Jehovah's Witnesses Article · 9 min read
The Church, the Map, and the Almighty
A Modest Proposal for Saving Religion from Its Most Enthusiastic Defenders
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Religion & Scripture
Faiths, sacred texts and their history, every tradition welcome. Hebrew, Greek, manuscripts and translations too. Cite your sources.
Hebrew Scriptures Article · 9 min read
Was Noah's Ark a box or a boat? What Genesis says versus the ship-shaped replica in Kentucky
The Hebrew word for the ark means "box," and Genesis gives only three measurements — no hull curve, no bow. So why does the full-size replica people have actually seen look exactly like a ship? The word, the numbers, the naval-engineering studies both sides cite, and what a real 450-foot wooden hull
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Manuscripts & Scrolls Article · 9 min read
Fifty-Two Weeks, No Remainder
A study by Prof. Eshbal Ratzon of Tel Aviv University argues that the Qumran sect really did run its famous 364-day calendar in daily life — at least at first — and then quietly stopped, because 364 days is a day and a quarter short of a solar year and the error compounds. Here is what the calendar
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Hebrew Scriptures Article · 6 min read
What is Yom Kippur, and what does the Bible actually call the Day of Atonement?
Leviticus 16 and 23 lay out one ritual, on one day a year, that no high priest has performed in almost two thousand years — the goat English calls a "scapegoat," the penalty for skipping the fast, what changed the day the ritual's one required room stopped existing, and how a war and a legend both a
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Jehovah's Witnesses Article · 8 min read
Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses accept blood transfusions — and what just changed?
The Governing Body's September 18, 2026 announcement, the two Bible texts the whole position rests on, 81 years of gradual change before this one, and what bloodless surgery actually owes to this community.
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Religious History Article · 9 min read
Are we living in the Great Tribulation right now?
Matthew 24's actual list of signs, four ways Christians have read when it applies, and Jesus's own repeated warnings against reading your own moment as the decisive one.
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Religion & Scripture Article · 4 min read
Could anyone alive today be descended from Cain?
Cain's line simply stops in Genesis 4; Seth's runs to Noah; and Genesis 9:19 says the whole earth was peopled from Noah's sons. What that adds up to — and the two questions it depends on.
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Religious History Article · 6 min read
Did Isaac Newton write about the Bible?
The scientist wrote more on Scripture than on physics — his Daniel & Revelation, his textual criticism of the Johannine Comma, his chronology, and his hidden anti-Trinitarianism, handled honestly.
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Hebrew Scriptures Article · 5 min read
How long were the days of creation?
The elastic Hebrew word yom, the sunless first days and the open seventh, and the ordinary-day, day-age, and literary-framework readings — with their pedigrees, no vote cast.
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Translations Article · 4 min read
Why does this translation say “Jehovah”?
The name of God — the four letters behind “the LORD,” why almost every Bible hides it, and the choice between “the LORD,” “Yahweh,” and “Jehovah.”
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Greek New Testament Article · 14 min read
Was the Word "God," or "a god"?
John 1:1 and the deity of Christ — the Greek of the missing article, “firstborn of all creation,” the Angel of Jehovah, and the whole argument laid out on both sides.
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Manuscripts & Scrolls Article · 2 min read
Why isn't the Book of Enoch in this translation?
The Masoretic source text, the canon question, the Ethiopian exception, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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