Healing is the children's bread? Miraculous humility
The pop-culture image of Jesus is that he was a nice guy. He was compassionate and gentle with everyone and certainly didn’t deliberately put people down or antagonize them. Or did he? There is a fascinating passage in the Gosp...
The Trinity: Are God and Jesus the same person?
I want to warn you about something before we get into this article. The Trinity is probably the most difficult concept to understand in Christianity. People don’t like that. When people ask questions about Christianity, they te...
What does Jehovah Tsidkenu mean?
Because the Bible is long, complex, and technical, it’s easy for people to take a passage out of context and get absorbed in endless details that seem dramatic and engaging but entirely miss the point. The various names for God...
"Your gift will make room for you." A look at Proverbs 18:16
Proverbs chapters 18, like the rest of Proverbs, consists of a series of edifying sayings, good advice, and wise observations about the world. Because the Proverbs are written in a way that makes them seem like self-contained e...
"A man shall leave his father and mother." What does it mean?
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...
What is the sin of envy in the Seven Deadly Sins?
Some people think that envy as a sin is a silly idea. If you take envy to be seeing something you want and becoming motivated to get it, then envy is, in a certain sense, the entire basis for our economic framework in the moder...
Are there aliens in the Bible?
What does the Bible say about aliens? Nothing. At no point does any part of the Bible discuss the existence of creatures from other planets. Indeed, the idea of beings living on other planets was not even conceived by ancient p...
The Sigil of Baphomet and the Satanic Pentagram
Most people know the famous story of the apple falling on Isaac Newton’s head, inspiring him to articulate the law of gravity. But most people don’t know that the Apple logo, released in the 1976, originally depicted this very ...