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In college I wrote a poem, and it goes like this, “Reality, a pause in space, to fill the gap a human race, now watch it all from start to end, a flickering then space again.” The Bible explains such ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image… 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him…” “He just turned 60!” Yep. She said that. No one ...

Did God say not to eat of any of the trees?” When the woman correctly states what God commanded, the devil then proceeds to ...

The book of Genesis begins by saying, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) so Christians believe that everything that exists was created by God. Genesis sets ...

Cohen: Is Abraham the founder of monotheism? The texts in Genesis simply have Abraham talking to God and God talking to Abraham, that's it. Later Jews could not imagine such events without ...

In Mark 12:28-31, the Scribes asked Jesus, “What is the Great Commandment?” He responded, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt ...

Liberalism, California fires and the Bible Liberalism is a desire to be free of authority and where it all started, I believe, is in the Garden of Eden, where the first two liberals, ever, are found.