Articles for tag: The Bible

Fallen Women of the Bible: Eve, Jezebel, Delilah

Living under The Laws of God, the Bible’s Old Testament women – and men – were held to strict and exacting codes of high behavior and conduct. Some Old Testament women fell trying to scale the heights of God’s Laws. Among the Top Ten Fallen Women of the Bible are Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah of ...

Book Review: The Bible for Dummies

It all started over 20 years ago with a little book called “DOS For Dummies,” one of the first tutorial books addressing personal computer users. The book’s tremendous success has led to hundreds of titles in the “Dummies” series, each explaining topics in “plain English”. “Dummies” books cover just about every topic you can think ...

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Meditating the Bible Scriptures

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success (Joshua 1:8 NKJV).” The Book of ...

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Six Female Authors of the Bible

I intentionally chose this article title to spark a reaction and stimulate discussion, for it is pretty well accepted by Christian men and women alike that the authors of the 66 books of the Bible were most likely all male (with the possible exception of the Book of Hebrews, which some believe may have been ...

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What’s Missing from Your Bible? The Book of Judith

Most modern printings of the King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible omit fourteen books that were included as the Apocrypha when the King James Version (also known as the Authorized Version) first appeared in 1611. Roman Catholics include eleven of those books in their versions of the Bible, and other Christian groups ...

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72 Sacred Names of God

The Jews believe that the name of God is more than just a title. In fact, in Judaism, the name symbolizes how the Jewish conceptualizes divine nature. They also used the 72 sacred names of God to describe how God relates not only to the Jewish but to people from all over the world. In ...

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On the Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

Eleven-year-old Olaudah Equiano is carelessly tossed aboard a slave ship as cargo. He looks around helplessly at the horrible men with their light complexions and long hair and is sure that they mean to eat him. After he refuses to eat the food they offer him, he is tied down and severely flogged. The Interesting ...