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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 ...

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...

The Interpretation Of The Bible In The Church A Commentary

"Each individual book only becomes biblical in the light of the canon as a whole" (Pontifical Biblical Commission, 1994, Canonical...

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...

Jeremiah 29-33

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

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...

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...

Literal Interpretation of the Old Testament

were captive in Babylon and, therefore, exposed to this culture. The traditional Jewish and Christian viewpoint has been that M...

Medieval Concepts of Love, Sex, Marriage, and The Bible

This could be seen, for example, in the practices of the ancient Egyptians, whose culture remained stable for a long period of tim...

Life and Times of Moses

sense of morality despite Moses obvious exposure to the belief system of the Egyptian gods and goddesses. In brief summary to hi...

The Hebrew Bible by Jon Levenson

biblical theology," is central to Levensons position on Old Testament theology. This essay drew immediate attention. Barr (1996) r...

Pentateuch from 2 Perspectives

predecessors in the eighteenth century, beginning with Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette. Furthermore, Blenkinsopps discussion of ...

Themes of Good and Evil in Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...

Bible and Stories of Sibling Rivalry

the birthright of two brothers. In fact, one can go so far to say that the problems in the Middle East have arisen in part due to ...

Literary Depiction of Africa

limited at best. The average American will probably not ever venture off her shores. Often, the more technologically advanced cult...

Old and New Testaments and the Theme of Salvation

Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...

What They Don't Tell You by Brown

p.103). In other words, the bible is real, but there are problems in its delivery. It is therefore seemingly wrong to argue everyt...

Biblical Viewpoints on Forgiveness

be pardoned" (Luke 6:37). God is clearly telling us that it is in our own best interests to forgive others for whatever umbrage w...

2 Questions on Great Literature and Its Practical Applications

guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...

Biblical Guidance References for a Sunday School Superintendent's Role

be either coerced or cajoled into taking a position of responsibility within the church, but should, rather, desire to serve in th...

Mosaic Tradition and Divine Command and the Mosaic Tradition: Maimonides, Al-Ghazali and Augustine

the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

Book Review, Birch and Rasmussen

is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...

Acts of God

God uses to point to Himself as the power (Samons, 2012). Examples of miracles in the Old Testament include God parting the Red S...

Parable of the Mustard Seed Exegesis

is only found there and not in any of the other Gospels. It is known that Mark was written in about 70 A.D. and it is believed tha...

Why was I Born Gay? by David McGrinn

This essay is a book review that pertains to David McGrinn's God, Why Was I Born Gay? Biology, the Bible and the Homosexual Debate...

Church's Perspective on War

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

Liberal Christianity

only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...