A troubling topic in Deuteronomy is slavery. The allowance of slavery in the Old Testament generates a great deal of debate, and we cannot resolve all the issues here. We should not, however, equate Israelite slavery with slavery in the modern era, including slavery in the United States. The latter involved kidnapping West Africans from their homeland for sale as slaves, followed by the perpetual enslavement of their descendants.
Paul's contributions to our understanding of the powers of evil is to sum them up in the phrase 'principalities and powers'. For him they...
The miraculous story of Lazarus being brought back to life by Jesus is known from the Gospel According to John (11:1–45).
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a...
