Biblical Heritage Center Blog

Archaeologists have uncovered the entrance gate to the biblical city of Zer during excavations carried out in the Golan Heights over the past two weeks, the Golan Regional Council said Sunday. In recent days, and after a year of recess, a group of 20 archaeologists from all over the world, together with director of the Bethsaida Project, Dr. Rami Arav, and under the auspices of the Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, conducted new excavations in two different areas of Bethsaida. The ancient fishing village is mentioned several times in the New Testament as a city where Jesus lived and where he miraculously fed a multitude of people with five loaves and two fish. See pictures and read complete article at -- https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-uncover-gate-to-biblical-city-of-Zer-561941

If a bunch of formerly dead people walked into Jerusalem today, I promise you it would be breaking news on your TV and phones. So, if there is any event in the New Testament that we should expect to find in every account about Jesus -- wouldn’t you think it would this one! Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/07/you-shall-come-up-from-your-graves-and.html

I have been involved in this discussion about the Jewish Jesus for almost 30 years now and am amazed at how “Fact-Proof” religious people are. In the mid-1980s when someone on a TV show mentioned “ the Jewish Jesus ,” it would generate thousands of letters and postcards from people wanting to correct the idiot that said it – “ Jesus was a Christian not a Jew! ” By 2000, thanks to the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, PBS, etc., the tide shifted and when someone mentioned the “ Jewish Jesus ” people would say, “ Of course Jesus is Jewish .” The problem is that people seemed to think that “ Jewish ” was an “ ethnic thing ”, not a “ BS thing .” Oh yeah, BS means Belief System . They talked about a Jewish Jesus, but kept saying that he taught a bunch of “un-Jewish things”! Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-real-yeshua-or-gentile-jesus.html

What’s the difference between the above question and this one -- What would Jesus do? The obvious answer is that the difference is one word. Does that word really make a difference? Find out by reading the complete blog at –  https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-would-yeshua-do.html

The following excerpt is adapted from an address given by Pat Sajak ( Host,  Wheel of Fortune ) to the first graduating class of Founders Classical Academy in Leander, Texas, on May 27, 2017; one of 16 classical K-12 charter schools currently operating under the auspices of Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter School Initiative. Pat Sajak gives unique insights about a special class of what we call a specific class of “ weaponized memes ” at the TOV Center Realities Transformations Initiative -- identity politics . “So let me instead suggest a pitfall to avoid going forward, a pitfall not only for this year’s graduates, but for everyone in every corner of American society today. It has altered the way we talk to one another and perceive one another. It has perverted the notion of free speech and poisoned the academic environment. It has turned the American political system on its head, creating a situation where opposing views are not only unwelcome, they are deemed to be si...

The New International Version of Matthew 4:18 reads as follows: “As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew.   They were casting a net into the lake , for they were fishermen.” “ Walking by the Sea of Galilee ” and “ casting a net into the lake ”? Was there a lake next to the sea ?   Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/05/is-sea-of-galilee-sea-or-lake-or-is.html

Some of the 5,500 stolen artifacts purchased by Hobby Lobby are believed to have originated in the long-lost city of Irisagrig. “The tablets, primarily from the Ur III and Old Babylonian period (2100-1600 BCE), are mostly legal and administrative documents. Keep in mind that Abraham lived about 2000 BCE. See pictures and read article at -- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paxnqn/ancient-artifacts-smuggled-by-hobby-lobby-traced-to-mysterious-sumerian-city-irisagrig-mesopotamian