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by Jean Allen “Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The Greek word, which was later translated by St. Jerome (342-420 AD) as ‘repent’, is metanoeite (meta-new-it) from which the word ‘metanoia’ comes. St Jerome translated it as paenetentia or repent but metanoeite means ‘a primal change of mind, worldview or way of…
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~ Jean Allen Just like us, Mary and Joseph had their life plans. And, just like what often happens to us, their plans were disturbingly upended and they were thrown into a set of confusing circumstances that called for stark faith that God was in control. Sure, it’s great to have a name for the…
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~ Jean Allen John was the last of the Old Testament prophets and his general perception of God was definitely Old Testament based. Therefore, he preached the wrath of God in a way that Jesus, who ushered in the New Testament, did not. John may have even been confused by Jesus’s ways of proclaiming the…
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~ Jean Allen Isaiah actually didn’t say, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord,’ What’s written in Isaiah is, “the voice one crying: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord.” It would seem the difference is miniscule yet it indicates that John was not just…
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