Monthly Archives: March 2010

How did Abraham discover The Lord?

In genesis 12:1 The Lord is telling to Abraham to go to the land of Canaan. The bible is not sharing with us the information how Abraham knew that there was one God in the universe. We need to remember that monotheism was not a famous idea in those days…. The famous story about Abraham [...]

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Did God have raw materials in the creation?

One of the hardest questions that need to be asked about the creation of the world is: Did The Lord have materials in his hands when he created the world or he the world was without any materials at all? This was a really hard question for the sages of Israel and today I will [...]

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If I am embarrassed, what the bible will say?

Whenever I want to remember the time I was a little boy, embarrassed, innocent, naïve there are two stories in the scriptures that remind me this time. The first is the beginning days of Solomon when he was a lone after defeating all of his internal enemies in 1 Kings 2 by the help of [...]

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Idioms from the book of genesis- biblical and modern meaning

The book of genesis is not just the beginning of the world or the creation of it but also a book that gave to us the first idioms that are eternal. Today we will focus on some of them. Let us start with the commandment to Abraham in genesis 12:1. The days are the days [...]

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