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Columna: Una tablilla del Mar Muerto parece hablar de la muerte del Mesías
...palabra que los redactores no podían leer. Entonces viene la frase «Anos Gabriel» («yo, Gabriel»). Para Knohl esta palabra “ilegible” es realmente legible. Es la palabra ‘hayeh’ (vivo), y que Gabriel, el arcángel, da órdenes a alguien: «Leshloshet yamin hayeh» («En tres días, vivirás»). En otras palabras, en tres días,...
Una tablilla del Mar Muerto parece hablar de la muerte del Mesías
...los redactores no podían leer. Entonces viene la frase «Anos Gabriel» («yo, Gabriel»). Para Knohl esta palabra “ilegible” es realmente legible. Es la palabra ‘hayeh’ (vivo), y que Gabriel, el arcángel, da órdenes a alguien: «Leshloshet yamin hayeh» («En tres días, vivirás»). En otras palabras, en tres días, volverás a...
Weep & Worship: A Conclusion
...silence… emptiness… Our voices descend to one last confident whisper: Our God Is Dead. This is the fourth and final installment in a four-part series written by Gabriel M. Riojas. Find the previous three essays here. Gabriel M. Riojas is a second-year theology major at Pacific Union College. He plays...
The Adventist Church and Its LGBT Members — Part 3
...and welcome, and many in-depth church-board conversations, until ultimately the collective consciousness of the congregation was raised, and it was ready to be really accepting and welcoming. As is true in many churches, the community included several LGBT people, including students, and many allies. These included a gay couple, Gabriel...
The Good Shepherd: Dostoyevsky’s Penultimate Trajectory for Ethics
...is the third installment in a four-part series written by Gabriel M. Riojas. Find the previous two essays here. Gabriel M. Riojas is a second-year theology major at Pacific Union College. He plays the guitar and bass, and leads praise music. He also enjoys reading, writing, art and philosophy. He...
A Secular Baptism: Dostoyevsky’s Penultimate Trajectory for Sacramental Language
...one without a living God. Gabriel M. Riojas is a second-year theology major at Pacific Union College. He plays the guitar and bass, and leads praise music. He also enjoys reading, writing, art and philosophy. He hopes to eventually earn his PhD in systematic theology. Image: Ilya Glazunov, Легенда о...
From Contamination to Purification
...been revealed to him (Dan. 8). He would not have been worried if he thought the 2,300 would be literal days, only 6.3 years, so he must have understood this to be a much longer period. In response to Daniel’s prayer, Gabriel came to reveal to Daniel what would happen...
In Search of the Promised Land
...Gabriel Pimenta camp, in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais—José Agostino Costa and Delizete Rodrigues da Silva Costa were “converted” to agrarian reform militancy by curiosity. Since they were little, because of their life in the countryside, they had always dreamed of a piece of land for family farming. When they...
Wade in the Water
I’m on the board of The Beatitudes Society and we recently gave our annual Brave Preacher Award to Alison Harrington, Pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona. She preached the following sermon, “Wade in the Water,” on January 9, the day after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and...
Cieling: en busca de una identidad
...Gabriel dice “pero Señor, que lo matará!”. Gustavo cambia la cara, el tono, la expresión, la compostura y prosigue: “Tranquilo Gabriel, necesito que el viejo haga algo”. Y Dios, según Gustavo, mira hacia a Abraham que está con el cuchillo levantado y cantando un corito, y le dice “Abraham, canta...
Jesus (and?) the Archangel
...typically include four or seven archangels. 1 Enoch 20:1-7 lists Suru’el/Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Saraqa’el/Sariel, Gabriel, and some versions of this chapter also include one named Remiel. Raphael indicates in Tob 12:15 that he is one of seven angels who “enter before the glory of the Lord.” This is similar...
Adventists Help Commemorate Colombia’s National Religious Freedom Day
...contributions by Gabriel Villarreal. It was originally published on Adventist News Network. Photo: (Front row, from left) Pastor Gabriel Villerreal, PARL director for the Adventist Church in Colombia; Mr. Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia; Dr. Ganoune Diop, PARL director for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Photo courtesy of...
Wrestling with the Angel at Bull Run: The Story of Adventist History
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the Spectrum print journal (volume 50, issue 2). Review of Seventh-day Adventist Historiography: An Introduction by Gabriel Masfa (Peter Lang, 2021) Prone to vanity, I started reading Gabriel Masfa’s study of Seventh-day Adventist historiography near the end of the book. I wanted to...
“Jesús (¿y?) el Arcángel”
...Ragüel, Miguel, Saraqa’el / Sariel, Gabriel, y algunas versiones de este capítulo también incluyen a un Remiel. Rafael indica en Tob 12:15 que él es uno de los siete ángeles que “entran en la gloria de Dios”. Esto es similar a Apocalipsis 8:2, que menciona a “los siete ángeles que...
34 Hours Inside Jesus’s Tomb
...as the evening wears on. At midnight, the next shift of guards replaces the first. At 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning, one hour before dawn, everything changes dramatically when the angel Gabriel is finally dispatched to the garden. As he nears, lightening sets the moonlit sky ablaze with shafts of bluish...
Stories of Nazareth and San Gabriel: Annual Council Diary, Oct 9
...“Do we still preach the philosophy of Adventist Christian education in the local church. Is obedience to all the commandments of God taught the children in their very first lesson.” For the final testimony of the morning, Wilson brought to the podium the principal of San Gabriel Academy, Paul Negrete;...
Argentina Union of Seventh-day Adventists Creates Commission to Investigate Smuggling
...the President or Secretary of the Commission. These e-mails are personal and non-institutional. Roberto Gullón: rogul59@gmail.com Gabriel Boleas: gabrielboleas@gmail.com 2. Through personal interviews with the president and secretary of the Commission on days and times to be confirmed. These interviews will be carried out either by the individual initiative for...
A House of Idols: An Introduction
...different, the people’s faces are dissimilar, and the traffic is unsettling. The welcome sign warmly reads: “Our God Is Dead.” Gabriel M. Riojas is a second-year theology major at Pacific Union College. He plays the guitar and bass, and leads praise music. He also enjoys reading, writing, art, and philosophy....
Hallowmas
...a mystery, which is all grace—that all of this living and dying and goodness and evil and beauty and violence is witnessed and hallowed by grace. Image: Mosaic of Lady of Guadalupe at the Basilica of Lourdes (photo taken by Joelle Chase) [i] https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/pt-br/node/46 [ii] https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/pt-br/node/46 [iii] http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2010/05/santa-muerte-photo-gallery/ [iv] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Muerte...