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The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the   Warsaw ghetto uprising . In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah .  This year it begins at sundown Sunday, April 27 th . Never forget the Holocaust . The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. [i] Never forget the role that religion played in the creation of and the failure to stop the Holocaust . In 1933, the   Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most Eu...

For many years, my religion provided me with a “ticket to Heaven.” It looked like this Ticket . It admits “believer’s only” into Heaven, where they will live a life of bliss without any pain or problems for eternity. How did I get my ticket? I received it when I was “saved.” Not only did I obtain my Ticket to Heaven , all of my sins were forgiven – past present and future . And, not only did I receive the ticket – I will never lose it no matter what I do! Our church had a doctrine called “ once saved always saved ,” which meant that our tickets to Heaven can never be cancelled. Once you were “saved” and received “the” ticket, that was it – you were set for eternity . Who wouldn’t go for a deal like that? Read the complete article at -- http://biblicalheritage.org/DTB/0414_DTB_Ticket_to_Heaven.pdf

Back in the late 1980s, after participating in discussions that took place in our Bible studies and meetings in which endless arguments and debates flared up over the interpretations of verses or religious doctrines, I created the BHC Bible Study Guideline. Our Belief Systems must be large enough to include all the Facts; Open enough to be tested; and, Flexible enough to change when errors or new Facts are discovered! It was amazing to witness the transformation that took place when the participants focused on identifying or finding the facts and then comparing them to their beliefs – especially when hardcore fundamentalists were involved. It didn’t take long for participants to realize that – people who ignore the Facts, refuse to be tested, and cling to errors – are living lives & making important decisions based on illusions – not truths – and that doesn’t really make any sense! If the BHC Bible Study Guideline has benefited your life – or if its new ...

In this study, Cain is burning with anger against his brother Abel. God had just provided Cain with the wisdom, that if Cain did it, would have given him power over his anger and revealed the image of God through his actions. But, the Bible has also revealed prior to this account, that through man’s freewill, he has the power to act like a wild predatory animal. In the scene below, Cain comes face-to-face with his brother Abel. What will he do? Read the study at -- http://bhcbiblestudies.blogspot.com/2014/04/am-i-my-brothers-keeper.html

Prime Minister David Cameron is clearly positioning himself among vague, ambiguous Anglicans -- the Christian nature of the country is indisputable. In the last census   59% of people still self-identified as Christian.   "I am a member of the Church of England," he wrote, "and, I suspect, a rather classic one: not that regular in attendance, and a bit vague on some of the more difficult parts of the faith." He went on to add: "I am not one for doctrinal purity, and I don't believe it is essential for evangelism about the Church's role in our society or its importance." "The role that faith can play in helping people to have a moral code", only to immediately accept that "Of course, faith is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality." "The importance of Christianity in our country" when "the Christian values of responsibility, hard work, charity, compassion, humility, and love are shared by people...

From the writing of the New Testament to the filming of The Da Vinci Code, her image has been repeatedly conscripted, contorted and contradicted . The whole history of western civilization is epitomized in the cult of Mary Magdalene. For many centuries the most obsessively revered of saints, this woman became the embodiment of Christian devotion, which was defined as repentance. Yet she was only elusively identified in Scripture, and has thus served as a scrim onto which a succession of fantasies has been projected. In one age after another her image was reinvented, from prostitute to sibyl to mystic to celibate nun to passive helpmeet to feminist icon to the matriarch of divinity’s secret dynasty. How the past is remembered, how sexual desire is domesticated, how men and women negotiate their separate impulses; how power inevitably seeks sanctification, how tradition becomes authoritative, how revolutions are co-opted; how fallibility is reckoned with, and how sweet devotion can be m...

“. . . the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split,  a nd the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;   and coming forth out of the tombs, after his raising, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.” (Matthew 27:50-53) There is more revealed in Matthew’s account than just a group of resurrected people walking into Jerusalem. Read the complete article at -- http://biblicalheritage.org/DTB/0314_DTB_They_Came_out_of_Their_Graves.pdf