The Bible Code -A Book Critique- Drosnin, Michael. The Bible Code. ... Making its mark as the #1 best seller in seven countries, The Bible Code is an account of Mr. ... Also left undetermined is the amount of incorrect things "predicted" in the Bible. ... In my critique, The Bible Code accomplishes exactly what it was intended to do. ...
Some theologians believe the Bible provides us with scientific as well as religious understanding. However, many of them hold that the writers of the Bible were inspired to express enduring religious wisdom, not to provide scientific knowledge long before the rise of science, which I agree completely, but we can see how difficult is to explore this issue. How do we approach the people who believe that the Bible is inerrant? I think we can surely state that some passages of the Bible are to be understood in a metaphorical way and it's not precisely an astronomy book (like St. Augustine sai...
"# A central tenant of Fundamentalism was the literal interpretation of the Bible, including the story of creation. ... One of Clarence Darrow's (defense) first arguments was that the Bible was open to a plethora of interpretations. ... Therefore, the theory of Creation as stated in the Bible was open to any man's interpretation. ... A second tenant of the Fundamentalists" belief was that the Bible served as the arbiter of the natural and the supernatural. ... "# In order to falsify this belief, Darrow had to show that religion and science occupied to totally separate spheres.#...
The First Congregational Church located in Colorado Springs may entice new members to their inviting congregation with open discussion Bible Studies and Scripture readings. ... The denomination, United Church of Christ, tends to live up to its name by strictly becoming "united" among their church members, and not so much "united" in the Bible. The First Congregational Church displays these impressions through their "revelations" they encounter during their Bible study. ... However, Tillich would criticize the church and correct their use of the Bible by prioritizing its function in Jim Whit...
The Bible is composed of 66 books, written by countless authors, across several centuries, and in different countries. ... Yet despite all of those statistics, most people still do not what the Bible is really about. Most people have their favorite story or verse, but they may fail to understand the Bible as a whole. ... Roberts begins by breaking the Bible into eight sections that all pertain to God's Kingdom and how he attempted to achieve it, but at every turn man's sin ruined the beauty that God created. ... Christ often refers to the promises from the Old Testament and without k...
The Bible laid out the rules that people are to live by and these rules became law. The Bible also declared that disobedience to civil rulers was both a political sin and a transgression against God. ... Contrarians debated whether this was the correct interpretation, or was the Bible really referring only to authorities that were living and ruling in a fair and humane manner? ... The Bible instructed them that it was their duty to submit to authority. ... The Bible was very specific when speaking of submission to, and respect for, authority. ...
Simple, it's all based upon how the bible is interpreted. ... If someone against same-sex marriage were to explain the bible about homosexuality and how it is sinful, there would be no concrete evidence of what they say is how God really wanted his children to think. After all we as a nation have diverse religions, anyone can interpret the bible the way they think seems fit. To this day many things can come from the bible and be used against us or work to our advantage. There wouldn't be many different interpretations if there wasn't many versions of the bible, like New Internat...
The European Christians had trouble understanding how Indians could have such a different set of beliefs, because recorded in the Bible, all humankind was created by god, so why were Indian people not following the same beliefs, worn't they all created the same way, by the same god. A more realistic point of view instead of believing the Bible, explains why this was an idea not considered by the early explorers and settlers. Never did it mention Indians in the Bible, and in those times you could never question the word of god. ... Europeans and Indians spoke completely different languages...
Today, and more prevalently in the past, gender stereotyping takes place in many aspects of everyday life, such as the media and normal social interactions. Gender roles assign specific requirements and expectations of each sex, for example, a popular gender role for women is that they tend to get e...
Conflict between racial and ethnic groups has been a problem throughout history, and is still a major problem today. Three underlying reasons for conflict between racial and ethnic groups are religious differences, racist upbringings of children, and a history of conflicts between racial and ethnic ...
He attacked several more aspects of established Roman Catholicism including indulgences: which Luther condemned the Roman Church for there was no "authority in the Bible to sell indulgences" . ... However, the Bible teaches that God chooses people of righteousness and seeks no other characteristic of a person: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled" (Matt 5:6) and happiness in heaven cannot be bought with money but by faith. ... Luther was convinced that because of these indulgences, people had forgotten the message of Jesus in the Bible, the sacra...
The Protestant Reformation was a movement to get rid of the church of medieval abuses and to restore the belief and practices that the reformers believed conformed with the Bible. The movement ulitmately led to the freedom from dissent. The Reformation, in effect, split Europe into two ideological...
There are many places in the Bible where God says, "Man, do not lay with a man as with a woman" (Leviticus 20:13). ... But nowhere in the Bible does it say it is a sin to be gay without having any sexual action. This is the misinterpretation of the Christian Bible. ...
According to The Bible, they were so frightened of his power that they brought him to the attention of the empire, who had him put to death for threatening the sanctity of their authority. He argues convincingly also that the religion itself (as distilled from The Bible) is a copy of old Greek mythologies, the war in heaven is equivalent to the war against Jupiter. ... Through an investigation of both the Old and New Testaments, Paine argues against the idea that God is present in the stories in The Bible, and in fact claims that even Jesus is mentioned only anecdotally. ... Quoting Addison,...
In addition to beginning of the poem, the writer uses an idea about how the God created the earth in a brilliant flat circle with water which is correlated to how God created the earth in the bible, and saw that light was good which represent the gleaming mention in the poem and how he commanded water to gather together to create a dry land which he called earth, all this represent the plain girdled with water mention in Beowulf. It also mentions how God quickened life and everything that is moved which is an abstract of how God created living creature in the bible. Besides the poem categoric...
Unferth symbolizes the pharasees who are mentioned in the Bible in that he is jealous of Beowulf and therefore attempts to belittle and test his credibility just as the pharasees doubted the works and biblical knowledge of Christ. ... This reference to the number seven when describing Beowulf again reveals how Beowulf is symbolic to Christ because the number seven is representative of perfection in the Bible, and Christ was known to be the only living symbol of perfection. ... The mention of Beowulf as a prince also reveals his Christ-like image because in the Bible Christ is known as the P...
The Puritans created laws of every kind but all of the laws had a common parent, the Bible. Every law and restriction of Salem was the offspring of the Bible because the Puritans believed that God should rule the community and if everyone followed God's rules the community would be stable. ...
The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... My Final text The Poisonwood Bible is a novel full of changing perspectives of migrant experiences and once again the failure of child- parent relationships. ...
(Bible: Genesis 9:5-6) When one ponders the image of God, and what is God's connection with worldly happenings, we must first bring ourselves into the shoes of the one being asked. ... Though the killing of another human being is clearly a sin according to the commandments of God, "Thou shalt not kill"(Bible: Exodus 20:15), there are many who have twisted the Christian ideology to use the other side of God's words, citing God's words for retribution "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, strip for stripe" (Bible: e...
They believe it is unnatural and that the individuals who are gay are going against God and the bible. ... Their interpretation of the bible is different from others in the religious community. ... There is reference in the bible against homosexual preference such as fornication, so the church's views should not be altered due to protest. ...
(B) The bible teaches us that abortion is wrong although it never actually says that it does give a very distinct impression on abortion. ... God created everyone of us as individuals and to abort one of his "creations" would be murder as according to the bible, a foetus is a human being and killing a human being is murder. ... A pregnant woman may consider discussing her dilemma with a priest or vicar, praying to God could also help her as could reading the bible. ...
Most Christians don't live that life but the bible says that as long as you accept gods grace you can be saved. I agree with the teachings of the bible and the Christian faith. ... Also the bible teaches that if you give to the community it is a part of living a Christian life and a way to achieve salvation. ...
Christianity itself and what they believe in, Bible, is the largest areas where incorrect assumptions occur so that the fanatics can preach against the minority people. ... However, most scholars have proposed that the Bible does not really say that homosexuality is a sin, and that translations are not accurate and have been misunderstood. In other words Lynn Lavner humorously said that, "The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuality and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. ... The other misinterpreted story in the Bible is the story of Sodom, which is always brought up whenever the rel...
Examination of the bible reveals that the emphasis of the New Testament is on forgiving those who owe us but are unable to pay, stating: "Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors." ... The bible also contains a passage that explains the proper action for the debtor, "Let no debt remain outstanding, accept the continuing debt to love another- (Ro 13:8) Subsequently the moral dilemma is solved, God wants us to make all efforts to rectify our financial obligations. ... New International Disciples Study Bible. Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 1988. ...
The church insisted that it alone had the authority to interpret the meaning of the Bible for people. However, John Wycliffe, an English priest and teacher at Oxford University, declared that people had the right to read the Bible and interpret it for themselves. ... Luther's decision to break away from the church enabled him to spread his teachings, which were primarily: salvation is achieved through faith, not money, the bible is the source of truth, and every town should be able to have a school of its own so that children would learn how to read, write, and think for themselves. ... H...
