The King James Bible: the Story Few literary works have had as tremendous an impact uponthe world as the King James Bible. ... However, manyhave no idea of how the King James Bible came to be. Thestory behind the King James Bible is one that we all shouldknow and understand in order to relate it to modernChristianity in our world.The King James Bible, often referred to as theAuthorized Version even though it was never actuallyauthorized by any legal recourse, began on 16 January 1604 asa request from Puritan leader Dr. ... He wrote to the Bishopof London on 22 July 1604 that he had "'ap...

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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. ...

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As a result, there cannot be any true contradictions between any two passages in the Bible. ... Liberal Christians recognize that the writers of the Bible held a variety of beliefs concerning Heaven and Hell, and believe that the beliefs of the authors of the Bible evolved greatly over the approximately 850 years during which the Bible was written. Thus, there is little internal consistency in the Bible on the afterlife. ... They view the various concepts of Hell in the Bible as myths. Although the writers of the Bible sincerely believed in Sheol and Hell, they have no real existence. ...

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Homophobics and the Bible Many people use the bible as their reason for being homophobic. ... Read Your Bible." ... Because he has been a minister for so long, he is knowledgeable about the bible. ... The same bible people are using against homosexuals is also telling them to accept homosexuals. ... Read Your Bible," truly creates an effective argument against homophobia. ...

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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...

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However, the Greek Bible can ultimately be understood as responding to the struggles that the Hebrew Bible has with the meaning of God's covenant promise of land for his people. ... The Greek Bible, in turn, enacts this recasting through the repetition of type scenes from the Hebrew Bible in the Greek Bible. Thus, the writings in the Greek Bible are responding to the covenant problem in the Hebrew Bible by taking what was rooted in the physical and moving it to the metaphysical, which ultimately culminates in the Hebrew Bible's promise of physical land becoming a promise of a metaphy...

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As stated in the New Living Translation Bible: "God created human beings in his own image. ... The Holy Bible is very clear of the expectations and divisions between men and women in the home and church, and because of these expectations, God has allocated certain roles for both to fulfil. ... The Bible places heavy emphasis on acting with humility and so, women are discouraged from wearing expensive jewellery or garments and rather, are instructed to dress "modestly, with decency and propriety." (1 Timothy 2:9) Furthermore, as God created Adam before Eve, and because the Bible...

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"# 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.#...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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The study of Judaism reveals a "millennial effort to foster a religious culture of self-restraint that intuitively respects the value and integrity of its natural environment. " Schorsch notes that the Talmud and the Hebrew Bible both frequently "regulate a Jew's relationship to the natural world" and especially speak to the curbing of "man's unlimited use of his environment." ... The history of man, according the Genesis of the Bible is directly related to the fact there are two "beginnings" to man's earthly existence. ... Clearly this decree in the Bible preaches taking c...

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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...

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Biblical scholars sought to prove that the Bible was historically correct in order to qualify it's authenticity spiritually. They failed to address the problems of genre within the Bible. ... Fear that the Bible may be reinterpreted or undermined seems to be why the validity of archaeology continues to be questioned. According to Bernhard Anderson (1965), early Christians believed that the Bible was God's word and in order to be spiritually correct had to also be historically accurate. ... The fact that there existed such a difference between historical data and the Bible was probl...

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Many Americans claim to derive their morals from the bible, and believe that is what they are, no questions asked. ... I did not look to the 613 different commandments in the Bible, or to a pastor. ... For example the Rhesus Monkey, whose genome shares about 93 percent of its sequences with humans, but cannot read a Bible, have shown episodes of morality while undergoing testing. ... A few hundred years ago it was normal, moral even, to own a slave, it was in the Bible and God condoned it in both the old and new testaments. 300 years ago we were burning withes in the name of God, an act that w...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Some people who support this issue do so by expressing their concern for legal human rights, whereas others, who are against legalization of gay marriage base their argument on religious sources such as the Bible, in order to protect, according to them, the sanctity of the institution of marriage. ... He convincingly demonstrates that the Bible does not condemns homosexuality. He gave example of the text from the Bible: "You shall not lie with a male as with a women; it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22). ... After showing the Bible is not condemning homosexuality, He further concludes that eve...

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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...

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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...

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The fact that Galileo had attempted to scientifically disprove something written in the Bible had far reaching implications. For example, if one element of the Bible had been proven wrong, it seemed like it could only be a matter of time before someone else had the nerve to prove something else in the Bible wrong. Then eventually, if enough of the Bible was proved wrong, the clergy would lose any authoritative power they had once had. In short, the Church saw Galileo as a threat to the legitimacy of the Bible, which in turn threatened the foundation of the whole entire Church. ... Despite t...

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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. ...

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They were not atheists; they believe in God but they claim that there is a mistranslation of the Bible and refuse to follow those falsely customs and beliefs that Babylon interpreted the Bible to say. Erskine posited that the Europeans, in the colonial era, attempted to translate the Bible although they hardly understood the language in which it was written (8). The Europeans placed in the minds of the Africans a level of inferiority due to their purposely mistranslation of the Bible. ... The Rastafarians believe that the Bible's true translation is in favour of them: it explains, as Ersk...

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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,...

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