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times would follow. During this time Christians took to meeting in secret places, often in private residences. Rome increased its ...
a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...
God that is insufficiently explained by philosophy is referred to as "knowing" (Christian Gospel and Our Culture, 2004). "Knowing...
A principle that the Christian worldview corrects is that which holds that lower-level workers know less than their managers. Dem...
the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...
that Dutch physicians have been practicing infant euthanasia for some time. This is not an issue of sex selection or the economic...
because he sounds wonderful. The three children find Aslan while Edmund goes to the witch and tells her that Aslan is going to s...
that are more passive and believe that "God will punish" or "evil will be punished" much less threatening than those that say "God...
discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...
country, he had done a lot of good there. He served as Emperor between 1804 and 1814 and then again between 1814 and 1815. He wou...
a relationship with Him, cultivating that relationship is possible. Further, the relationship with God is personal. Despite the fa...
but rather gives the reader the big picture in respect to what was occurring on either side and how the people felt about what was...
as well as their learning abilities. The Bible teaches people that it is important, and crucial, to care for others and to neve...
Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...
what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meant again, so that I will not cause him to fall" (I Cor. 8:13). ...
memorial prayer for the dead: "O God full of compassion, who dwell on high, grant perfect peace under the wings of the Shekhinah, ...
were dashed when his voice began to change; however, an off-hand remark that referred to him as a poet inspired Andersen and he be...
While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...
suggests that there is a need to consider the biblical foundations noted, including Old and New Testament support for Christian ed...
of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...
and free them from years of persecution (Jesus Institute, 2005). Since Jesus came in peace, many did not accept Him as the true Me...
practice of prayer in the two religions is very different. Christianity calls for steady and ongoing prayer. They praised God, ask...
warm and light the new creation (Awolalu, 1996). Obatala then made human figures from dirt, human figures that were varied and co...
always been a problematic issue. To begin with, context is absolutely critical when one attempts to interpret a passage from the B...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
(Net Bible). This choice is due to the interpretation that, in this context, these statements describe the beginning of various pr...
When we accept His will, we know that we are responsible for our own actions so it begins with a desire for good, to do the right ...
of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...
interview is presumed to be with a fundamentalist Christian from the 1930s. 1. What are the origins of fundamentalist American Ch...
fathers of the Church, Saint John Chrysostoms writings had a uniquely formative impact upon the development of church doctrine and...