the distinct impression that Christianity is again...

Christians in modern, western countries have a weird, back-and-forth relationship to pleasure. There’s often this vague sense that Christianity is against pleasure, or at least suspicious of it, and this is especially true for ...

Pornography is not mentioned in the Bible, which should be fairly obvious. Pornography as we understand it today did not exist in the ancient world, especially since when most people talk about pornography they are talking abou...

Who was Isaiah's father? Amoz is one of those Biblical figures that is connected to prominent figures in the Bible, but himself is someone that we know very little about. Explicitly he is only mentioned a handful of times – thi...

If you’ve heard of the Book of Enoch, you probably know it’s very weird. It’s an ancient document that claims to be written by the great-grandfather of Noah, a mysterious man who is mentioned in the Bible as being “taken away” ...

Tartak is one of the idols mentioned in the second book of Kings (also called ”4th Kingdoms” in older Bibles) that were set up in Samaria by the people who were living there. 2 Kings chapter 17 describes the religious confusion...

What is the Antichrist? There is not a specific person with the title “The Antichrist” in the entire Bible. Instead, the term "antichrist" is used in the Bible to refer to anybody who opposes Christ. This is often surprising f...

Judas Iscariot was one of Jesus’ twelve disciples and is famous – unfortunately – for betraying his master. He betrayed him to the corrupt authorities who ultimately took him away to be condemned and killed. The Bible verse of...

In the apocalyptic vision of the final book of the Bible, St. John describes one of the most awesome and powerful depictions of Jesus in the whole of holy scripture. He is riding on a white horse, his eyes are like a flame, he ...