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December 1, 2010 By Fr. John A. Peck

Calculating Christmas

William J. Tighe on the Story Behind December 25In this, one of my favorite articles, William Tighe explodes the notion we were all taught in public school about the 'Christianization' of a pagan festival for the date of Christmas. He uses historical fact to prove his point, and has thereby offered … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Featured, Sermon Resources Tagged With: bethlehem, birth, calculating, Calculating Christmas, christ, Christmas, Jesus, orthodoxytoday.org, Touchstone Magazine, William Tighe

October 20, 2010 By admin

Why Orthodox Christians Prefer the Septuagint: Part 2

Continued from Part One. 3. THE CASE OF THE MISSING PROPHET We have written in a previous article (“The Neutralization of the Netherworld”) that the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament represents an ancient and authentic Hebrew tradition. Due to the fact that there were variances in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Biblical Resources Tagged With: Bible, Greek, Hanukkah, Jesus, Jewish, Masoretic, Septuagint

October 19, 2010 By admin

Why Orthodox Christians Prefer the Septuagint: Part 1

by Metropolitan Ephraim of Boston Preface The purpose of these articles was to explain to our faithful, in a simple and easily-understood manner, some of the differences that exist between the Old Testament (Masoretic) text used by most of today’s Roman Catholics and Protestants and the S … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Biblical Resources Tagged With: Bible, christ, Metropolitan Ephraim of Boston, Mom, Netherworld, Septuagint

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