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February 18, 2025
February 15, 2025
Craig H
"Sirens were not mermaids, but birds.
Here is a discussion:
I am a biblical scholar and Enoch does not say that sirens are mermaids. In biblical circles anyway, sirens and mermaids are two very different things. Of course everything is conjecture as to what they were. But here's what I've been..."
February 3, 2025
Benzi Melechson
"It seems like the Aramaic “ Memrah”ממרא is related to the Hebrew term “ ma’amar”= מאמר which roughly means =“ Saying, speech” from which the common term “va’Yomer hashem ויאמר ה׳ is derived which is translated “ and ( God/ hashem ) said…”several times in Genesis 1 and elsewhere where Gos spoke. John..."
Lánre Jùbẹ́ẹ̀
"Why did Jeremiah appear to repudiate the Law of Sacrifices and Offerings in the above quoted text? Any help please?"
February 2, 2025
Zoran Sulc
"Is it possible that the LXX preserves a better reading of the original Hebrew, rather than the much later Masoretic text?"
January 31, 2025
January 27, 2025
Charles Ferreira
"Hello. I work selling precious stones. There are versus in the Bible that speaks negatively about them and others that speak positively. Is it a sin too work with selling, cutting precious stones? Also, is it a sin to have natural essential oils? As for metals, I am confused about it because didn’t..."
January 21, 2025
January 16, 2025
Lubega Steven
"I want to know how many stars that came from heaven and reached to the mountain"
February 2, 2025
January 11, 2025
Donald
"I'm curious, since I came from reading Joshua 10:12-13... Why is it I can't seem to find Sefer Ha-Yashar/Book of Jasher on this site?"
January 10, 2025
David
"The phrase "Son of my old age" is a parallel to the patriarch Isaac, son of Abraham's old age. Wisdom was spoken of in their story through allegory"
January 5, 2025
January 3, 2025
Anonymous
"What are the names of all of adam and eve's children? I read they had about 60 children"
December 23, 2024
Carl F Jordan
"Did Adam and Eve children have sex with each other, and us that's how we multiplied, is that not in appropriate?"
December 19, 2024
Carla
"Hi!
When you say
"(Most cite Psalm 41:10 - It seems that Isaiah 33:1 is nearer to the meaning of John 17:12 than these passages.) ..."
I think you mean Psalm 41:9.
Thanks for writing!"
December 12, 2024
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December 7, 2024
Anonymous
"Cheryl, I think you are confusing Abraham with Moses"
November 30, 2024
November 19, 2024
william gesick
"it was not size it was intelligence , you dont have to be tall to be a giant among men , it means your above the rest"
Melissa
"How is it that we are going back to when The Book of Enoch was created when Enoch was the only human to enter the heavens?"
November 10, 2024
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