\"God deserves our fellowship and longs to have a covenant relationship with us.\" A covenant is an agreement or relationship between two people or between God and man. It includes a promise, a condition, a penalty, and a provision. It also involves obligations and benefits for performance. In gene...

Old TestamentThe Old Testament is a compilation, and like every compilation it has awide variety of contributors who, in turn, have their individual influenceupon the final work. It is no surprise, then, that there exist certainparallels between the Enuma Elish, the cosmogony of the Babylonians, a...

Evil, sinful, lover of Satan and weak are just a few adjectives to describe women through history. Nevertheless, women were not always portrayed as so. Women once held a strong and dominated figure within the society. In the ancient Egyptian society, women were equal to men in status and prest...

Political Distortions and the Pharisees The Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, known as the synoptic gospels, that is, "seeing together," were the first writings within the Christian Bible that would come to be referred to as the New Testament. These Gospels were very similar ...

Ascension on Mount ZionBy Mihnea DumitruMarch 26, 2001Ascension on Mount ZionThere are many things which can be said about the global impact of the Jewish people. Anti-Semitic views still dwell in many minds around the world, overburnt remnants of medieval times as well as more recent and more painf...

IntroductionMy great aunt was a fascinating woman. She was raised in Canadian by English parents, married and immigrated to the United States. She understood French and English and was fluent in several different languages. She attended services, in places of worship, all over. She chose to prac...