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The Hebrew Emergence

After the Hebrews spent four-hundred plus years in Egypt as slaves, a descendent of Abraham named Moses was called by God from a burning bush.  God told Moses to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and take them back to Canaan so they could possess the land He had promised Abraham.  Moses, who was employed [...]

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The Making of a Nation

The Old Testament revelation is that Abraham was the first Jew and it was not a result of his own doing.  Around 2000 B.C., Abraham was minding his own business when God called him to a personal relationship, telling him to pack up and move from his home south of Babylon to a location further [...]

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The Bible is NOT a Science Book!

Common sense aside, it is difficult for average people, like me, to become sufficiently astute to make  value judgments regarding the truth of the various arguments among the “experts”  who make a living challenging the text of the Bible.  However, from a practical perspective, I do not believe it is necessary.  People who are honestly [...]

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What Does A Revelation Look Like?

An authentic, true, supernatural revelation would have the following 4 characteristics: It would reveal things we could not otherwise know. It would be somewhat of a surprise. It would line up with certain observable facts. It would not conflict with itself, or be deceptive.

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The Jews Should Not Exist

The people known as Hebrews, or Jews should not exist.  The fact that they do defies human reasoning.  Their early history and culture is captured and codified in what Christian’s call the Old Testament of the Bible.  The origins of these people go back some 4,000 years and their experience spans every sort of natural, [...]

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The King is Coming

The Old Testament of the Bible is largely a history of the Hebrew People and their stormy relationship their holy God.  In the midst of this sprawling epoch that reminds one of a bad marriage taken to the extreme, there appear great shafts of spiritual light that burst on the scene in various forms.  Revelations [...]

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A Stormy Relationship

The history of the Jews presents them struggling with and against their God.  At times they experienced great highs and amazing national success.  More often, they were involved in corruption and rebellion.  About 800 B.C., individuals began to regularly appear  in Hebrew society who were called prophets.  Though he was not labeled as such, Moses was [...]

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It’s Time To Go Home

After the Hebrew people spent four-hundred plus years as slaves in Egypt, a descendent of Abraham named Moses was called by God from a burning bush.  God told Moses to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and take them back to Canaan so they could possess the land He had promised Abraham.  Moses, who was employed [...]

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The Problem of Sin

The Bible reveals that sin is at the very center of the nature of human beings and is a terminal condition that  results in spiritual death and separation from God.  It is this revelation of the nature of sin that upsets the modern world that pursues relative truth and everchanging standards of morality.

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The Characteristics of Revelation

To know anything factual about God or the eternity he occupies it must be revealed by God.  That means our knowledge would come t us by supernatural revelation.  There are 4 characteristics of a revelation and what a real revelation would accomplish.

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The Miraculous Hebrews

The history of the Hebrew people begins with one man named Abraham.  God told Abraham He would create a nation of people through him and his descendants for a specific purpose.  He told Abraham He would reveal Himself to mankind through them.  The bottom line is that God did what He said He would do [...]

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The Resurrection of Jesus Christ –Part 3 of 5

A simple way for the Jewish leaders to discredit the Christian movement would have been to produce the corpse of Jesus.  Why was the corpse never produced?  I am unable to believe that no serious attempts were made to find the body.

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The Resurrection of Jesus Christ – Part 2 of 5

I normally do not focus on things until they happen, or until I have a reasonable expectation that they might happen.  Because of this, it is obvious to me that the first element of proof for the resurrection of Jesus was that it is reported as an historical event.  It must be considered and discussed [...]

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