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Can we trust the Bible?

“The quantity of New Testament material is almost embarrassing in comparison with other works of antiquity…Next to the New Testament, the greatest amount of manuscript testimony is of Homer’s Iliad, which was the bible of the ancient Greeks. There are fewer than 650 Greek manuscripts of it today. Some are quite fragmentary. They come down …

Did Jesus really rise from the dead?

“Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith …

Why do people suffer?

The fall of Adam meant that disorder was brought into man as sin corrupted his human nature and brought death to him as well as the world, this is a result of the curse of the earth. The Bible states that ‘thorns and thistles’ were introduced into the land. These thorns and thistles have been …

Contemplations on the Feast of the Ascension

We celebrate two great feasts on Thursday. The first great feast of the Lord is Great Thursday of the Holy Pascha, on which the Lord gave us the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. The second is the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord into Heaven, after He spent forty days with His disciples. This …