Tag Archives: British Israelism

“Holes the size of football fields”

12/12/2007 – 4:39 pm

From Transformed by Truth, an out-of-print booklet by somebody who helped shepherd the Worldwide Church of God out of their cult beliefs:
When you start carefully reading Anglo-Israelite literature, you begin to notice how it generally depends on folklore, legends, quasi-historical genealogies, and dubious etymologies. None of these sources proves an Israelite origin for the peoples [...]

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Written in stone

7/14/2007 – 11:43 am

A tiny receipt for a Babylonian temple payment may confirm a minor detail in Jeremiah, and rekindles the debate as to the historical accuracy of the Bible. Also see the comments for the usual internet idiocy, ramping all the way up to full-on British-Israelism. Is there a variant of Godwin’s Law that says [...]

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Six notes here and there

4/24/2006 – 7:36 am

First, let me point out that I am going to have to close comments on older posts, because the spam is getting to me. I will still leave comments open on newer posts.
Second, I had a sleep study this weekend. I slept very badly on a rock-hard mattress with 28 wires attached to [...]

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Confused Persians and Englishmen

2/9/2006 – 9:41 pm

There is simply no way that I will do justice to either Allen (the author of Judah’s Sceptre and Joseph’s Birthright) or Capt (author of several books, but particularly in this case Missing Links about the Behistun Inscription and other ancient clues to the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes) in a weblog post. It [...]

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Hard to watch

2/6/2006 – 12:41 pm

After reading this at Matt Gumm’s blog I had to Google around a bit and find out what was going on. The convergence is pretty big for me; I am a Reformed Baptist homeschooling person who has been on the wrong end of bad teaching and practice from church leadership. This link to [...]

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2004 in Short Review

12/30/2004 – 10:54 am

The last few years I have had a tradition of posting an end-of-year review of everything that has happened in our lives and ministries. This will not be as detailed as the reviews of previous years, but here we go:
Personal things:

My wife’s sister, the cancer patient who we said we were helping last year, [...]

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Dying to self

11/5/2004 – 10:21 am

An interesting extract from George Mueller of Bristol:
To one who asked him the secret of his service he said:
“There was a day when I died, utterly died;”
and, as he spoke, he bent lower and lower until he almost touched the floor—
“died to George Mueller, his opinions, preferences, tastes and will—died to the world, its approval [...]

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