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THE POWER THAT PRAYER DOES NOT HAVE This might prove to be a time bomb, considering that approximately 95% of theists won't agree with me. Prayers cannot make God change His mind, that's the point. I mean, requesting prayers. That's not simply my opinion but my understanding of Numbers 23:19...

LOVE OF RECENTLY MARRIED PEOPLE One day, Jesus was paying a visit to his most dearly-more-than-a-cousin, John the Immerser, over the other side of the Jordan. Perhaps, it had been a long time since they had seen each other last. (John 10:40) Soon enough, while he was enjoying the company of...

ALMAH VERSUS BETULAH In the original in Hebrew, "Almah," which is used in Isaiah 7:14, means a young woman in child bearing age and mature for nuptials. "Betulah," which is used in Amos 5:2, means a physical virgin, pure and immature as a lamb for sacrifice. A lamb from the flock, to be...

CHILDREN OF LIGHT VS CHILDREN OF DARKNESS According to Essene Theology, the controversy between good and evil is represented by the struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness since the beginning of the world. Therefore, in the "beginning," God created the heavens and...

THE POPE HAS A PROBLEM IN ROME The fact that we, the Jews, have ended our dispersion, returned to our biblical homeland, and built there a modern, and vital Jewish State - a Third Jewish Commonwealth - it is extremely relevant to Christianity. However, while some evangelical Christians...

JESUS AND EINSTEIN ON THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE Dear Ben, Q. - According to Torah in Genesis 2:3, after the six days of Creation, God blessed the Seventh Day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work He had done in Creation. But in John 5:17 Jesus declared that God has...

ATTACKS OF DIZZINESS Dear Ben, Q. Since I passed my 70th birthday, I have had attacks of dizziness, especially when I look upward. Am I in danger of having a stroke? A. Attacks of dizziness, as one gets older, can be due to a number of reasons, including high or low blood pressure, low...

THE SLITTING OF 850 THROATS Dear Ben, Reading the books of I and II Kings this past weekend, I came about a gruesome deed of prophet Elijah's who, in order to erradicate the cult of Baal and Asherah, he slitted the throats of 850 of the prophets of Baal and Asherah. (I Kings 18:19) Regardless...

THE FALLACY OF LITERAL INTERPRETATION Dear Ben, I would like to review my former beliefs about the Trinity but I need to understand that Genesis 1:26 means anything different from what so many Christians see as an evidence for the Trinity. Here's what it says: "Then, God said: Let us make...

WHEN THE BELOVED IS READY FOR THE LOVER Sorry if this is not what you expected to read. It is about the Land of Israel and the Jew, an essay based on the Songs of Solomon. When Israel, the Ten Tribes, was transferred to Assyria, the Assyrian king replaced the Israelites with Assyrians.The...

THE EXTRAORDINARY MAN The other day I picked up the book, "Crime and Punishment" and read it wholy in three days. The thing that touched me the most was the concept of the extraordinary man in the Philosophy of the author, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky postulates in his book that all people...

AN INSULT TO THE LADIES When Paul was in Antioch, at the invitation of Barnabas, both of them took upon themselves to preach against women by advising single men to remain as they were, free of women. (I Cor. 7:8) Now, imagine this gospel being preached by two bachelors in a Jewish synagogue...

WHERE IS DANIEL? WHERE IS HIS BOOK? Yes, if Daniel was a prophet, where is he? Why is he not among the Prophets? We all are so fun of his book; why is it not one of the prophetic books in the Tanach? Dear fellow posters, if you haven't noticed, neither is Daniel accounted as one of the...

THE SCOURGING THAT WAS NOT ASKED FOR The Gospels paint the Jews so cruel as to have asked Pilate to crucify Jesus; and Pilate so good as to run out of arguments to save Jesus from the cross by claiming that he had found no fault in him. (John 18:38) But then comes the strike that broke the...

THE ISSUE ABOUT TIME AND SPACE Nothing existed before something started to exist. BTW, time and space do not exist. They are accidents of matter. Space is the distance between matter and matter. Considering that matter was created, there was no space before matter. Where there is no matter...

THE BLESSING GOES FOR J. OR G.? The other day I was asked by a Seventh-Day Adventist church member about how the Jews look at Christians who observe the Sabbath just like Jews do. I answered and said, no different from any other Christian, considered that the commandment to keep the Sabbath...

THOU SHALL NOT COVET According to Halachah - Jewish law - a sin is not a sin as long as it remains in the mind and never materializes into action. Now, if sin, by definition, is a transgression of the Law, and to covet is not a sin, how can we harmonize the apparent contradiction that "thou...

Messiah ben Joseph versus Messiah ben David The whole chapter 53 of Isaiah is about the dramatic epic of two Messiahs: Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben David. The drama that culminated in the "death" of Messiah ben Joseph for the sins of Messiah ben David. Properly speaking, Messiah ben...

WAS MARY M. THE SAME AS MARY B.? We are talking about Mary of Magdala and Mary of Bethany, who were known respectively as Mary Magdalene and Mary, the sister of Martha. After the wedding in Cana of Galilee, Jesus had become much more than just a guest in Bethany. According to John 12, when...

AN ITEM OF THE NEW COVENANT - PART 1 According to Jeremiah 31:31, a New Covenant was established with the House of Israel and the House of Judah as one nation soon after the return of the Jewish People from exile in Babylon. (Ezek. 37:22) An item of that Covenant would be the end of the...