THE HISTORY OF HEAVEN AND GOD’S ROLE IN IT. GOD HAD NO DIRECTION HOME, SO HE CREATED ONE. HE DECIDED THAT HE NEEDED SOME HELP AND SOME HEAVENLY ENTITIES TO DO HIS BIDING. SO, HE CREATED AN ARMY OF HEAVENLY HOSTS. HE GAVE THEM FREE WILL. SINCE HEAVEN HAS NO USE...
The basic logic in mainstream Christian theology goes like this: sin is seen as a violation against a holy and just God, and justice requires that wrongdoing be met with a penalty,o This is a Toby and Claude posting. The basic logic in mainstream Christian theology...
BLOG BY TOBY AND CLAUDE. Noah’s flood is the biblical story in Genesis 6–9. God decides to destroy a corrupt world with a flood. He tells Noah to build an ark. Noah takes his family and pairs of animals aboard. Rain falls for 40 days and 40 nights. The flood...
In most traditions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam), angels don’t become heavenly. They were created as heavenly beings, and no one needs to meet entrance requirements. Some accounts add that the angels who stayed loyal to God remained in heaven, while those who...
66 vs 73 Why does the Protestant Bible end with 66 books while the Catholic Bible has 73? The gap comes down to seven books: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and 1–2 Maccabees. Catholics call these the deuterocanonical books. Protestants call them the Apocrypha....
A new left Democrat socialist party meeting to plan the American Revolution. The Younger Dryas was a fascinating period of abrupt climate change that took place roughly 12,900 to 11,700 years ago. During this time, the Northern Hemisphere suddenly cooled quite...
