Posts with the tag: Hebrews

What Did the Jews and Early Christians Believe About Hell?

The orthodox view concerning human damnation of both the Jews in the Old Testament period and the Christians of the New Testament period was literal everlasting destruction. This is obvious because every person used of God to write the Holy Scriptures adhered to everlasting destruction. This was the commonly accepted position of believers in these […]

The Origin of the MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT

It helps to understand what’s happening in the Middle East by examining where this ongoing conflict started, as revealed in Scripture. Abram, who was soon renamed Abraham, found favor with the LORD and God viewed him as a friend (Genesis 12:1-7 & James 2:23). He was promised that his descendants would be “a great nation” […]

HEBREWS / ISRAELITES / JEWS — Why Did God Choose Them?

The LORD chose Abraham because he was an extraordinary man of faith (Romans 4:11). Abraham originally hailed from Ur of the Chaldeans, a city of moon worshippers in the lower Mesopotamian region near the mouth of the Euphrates River (Genesis 11:28), not far from modern-day Baghdad. This is today southeastern Iraq, which is the center of what […]