Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: Who is the author of Hebrews? Answer: Apostle Paul is the assumed author of the letter to the Hebrews, because its authorship is unknown. The Roman Catholic Church has attributed the letter to Paul assuming that because he is the author of most of the apostolic epistles, he must be the author of Hebrews, as well. The ambiguity around the authorship of Hebrews comes from the fact that the author of Hebrews has not claimed any authorship. In comparison, Paul always...
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Question: How long did King Saul reign? Answer: No account in 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, and 1 and 2 Chronicles (nor in any other book of the Hebrew Scripture) can be found as to how many years the first king of Israel reigned. We know that King David and King Solomon reigned 40 years over Israel each, but we know nothing about the duration of King Saul’s reign. However, in the book of Acts Apostle Paul (Act 13:21) tells us that Saul reigned 40 years, too. How did...
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Question: Which is the first verse in the New Covenant scripture? Answer: The quick answer would be Mat 1:1, however, the correct answer will be Gen 3:15. This verse, which is the first promise of the Messiah, reads thus, And I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His heel. (Gen 3:15) Thus, we see that the Renewed Covenant began with the beginning of the Redemption Plan of YHVH at the very...
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Question: How many times did Moses ascend Sinai? Answer: The Christian tradition tells that Mosheh (Moses) ascended Mount Sinai two times (each 40 days): the first time was to receive the original tablets of stone with the Ten Commandments written on them (which he broke), and the second time for the new tablets of the Renewed Covenant. So, according to the tradition Mosheh was with YHVH total of 80 days on the mountain summit. However, a careful reading of the Biblical...
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Question: Which is the longest chapter in the Bible? And which is the shortest? Answer: The Bible has many chapters whose number varies depending on the denomination, but which is the longest chapter in the Bible? Which is the shortest? The shortest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 117 having only 2 verses and the longest is Psalm 119. Psalm 117 begins and ends with ‘Praise Yehovah’ addressed to the heathen world. Psalm 119 is devoted to the praise of the Torah of...
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Question: Is Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula? Answer: No. It is in Saudi Arabia across the Red Sea. The most common misunderstanding among the Christian theologians and historians is that Mount Sinai, where YHVH gave the Ten Commandments, is located in what is now known as the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. One can find maps of Israel’s exodus from Egypt as appendices to the Christian Bibles showing that Sinai is in Egypt, despite the fact that Apostle Shaul (Paul) explicitly...
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Question: How many are the arks of the Covenant? Answer: There are two arks of the Covenant of YHVH. The Torah speaks of two arks of the Covenant and two sets of tablets on which YHVH wrote His Covenant with Israel. When Israel sinned before YHVH by making the golden calf, Mosheh (Moses) broke the first tablets of stone (Read more about why Mosheh broke the tablets). Just because he broke the tablets, that did not mean that the pieces of the tablets written with finger of...
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Question: Who was the happiest man in the Bible? Answer: King Avimelech was the happiest man. King Avimelech abducted Sarah the wife of Avraham to be his wife, because Avraham told him Sarah was his sister. The God of Avraham was not pleased with that act of Avimelech and punished him and his household very severely with a strange disease. Avimelech asked Avraham to plead for him before YHVH and Avimelech and all around him were relieved, which must have made him very...
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Question: Who was the saddest man in the Bible? Answer: Except the first man, Adam, there had never been a man that saw so much grief as Shem, the son of Noach. Not only did he see the apostacy God destroyed in the Flood, but he lived to bury eight generations of his descendants: Arpachshad, Shelah, Eber (he outlived Shem), Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Avraham (Gen 11:10-32). This should not surprise us, since the lives of men were rapidly shortened after the...
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Question: How many were the plagues on Egypt? Answer: In Exodus we count total of 10 plagues in Egypt. With them the God of Israel not only punished Egypt and Pharaoh for refusing to let Israel go, but He also mocked the ten gods that were worshiped by the Egyptians. However, another plague took place that devastated Egypt; it took place outside of Egypt, on the bottom of the Red Sea, that mocked another god of Egypt: Pharaoh himself; he was considered a god, too. While the...
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Question: What happened to the Egyptian princess after she adopted baby Moses? Answer: The Egyptian princess in a righteous act saved the future greatest statesman of Israel from a certain death. And the story continues with the adulthood of Moses forty years later. However, after the adoption of baby Moses by the Egyptian princess, we know nothing regarding her life afterwards; we are not even told what her name was. Or are we? Read more in the article “Guess who else left...
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Question: How many were the disciples of Yeshua? Answer: Yeshua chose 12 disciples for His ministry: Simon Peter, James the son of Zebedee, John the brother of James, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot. (Mar 3:16-19) At the end of His ministry, we see 11 disciples: Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon Zelotes, and Judas the...
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