Posts Tagged ‘romans’

The ‘Wild Olive Branch’ Of Romans 11 – Who Can Be Grafted Into Israel And Who Cannot

Universalist Christians robotically quote Romans 11 where Paul illustrates who can be saved with the Parable of the Olive Tree — and they literally salivate when Paul mentions the “Gentiles” being “grafted in” — erroneously believing that a “gentile” is literally anyone and everyone on the planet who is not a “Jew”. In the New […]

Ancient Romans Used Chickens to Predict Battle Outcomes

Few tales capture the peculiarities of ancient Roman beliefs as much as that of the sacred chickens. These were not ordinary birds but revered animals, consulted as avian oracles before significant military actions.  Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Source Views: 0

BL – Jacob and Esau in Romans 9, Part 2

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BL – Jacob and Esau in Romans 9, Part 1

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Romans Cleverly Used Interchangeable Heads on Their Statues

Museums are filled with the captivating spectacle of bodiless heads and headless bodies dating back to Roman times. Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Source Views: 0

Romans Wore Red-Crested Helmets to Avoid Fratricide on the Battlefield

We’ve all become accustomed to seeing iconic red-crested helmets depicted in Hollywood battle scenes set in the Roman era. Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Source Views: 0

Venta Icenorum: Excavating Romans In Boudicca’s Lands

Today the sleepy village of Caistor St Edmund in the country of Norfolk with its typical church spire and green, seems unremarkable but 2,000 years ago the terrain helped shaped the future of the whole of Britain.  Read more Section:  News Premium Preview Read Later  Source Views: 0

RH – Who Killed the Messiah, the Jews or the Romans?

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Romans Added Lead Sweetener to Their Wine and it Killed Them

How far did ancient people go to enhance the flavor of their food and drinks? Would they consume toxic substances if it made things a little more appetizing? Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Views: 0

Romans Added Lead Sweetener to Their Wine and it Killed Them

How far did ancient people go to enhance the flavor of their food and drinks? Would they consume toxic substances if it made things a little more appetizing? Well, the Romans did, by adding a sweet version of lead to their wine and, later, to their food. Some scholars say that widespread lead poisoning contributed […]

Rare Batavian Calvary Mask Worn in Revolt Against The Romans Found

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman site near the German city of Krefeld, just a few miles west of the Rhine, uncovered a rare Batavian mask. Read more Section:  Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later  Source Views: 0

Romans Drank Gladiator Blood as an Epilepsy Cure!

The ancient Romans were known for enjoying violent forms of entertainment – public executions, animal hunts, chariot racing, and gladiatorial games.  Read more Section:  News History Ancient Traditions Read Later  Source Views: 0

A Tale of Silk and Faraway Lands: Did the Romans Meet the Chinese?

Although located on opposite ends of the globe, ancient Rome and China were remarkably similar in their stature, as both commanded respect from the weaker kingdoms enveloped in their spheres of influence through the twin forces of military might and diplomatic astuteness.  Read more Section:  News Premium Preview Read Later  Views: 0

Ancient Romans Brushed Their Teeth with Urine

While today we flush our urine away without giving it a second thought, in ancient times it was considered a valuable commodity. Urine contains a wide array of important minerals and chemicals such as phosphorus and potassium.  Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Views: 0

Romans 11 And The Glory Of Israel’s Fulfillment Through The Nations

In this essay, we’d like to conduct an exposition on Romans 11, as it has come up a number of times in comments from our readers. The passage is really a cornerstone piece in many debates — mostly given Paul’s propensity to explain and prove what he believes — rather than when he merely gives […]

VOCI – Romans 9:1-10, With Pastor David Martens

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Advanced Scottish Culture Stopped Romans Taking All Of Britannia

New archaeological evidence demonstrates that Britain’s Hadrian’s Wall was not a cause, but instead an effect of the cultural differences that already thrived between the two territories that would later become Scotland and England. Since the time of the 1st century Roman invasion of Britain, an incorrect stereotype maintains that ancient Scottish cultures were barbaric, […]

Were The Romans Israelites? — Our Faith In Christ Or Abraham’s Faith In Us? (Part 4)

In Part 3 of this series on the alleged Israelite identity of the Romans, we discussed Paul’s extensive background in stoic philosophy — and by extension, his experience with logic and rhetoric. We argued that those who believe the Romans are Israelites rely overly much on adding to Paul’s context in their own arguments. In […]

Were The Romans Israelites? The Law Written On Their Hearts (Part 3)

In Part 2 of this series on the alleged Israelite identity of the Romans, we discussed the state of the Roman Empire at the time Paul wrote the epistle to the Romans. We considered the implications of the mixed empire Rome was according to Daniel 2:43 — and how we cannot merely assume that all […]

Were The Romans Israelites? Romans in the New Testament (Part 2)

In Part 1, we discussed how the Old Testament and even secular history offer no real proof to support the idea that the Romans were originally Israelites. Now we’d like to move on to addressing Paul’s actual epistle to the Romans. Some Christians maintain that the epistle to the Romans proves that the Romans themselves […]

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