How can two dynamically different groups of people co-exist in the world and respect each other's cultures and lifestyles? ... (Hebrew-Greek, 2 Tim. 2.14-16) It is only what the Word says that counts. ... In this way, many people have a hard time believing that gays are, for the most part, loving, capable, and decent individuals. ... However, many groups believe quite the contrary. ... That doesn't mean people should give in to it; No matter how homosexuals live - no matter how monogamous or how loving or how religious - they are living in sin because heterosexuality is the only...

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The name Asherah is mentioned forty times in the Hebrew Bible. The word Asherah in the Bible can refer both to the goddess herself or a carved wooden image, which was one of Asherah's icons. ... Two altars, one smaller than the other, have been found at archaeological sites in the Near East, and some scholars believe these represent Yahweh and his consort, Asherah. ... The goddess of wisdom or Sophia (the Greek word for wisdom) is mentioned in the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible. ... Thus Rachel, believing her father would deny her husband legal share in his estate, took the Teraphim...

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The books of Hebrews, Jude, and Revelation soon joined the book of James. ... Peter Davids, a professor at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry believes the author is James, the brother of Jesus, and someone else edited it for him. Davids believes that the letter came from Palestine. ... We know that the author was Jewish, he knows the Hebrews Scriptures thoroughly. ... When James write both God and Jesus Christ, he was correlating the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, Tamez says, "such an identification with those who suffer is in itself a reason for joy" (page 29). ...

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The Talmud, named after the Hebrew word for instruction or learning, is considered second to the Torah and is composed as a record of rabbinic discourse regarding the oral law. ... The Jewish people believe that when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and He also gave him more detailed instructions on how to follow the law. ... " This is the most well-known passage of the Hebrew Scriptures, known in Jewish tradition as the Shema. The prayer's title is based on the first word "hear" translated from the Hebrew word shema. ... A second insight can be seen in Berakhot chapter...

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Understanding how Revelation was written and also the original context of the letters is a key factor in understanding the Book. ... "3 They have it narrowed down to three interpretations that many people believe could be possible for the two witnesses. ... Belief that Witnesses are Elijah and Moses The two witnesses that are describes in Revelation 11 are believed by some scholars to be Elijah and Moses. They believe that Elijah and Moses will return during the great tribulation and witness to the world about Jesus Christ. ... "We are led, then, to the conclusion that he has not in ...

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Understanding how Revelation was written and also the original context of the letters is a key factor in understanding the Book. ... "3 They have it narrowed down to three interpretations that many people believe could be possible for the two witnesses. ... Belief that Witnesses are Elijah and Moses The two witnesses that are described in Revelation 11 are believed by some scholars to be Elijah and Moses. They believe that Elijah and Moses will return during the great tribulation and witness to the world about Jesus Christ. ... "We are led, then, to the conclusion that he has not in ...

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This was significant because humans could then convey information not by word alone. 3. ... This was based on custom, and any personal interpretation of his word that strayed from the norm would be thought of as going against the divine will and divine justice. ... The pyramids show how important the funeral and burial of the pharaoh was. ... If a noble could be buried close to the pharaoh's tomb and he could carve his titles to show how he served him, and how he could serve him in the future, he might be taken along. ... They also developed two other writing styles, called Hiera...

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In the end I will attempt to integrate ancient daemonology with the concept of the Devil, found only in four major religions (Zoroastrianism, ancient Hebrew religion, Christianity, and Islam), in order to weigh the benefits of personifying evil against alternative methods of combating such a force. ... Originally, the Greek word daimon meant "divine being" (Luck 1985, 163). ... A similar word, daimonion, also could mean "a divine being." ... The main question that must be answered is how the daimon (the impersonal, powerful force in the Homeric epics) became the evil demon (Smith 1978, 432)...

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The ancient Egyptians were one of the first cultures to believe in one God. ... Nun is all knowing therefore omnipotent and believed to be a good god. ... He was believed to be an earthly carnation of Horus. ... In this system, a person had to take an oath not to share any information with outsiders and to never write any of the material they learned down. ... To the Egyptians, magic was based on a perceived power of the word whether it is spoken or written. ...

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2) How should we communicate God as a reality? ... Christian philosophers should begin by believing what Christianity professes and seek to acquire understanding of what they believe. ... For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand.... He thus refers to the Letter to the Hebrews: "By faith we understand that the worlds were formed by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made of things which appear...... He writes: "The truths that we confess concerning God fall into two categories. ...

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No Christian can study God=s Word for very long without coming face-to-face with the dilemma concerning predestination and free will. This dilemma has vital implications for how Christians understand the love of God and the extent and sufficiency of Christ's work of atonement. ... However, this student believes that God is much glorified in his feeble attempts to apply both Scripture and theology to clinical practice. ... But prior to this dialogue is one on how we determine what information is legitimate for the debate. ... Perhaps, depending on how one defines freedom. ...

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"The word "hobbit" swam into his head, and soon he had invented the genus of hole-dwelling manikins, 3-4 feet high, domesticated yet tough" (Yates). ... "The Lord of the Rings tells how Frodo, Bilbo's nephew, inherits Bilbo's magic invisible ring, and with it a great burden. ...

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The satisfaction theory is also related to the ancient Hebrew ritual sacrifice for animals, which took place at the altar of the Jerusalem Temple.4 This relates to the satisfaction theory in that when the Jews took an animal to sacrifice at the altar at the Jerusalem Temple, they thought that sacrificing an animal God would forgive their sins. The Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury writes that "without satisfaction, that is, without voluntary payment of the debt, God can neither pass by the sin unpunished, nor can the sinner attain that happiness, or happiness like that, which he had before ...

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He reaches for a copy of a "romaunce" (a word describing the  Metamorphoses  of the ancient Roman poet Ovid) and reads the tale of King  Seys  and Queen  Alcyone. ... The narrator now reflects how helpful it would be to have the god of sleep come and give him much-needed rest himself. ... It was believed by the ancient Greeks (and held as a pious belief by the ancient Romans, although by Ovid's time it was probably considered more of a superstition among the educated classes) that if a body wasn't buried properly, the departed's soul would not rest. ... The story of Joseph ...

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History of Reiki Traditionally, Reiki is believed to have originated with the healing methods of Jesus Christ and the Buddha. ... The story of how Reiki has emerged in the modern age begins the middle of the 1800's. ... Usui was believed to be a practicing Christian minister as well as the principle of the school. ... The author of Essential Reiki, Diane Stein writes a warning that although this historical account is accepted by relevant authorities, it may have been doctored by the West to make the esoteric practice of Reiki more palatable to Americans. ... Word of these miracles began ...

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He started to write at age seven, but ended up studying science at Brasenose College, Oxford. ... During the Nineteenth and the early Twentieth Century many westerners believed that they lived in a society governed by ultimate views of law, democracy and religion.... Golding uses the names of two of the boys as if to say "This is how things really would have happened."" ... Conrad believed that the European intrusion would result is disaster for Africa. ... The Lord of the Flies is an English translation of the Hebrew term "Beelzebub-, which is the personification of evil in the Judaic and Chr...

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