Creation
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1 Brenton) For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and the sea and all things in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11 Brenton)
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The Birth of Jesus Christ Bible Study
A Free Remote Round-Table Style Bible Study Class on: “The Birth of Jesus Christ“ Starts at 8:00 PM EST each Thursday night starting May 11, 2017. Classes are not in session presently; they will begin again in mid-October, 2017 I’ve put together Bible Study Guides for each person to download and work through independently over the course of the study, and I’ve secured a room through Zoom.us for us to meet each week to share what we’re learning. Each week’s assignment will be made available the previous week. In order to participate in the following week’s round-table discussion each participant will be expected to complete that week’s assignment. While I will be…
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Is the Son of Man the Son of a Man?
In the New Testament, the reference “son of man” is attributed to Jesus over 75 times, but what does that mean? The Greek word translated as “man” in that phrase is “anthropos” which means “a human being”, so this seems to mean “son of a human being”. In the Old Testament Ezekiel is often referred to as “son of man”, and the Hebrew word for “man” in that phrase is “adam”, which means “man, mankind”, but is also the name of the first man made from the dust of the earth. So, another way of phrasing this would be “son of adam”, or “son of mankind”. As far as I am…
- 3-Grass, Seed-Yielding Herbs, Fruit Trees, 3-Land and Seas, 5-Sea Creatures and Winged Birds, 6-Living Creatures on Land, 6-Man and Woman, Creation, Jesus / Yeshua, Virgin Birth Doctrine
Session 1: In the Beginning – Introduction (DVBD)
Genesis 1 Establishes a Natural Order Generally speaking, all life is made to reproduce after like kind. Given that the Virgin Birth Doctrine deviates from this Natural Order established by the Creator in the beginning, the burden of proof should fall on the proponents of that doctrine to defend their case, not on those who adhere to the Creator’s way. But because this doctrine is so pervasive in our modern western culture, the notion of the Messiah being born by natural means is widely considered to be the deviant position. As a result, those who challenge the Virgin Birth doctrine often find themselves in the weaker position of having to…
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Dismantling the Virgin Birth Doctrine: An Introduction
I was raised to believe… Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, and Joseph was not his biological father. The idea was that while Mary, a virgin, was espoused to Joseph, she was visited by the Holy Spirit and miraculously became pregnant with Jesus without Joseph’s involvement. And when Jesus was born, Joseph became his adoptive parent. As a result of this miraculous event, the thought continued, God was able to appear to mankind clothed in humanity. This paved the way for another fundamental tenet of my Christian faith: the notion that Jesus was God. I couldn’t really explain it rationally, but I had believed that Jesus was fully God…
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Genesis 1: Evening and Morning (Video)
In my Follow-Up Series to the video presentation on When a Day Begins and Ends, I address the most common objections to the notion that the Bible only speaks of the Day as being “the light”, separate from the Night. The single most common objection I encounter is found in Genesis 1, particularly the statement: And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:5b KJV) Many believe this defines a different kind of Day, one that includes the Night. Here’s my answer to that: If you’ve never done the exercise of looking at all the uses of “ereb” (H6153) and “boqer” (H1242) in the Old Testament to see how…
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Correction: And God Divided Between the Light…
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. (Gen 1:4 KJV) The Brenton translation of the Greek Septuagint says: And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness. (Gen 1:4 Brenton) It was recently pointed out to me that the Hebrew word “beyn” (H996) translated above in the KJV as “from” appears twice in Genesis 1:4: once before the light, and the other before the darkness. And upon further inspection in the Greek Septuagint, I see the phrase “ana mesos”, translated as “between” also appears twice in this verse. A more proper translation…
- 1-Day and Night, 4-Sun Moon & Stars, Day of Atonement - Yom Kippur, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Passover - Pesach, Precept Upon Precept, Sabbath Day - Shabbath
When a Day Begins and Ends (Video)
Our modern culture teaches a day is a 24-hour period of time that begins at midnight. Jewish tradition teaches a day is a 24-hour period of time that begins at sunset. But what does the Bible say? Watch this presentation covering the Biblical definition of the day, how long it lasts, when it begins and why it matters.
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Made in His Image and Likeness
Genesis 5:3 establishes the notion that within humanity, a son bears a likeness to his father. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: (Gen 5:3 KJV) We all understand this with physical features, where a son may physically look like his father bearing the same skin tone, hair and eye color, build and facial features. But because he was taught by his father, he also may carry similar traits found in his: temperament work ethic love/compassion towards others integrity/moral character And similar interests like: a love of the outdoors being an avid reader sharing…
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When is the Start of the Year?
EDITED 1/25/17: See Notes in Red. Recently I received an email that read: I have been thinking about the start of the year and wondered how you determine the beginning of the year using a solar calendar. Here was my response: From what I understand from the Book of Enoch, the years are solar in nature one year with the has months being determined by way of the sun rising in 6 different stations of the sky in the east and setting in 6 in the west (marked by the 12 constellations of the stars), and the moon likely plays a part in telling us which year we are in over a series of years.
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When is the Sabbath Day According to the Bible?
This past week at our fall camp-out I did a presentation on what I understand the Torah to be testifying to concerning when the Sabbath days fall out on the 364-day solar year model put forth in the Book of Enoch. It’s been a few years since I discovered this layout, and I’ve been relatively quiet in discussing this subject publicly because I have not been able to reconcile how that model would play out in a modern setting given what we experience with a 365.24 day solar year. However, more recently I’ve been associating with some folks who esteem the 364-day priestly calendar discussed among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and…
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