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Angelic/Demonic Realms
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How The Devil Got His Name

Here’s a fairly common question someone asked me again recently: I can’t seem to find the word “Lucifer” in my Bible anywhere. Isn’t that Satan’s real name? If it’s not, where did we ge...
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Biblical Studies
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The Bible and Homosexuality, Part 1: The Purpose of Human Sexuality in Genesis 1 & 2

  One of the most heated cultural debates of our time is that of homosexuality.  While the scales seem to have tipped in favor of seeing homosexuality as a morally neutral behavior,[1] at least in the culture at large, th...
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Existence of God
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Tough Questions: Is there any proof or incidence that confirm the presence of God?

It depends entirely on what you will admit as evidence.  For example, there are many scientists who have little or no personal religious leanings, yet believe that the existence and structure of the cosmos (and many things con...
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Bible
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Tough Questions: How did the literalist interpretation of Christianity win out over that of the Gnostics?

Q:  How did the literalist interpretation of Christianity win out over that of the Gnostics? A:  It didn’t.  The Gnostic “interpretation” came considerably later than the orthodox Christian teachings about ...
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Biblical Studies
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Rome or Greece: Interpreting the Fourth Kingdom in Daniel 2

In Daniel 2, there is a prophecy about a large statue made from four different metals, each symbolic of a kingdom. The identity of the first kingdom is made explicit in Daniel 2:38 where it is identified as the Babylonian Empi...
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