Biblical Heritage Center Blog

Today we are immersed in a society that, since the late 1960s, has been changing its “ core values. ” America is transitioning to a society with the following four core values -- money, individualism, rights and entertainment . This transition, however, comes at a very high price . Read more at -- https://mailchi.mp/b8daea75fb92/core-values-and-simple-sets-of-rules-for-dealing-with-very-complex-problems

If someone had walked into our church and said, “ Jesus did away with the Bible and Constitution! ” – he would risk being stoned on the spot! But, if our preacher had walked into Jesus’s hometown synagogue, the one Yeshua (aka Jesus) faithfully attended every Saturday and preached this -- “ We are not under the Law because Jesus fulfilled it! ” – he would have also risked being stoned. Read article at -- https://mailchi.mp/0b2d5ec1487a/did-jesus-do-away-the-bible-and-constitution

The subject of this BHC Quick Note is “ the English word Jesus ,” not beliefs linked that word. “ Jesus ” is a name that became well-known and popular through “ English translations of the New Testament. ” Get the facts by clicking on -- https://mailchi.mp/d01edb7df541/the-name-jesus-bhc-quick-note

Beliefscapes give us a new way to talk about things that only exist in the neural networks of our brains. By exploring together we learned when and how new belief models came into being and old models faded from memories and changed beliefscapes – and doing this together changed our individual beliefscapes and our realities . https://mailchi.mp/f708e0bfb0f0/our-beliefscapes-are-our-realities

Before you can answer that question, you have to be able this question – What am I? Find the answers to that question in our latest email at -- https://mailchi.mp/d18829ca37f8/are-you-me

How would like to be the one in charge of managing an environment in which fire and gasoline were always in close proximity to one another? That’s how the Romans viewed Judea, Sadducees and Pharisees. Judea was the environment and Sadducees and Pharisees were the fire and gasoline . Read the complete email at - https://mailchi.mp/19ddcbd32bcf/sadducees-and-pharisees-fire-gasoline

The Creator’s TOV Standard , the Tzedaqah Standard of the Jewish Jesus and the Declaration of Independence share something in common. Is the God invoked in the Declaration the Christian God or a deist god? Although Jefferson used “ God ” just this once , he put the word “ sacred ” in the text three times . Read the complete email at - https://mailchi.mp/7dc04f12c598/rediscovering-the-sacred-through-the-declaration-of-independence

The Israelites are Jacob’s descendants, the offspring of “ the man that wrestled with a god and men, and prevailed .” For the purposes of this discussion, the history of Judaism will be divided into three periods – Pre-Temple Period, The Temple Period, and Post-Temple Period. What is now called “Judaism” was invented in the matrix of Roman culture . Read the complete email at - https://mailchi.mp/97db8e8a11ee/the-emergence-of-rabbinic-judaism

Change your BS! Back in our old realities being labeled as “ the person who was wrong ” could destroy the career of preacher or rabbi. Who would want to listen to a person like that? Today, encountering a preacher or rabbi – or any other human – who has never been wrong sets off all kinds of BS Alarms. https://mailchi.mp/c3b834ce47ed/so-what-do-you-do-when-you-know-you-are-wrong-change-your-bs

Have you heard the term “ neurobiology ” yet? Make a note of it, because in the near future you will be hearing a lot about it. Neurobiology is rewriting the textbooks on beliefs and belief systems. Read more about it at – https://mailchi.mp/564d99e3d57d/we-are-literally-what-we-believe

Exercising power is one thing you invest a tremendous amount of time and energy in every day of your life – and you have been doing it from the first day of your life . Power is so much a part of human life that most people are not consciously aware of when they are exercising power or when power is being exercised on them. https://mailchi.mp/338ea6672ba5/the-only-two-power-options-humans-have

What do you believe the Jewish Jesus would think about the extremely popular salvation messages that say “ people are not saved by works ” ( what people do have nothing to do with their eternal destinies)! All God cares about is “believing the right things!” Read the complete message at -- https://mailchi.mp/5507b8e9e3e3/letting-the-jewish-jesus-explain-his-movement-in-his-own-words-part-3

The Jewish audience of Jesus already knew the answer, because they understood the relationship of tzedaqah to shalom . So did Jesus and he constructed his message around that relationship. Read the complete message at - https://mailchi.mp/fc0756158a13/letting-the-jewish-jesus-explain-his-movement-in-his-own-words-part-2

“ I am the person the Spirit of the Lord is on, the one God has anointed and sent to proclaim the good news to the poor captives that they have been released! ” Read the complete educational email at -- https://mailchi.mp/f6b68cf55c5d/letting-the-jewish-jesus-explain-his-movement-in-his-own-words-part-1

Needless to say, everyone that has read the previous email about how the Heaven and Earth were created was probably shocked to learn what they thought before was completely wrong. Well get ready for another shocker about what how humans are created. https://mailchi.mp/347f2460cbe7/the-creator-expectations-for-humans

In truth, there have always been varieties of Judaism, even when the Jerusalem Temple dominated Israelite religious practice in the Ancient Near East. The bottom line is that throughout the “ Second Temple Period ,” there were other Jewish temples with their priests and they were rivals of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and its priesthood. Read more at -- https://mailchi.mp/4559da6a3c60/five-temples-of-judaism

It is important to understand that no religious institution or theology is required. This isn’t a special power bestowed on just members of a group. It isn’t a power that can be taken away. But it isn’t a power that is magically bestowed on us. Learn more at - https://mailchi.mp/561c4f00bfd0/the-power-of-having-a-defined-standard-in-your-life

Human lives are valued more than religious institutions and rituals by the unnamed god in the first account in Genesis . That message is repeated throughout the  Hebrew Scriptures  and the  teachings of Jesus  in the  Synoptic Gospels. Read the complete short articles at - https://mailchi.mp/2116c809b552/human-lives-are-valued-more-than-religious-institutions-and-rituals

The ancient Hebrew text two big surprises in store for you, so get ready! Click on https://mailchi.mp/8dcb28565b64/heaven-and-earth-are-not-what-you-think

While humans have attacked and killed one another since the dawn of our lineage, coordinated, large-scale lethal violence between groups is a recent phenomenon. Read short article at https://mailchi.mp/6becc1bc328c/a-new-kind-of-cruelty-the-emergence-of-warfare

Our focus in Exploring Our Biblical Heritages has been primarily on the dramatic changes in Christianity over the past 2,000 years. Judaism has also undergone dramatic changes in that same period. One example of those changes can be seen in how the Holy Day of Yom Kippur is celebrated. Read the complete article at -- https://mailchi.mp/ba78f8d86e91/yom-kippur-rabbinic-version-begins-at-sundown-today

At this point this is all we know: An unnamed god is going to initiate a process of changing darkness and deep waters to create the Heavens and the Earth. That’s it! Read the rest of the article at - https://mailchi.mp/8ab8ec815a06/light-life-and-enlightenment

One of the most powerful beliefs in the history of mankind is found in this creation account –  all people are created in the image of the Creator!  Tribal and religious belief systems place every one in “ us vs. them groups .” That makes it much easier  to harm, hate and kill “ them .”  But, for people who view  all humans  “ as creatures created in the image of god ” --  harming, hating and killing another human is a very different situation . Read the complete article at -- https://mailchi.mp/4c2f6b694237/we-are-all-created-to-be-creators

Our goal is to educate by providing culturally and linguistically accurate information.   Today I am going to put pieces of information from previous emails together to reveal the real meaning (culturally and linguistically accurate) of the words “ Jesus Christ Son of God .”   Click on this link to continue reading -- https://mailchi.mp/b023a611d31e/the-real-meaning-of-jesus-christ-son-of-god

Do you believe that it is good to do the right things? Do you want your children to be good people? Teach your children about the TOV Standard and its Lives 1 st Values , because “ TOV is much more than good .” https://mailchi.mp/46ebb46443ab/what-is-good

Moses had been raised in the house of a pharaoh (king). He would have been educated as a son of the pharaoh and that meant he clearly understood the justice system and what would happen if he had been tried for murder and found guilty. https://mailchi.mp/bfc0b8caa4a6/what-if-moses-had-been-found-guilty-of-murder-in-ancient-egypt