The church comes to the close of the liturgical year by celebrating the solemnity of Christ the King As Blessed John Paul II once reflected this solemnity is ldquo a synthesis of the entire salvific mystery rdquo The Scriptures we use are both triumphal and paradoxical In our first reading fr

The Bible is highly complex and includes a plurality of theologies not all of which align Some of these differences even reflect dramatic shifts Many Old Testament authors assumed for example that there were gods other than Yahweh Ps 82 1 95 3 This had to be corrected Isa 45 20 ndash 21 J

Have you ever wondered what the Bible meant by scribe Minimally scribes were educated people who read and wrote for a living Scribes could be hired by illiterate people the vast majority for legal and financial matters More typically scribes were also experts in Torah the Mosaic law and th

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