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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’s been a lot of terminology built up over the centuries that can get confusing. There are pastors, bishops, ministers, deacons, vicars, cardinals, elders, and p...

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

The Bible is not a single book; it’s a collection of many books from a variety of time periods, cultures, and genres. Much of the Bible is encouraging across a wide range of situations, both in practical matters as well as the ...

When people talk about “cursing” they usually mean “bad words” or “foul language,” but that understanding is a modern one. In the ancient world, a curse was a very specific thing, something you did to someone in the sense of “p...

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 connected to prominent people in the Bible, but whom we know very little about. He is explicitly mentioned only thirteen times, all in reference to Isaiah: “Isaiah,...

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” ...

The “land of Goshen” is the name of the region that the pharaoh of Egypt gave to the Israelites when they settled in Egypt. This gift is the culmination of the story of Joseph, an Israelite sold into Egyptian slavery by his bro...

It’s an indisputable fact that Jesus is the most influential person to ever live. One easy way to measure is to count the number of books that have been written about a person. When you measure it that way, Jesus ranks very com...

In the early twentieth century, there was a movement in Catholicism to develop a “cursillo,” which means a “little course” of study. A cursillo was a three-day weekend retreat, grounded in a series of talks delivered by both cl...

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