More than a mere secretary for God, a prophet was charged with speaking the very words of God to His people, whether they wanted to hear them or not. Although we can infer a fair amount about Isaiah’s ...

In the Old Testament, we discover that being anointed symbolizes the coming of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Samuel, we read about the prophet Samuel going to the house of Jesse to discover which one of ...

The Old Testament revelation ... consecrated to the Lord as a prophet, was Samuel, the judge and priest" (Sir 46:13). The prophet Isaiah proclaimed, "Hear me, O coastlands, listen, o distant ...

Among these names, the most revered are the names of the prophets, the messengers of God, who delivered his word to the people of their time and place. They evangelized people, called the unrighteous ...

However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament ... we hear from the prophet Ezekiel how God will ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

The event also marked the announcement of activities commemorating the 40th anniversary of the transition of CCC founder, Prophet Samuel Oshoffa. According to Bolaji, who is also the convener of ...

Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of ... Also in Hosea 1:2, God commands the prophet Hosea to marry a woman who would commit adultery. These OT events simply ...

Admittedly, there's no hint in the New Testament of celibacy being mandatory ... profoundly shocked his Jewish listeners. Under the Old Covenant, priests were enjoined to marry and have children ...

Elijah and Elisha: two Old Testament prophets with annoyingly similar names and a collection of weird stories. Epic battles with false prophets, receiving food from birds, administering healing by ...

One of them carries the sign of a fish, which the scientists interpreted as a reference to Old Testament prophet Jonah, and associated with Jesus' death and burial. The same box shows an inscription ...

There are no absolutes anymore. Nietzsche also wrote in a style similar to an Old Testament prophet (see for example his Thus Spoke Zarathustra) – his style is full of such phrases as “we are living ...