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    <title>Are we living in the Great Tribulation right now?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>Matthew 24's actual list of signs, four ways Christians have read when it applies, and Jesus's own repeated warnings against reading your own moment as the decisive one.</description>
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    <title>Could anyone alive today be descended from Cain?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>Cain's line simply stops in Genesis 4; Seth's runs to Noah; and Genesis 9:19 says the whole earth was peopled from Noah's sons. What that adds up to — and the two questions it depends on.</description>
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    <title>Did Isaac Newton write about the Bible?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>The scientist wrote more on Scripture than on physics — his Daniel &amp; Revelation, his textual criticism of the Johannine Comma, his chronology, and his hidden anti-Trinitarianism, handled honestly.</description>
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    <title>How long were the days of creation?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>The elastic Hebrew word yom, the sunless first days and the open seventh, and the ordinary-day, day-age, and literary-framework readings — with their pedigrees, no vote cast.</description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>The name of God — the four letters behind “the LORD,” why almost every Bible hides it, and the choice between “the LORD,” “Yahweh,” and “Jehovah.”</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>John 1:1 and the deity of Christ — the Greek of the missing article, “firstborn of all creation,” the Angel of Jehovah, and the whole argument laid out on both sides.</description>
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    <title>Why isn't the Book of Enoch in this translation?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>The Masoretic source text, the canon question, the Ethiopian exception, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.</description>
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