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Was Jesus the Second Virgin Birth?
Isaiah 7 is the story of a failed king, the threat of a bloody conquest, and a powerful prophecy from one of Judah's greatest prophets. The prophecy may have included a virgin birth, and I don't mean Jesus.
Sergey Tsalkov
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Darkness Came Over the Land
We can actually date Jesus's crucifixion by the darkening of the sky.
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Sunlight
There's teaching Jewish law and tradition, and then there's crawling so far up your own ass that you can no longer see the sunlight, and Jewish rabbis sometimes devolved into the latter.
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A Simple Haggadah
A basic guide to celebrating Passover.
Book Review: Ido in Autismland
Ido is a young boy living with severe autism. He can’t talk, and he has trouble getting his body to obey his mind. Therefore, he couldn’t communicate until the age of 12. Since then, he’s learned to communicate by tapping on an iPad. He’s kept a journal, and has published that journal as this book.
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Calling the Devil "Lucifer" Is Not Biblical
Christian doctrine often departs from the Bible in big and small ways. This is one of the small ways. I was recently surprised to discover that Satan's name is not Lucifer, and that this idea stemmed from a bad reading of a single Biblical verse.