COLUMN: Just War Theory and the Israel-Hamas Conflict
The question arises: Why should Israel act with restraint when Hamas showed none? The answer is quite simple: No one should look to Hamas for moral guidance. However, Israel’s intention
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The question arises: Why should Israel act with restraint when Hamas showed none? The answer is quite simple: No one should look to Hamas for moral guidance. However, Israel’s intention
Since ancient times, people have feared the number 13 and when it falls on a Friday, it's especially unfortunate. How this superstition came to be.
In recent years, millions of people all over the world have had to abandon their homelands because conditions there had become unbearable — conditions such as drought, famine, plague, political oppression and religious persecution. In biblical times, the people of Israel experienced similar conditions, and had to leave their homelands, hoping to find places where they could live and prosper in peace. Throughout the biblical period Israelites and their descendants continued to be on the move, from country to country. They were, through most of their history, a nation of immigrants....
. . . . Rededication of temple / Year 4000 (164 b.c.e) One: Nowhere in the Old Testament books do we read that the Temple was to be rededicated after the Maccabean revolt 4000 years after the creation of Adam. Yet scribes appear to have edited the chronologies of the books in order to make the beginning of the new Israel in 164 CE to occur a neat 4000 years after God began his project with the creation of Adam. For some reason those editors did not feel a need to explicitly advertise the presence of this remarkable chronology but there it is. (For an explanation of this chronology which is ta...
But Chalking The Door In Scotland Meant Something Else Around 50 houses in Seaford now have the ancient blessing marked on their doors and Folkes said it was “a lovely and significant tradition for us to embrace at a time of such worry and uncertainty.” Parishioners Kay and Keith Blackburn had their front door chalked and said the ritual was not only a lovely way to bless your house, but it makes one consider the role of the Three Kings. However, to leave this article thinking you know all about the history of chalking doors in “Britain,” you would be wrong, because what you have lea...