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Category: Biblical Mysteries
Close reading of what the biblical text actually says, in the original languages where it matters. Why tsela probably does not mean rib, what tamim means in Genesis 6:9, how bene ha-Elohim is used elsewhere, and where translation has quietly changed the meaning.
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What Do Angels Look Like? Men More Often Than Wings
Abraham fed three of them and took them for travellers. Daniel saw one and lost his strength. The Bible describes angels in two registers,…
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Did Jesus Abolish the Sabbath? The Full Case on Both Sides
No recorded saying of Jesus abolishes the Sabbath — he kept it and called himself Lord of it. The full biblical record, the Saturday-versus-Sunday…
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Who Is Jesus According to the Bible? The Question That Split the Church
One set of passages calls Jesus God. Another says the Father is greater. Both are in the same book. Every Christological position in history…
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What Do Thrones Look Like? The Bible’s Wheel Within a Wheel
The Bible never describes a being called a throne. What it describes are ophanim — wheels of translucent stone, rims full of eyes, moving…
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What Do Cherubim Look Like? Four Faces, Not Baby Wings
Four faces, eyes on every surface, and a body that gleams like burnished bronze. The Bible’s cherubim appear ninety-one times, and the text cannot…
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What Do Seraphim Look Like? The Bible’s Burning Ones
Isaiah saw them above the throne of God — six wings, a voice that shook stone, and a name borrowed from the serpents of…
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Demonic Possession in the Bible: Every Case, and the One That Comes Back
The evil spirit on Saul. Legion in the tombs. The boy the disciples could not help. Every case of demonic possession in the Bible…
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What Did Jesus Say to Satan? Three Answers, One Book
Nobody else was there, so the account can only have come from him. The three offers in order, what forty days without food actually…
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Adam’s First Wife: The Lilith Story Has One Source
The first wife, the refusal, the exile – all of it enters the record in a single medieval book of proverbs that half the…