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How to understand the Bible (First part)

For centuries the Bible is at the center of debate not only about its content and doctrines, but also around the way by which understand it. The Jews interpret literally their Bible – which roughly corresponds to our Old Testament – so striving to settle all difficulties and contradictions through…

Can we repay God for all the good he has done for us?

When the wedding celebration was ended, Tobit called his son Tobias and said to him, “My child, see to paying the wages of the man who went with you, and give him a bonus as well.” He replied, “Father, how much shall I pay him? It would do no harm…

The Fish and the Water

In the chapter 6, Tobit lives the fundamental experience placed between past and future. Everything here is to be understood symbolically, that is as a figure of something deeper. The framework of the trip. Tobia starts from a place lying west to travel to the east; from the place of sunset to…

Did Enoch and Elijah ascend to heaven?

Some skeptics charge Jesus with missing out on Elijah being first to “ascend into heaven” but the solution is the same as it is today: The Hebrew word translated “heaven” in the first verse. shamiyim, simply means the sky, as “heavens” does metaphorically today. The “heavens” were also regarded as the…

Biglino is not right! Extra biblical evidences about the Tower of Babel don’t exist

Kunsthistorisches Museum – Vienna This article is the answer to what appears in the Biglino’s blog about the Tower of Babel. This article is excerpted from the book of Alessandro and Alessio De Angelis, Oltre la mente di Dio. The authors believe that the Bible copied the Tower of Babel’s story…

The Biblical city of Sodom (First part): Why it was destroyed?

In the wake of the possible discovery of the city of Sodom, which I will talk about in the second part of this little dossier, let me address the main question you ask when you come to the city of Sodom: the practice of homosexuality. In fact, chapter 19 of Genesis is…

We are made of light!

On this day we commemorate the loved ones I would like to propose a brief reflection on the LIGHT in which they now inhabit. The Hebrew word for light (or) and the Greek word (fos) indicate – as well as ‘love’ – the very essence of God (light: Tb 3:17; Sal…

How to unterstand the Bible – Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman (Lk 7:36-50)

The Gospels don’t offer the slightest pretext to identify the sinful/adulterous woman with Mary Magdalene (for the Luke’s text click here). The identification of Mary Magdalene with the sinful woman was made Jacobus de Voragine in his Legenda Aurea. Luke (ch. 8:2) just says that Mary Magdalene was possessed by “seven evil spirits”, before…

How to understand the Bible (Fifth part)

The Bible’s books that don’t speak about history are the richest for our life. A striking case is represented by the three booklets called: Tobit, Judith and Esther. The allusions to a certain period of Israel’s history aren’t useful to identify the historical period when the booklets were written. For example, the story…

How to understand the Bible (Fourth part)

The Bible is full of mysterious animals that speak to men, often urging them to embark on a road rather than another, or acting as a voice of conscience. The historical-critical exegesis neglects these elements and treats them as mere pieces of the literary genre to which the accounts belong.…

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