Maybe it doesn’t help to timidly concede, “No, the law (Sabbath, etc.) may not be ‘required for salvation’, but it’s a good idea nonetheless.” Maybe we should just go ahead and say it: “We’re saved by...

סנהדרין דף צז.א ~ עבודה זרה דף ט.א תָּנָא דְּבֵי אֵלִיָּהוּ שֵׁשֶׁת אֲלפִים שָׁנָה הֲוֵי עָלְמָא שְׁנֵי אֲלָפִים תּוֹהוּ שְׁנֵי אֲלָפִים תּוֹרָה שְׁנֵי אֲלָפִים יְמוֹת הַמָּשִׁיחַ אמר רב קטינא וכו'....

Evolution is evidence for creation. Oh yes indeed it is, because the only observable process of evolution is found in human creation — man’s technology. Therefore if the cosmos is not static but evolutionary, then this is evidence for design.

Ephraim’s birthright (Gen 48:19) וזרעו יהיה מלא־הגוים “and his seed shall become a multitude of nations” interpreted literally is “and his seed shall become the fullness of the nations/Gentiles”, and ...

God’s reputation among the heathen is as one who forsook his people Israel after they had been in the land twice — there is no third time. Here Sura 17 of the Koran is instructive. Let me quote verse 4 (my translation):

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Aharoni, Yohanan, Michael Avi-Yonah, Anson F. Rainey, and Ze’ev Safrai. 1993. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. Revised Third Edition. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

All the children of Abraham acknowledge Abraham’s God. But under this patriarchal unity lie deep filial fissures as defined by these three negatives: the Jews believe that Jesus is NOT the Messiah, t...

A woman in biblical imagery is a city, meaning an organized group, a body, a social structure, a two tiered public association composed of governors and the governed.

When God covenanted with Israel the crucial element was the body of elites, for, as we all know all too well, people indeed are sheep -- they follow their leaders.

God — NOT Chirst — is the God of the TaNaKh, and therefore God — not Christ — “married” Israel. Believing otherwise was one of the great misunderstandings of the historic Worldwide Church of God. We...

Sin, according to Paul, entered “into the world [εἰς τὸν κόσμον