“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
In this week’s podcast, I discuss the rather strange and shadowy Nephilim, or Watchers, mentioned very briefly at various points in the Bible and at much greater length in the apocryphal Books of Enoch, while stopping over various mythologies and points in...
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and...
Reader JohnC911 asked an interesting question in relation to the Scripture that I posted up on Sunday regarding the compatibility of Christianity and libertarianism: Is it possible for a Christian Libertarian society to exist if they chose to put Jesus as their King?...
Suggested by our friend The Male Brain – this is highly relevant in the current day and age, given the rate at which people around the world are very happily giving up their freedoms with basically no resistance to unworthy little kings and queens who...
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by...
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he...
Reader and friend JohnC posed a VERY long comment with a question buried in there… somewhere… about whether or not Pontius Pilate was guilty of condemning Jesus Christ to death, and whether he felt any guilt about casting out Our Lord to His death. I...
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His...
Longtime reader and friend of the blog Kapios pitched in with some interesting questions to my Pesach post: Do you follow any particular denomination or do you think denominations is a divide and conquer tactic?Also what do you make of the Easter and Christmas...
Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this...
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