...I have to wonder what the good of sacrificing a bull FROM Poseidon TO Poseidon would have been. If he can generate bulls on his own, why does he need humans to cook dead ones for him? But then, the Bible also has mentions of God providing animals to be sacrificed. Hey, gods, why not just cut out the middleman, and all that return-to-sender business? Minos, by the way, was either the son or grandson...

Bible reflections: We give thanks to God always for you all, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.  (1 Thessalonians 1:2-3) For we know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you . . . (1 Thessalonians 1:4) . . . but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere...

...deity. You might as well say that Christians worship a god named Christmas. And speaking of Christmas, isn't that also based on an ancient pagan festival (several of them, actually)? And while the Bible does say that witches are bad news, doesn't it also have prophets of God performing magic tricks, Saul consulting a medium with no apparent condemnation, and Jacob benefiting from practicing sympathetic...

...  The weather was lovely, there were a lot of people from The Church there, the Vicar gave a lovely eulogy (that was both true and funny), the hymns were both the ones Ivy chose and ones I loved. The Bible reading was from Revelation 21 .... "God shall wipe away all tears" Yes, there were tears, we are selfish and miss her ... but she is at peace in Heaven, which is what she longed for. So it...

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in...it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 1 Peter 1:7 (not at all attempting to be controversial, just thought it was interesting.

I'm reading through Matthew lately. It's very slow going, heady stuff. The gospels are always hard reading for me and Matthew with the Kingdom of Heaven parables especially. I generally try to read a chapter...I rarely get through more than a few verses. Today at lunch I got as far as Jesus being arrested. I was brought up short by the last part of 26:56. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

Bible reflections: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.  (Jeremiah 10:11) I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.  (Jeremiah 10:23) . . . in singleness of heart, as to Christ; not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the...

...a garden for eating fruit, and later drowning everyone on Earth except for five people, is pretty mean. That reminds me of how some apologists will respond to any mention of divine cruelty in the Bible with, "Hey, the Creator can do anything he wants with his creations!" Really? Does that mean that, if I wrote a book and then suddenly decided I didn't like it, it would be all right for me to take...

how it works out sometimes. sent a verse for no real reason but in their translation makes perfect sense!

...of this is found in Hebrews 1, where it says that the prophetic ministry of the Old Testament was overtaken by the ministry of Christ, whose life the prophets foretold. Additionally we have the Bible, which was not available as widely as it is now, so we do not depend on town criers or people to come to us to get that news. We will see later that Paul says that the gifts will fade, but love...