The Weapons of Our Warfare Are Not Carnal
Where in the Bible is the phrase, “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal”? It comes from St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, verse 10:4. The passage in context is as follows: For though we walk in the flesh, we are...
What is the prayer to put on the full armor of God?
Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians ends with a powerful chapter filled with memorable exhortations. Central to this passage is his long analogy about putting on “the armor of God,” in which he describes a variety of spiritual...
Where is Amenadiel in the Bible?
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, a...
What does the Bible say about AI or artificial intelligence?
What is “artificial intelligence?” It’s important to understand that when engineers and programmers talk about artificial intelligence, they aren’t actually talking about something that functions like the human brain at all. Wh...
Was Jesus Christ born in September?
Everyone knows that Christmas is in December, but was December actually the month of Christ’s birth? The gospel accounts don’t say, nor does any other book of the New Testament. No one recorded the exact date Jesus was born. Is...
Who was Tartak in the Bible?
Tartak is mentioned in the second book of Kings (also called “4th Kingdoms” in older Bibles) as one of the idols that was set up in Samaria by the people who were living there. 2 Kings chapter 17 describes the religious confusi...
Samyaza and the fall of the angels
Samyaza (also spelled Shemyaza or Semjaza) was the leader of a group of angelic beings described in the Book of Enoch, an ancient Jewish text that influenced early Christians. The text tells the story of a group of beings calle...
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...