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Fifty-Two Doctrines Explained

each chapter to help the reader discover what they have learned. There is a harmony to the book in that it begins with a discuss...

Interpretation Of Claims Made In "The Da Vinci Code"

of Christianity. Beyond that, however, the story quickly falls apart. The "theological crossroads" (Breaking The Da Vinci Code) ...

Analysis of Mark 4:35-40

if "the Son of God does not sink, neither shall we" (Darby, 2009). Matthew Henry finds allegorical meaning in the passage, as he...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...

Mary in the Bible and the Qur’an

It appears that in many respects the general story concerning Mary in the Bible and the Quran is essentially the same. Pelikan (19...

Early Persecution Of Christians

flogged rather than killed (Acts 5:27-42). It is through the writings of early historians like Eusebius of Cesarea and Origen that...

Biblical Fasting

and worship. The function of food for enjoyment is seen at Ecclesiastes 2:24 where it states " Nothing is better for a man than th...

Cultural Context And Interpretation Of Scripture

Christian but it was a Western culture. East Asians are from a complex culture, one that is based in Confucianism and then, Christ...

Jeremiah 29-33

of editorial activity (Brueggemann 7). However, scholars have yet to reach consensus over the extent to which each layer of litera...

Teen Suicide

other situation, I believe God wants people to live and by living, learn how to handle the problems that cause psychic pain. Sea...

Modern Parable

in a box or in the homeless shelter, and begged for loose change. Starving, with no hope, he reasoned that the lowest paid worker ...

Gilgamesh and Job

this he becomes something of a hero, though never truly a hero who completely sacrifices himself for others or for some grand caus...

African History: The Bible and Africa

Shiloh, was captured by the Philistines for seven months, and then, returned to the Israelites, was kept in the village of Kiriath...

4 Essays, Antigone, Bible Verses

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

Koran, Bible on Women

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

How Were the Books Selected for the Bible

early as the 50s and others believe it was written not before 85.5 Acts could have been written by Luke anytime after 63.6 The da...

'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver and a Responsibility Letter

1959, and Price, like so many of his Western contemporaries at the time, believed that the inhabitants of the so-called Dark Conti...

The Bible, Koran, And Divine Comedy

the Bible - the Ten Commandments, the so-called Golden Rule, what civilized societies consider moral and immoral behaviors - all f...

Bible Word Study/Counseling

thoroughly documented in the concordance that was consulted (Fireside Bible Publishers) and it appears in Neh. 4:15, Job 28:2, Pro...

Passion of the Christ v. The Bible

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...

Wisdom in the Bible

importance. He makes numerous promises to God if He will just save him. In Psalm 137, the Israelites are crying for help from the ...

Sexual Indulgence as Taught in the Satanic Bible

Anton Szandor LaVeys "The Satanic Bible" presents many contentions that run counter not just to the teachings of...

One of the Themes Throughout the Bible

the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...

Bible and Bhagavad Gita Compared

The Bible, on the other hand, has a much looser structure and was not written by a single author, or group of authors, at one part...

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Applicatioins of Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories

for their ethical behavior. He identified six stages which were classified in three levels: pre-conventional, conventional and pos...

Characters from The Bible, The Odyssey and Tale of the Genji

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

Who Wrote the Bible? by Friedman

great deal of examples that demonstrates how and why the inconsistencies suggest that the stories were coming from more than one s...

Samuel and Moses Bible Stories

In Samuel, the story begins with Hannah and her husband. The woman had prayed to the Lord for a child and soon she was blessed wit...

Creation, Man's Fall, and the Great Flood in Metamorphoses of Ovid and The Holy Bible

the kindred heaven. It was this earth, mixed with water, that Prometheus, child of Titan Iapetus, fashioned into the image of the ...