Rebuild Spirit

From the earliest centuries of the Christian Church, the leading theologians spoke with remarkable unity on the subject of idolatry and the use of images in worship . Whether confronting pagan religions or addressing errors within the Church, writers such as Origen, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Lactantius consistently upheld the biblical principle that God, as Spirit, is not to be represented by material forms nor approached through created intermediaries. Their

The Requerimiento , drafted in 1513, was a declaration used during the Spanish conquest of the Americas. It was presented as a legal and religious justification for taking control of Indigenous lands and was often read aloud in Spanish to people who could not hear or understand it. At its core, the document claimed that God had given universal authority to the apostle Peter, that this authority passed to the popes, and that a pope could therefore grant entire continents to

The biblical story begins with a profound disruption of cosmic order, and that disruption enters creation through the act of a woman. In Genesis, Eve’s transgression together with Adam’s breaks the unity between humanity and God, shatters the harmony of creation, and distorts the woman’s original vocation. The text describes that shame enters the human experience as the man and woman hide from the presence of the Lord (Genesis 3:7–8) . Suffering and disorder follow, for

The Egyptian Book of the Dead   offers one of the clearest windows into the ancient religious world that surrounded; and opposed; the faith of Israel. While Scripture places all spiritual authority under Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Egypt developed a vast and intricate system of deities, funerary rites, and solar mythologies . At the center of this system stands Osiris, repeatedly called the “Bull of Amenta” in the Book of the Dead. In the biblical worldview

The ancient Near Eastern world contained a vast array of stories about beings who existed between the human and divine realms, and some of these stories strongly shaped later traditions that appear in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the mythic expansions of rabbinic and Kabbalistic thought. One of the least-known but most important sources comes from Ugarit, a Late Bronze Age Canaanite city whose tablets provide a worldview full of semi-divine warr

Discussions about relic veneration often stir strong emotions, but serious theological questions deserve calm and careful reflection. Within the Roman Catholic tradition, relics; objects associated with saints, martyrs, or events from sacred history; are afforded honor and, at times, even attributed spiritual power or intercessory benefit . This practice stretches back many centuries and is presented as part of an unbroken stream of "Christian" devotion. However, for Christ

Many voices today offer competing paths to “enlightenment,” but not all light is true light. While Scripture teaches that wisdom comes through repentance, humility, and faith in the living God, some writers turn instead to hidden knowledge, mystical ascent, or esoteric cycles. One such example is E. V. Kenealy’s The Book of God: The Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes , a 19th-century attempt to reconstruct a “lost” revelation through mythological synthesis and occult symbolism

Today’s post brings together a series of passages that reveal how deeply idolatry and compromise had entered the life of ancient Israel and Judah. We will look at the kemarim — the black-robed priests who served Baal , tended the sun-worship cults, and supported the calf rituals of Bethel . We wil examine how foreign gods like Malcham crept into the people’s devotion, how strange apparel marked the adoption of foreign customs, and how the prophets confronted a priesthood th

Duality in Jewish mysticism is not a doctrine of two gods or competing cosmic forces. It is the experience of one divine reality expressed through two dimensions of human life: the spiritual and the physical. Many Jewish thinkers who root themselves firmly in the Hebrew Scriptures describe humans as beings who straddle both heaven and earth, carrying the tension and purpose of that dual existence. Nachmanides (Ramban), in his commentary on Genesis , emphasizes that the huma

Today's post examines ancient symbols, forgotten histories, and the spiritual imagery that still surrounds us today. By comparing archaeology, mythology, and Scripture, we explore how demonic gods, sacred monuments, and hidden motifs continue to shape the modern world; often in places least expected. When you look carefully at the Dendera image of Osiris, you see something that should not be glossed over. Osiris, the god of the underworld, is shown lying in his coffin with

Today we will be exploring the points of contact between ancient Egyptian sacred science and the imagery found in the Bible. Egypt preserved a vast symbolic system of light, creation, and cosmic order, and some of these themes appear in Scripture; sometimes in parallel, sometimes in deliberate contrast. But as we examine these connections, it is important to remember that the Bible repeatedly warns God’s people not to “go whoring after Egypt,” a phrase used by the prophets to

In Schwaller de Lubicz’s Sacred Science , the sun and moon are not treated as mere physical objects but as primary “luminaries,” fundamental agents in the cosmic order and in Egyptian sacred science . The text makes it very clear that, for the Egyptians, the sun and moon form the basic pair that structures reality and time. The sun is treated on several interconnected levels. Ra (Sol Invictus in Rome) is called the “Sun absolute,” while the “Eye of Ra” is the visible

The opening chapters of Genesis can be read as two distinct creations leading to two opposing human lineages; one loyal to the promised Redeemer and one aligned with the dragon. In this view, Genesis 1 , spoken by “Elohim,” describes the bringing forth of a general humanity in god’s image: “male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27) . No individuals are named, no garden is mentioned, no covenant details are given. Genesis 2 , by contrast, introduces a specific man form

For centuries, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ have been remembered in a two-day Easter cycle; Friday to Sunday (approx 48 hours) . Yet long before the Gospel story, pagan cultures from Canaan to Rome already celebrated a similar rhythm of death and return in their worship of Baal, Astarte, and other fertility gods . This essay exposes how that ancient pattern crept into the Christian calendar and why it cannot define the Lord who created time itself. Yeshua, Yahw

Many people have grown up hearing that the Roman Catholic Church “gave us the Bible.” It is true that the Latin-speaking Western Church preserved and copied Scripture for many centuries, but modern research in New Testament textual criticism has shown that the story is far broader, older, and more international than that . The Bible as we know it came out of the complex life of the early Christian movement, which spread from the eastern Mediterranean into many cultures and

The Chronicle of Michael the Great, Patriarch of the Syrians  Among the chronicles of the medieval world, few are as sweeping or as neglected as The Chronicle of Michael the Great ; the twelfth-century universal history written by Michael the Syrian, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Composed in Syriac and preserved through an Armenian translation, his work gathers the wisdom of centuries: from Julius Africanus and Josephus, to Eusebius, Jacob of Edessa , and countles

Throughout history, sincere followers of Christ have been misunderstood and maligned. Those who live with integrity and conviction are often mocked as hypocrites or fanatics; not because they deceive, but because they refuse to conform to corruption or compromise truth. Still today, people who walk humbly with God are slandered for doing what is right. Their reputations are destroyed by those who claim to defend purity, yet act from pride and ambition . Under the banner of r

In Against Apion  I.156–158 , Josephus quotes the Phoenician royal chronicles to confirm his chronology of the Jewish exile. He records that Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre under King Ithobal and that the next ruler, Baal, reigned for ten years. Though “Baal” means “Lord,” here it is a royal name rather than the god himself, showing how divine titles had become part of Tyrian kingship. The passage also proves Josephus drew on authentic Phoenician annals to support his historic

Roman poets before Virgil had already begun to shape a story that bound politics to myth. They cast Aeneas not just as the founder of Rome but as the ancestor of the Julian line, linking Julius Caesar and Augustus to Venus Genetrix , the mother-goddess who gave divine authority to their rule. When Virgil wrote the Aeneid , he fused Greece’s epic form with Rome’s national ideology, turning Aeneas’s voyage into the birth story of empire itself. The colour purple , drawn fro

The prophetic “King of Tyre” described by Ezekiel 28 likely corresponds to Ithobaal III , who ruled Tyre in the *sixth century BC during the prophet’s lifetime. The name Ithobaal, meaning “With Baal,” already reveals his religious association. The kings of Tyre were not merely political rulers but priest-kings of Baal Melqart, the city’s chief deity. Melqart, whose name means “King of the City,” was Tyre’s divine patron, a god of kingship and renewal whom the Greeks later