The Period from the 4BC birth of Christ to the Fall of Jerusalem in AD 70
Easter is not a reversal. That is where most readings go wrong. It is not: Defeat → Victory Weakness → Strength Loss → Recovery If that were the case, then Good Friday would be a mistake corrected on Sunday. It is not. Easter is the unveiling of what Good Friday actually accomplished. The Quietest Earthquake … Read more
Nothing happens on Holy Saturday. At least, nothing visible. No miracles.No teaching.No crowds.No voice from heaven. The One who spoke creation into being lies in a tomb. And the world continues as if nothing has changed. The Most Theologically Difficult Day We move quickly from Friday to Sunday. The Church calendar does not. It … Read more
Every modern Christian understands that the events of the passion of Jesus Christ during Holy Week is the first of two crescendo messages and primary literary themes incorporated in the entire Bible. God made mankind and He gave us free agency and free will. We soon goofed up and lost our intimate personal relationship with … Read more
Simon Was From The Seaside Fishing Village of Capernaum Simon was born in the fishing village of Capernaum on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee. His parents were an observant Jewish couple, Jonah and Joanna. Simon’s brother was the Apostle Andrew, the First Called. Link to Andrew. The Apostle Simon-Peter (Cephas), is also … Read more
John Lived in Capernaum John was born sometime around AD 6, in the small fishing village, Capernaum, which is located on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee. He was the second son of Zebedee the Fisherman and his wife Mary-Salome. John’s older brother was James the Greater Link to James the Greater. The … Read more
The Apostle Andrew, the Brother of Simon-Peter Andrew was born in the fishing village of Capernaum on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee. His parents were an observant Jewish couple, Jonah and Joanna. He was the brother of Simon who Jesus soon nicknamed Cephas which is Aramaic for rock. In Latin the word … Read more
It will no doubt seem odd to most readers and especially to my Christian readers to learn that the worship of God is not a matter of personal choice, style or preference. However if one pauses to connect the dots, that reality will become inescapably obvious. To begin with, God is ineffable. He is beyond … Read more
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth(14 billion years ago and 4.5 billion years ago, respectively).” The commonly held, condescending and modernistic view, taught in most college level “comparative religions” classes, is the bogus, presumptuous and impertinent truism that all of the world’s religions are ultimately a result of primitive superstitions or … Read more
Having fulfilled their Jewish legal and ceremonial obligations to be obedient to God, Joseph was warned in a dream of danger the newborn king faced from the Romanized Jewish King Herod (Matthew 2:13-14). The Holy Family hastily took flight during the night, and they traveled until they were outside of the domain and jurisdiction of … Read more
After the Presentation of the Jesus, the firstborn of the virgin Mary, and the Purification of Mary, at the Temple in Jerusalem, Joseph and Mary fled to Egypt, with the infant Jesus. They stayed in Egypt until the Romanized Jewish King Herod the Great died. After Herod’s death it was then safe for them to … Read more
A Christian worldview is a “God’s eye” view of our world. Creation is both visible (the physical world) and invisible (the metaphysical, “spiritual” world). Ancient Christianity understands that the visible and invisible worlds are coexistent, transcendent and indistinguishable.
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