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"when all of God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last."
MLK Jr 8/28/1963
c. 8 CE Jesus is at the Temple discussing with "teachers" who were "amazed". (Luke 2:42-47)
But let's not overlook that some very famous teachers were also at the Temple during that time — Hillel, Shammai, and Gamaliel.
4 great teachers, all together in the same room.
Sell the copyright along with all other rights, and then the buyer rebrands it as if they were the songwriters (sometimes changing lyrics). Still makes a bit o' cash.
Been going on like... forever.
Just because they "say" they wrote it doesn't mean they actually did.
Bearing the "thumbprint" as passed on to him by Ip Man, Bruce Lee's own personal style would prevail in a no holds barred match.
There is no contradiction between the names El Elyon and YHWH since both refer to the one God Most High.
If the Masoretes inserted the latter name, it could've been to clarify that lack of difference.
Whether they did can be easily determined by consulting a Torah Scroll.
Melchizedek, the most mysterious person in the Bible, presents the biggest theological contradiction behind the monotheistic God perspective.
Once we consider the cultural context, it becomes clear that there is an evolution within the Bible itself, with proof of it's editing over time, that pigeonholes polytheistic ancient history into a one jealous God and the rest are false Gods dichotomy.
Melchizedek appears out of nowhere within the context of the Old Testament as an already exalted priest-king who blesses Abraham and even gets Abraham to pledge to *his God.
The key point here is Abraham is pledging under Melchizedek's God, not the other way around. Why is this important?
The cultural context is that the Melchizedek was a Canaanite. Canaanites were polytheistic, with their head God being named El Elyon within the Canaanite pantheon. Genesis 14:22 is the account of Abraham swearing his allegiance to El Elyon.
However, the theological contradiction here is that Abraham is pledging to a polytheistic Canaanite God El Elyon and not the Israelite monotheistic God Yahweh. This is a massive theological problem for descendants of the Abrahamic line. So how was this fixed?
The rabbinical scribes saw this problem and edited the Bible by injecting Yahweh into the verse!!!! So not only did it obscure the separate Canaanite God El Elyon, but by injecting Yahweh into this verse, it exalts him into the highest position by calling him Yahweh Most High. Cleverly deceptive, enough to deceive billions of people into believing Yahweh is the Most High.
When lined up with the other ancient texts, we can see that the addition of YHWH was a medieval addition by the Masoretes.
Where the mountains meet the skies
Aspen groves and bristlecone pines
Far from the cities where even 4-wheelers cannot go
That's the Colorado I remember and know
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On the other hand, perhaps every event inherently has both its positive and negative aspects; in which case the problem of suffering is focusing on half the story, rather than the whole of it.
To be fair, the NT presents both sides of the debate by including the viewpoints of Judaic elders such as Nicodemus and R. Gamaliel.
In Acts, Gamaliel didn't frame the debate to specifically favor one side or the other.
Remembering when music was composed, poetic, and had a good message.
"All we are saying is give peace a chance" – Yes
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Overthinking can lead to "losing the forest for the trees".
Fact: the patient either has the disease or not.
Whatever the terms 'sensitivity' and 'specificity' are supposed to convey, they don't change that underlying fact.
Why is it that so many "educated" people claim biblical errors, inconsistencies, and contradictions without being even remotely familiar with Rabbinical teachings, the oral tradition, and historical analysis?
"I can think of hundreds"
UMC 'pastor' Adam Hamilton, the Democrat Senate candidate in Kansas, argues that there are hundreds of mistakes in the bible
He once wrote in a book "Divine influence on the writers [of Scripture] was not qualitatively different from the way God inspires or influences [people] by the Spirit today. The difference between biblical texts and some contemporary writings also influenced by the Spirit is that the biblical authors lived closer to the events of which they wrote.
… This view allows us to value the Bible, to hear God speaking through it, yet … to recognize that some things taught in scripture may not represent God's character nor his will for us today, and perhaps never accurately captured God's will"
Basically, he thinks the biblical writers get lot of the details wrong, but doesn't mind as long as the main point generally is intact.