To the editor:
The Trumpublicans, aka the Republican Party, at one time told us Sarah Palin was presidential material. To them she was known as one of true faith and conviction, a darling of the conservative Christian movement.
Apparently her “faith” wasn’t strong enough to protect her or her son, and both got COVID-19.
“My case is perhaps one of those that proves anyone can catch this.”
She urged Americans to wear masks.
“It’s better than doing nothing to slow the spread.”
This serves as a good example of the shallowness, hypocrisy, and diminishment of a religion. “Faith over fear” to overcome this pandemic is the worst violation of the Third Commandment, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The meaning is not about swearing; it is a prohibition of blasphemy. Using His name to commit evil, or to pretend to serve in His name while failing to do so.
Bahamian false prophets are running amok on Facebook
Dear Editor,
The legendary Dr. Myles Munroe was a trailblazer in Christian broadcasting in The Bahamas, having learned at the feet of American Pentecostal faith healer and televangelist Oral Roberts. Munroe attended ORU in Oklahoma in the 1970s.
Many of the contemporary features we often take for granted in today’s charismatic churches were first introduced by Munroe, when he founded Bahamas Faith Ministries (BFM) in the early 1980s.
Bahamian traditionalists wrongly labeled BFM a cult, due to its dance ministry and other contemporary features unknown to many Bahamian churchgoers, who were not exposed to TBN, due to them not having access to cable television.
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Daring ‘rescue’ mission results in Dead Sea Scroll finds, other rare discoveries
Biblical texts found during a multi-year Israeli expedition make headlines, but archaeologists are buzzing over an intact Stone-Age basket.
ByKristin Romey
Email
The first Dead Sea Scroll fragments found in more than a half-century, and what is possibly the world’s oldest intact basket, were among the discoveries made during a multi-year effort to thwart looting in remote caves across the Judean Desert, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week.
In many instances, archaeologists have had to rappel hundreds of feet down sheer cliff faces and dig through piles of bird and bat guano to uncover artifacts that may be the target of similarly equipped looters in the sparsely populated, arid region along the western shore of the Dead Sea.
John 2:13-25
Ironically, the clericalism of non-clerics can also include the insidious expectation that while religious people are expected to meet the high demands of the Gospel, ordinary people can be excused for capitulating to the demands of a dog-eat-dog, consumerist world. Such religious compartmentalization provoked Jesus disgust with the temple of his day.
Picturing the purification of the temple, we tend to concentrate on the whip, the animals and the frightened, fleeing money changers. But Jesus delivered his real message with that fatally misinterpreted line, Destroy this temple and I will raise it up again in three days.
People saw the temple as the locus of God s presence among them. By creating mayhem with his whip, Jesus declared that the temple had been degraded into everything except a dwelling place for God.