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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 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...

The Bible is not really one book, it’s a collection of many books across many time periods, cultures, and genres. There’s much of the Bible that’s specifically encouraging across a wide range of different situations, both in pr...

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

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...

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” ...

Gilgal, like many locations mentioned in the Old Testament, is difficult to pin down. It’s mentioned all throughout the history of ancient Israel. Books of the Bible that mention Gilgal: Book of Joshua, chapters 4 and 5 Book o...

Whether you’re a Christian or not, it’s an indisputable fact that Jesus is the number one most influential person to ever live. One easy way to measure this is to measure the number of books that have been written that are base...

In the early twentieth century, there was a movement in Catholicism to develop what they called a “cursillo”, which means a “little course” (as in a course of study). A cursillo was a three-day weekend retreat, grounded in a se...

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 ...