#Bible Stories

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #painting #oil on canvas #bible stories #book of genesis #the old testament #the flood #great flood #deluge #scene of the flood #anne-louis girodet de roussy-trioson

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #bisexual #bible stories

[lovelydwyn]

When I was 14 years old and forced to make the Catholic sacrament of Holy Confirmation and to choose a saint after which I would be named… in a covert act of subtle defiance undetected by my teachers, I requested that I be allowed to choose not a saint, but Eve.. to pay homage to the woman given to Adam in the Garden of Eden who failed the test of obedience. I never told anyone, but the more I work with my inner child, the more I love that little girl and wish I could be her friend.

#adam and eve #Eve #genesis #garden of eden #confirmation #tree of knowledge #god #bible stories #bible scripture #naughty naughty #spiritual awakening #inner child #kundalini #serpent #inner child healing

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"When read without presuming it's real, it's obvious the bible is stories written by primitive men to explain a world they didn't understand."

#bible #bible stories #christianity #book of ignorance #bible fables #religion #religion is a mental illness

[heresylog]

Why Jacob and Leah? Most people focus more on Jacob and Rachel

I like a bitter woman. I just relate with her being the second choice and less-loved of Rachel.

#religion #Rachel and Leah #Jacob and Leah #Bible Stories

[gramarobin]

Good, wholesome Bible stories 😏

#bible #bible stories #have you read the bible!? #👀

[n3felibata]

Why does no one talk about The Bible mentioning some random naked guy running around while Jesus was getting arrested

#Bible #the bible #bible stories #i love jesus #Jesus #christian posting

[kemetic-dreams]

Goliath (/ɡəˈlaɪəθ/ gə-LY-əth)[a] is a Philistine warrior in the Book of Samuel. Descriptions of Goliath's immense stature vary among biblical sources, with the Masoretic Text describing him as 9 feet 9 inches (2.97 m) tall. Goliath issued a challenge to the Israelites, daring them to send forth a champion to engage him in single combat; he was ultimately defeated by the young shepherd David, employing a sling and stone as a weapon. The narrative signified King Saul's unfitness to rule, as Saul himself should have fought for Israel.

Modern scholars believe that the original slayer of Goliath may have been Elhanan, son of Jair, who features in 2 Samuel 21:19, in which Elhanan kills Goliath the Gittite, and that the authors of the Deuteronomic history changed the original text to credit the victory to the more famous character David.

The phrase "David and Goliath" has taken on a more popular meaning denoting an underdog situation, a contest wherein a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much bigger, stronger adversary

Goliath's name

Tell es-Safi, the biblical Gath and traditional home of Goliath, has been the subject of extensive excavations by Israel's Bar-Ilan University. The archaeologists have established that this was one of the largest of the Philistine cities until destroyed in the ninth century BC, an event from which it never recovered. The Tell es-Safi inscription, a potsherd discovered at the site, and reliably dated to between the tenth to mid-ninth centuries BC, is inscribed with the two names ʾLWT and WLT. While the names are not directly connected with the biblical Goliath (גלית‎, GLYT), they are etymologically related and demonstrate that the name fits with the context of the late tenth- to early ninth-century BC Philistine culture. The name "Goliath" itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian king Alyattes, which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story. A similar name, Uliat, is also attested in Carian inscriptions. Aren Maeir, director of the excavation, comments: "Here we have very nice evidence [that] the name Goliath appearing in the Bible in the context of the story of David and Goliath… is not some later literary creation."

Based on the southwest Anatolian onomastic considerations, Roger D. Woodard proposed *Walwatta as a reconstruction of the form ancestral to both Hebrew Goliath and Lydian Alyattes. In this case, the original meaning of Goliath's name would be "Lion-man," thus placing him within the realm of Indo-European warrior-beast mythology.

The Babylonian Talmud explains the name "Goliath, son of Gath" through a reference to his mother's promiscuity, based on the Aramaic גַּת (gat, winepress), as everyone threshed his mother like people do to grapes in a winepress (Sotah, 42b).

The name sometimes appears in English as Goliah

Elhanan, son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite (Hebrew: אֶלְחָנָן בֶּן־יַעְרֵי אֹרְגִים בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי‎ ʾElḥānān ben-Yaʿrē ʾŌrəgīm Bēṯ halLaḥmī) is a character in 2 Samuel 21:19, where he is credited with killing Goliath:

"There was another battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam."[1]

In 1 Chronicles 20:5, he is called Elhanan son of Jair (אֶלְחָנָן בֶּן־יָעִיר‎ ʾElḥānān ben-Yāʿīr), indicating that Jaare-oregim is a garbled corruption of the name Jair and the word for "beam" used in the verse (ʾ��rəgīm). The passage in 2 Samuel 21:19 poses difficulties when compared with the story of David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17, leading scholars to conclude "that the attribution of Goliath's slaying to David may not be original,"  but rather "an elaboration and reworking of" an earlier Elhanan story, "attributing the victory to the better-known David.

#kemetic dreams #david and goliath #david #philistines #elhanan #son of jaare #bible story #bible stories

[akonoadham]

#Egypt #hebrew #black history #Africa #Bible stories #black cinema #cinema #bible history #black actors #black actresses #free mason #magick

[explicette]

#adam and eve #biblical #bible stories #gif #eve #serpent #gifbaby #gifset #vintage #silent film #silent film era #silent era

[rptv1]

Cain kills Abel

by Gustave Doré

#Gustave Doré #cain and abel #Bible Stories #biblical #Christianity

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #painting #bible stories #the deluge #1800s regency #francis danby #john martin

[in-sufficientdata]

It's a little-known fact that Moses only looked radiant when he came down from the mountain because he learned how to contour while he was up there

Good thing God knew the best moisturizing routine for Moses's skin type

#mine #religion #judaism #moses #moishe #the ten commandments #exodus #mount sinai #bible stories #reposting everything from my twitter feed #i'm about to delete everything so get it while it's hot #tweet: 2019

[pimo-and-sad-about-it]

Fun fact!

In the French version of the Bible, Jesus tells the waves, "Tais-toi," which literally means shut up.

So yeah, you can tell people to shut up as much as you want, because Jesus did it first.

#wwjd #what would jesus do #tell you to shut up is what #tais-toi #exmo #ex christian #exmormon #exlds #pimo #ex mormon #apostate #ex religious #bible #bible stories

[therealopaartist]

Do you like Gay?

Do you like DRAMA?

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CHECK THIS OUT!

#bible #bible stories #gay men #gay love #lgbtqia #musicals #youtube #gaaaaaaaay

[heresylog]

Which of the post resurrection stories in the Gospels is your personal favorite?

Oooh good question. I don’t know if it’s a story per se but in Revelations Chapter 12 when they talk about the woman (Mary) with clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet. Just gorgeous imagery.

But I’m an Old Testament girlie. I love Ruth and Boaz, Jacob and Leah, Esther and Xerxes.

#dammitradar #catholic #christianity #religion #not heresy #Bible Stories