The death toll of the Russian war in Ukraine has now exceeded that of both the Vietnam War and the Afghan War. The U.S. suffered 58,000 dead troops in its nearly twenty-year war in Vietnam. The Afghan security forces lost 69,000 troops in its twenty-year war against the Taliban. And according to U.S. estimates, Ukraine’s military has now suffered 70,000 dead troops from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Russia suffering about 120,000 dead troops. Yet this most brutal war... Read more
Dr. James Tabor is a biblical scholar, a Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I’ve been a friend Dr. Tabor for over forty years. He often is interviewed on major television networks for his expertise. James has written about ten books and fifty journal articles. He is also an archaeologist in the Holy Land. His colleague at UNC at Charlotte is Dr. Bart Ehrman, who... Read more
Donald Trump became America’s president by accusing Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, of being a political cesspool of dishonesty. It was the pot calling the kettle black. On October 17, 2016, thus three weeks before Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, he tweeted on his Twitter account, “I will Make Our Government Honest Again — believe me. But first, I’m going to have to #DrainTheSwamp. What did Trump mean by “drain the swamp”? That expression means literally to remove water... Read more
Last week, ex-President Donald Trump was arraigned in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, for his third, and second federal, indictment. He was charged for four crimes of planning and instigating the overthrow of the U.S. government regarding its presidential election results in 2020. Trump is accused of trying, on January 6th, 2021, to prevent members of the U.S. Congress from certifying the election results, in which Trump lost and Joe Biden won. Some call this action treason, which is... Read more
Patheos blogger Dayne Batten on the General Christian Channel has a post dated October 26, 2022, and entitled “Seven Reasons Why Christians Believe that Jesus Is God.” Well, I was a Trinitarian Christian like Dayne for 22 years and read myself out of that in the Bible. I undertook a massive study of the subject over the next 28 years in which I estimate that I read about a thousand books on the identity of Jesus and looked at a... Read more
Yesterday, former U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, publicly said at a New Hampshire political rally, “I could have been relaxing at Mar-a-Lago or in the south of France–which I would prefer to being in this country, frankly.” The former guy has been blasting American institutions lately, such as the FBI and DOJ. But it’s all because he himself has caused these legal troubles he is now encountering, which threaten to send him to prison. Just the third indictment alone,... Read more
As soon as Donald Trump became president, I was saying repeatedly on my blog that he is the biggest liar I have ever seen. The New York Times and other media recorded President Trump’s lies and false information. The Times fact checker claimed that during Trump’s presidency, he publicly communicated “over 30,000 false or misleading statements.” The Bible’s wisdom literature has a lot to say about people who lie, especially those who lie profusely. One of the Ten Commandments says,... Read more
Today’s Los Angeles Times has a column article entitled “Black people presiding over the downfall of Donald Trump is poetic justice.” The caption under this article’s title reads, “As president, Trump normalized racism.” Indeed, I said numerous times on my blog while Trump was president that he is a racist, and this is now in my book, Bible Predicts Trump Fall, about him. The caption under the title of my book on its front cover reads: “Pride goes before destruction,... Read more
Yesterday, at the 5 PM ET, the U.S. Justice Department’s Special Counsel Jack Smith made history when he brought an indictment against former Republican President Donald Trump for his alleged part in planning and causing the riot on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, for the purpose of preventing the U.S. Congress from executing its formal transition of power making Democrat Joe Biden the new president succeeding Donald Trump. Smith charged only Trump and brought only four... Read more
Many of those of us who are Christians tend to focus on the grace of God, how God loves us and forgives us of our sins. Yet this truth can be overdone. Some even take this concept so far that they think and say that God will forgive us no matter what we do wrong because his grace “is sufficient.” And some claim God has already forgiven us of all sins that we will commit in the future. They may... Read more
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