Hebrews

conflict occurring in Israel has created unmasked tension between the Arabs and Jews who are sharing the land. This has created a culture of each group wanting to garner support and sympathy for their “side” of the conflict. As an Arab writing to a Hebrew audience, one might assume Kashua uses his newspaper column to promote the Arab side. While Kashua does partake in telling stories pertaining to the conflict, such as stories of the discrimination he faces as an Arab, his stories appear to…

is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) This sacred writing from the New Testament characterizes what faith is. In the Hebrew Bible, New Testament and the Qur’an, faith is a focal topic and this is to stress how steadfast Abraham was to God. The relevance of this in these sacred books was present the character of Abraham in which they are all considers a prophet. In the Hebrew Bible, God already knew that Abraham was a faithful individual. God knew…

Men, Hebrews 1:13-14. The author of Hebrews asks; 'But to which of the angels has He (God) ever said, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a foot stool for your feet"? When the Father of all creation, that of Heaven, earth, the natural and supernatural says to "sit down and take a load off" there must surely be profound favor. To have a footstool made of your enemies expresses supreme authority and dominance. As powerful as angels are, they are only ministering spirits. They bring…

To understand these regulations we must always consider the context in which these are written as many were written in the Hebrew Bible in a time with a completely different culture to our own. For example one of the unquestionable regulations in the Bible is that of making adultery immoral. This can not be said to be down to the current culture of the time as it is clearly still the same case today. On the opposite side of this is that of Deuteronomy 22:28-29 where it is said that that if a…

Consisting of 1,196 chapters and kandas and 55,102 verses combined, the Christian Bible and the Ramayana of Valmiki are two of the most important sacred texts of their respective religions (Kizziah, “King James Bible Statistics”; “Ramayana: Organization”). The Christian Bible, an ancient religious text consisting of both the Old and New Testaments, uses multiple narratives and parables to convey important values and themes. Christianity follows the teachings of the Old Testament, which contains…

Thomas Cahill argues that the Jews greatly affected Western society. Although the Jews are small in number, their contributions affect the way all people - both Jewish and non-Jewish behave. Firstly, Judaism introduced the concept of democracy to the world. In the book of Shmot, when G-d defeats the demi-god Pharoah, He proves no political figure can be a god. Furthermore, the 10 plagues are a direct attack against Egyptian gods: the transformation of the Nile river into blood an affront to the…

1. When one hears the phase “Day of the Lord” there are usually a few things that run through their head. For the believers, the righteous, it is a day of hope, but for the unbeliever, the unrighteous it is a day of destruction. “The Day of the Lord”, according to J. Ed Komoszewski in his article, “A Basic Introduction to The Day of the Lord in the Old Testament Writings Prophets” is two sided in nature. It will produce both destruction and blessing to everyone on the Earth. The wicked, the ones…

Young Earth creationism is the belief where the world was created in 6, 24-hour days, and the age of the world is approximately 6000 years old. The Young Earth creationism uses the great flood to show how it makes sense. Making the world and everything on it young. This ideal that the earth is young is not a new ideal and has been around since between 700 and 735 AD, when a monk by the name of Venerable Bede claimed the creation of the world was in 3952 BC. Many other people have placed the…

Benjamin Brown of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, outlines the rise of religious radicalism with in Galicia during the first years of the nineteenth century. In his article The Two Faces of Religious Radicalism, Orthodoxy and Holy Sinning in 19th Century Hasidism in Hungry and Galicia, Brown asserts that the strengthening of Hasidism and the Orthodoxy movements stemmed from the need to protect Jewish tradition in the face of acculturation. He states that Hasidism was a conservative…

would not reach perfection without us” Hebrews 11:40 (NLT).A mist the stress and the trials of life, we all long for something better. Have you ever thought there has to be something better? This desire this longing is nothing new. The Israelites wonder in the wilderness for 40 years in searched for a better land in essences they waited for deliverance and the opportunity to lead a better life. God has something better for you in times of disappointment. Hebrews 11 reads example after example…