Tag Archives: Sebold’s Law

“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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No shortage yet

10/25/2007 – 12:24 pm

On a conservative LCMS website:
By 2005, Premillennialists will be as scarce as hens teeth. Their emotional, revival-driven, cultish worship will fade into oblivion with them. They will disappear like the Pilgrims after Christ didn’t return in 1666.
(I think he mostly means dispensational premillennialists, but I don’t wish to put words in his mouth.)
Unfortunately, this prophecy [...]

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Meltdowns

8/27/2007 – 4:20 pm

Update: changed from an “aside” to a full-blown post.
Do female church leaders of various kinds fall in groups of threes? Maybe. Today I’ve heard about Mother Teresa, Paula White, and Juanita Bynum. (I know, “fall” in the usual sense doesn’t apply to any of them, but it says something when divorce [...]

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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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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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