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The humility of John the Baptist

Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the martyrdom of John the Baptist. The Baptist preached and baptized to prepare the Jews for the coming of the Messiah. He also baptized Jesus. Then he was arrested by Herod Antipas…
Who wants to be a prophet?

God cannot speak directly to the people. Otherwise, there is no way to differentiate between those who truly believe in His words from those who are afraid and appear to believe. So, God chooses prophets to speak on His …
Circumcision

In Genesis 15, God established a covenant with Abraham, promising him countless descendants and the land of Canaan. At that time, Abraham was 85 and Sarah 75 as well as barren. So, Sarah gave her Egyptian maid Hagar to A…
Prophets don't see everything

God , through Jeremiah, proclaimed a new covenant to replace the old. Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah (Jeremiah 31:31). While Mo…
The bitterness of Jeremiah

Scholars treat Jeremiah as a prototype of Jesus. He was sent by God to speak unpopular warnings to the Jews. Naturally, nobody listened to him and everybody continued their wicked ways. God put words in his mouth. Jeremi…
The Prayer of Daniel

When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah, he carried away youths without blemish, handsome and skilful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to serve in the king's palace, and to teach …
Eating sour grapes

At a time when a man's survival depended on the support of a community, the prevalent morality would be very different from that found nowadays. The morality today leans very much towards individualism. With the advance …
How do Christians approach heaven?

Faith in a deity/deities is the cornerstone of all religions but faith is intangible. It cannot be captured by any scientific instruments nor observed under any microscopes. Unlike experiments in laboratory or observatio…
Have Christians abolished sacrifices?

The author of Hebrews was eager to show the ineffectiveness of the Jewish sacrificial rites. He has successfully proved that the blood of bulls, the fats of rams could never take away sins although they had been offered …
The New Covenant in Jeremiah 31

The New Testament, or the New Covenant, first appears in Jeremiah 31. The author of Hebrews quoted extensively from Jeremiah to prove that the previous covenant, the Old Covenant, has been rendered obsolete by the establ…