Instead of idolatry, the worship of many pagan gods, Israel would worship Yahweh, the creator, exclusively. Instead of ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

He rarely highlights his Jewish rather than pagan identity ... including the bestseller "A Brief History of Yahweh". His new book, "When We Became Jews", questions some fundamental facts ...

And then what did the pagan represent? He was a person from the ... and this brings in the warrior gods, like Zeus, like Yahweh. The sword and death, instead of fertility. Right.

In response Gideon asks for a sign (v. 17). Yahweh agreed and performed a clear revelatory sign for him. Emboldened by this, at God's command, he tore down some pagan altars which never should have ...

Killing false prophets and destroying their pagan alters is again not something we hear much ... True enough, and yes the church today is not in the same position as Israel as a nation was to Yahweh.

The circle and the stone share a dark and mysterious past, according to Irish mythology, for they have been identified as the site of pagan human sacrifice and the worship of the Sun God ...

The thing with vising Pagan sites in Cornwall is that it’s quite hard to pin down what ‘Pagan’ actually means. Pagan and specifically Celtic religious sites were often based in sacred groves ...

The NT epistle for the First Sunday of Lent (Lent 1) in Year C is Romans 8b–13. It is a slightly odd choice by the lectionary, since the passage starts in verse 5, and you really need to read from ...