Amazing Rare 2000 Year Old ‘Quarter Shekel’

Matthew 5:5: A Powerful Beatitude Inspiring the Zealots - Jesus making reference to Psalm 37:11 in Matthew 5:5, (in Hebrew), Jesus was not teaching as a pacifist preaching ethical eschatology or sapiential eschatology, he was indeed teaching as an activist preaching insurrection, and the kind that was most notable of first century Jewish Zealots in Judea and Galilee – apocalyptic eschatology!

Progressive Christianity: The Foretold Rise of Evil (Acts 20:28-30) Although the term, Progressive Christianity, has become the modern recognized term in churches supporting several Christian doctrinal changes, especially in regards to the LGBTQ+ movement, the actual “movement” by churches towards Progressive Christianity has been ongoing for more than two centuries now and has not been…
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Judas Iscariot: The Historical Transformation from a Disciple of Jesus to the Symbol of Jewish Evil There are several problems and discrepancies[i] surrounding the Gospel accounts involving the character named, Judas Iscariot, and these are discrepancies which simply cannot be rectified logically. Despite these various problems and discrepancies surrounding Judas Iscariot, nevertheless it is an…
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The Trinity

Jesus' crucifixion

Did the Death of Jesus Actually Occur On the Cross? The death of Jesus is second in importance in Christian doctrine only to that of the resurrection of Jesus. Yet, without the death of Jesus then there would be no resurrection of Jesus, and thus, in essence Christianity’s most essential doctrine of the resurrection of…
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The Messiah - anointed one

Apostle Paul the Heretic of the New Testament : What Sort of a Jew Was Paul? (Part 3) In Galatians 1:1, 12, 16-17 Paul the heretic distances himself from those who are the very “heads” of the “Jerusalem Church” – the individuals who actually “witnessed” the teachings of Jesus, and who then became the “original…
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Apostle Paul the Heretic of the New Testament : What Sort of a Jew Was Paul? (Part 2) Paul the heretic, in Romans 11:1 and Philippians 3:5, claims to be from the Tribe of Benjamin. But the Jewish historical fact is that by the time of Jesus, genealogical records other than for the descendants of…
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Apostle Paul the Heretic of the New Testament : What Sort of a Jew Was Paul? (Part 1) A great many of the scholarly claims, misunderstandings, and misrepresentations of the Pharisees in the New Testament derives from the claim in Acts 22:3-6 that Paul the heretic was a Pharisee, and specifically, a student of the…
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