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God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and those regarding the sciences, technology, and business. The difference is that although we "sense" our religious beliefs we d...

book of Genesis, life for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was "an ideal state" until evil, or Satan in the deceptive disguise o...

kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...

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

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

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

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...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

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

that it took root in that region, transformed by the demands of laymen and -women and the responses of clerical leaders. Southern ...

When we consider the Popol Vuh we see that this is an ancient Mayan text that has many stories and tales. Further more it...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

your God, with all your heart, your soul and your mind, and your neighbor as yourself" (Green 66). Voicing a slightly different op...

This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...

In a paper containing 5 pages the stories of the great flood featured in these religious texts are examined. There are two source...

In twelve pages biblical teaching instruction for children in their early to mid teens are considered in four lesson plans on heal...