Monthly Archives: March 2025

John 16:28 (NRSV): I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father. In a word, no. This is is one of many verses in the Gospel of John which read very literally would mean that all the normal descriptions of Jesus […]

Lent is a period of fasting for six weeks prior to Easter which was instituted at the Council of Nicea in 325. There is no earlier record of such a practice, and no formal practice of fasting is instituted for any occasion, or even required on a voluntary individual basis, for Christians in the New Testament. […]