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  1. Richard Aberdeen

    Who is the Father of Many Nations?

    Unlike some assume, God does not promise that Abraham will be the father of one nation, Israel. Rather, God promises Abraham that he will be the father of "a multitude of nations (the Hebrew literally means multitude of nations)" Genesis 17:5. Jesus is instrumental in carrying out this promise...
  2. Richard Aberdeen

    Creation or Magically Appearing Universes?

    The modern evidence clearly demonstrates that God creates living forms of life to adapt and change to ever-changing environments. God's creation is living, dynamic and fluid and in constant flux, not static. Darwin is right about that. What Darwin is wrong about is what is called "natural...
  3. Richard Aberdeen

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  4. Richard Aberdeen

    What Does the Bible Say About Economics?

    In the Old Testament, we find people of considerable wealth, including the legendary wealth of Solomon, as well as Abraham and King David, among many others. However, in the New Testament, the new Covenant, we find discouragement of wealth accumulation; some of the earliest followers of Jesus...
  5. Richard Aberdeen

    Is Adam and Eve Scientifically Accurate?

    Modern science has discovered that due to what is called species-crossbreeding and weaker strains along the genetic trail being weeded out, all people living on earth today share a recent ancestor no older than Noah in the Bible and quite possibly, considerably younger. This means that the...
  6. Richard Aberdeen

    Scythians, Cretans. . .Are We Any Better?

    Paul in his letter to Titus, says the following: "One of them, a prophet of their own, said, 'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons' Titus 1:12. Upon close examination, it seems that Paul is upset about a member of the assembly of Jesus repeating this apparently common prejudice...
  7. Richard Aberdeen

    Is Jesus a Religion?

    Jesus is presented throughout the New Testament as the friend of sinners and regular average people. And he is also presented as the enemy of orthodox conservative religion, which he seems to have passionately hated. Later both Stephen and Paul in Acts insist that God "does not live in temples...
  8. Richard Aberdeen

    What is a Saint?

    Almost always found in the plural as "saints" in the New Testament, the Greek word translated as "saint" in modern English Bibles, simply refers to believers in Jesus, such as "the saints" who lived at Lydda Acts 9:32. It does NOT refer to someone who is necessarily celibate or someone who is...
  9. Richard Aberdeen

    Who is Allowed to Preach?

    The word in Greek mistranslated as 'preach' means to proclaim; it does not mean to preach a sermon. The word "preach" as found in modern New Testaments should never be confused with what one commonly hears today from television evangelists and religious pulpits, much of which is the antithesis...
  10. Richard Aberdeen

    Is the Love of Wealth the Root of All Evil?

    Today there is some controversy over I Timothy 6:10, which in many modern Bibles is translated as "love of money". The original Greek appears to primarily mean avarice, which is defined as "extreme greed for wealth or material gain." Martin Luther translated it as "avarice", while William...
  11. Richard Aberdeen

    What Does "Love" Mean in Greek?

    Greek has eight different words for "love", including "agape", unconditional universal or God's love, "eros"; sexual love, "philia"; friendship or affectionate love, "storge"; familial love or the love between parents and children, "philautia"; self love, "xenia"; hospitality or love for...
  12. Richard Aberdeen

    Did Jesus Care About the Environment?

    Jesus says, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. And yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these" Matthew 6:28-29. This is perhaps the greatest environmental awareness statement in human history, spoken when...
  13. Richard Aberdeen

    Who Are "The Jews" in the New Testament?

    In John, we find this concerning Jesus: "Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, where is he? And there was much complaining among the people concerning him. Some said, 'he is good'; others said, 'no, on the contrary, he deceives the people.' However, no one spoke openly of him for fear...
  14. Richard Aberdeen

    What the Famous Say About Jesus

    Eleanor Roosevelt is reported to have memorized much of the New Testament. She was fond of the Hebrew prophet Micah: "And what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy,and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8, the famous Jesus portrait of a true patriot found in Matthew...
  15. Richard Aberdeen

    Is There Really a Hell?

    According to astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, there is a certain type of black hole located within dark voids in the universe, where there is no light for many light years in every direction. This type of black hole, according to Tyson, contains an inner "sea of fire", left over from the...
  16. Richard Aberdeen

    What is the "Eye of the Needle"?

    The discipline of "philology" is applied by historians when attempting to understand the true intentions behind words spoken in a particular historical time-frame and context, rather than wrongly assuming that word definitions found in a modern dictionary necessarily apply. For example, "deism"...
  17. Richard Aberdeen

    Is "Epistle" a Correct Translation?

    Means both "letter" and "formal letter" in Koine Greek. While today one can look up the word "epistle" in a modern dictionary and find that it refers to a formal letter of special importance, in the First Century world of Paul and other authors of the New Testament, the Greek "epistole"...
  18. Richard Aberdeen

    Disciple or Follower?

    Greek "mathetai"; means "student", "follower". It has no special religious connotation or significance, other than that to follow Jesus is both a significant and important choice. The word in Greek can be used in reference to a follower of anybody, from Karl Marx and Charles Darwin, to Ayn Rand...
  19. Richard Aberdeen

    Are Trump and the GOP Anti-Christ?

    Matthew 25 reveals Trump's anti-Christ agenda to Congress and American People
  20. Richard Aberdeen

    Who Are "The Common People"?

    What is translated in most versions of the New Testament as "common people", means "crowd" in Greek. However, the vast majority of the "crowd" who followed Jesus around were most likely regular average people, rather than the elite of society. The religious leaders often hung nearby because...

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