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So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of ...

There are two reasons, translations and texts, both of which have cropped up in the news of religion this year. The venerable King James Version (KJV) appeared without changes over centuries. Today, ...

Their next section inventories the “dark side of the Bible,” detailing ... Central to the Old Testament is God’s revelation of a personal name to Moses from the burning bush—the name YHWH (Exod. 3:15) ...

A complete framework for building a sustainable Christ-centered wellness routine based on scripture ...

(RNS) — Centuries since it was written, the Christian Bible remains a bestselling book ... But that move is intentional, per writer, co-director and executive producer Jon Erwin, who said ...

An ancient temple that belonged to an Old Testament pharaoh is being restored by archaeologists in Egypt. In a Facebook post published Thursday, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

He is not very concerned with historical questions about the Bible’s accuracy, and is characteristically evasive on questions of onto-theology. What matters for Peterson is not the historical or ...

In his new book, Peterson examines several stories of the Old Testament ... Referring to the Bible as a “library,” Peterson said he originally wrote a book “three times” as long and ...

Next week, we will study New Testament ... in the Bible is yirah (יראה, pronounced yir-ah). It often directly translates into fear, like “fear of the Lord,” it can also mean respect ...

This week, we discuss the Old Testament ... author-pastor-teacher- from Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California: “So, what is truth? Here’s a simple definition drawn from what the ...