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Woman Ordination Issue by Demographics and not by Exegesis: Analysis of Patricia Conroy’s 2015 position
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kootvanwyk | 2542 | | 2018-11-04 | 2018-11-04 06:35 |
Woman Ordination Issue by Demographics
and not by Exegesis: Analysis of Patricia Conroy’s 2015 position
In an article by California Family-Law
Lawyer Patricia Conroy in July of 2015, she discussed Woman ...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 25
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kootvanwyk | 2696 | | 2018-11-07 | 2018-11-07 08:11 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 25
The chapter starts with a list of
nearly all Abraham’s wives and children. An extended family that almost compare
to African traditional cultural habits of multiple...
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Dress and Ornamentation
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kootvanwyk | 2698 | | 2018-11-14 | 2018-11-14 19:54 |
Dress and Ornamentation
“The human body is just another
costume” says Halprin in 1967 (Andrews et al 1967: 76). Instead of focusing here
on the textiles and materials; colors; names and mode of wearin...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 23
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kootvanwyk | 2710 | | 2018-11-04 | 2018-11-04 15:42 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 23
Moses knew about name substitution of towns in
the days of Abraham. Hebron in Hebrew was called Kiriath-arba by the Amorites
and other Canaanites living in the co...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 22
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kootvanwyk | 2725 | | 2018-11-03 | 2018-11-03 20:24 |
Devotional
Short Note to Genesis 22
I do
not know why someone would suggest Isaac to be fifteen years old for this
chapter? But that is what someone did. Abraham was then 115 years old in 2125
BCE to...
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Debt and the Bible
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kootvanwyk | 2732 | | 2018-11-20 | 2018-11-20 23:37 |
Debt [Heb. נשיכי with the
added second person pronoun added to נשי = nešî, “pay your debt” 2 Kings 4:7; מַשָּׁאוֹת = mašāôṭ (Proverbs 22:26); נֹשֶׁא = nošê
“One that is in debt” (1 Samuel 22...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 20
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kootvanwyk | 2736 | | 2018-11-02 | 2018-11-02 07:41 |
Devotional
Short Note to Genesis 20
“It
was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it
was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of i...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis Chapter 19
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kootvanwyk | 2755 | | 2018-11-01 | 2018-11-01 08:30 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis
Chapter 19
In those days, the same kind of Jurisprudence of “Equality
Perception of humans before the law”, morally evil, or sinful, or in defect or
not, that exi...
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Devotional Short Notes on Genesis 43
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kootvanwyk | 2759 | | 2018-11-25 | 2018-11-25 07:05 |
Devotional Short Notes on Genesis 43
The chapter start with Moses
excerpting from the Book of Jacob that there was a famine in the land and it
was very severe. Strict biblical chronology and the ...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 28
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kootvanwyk | 2767 | | 2018-11-09 | 2018-11-09 21:30 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 28
Moses is giving a briefer overview
here what was already covered before. Background material is given before he
could start the narrative later in the chapter. Esau ...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 26
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kootvanwyk | 2774 | | 2018-11-07 | 2018-11-07 22:08 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 26
In 2100 BCE Isaac was married to
Rebecca (Genesis 25:20). Esau, one of the twins was born in 2080 when Isaac was
60 years old as Genesis 25:26 indicates. When Esa...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 45
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kootvanwyk | 2774 | | 2018-11-25 | 2018-11-25 20:44 |
Devotional
Short Note on Genesis 45
Joseph’s house
was very near the Pharaoh’s house so that Sesostris I’s palace members could
hear Joseph weeping. What a happy weeping. There are days in one’s life w...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 27
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kootvanwyk | 2777 | | 2018-11-09 | 2018-11-09 01:04 |
Devotional Short Note on Genesis 27
This period in the life of Isaac as
Genesis 26 calls the drought, were dry climatic circumstances (Genesis 26:1). F.
A. Hassan (2007) online did a study on drought ...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 33
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kootvanwyk | 2781 | | 2018-11-15 | 2018-11-15 07:27 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 33
In Signs of the Times of July
1968: 29-30 there is an article by Adventist Archaeologist Siegfried Horn that
is accepting the consensus position that Succoth is ...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 21
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kootvanwyk | 2786 | | 2018-11-03 | 2018-11-03 08:34 |
Devotional Short Note on Genesis 21
In this chapter Isaac was born and that was
when Abraham was 100 years old. Born in 2240 BCE, Abraham was 100 in 2140 BCE.
It was after the destruction of Sod...
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Devotional Short Note on Genesis 31
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kootvanwyk | 2797 | | 2018-11-11 | 2018-11-11 23:38 |
Devotional
Short Note of Genesis 31
From
my “rib’s” Band Genesis English Bible Reading online I collected the following
extracts. They are all on Genesis 31. Let me tell you about my wife. Has a ...
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Super-virus of many diseases: Polio Virus
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kootvanwyk | 2801 | | 2018-11-17 | 2018-11-17 06:09 |
Super-virus of many diseases: Polio
Virus
It is my understanding that the Polio
Virus is the “mother” of many diseases. Whether it is Altzheimer, Parkinson,
Paralysis, Arthritis, Dimentia, Kidney failure ev...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 39
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kootvanwyk | 2807 | | 2018-11-21 | 2018-11-23 09:18 |
Devotional
Short Note to Genesis 39
My
teacher dr. Jacques Doukhan, very delighted teacher full of joy and happiness,
wrote recently a new SDA commentary on Genesis amplifying the SDA BCE Volume 1.
The...
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Devotional Short Note to Genesis 37
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kootvanwyk | 2847 | | 2018-11-19 | 2018-11-19 06:46 |
Devotional Short Note to Genesis 37
This chapter is the introduction of the Joseph historical narrative
by Moses from the Book of Jacob’s generations. It was a factual data account
from which Moses ex...
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Devotional Short Notes to Genesis 41
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kootvanwyk | 2850 | | 2018-11-25 | 2018-11-25 00:07 |
Devotional
Short Notes to Genesis 41
Indeed we
pick up the fingerprints of Joseph in data from archaeology. The Word of God is
indeed a navigation for scholars who did not know what to do with pap...
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