God promised to clear a land for the Jews but he warned them. They were to make no treaties with the current inhabitants. Instead, they must destroy the altars of their gods, destroy their images. They must worship no other…

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Jesus preached in stories. The ways of God were carried by simple tales of ordinary men and things. Many were meant to puzzle. Many were beyond the grasp of most or left room for disagreement. Before he died, he…

“In the beginning was the Logos”, wrote a philosophical follower of Jesus. “Logos”. The reason, the wisdom, the word of God. Since the earliest times, a favorite word of the philosophers. The world was fashioned by reason from chaos. And…

Who was Jesus? For the Christian, Jesus was the Christ, the anointed one, predicted since ancient times by Jewish wise men. He had come to earth to lead all men to God. He was the son that made God a…

To the impious Greek, martyr meant witness, just a man who proclaimed guilt or innocence before a judge. A Christian martyr was different. He proclaimed to everyone. He proclaimed that Jesus, a Jew who had died three hundred before in…