For PERSPECTIVES Vol. 7 No. 2 [April-June 2004]
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Last Supper
Was there anyone in the upper room during the Last Supper other than Jesus and his disciples?
−Anthony Pepper
It appears so. This probability was brought up in the July-September 2001 Perspectives article The Last Seder: Unscrambling the Baffling Chronology of the First Christian Passover: Part I. We book marked the section dealing with the others issue so when you click on the article title your browser should take you directly to the discussion.
�Editor
Thank you for your most useful website which has provided depth, clarity, detail and bibliographical material for my own research on the Supper Narratives. Thank you, too, for making this resource freely available on the net. I will be forwarding details of it to colleagues win Africa who often work from much more limited resources that academics in the North.
Might I suggest a further reference for your site. In 1995, John O'Neill wrote an article called "Bread and Wine" in Scottish Journal of Theology 48 (1995), 169-84. Whilst you would not, on the basis of my reading, agree with all his conclusions, his work includes a detailed textual examination of the customary Passover datings, in which he shows the inconsistencies in the dating references of the Synoptic accounts from common usage.
�Canon Fergus King
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
I was wondering if you have any more information on this possibly being the original site of Jesus' tomb. I have tried searching your site for it...to no avail.
�Carol Brooks
This topic appeared in the July-September 1999 Perspectives article Golgotha! Calvary and the Elusive Tomb of Jesus of Nazareth -- the Bishop's Secret!
--Editor
Lost Ten Tribes
I just scanned over your web site. Very basic questions. I came to the same conclusion as yourself on the data that is available for finding lost Israel. Too little to base anything on. I noticed your support of DNA to establish the lines of Israel. All of which is a waste of time.
Israel is very easily found by scripture. It might help to start at the right place first though. Ask to be able to see. There are 72 marks for Israel, and I include an additional one that is irremovable if you believe the bible and GOD. Heb 8:8-10 and the witness Jer 31:31- says precisely who they are. The house of Israel will have the law written in their mind and hearts. Now you have plenty of HISTORY for proof. Known history, written recently. Written daily, open the papers. Turn on the news. Look for the SIGNS, LOOK FOR THE MARKS. Ask yourself this basic question. Would GOD not mark his future people, as he did his past people. Or keep looking in the worldly fashion, the world will never find or produce what you are looking for. GOD said this also. Read Isaiah. If he hid it you can't find it your way. By these signs I know you.
�Ron McCance
Our discussion of the lost tribes deals with the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The DNA of their descendants records these origins. When you move to the theological discussion of spiritual Israel then science is of no help.
�Editor
Science and the Bible
I am a student of archeology doing a research paper on Biblical Archeology and am having a hard time coming up with a specific question to ask and answer b/c scientifically I am told there is no way God can be proven. If I want to talk about how the different finds support the bible than how would I do that in a scientific aspect? Do you have any suggestion or ideas?
�Rebekah Coyne
One has to start with a plausible working hypothesis or theory. Often this arises from literary research in answer to a basic question. One has to delimit such study so that it is not so complicated that the research is never done or is only cursory. For example, did Jesus of Nazareth have long blond hair? You should be able to develop a set of working hypotheses and set out to falsify them with some through literary research. This means using the library and examining print materials. The internet is not going to be much of an asset in undertaking this kind of research.
�Editor
Old Earth?
Where in the Bible does it say that the earth is millions of years old, on what basis do you come to this conclusion?
−Raymond G. Wilson
We suggest that nothing existed but God before God created, but where in the Bible do you find that the earth is less than millions of years old? You don't. The Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament are silent on the age of the earth question. Genesis 1:1�2 describes the creation of the universe without reference to when this occurred. There was a time, however, when there were no lifeforms on the earth--millions of years ago when it was in the process of cooling down. Scientific evidence not only establishes the age of the earth but informs us of the stages the earth went through as God prepared it for human habitation.
�Editor
Palm Sunday
I have been trying unsuccessfully to find the Biblical or historical basis for saying that the Triumphal Entry was on Sunday. Am I right that there is no direct, explicit Biblical statement that it was on Sunday? Is there any early church record that it was on Sunday? (I understand that indirect and deductive statements from the Bible can be arranged in such a way as to argue for, but not prove, a Sunday entry.) Or, is the Palm Sunday tradition perhaps just a vestige from the Middle Ages of the Catholic Church's liturgical calendar?
−Chad Woodburn
The extant church records consist of the four gospel accounts. The Crucifixion occurred on the Passover (the day the priests sacrificed the Passover lambs). John mentions that Jesus arrived at Bethany "six days before Passover." A Wednesday afternoon Crucifixion, on Passover, would suggest he arrived at Bethany on Thursday of the prior week. See the chart Opening Events. The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem would then have occurred on a Friday where he drove out the money changers before Sabbath. Palm Sunday is a tradition arising out of the mistaken notion that the Triumphal Entry was on a Sunday.
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Who Are We?
Hello friends! I just discovered your site, and I wanted to stop by and say "GREAT WORK!" I love this site, and find myself in agreement with all I've read so far. I'm an old 'Church of God, Seventh Day' believer myself, and I was really impressed with your answer to the reader who was asking if you were Mormon, This or that, whatever? [see Q&A Who Are You?]. I loved your answer, because that would have been the same answer I would have given. Just "earnestly contending for the faith ONCE delivered unto the saints", (Jude 3) I am blessed and thankful to have found your web-page. I will be immersing myself in your articles daily, and sharing the link with everyone I can. Thank you for being there. I love this site!
�Gary Thrasher
Genealogy
I was wondering whether anyone has done, if in fact it could be done, any research on the genealogy comparison between 1 Chronicles 3:17-24 and with those listed in Matthew and Luke, especially starting with Zerubbabel's father/grandfather on both sides.
�Gladys J. Varga
You will have to explore the basic commentaries. The data is what is contained in the Bible. The female lines are not there so that issue is a dead-end.
�Editor
I would like to know what Jewish and Christian church said about the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark?" Was it accepted or rejected by the church?
�Richard Fisher
Entertaining fiction, inaccurate history.
�Editor
Edgar Cayce on Hatshepsut
I believe you will find the following of interest. I'm sure several of you have heard of Edgar Cayce ... this is what he said about these two individuals, during a trance reading he gave at his home in Virginia Beach, Va., on June 13, 1933.
"The entity then was in that land now known as Egyptian, during the period when the princess << Hatshepsut>> (the entity's mother) was in power; and the entity's name was Sidiptu, hence a sister of that leader Moses, the law giver of Israel. During the reign of the mother, the entity was associated with those peoples later despised on account of the love (physical) that the mother found in association with a peoples. And the entity was then pledged to one of the leaders of Israel, in the house of Levi; and being despoiled by an Egyptian, it was THIS one that the brother Moses slew, hence causing that disruption which brought - at the latter period of the mother's and the entity's sojourn in the land - a NEW pharaoh to the ruling of the peoples; this one coming then from the mountain or southern land of an almost divided land over this incident in the entity's experience."
�Bill Ferri
This is a Christian, biblically-based scientific website. Going to clairvoyants, mediums, spiritualists, witches, warlocks, and similar ilk, to consult demons by trances and Tarot cards is not the way which we arrive at fact and truth. Consulting Satan and his demons does not lead to truth but to lies. He is the father of lies. Read John 8:44 where the apostle makes it quite clear that Satan "was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
�Editor
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