Access to divine life is cut off by man’s choice. Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger ...
The Old Testament contains a record of the pact between ... The pact between God and Abraham was sealed by the circumcision (Genesis 17); the pact between God and the Jewish people, by the ...
The outspoken and sometimes outrageous daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, said, “If you can’t say something good about someone, ...
Other scholars, however, have claimed that there are mythological elements in the Old Testament as well. Exhibit A for this argument is usually a narrative that some believe parallels the ancient ...