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An archaeological reconstruction of the home of a wealthy Jerusalemite in the upper city.

Fabric for clothing and household use was woven on a simple loom, usually by the young girls of the family. All the fabric for the Temple, including the robes for the priests and the even the dividing curtain between the Holy Place and the Most Holy were all woven by young girls who were...

The ossuary, or bone box of High Priest Caiaphas. The Jewish method of burial was thoroughly wash a body and then wrap it in linen strips placing a compound of aloes and myrrh and other dessicants between the wrappings and the body that would help in drawing out the moisture from the body. After...

An archaeological rendering of the palace of the infamous High Priest Caiaphas.

It was in this valley at Dothan where Joseph found his brothers who were tending their father's sheep and where the brothers, jealous of the favoritism shown to Joseph by their father, threw Joseph in a pit and then sold him to passing merchants headed for Egypt. Having stripped him of the...

The Bible often uses simple daily tasks familiar to the people as object lessons in spiritual truths. The binding of sheaves of wheat played a prominent role in the account of Joseph and the animosity his brothers felt toward him when he related a dream in which he and his brothers were in the...

A threshing floor at Nazareth Village, Israel.

John the Baptist used a harvest reference that would have been familiar to his hearers when he spoke of Jesus saying "whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." He was...

You included a lot of issues in your post so to keep my response from being too burdensome I've broken it up into the three main subjects you have broached. I hope that is acceptable. I did give more time to the subject of this thread, which is: On The Kingdom of God It is not me who is...

You are defining "the kingdom of God" as the rule or dominion of God which was created for Jesus after he defeated sin and death and sat down on the right hand of God. That is the Hebrew word "misrah" which is translated "government" (Isa 9:6) and the Greek word "hegeomoi" which is translated...

You seem to think that Christians meet on Sunday as a matter of convenience. That is not the case. Christians have been gathering together for fellowship on Sundays since the very beginning, a custom established by the Apostles, not because it was or is convenient, but to commemorate the day...

If everything men do is pre-programmed by the nature and intelligence God has endowed men with, then every man would make the same choices. Do you believe God is incapable of creating free moral agents? In Christ, Pilgrimer

And the master of it. In Christ, Pilgrimer

Yes, I do know what free will means, but I don't believe you do. You are arguing that in order for one to have free will they must be omniscient and omnipotent. That's not true. Free will can be exercised even without perfect knowledge of all the consequences and even without absolute control...

I beg your pardon. The ability of rational beings to choose between alternative courses of action is the very definition of free will. They understood the difference between obedience (good) and disobedience (bad), and that is the central issue. It was for Adam and it is for us as well. That's...

You stated "they didn't understand the consequences of sin," as if that negates free will. It doesn't. Just because you choose a course of action out of ignorance doesn't mean you didn't choose it, it just means you didn't choose very well. But you are assuming he would choose to jump even...

But I don't agree that free choice is the same thing as informed choice. Are these things really such puzzles for you? If I had a son who did not know the consequences of jumping off a 10-floor building then I would have two options: First, and my choice, would be to inform him what the...

It is the sovereign will of God that man choose whom he will serve. No, Adam did not understand all the consequences of his actions, neither do we. Only God is omniscient, only God knows all the ramifications of everything we do, say, or even think. So our duty, as it was for Adam, is to trust...

Under the New Covenant, this is the "day of salvation" when men are so blessed as to cease from their own works and find rest in Jesus, which is what the Old Covenant Sabbath foreshadowed. (Hebrews 4:7) Christians gather on Sundays not to commemorate the 7th day Sabbath, the end of the old...

The error of Rabbinic Judaism isn't in the timing of the coming of the Kingdom of God, but in it's nature. They were expecting a literal, earthly kingdom but the Kingdom Jesus died to open the way into is a heavenly, spiritual kingdom. That way leads to error. What we need to do is go to the...