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throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...

them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...

one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...

born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

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

1584. Menocchio declared: "in my opinion, all was chaos... and out of that bulk a mass formed - just as cheese is made out of milk...

other and as such their need to survive was often driven by their separation. Another example of survival can be seen in the rel...

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

Claire persisted - "But God will end good people to hell?" The Pastor also commented that since he did not know what was in the ma...

to merge . This would seem to be a level in ones spiritual development, in fact, it would be the final level on earth since Nirvan...

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

forests and other vegetation; the teeming mass of life suggests that there is more than one god present. (This analysis of course ...

as a necessity of life as food, water, and comfort. The people who make no effort to know God cannot understand the world in whic...

nature worship, and may have in common the 3 kind of occultism: Divination, witchcraft (magic) and spiritism, with the sacrifice o...

to happen. There is also the reality wherein a being that is powerful enough to create the entire world is far beyond...

talking about Ulysses and his struggles to get home after the Trojan War: "So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck ...

states that the anthropomorphites commit a grave error because Jesus Himself said that God is a spirit and mans body cannot possib...