It is often argued that Buddhism is not a religion because they don’t believe in a supreme creator god. But, is it really like that? What did the Buddha say? The Buddha was a man like you and me, he didn’t claim to be a god, nor he wanted to be worshiped like one. Anyway, [...]

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Native speakers of Arabic, residing in Northern Africa and Middle East speak different versions of Arabic. These versions differ from place to place. These versions at times are not intelligible with each other. So people use some medial language that has common features of all versions to communicate. Standard Arabic is widely taught in schools [...]

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Jesus often spoke in parables to illustrate what the Kingdom of God would be like? Why did Jesus speak in parables rather than just speaking more directly about the Kingdom of God? Did he speak in parables so that the people would better understand what he meant or did he have another reason?The Disciples Ask [...]

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What Andy Gaus has achieved (and brilliantly achieved) in his new Translation is to present the ideas, words and context of the various books of the New Testament as they would have been perceived by a majority of educated Greek readers in the third and fourth centuries.To take but one example, Gaus rightly points out [...]

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Not one person could ever correctly say that the Bible is all sunny day reading, describing the journey with God as a wonderland of prettiness. Most of the Old Testament (OT) is grossly stark in its approach – I mean, there are plenty of bloody battles, ghastly murders and torture; even rape (Judges 19) and [...]

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