THE BIBLE The bible is the bestseller of all times. ... The confusion lies in the reader's lack of understanding that the Bible combines sixty-six different books written by different men over diverse periods of history. When we compare the two main divisions of the Bible, we find they have a common theme and one central person. ... The first book of the Bible is entitled Genesis which means "beginnings." ... When we thoroughly examine the Bible, we understand the central theme running through both the Old and the New Testaments. ...

• Word Count: 518
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

THE BIBLE The bible is the bestseller of all times. ... The confusion lies in the reader's lack of understanding that the Bible combines sixty-six different books written by different men over diverse periods of history. When we compare the two main divisions of the Bible, we find they have a common theme and one central person. ... The first book of the Bible is entitled Genesis which means "beginnings." ... When we thoroughly examine the Bible, we understand the central theme running through both the Old and the New Testaments. ...

• Word Count: 518
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The second book of the Christian Bible is the New Testament. ... Unlike the Koran, the stories of the Bible are ordered chronologically. The length of each chapter bears no relevance to its place in the Bible. ... Arguably the best English translation of the Bible is the King James Version. ... Both the Koran and the Bible promise an afterlife. ...

• Word Count: 1866
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

To millions and millions, the Bible is their comfort in the inevitability of death and where they"ll go when they pass on. Throughout the Bible, one can see the early transition of the term "Death". ... The teaching of the Bible on death can be broken down into four main opinions. ... When one died in the prime of his life or childless, it created a rational fear over premature death to the Bible's readers. ... The Bible shows a long and detailed transformation of the term death. ...

• Word Count: 2030
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps you even shunned the Bible, saying its full of nothing but fairy tales that have never really happened. ... What if I told you that the Bible is not only historically accurate but is also one hundred percent prophetically accurate? ... (McDowell 39) "The Bible compared with other ancient writings, has more manuscript evidence than any ten pieces of classical literature combined." says Josh McDowell in his book "Evidence that demands a verdict" (19) Let us now look at the Prophetic nature of the Bible. ... No other book can even come close to equaling the credentials of the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It taught me the structure of the Bible, how it was written, and by whom. ... The King James Bible is the most widely used bible amongst Christians. ... Nevertheless, the Bible has the same basic concept and standard. ... The entire bible consists of 66 books, and 1,189 chapters. ... In conclusion, the Bible is God's sacred word for all Christians. ...

• Word Count: 613
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2727
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Christian Bible is made up of an Old and a New Testament. While followers of Christianity wrote the New Testament, the Jews wrote the Old Testament, which they called the Hebrew Bible. Even though Christians did not get along with Jews, and did not conform to all their beliefs, Christians did incorporate the Hebrew bible into the Christian Bible as the Old Testament. ... Christians reinterpreted many of the Jewish beliefs to create their own religion; therefore the Hebrew bible was essential to their followers. ... One teaching of the Jewish bible is the establishment of the covenant, ...

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The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is the latest attempt to make the Bible gender neutral, but gender relating to God was not addressed. ... In the Hebrew Bible 1426 names are mentioned and 1315 of them are men's. ... Some scholars refer to this as the hidden goddess in the Hebrew Bible. The name Asherah is mentioned forty times in the Hebrew Bible. ... The Bible's garden of Eden is similar to the Sumerian garden of creation. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The Bible used by the Puritans states the seventh commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." ... The Bible taught them that those who practice this and other types of immorality would surely come under the judgment of God. ...

• Word Count: 428
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• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, when it comes to Bible text, use of exaggeration is often times yet another cause for disagreement and controversy. There will always be those who tend to interpret the Bible more literally than others. Many believe that the entire Bible is God's word and God "spoke" only truth , therefore the Bible must be "inerrant" or void of any kind of error. ... Which brings us to consider one of, if not the, most recognized uses of exaggeration in the entire Bible. ... Certainly Jesus wasn't the only one to make clear use of many styles of figurative language in the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

To many people trying to find a theme for the Bible is pointless and difficult. This is because for a theme to be valid it must consider the Bible as a whole, but allow each part of it to speak for its own. ... The Bible is one big book. ... It helped me to realize that the Bible is just one big book and the New Testament is a fulfillment of the Old Testament. I also liked the different cycles of the kingdom and how they were explained at different eras of the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Today these Ten Commandments are within the Old Testament in The Bible. ... So consider what the Bible says about the law we should follow today. ... Lawyers have even studied the Bible along with theologians to try and discover its worthiness and have only found misinterpretation and misconceptions . ... The result of this has brought the biblical legal aspects within the study of the Bible into dispute. ... Although justice and judgment have come along way from early civilizations to now, lawmaking will always be present and The Bible will always hold as "words to li...

• Word Count: 1362
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 944
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Religion is a system of beliefs, practices and worship of one or more Gods. There are many religions in the world, and all of them had great impact on the world history. Throughout the history religions controlled actions and beliefs of many people, and even today it is a dominant force. Very often ...

• Word Count: 795
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I see it as that angel is of God, and on the third day God's son rose form the grave, as said in the bible. ... This once again is very similar to the bible. ... This story has many relations to the bible and spiritual beliefs. I believe that Marquez was really meaning for this supernatural creature to be an angel so he made many contradictions with the bible. As you see many element from the story are similar to readings from the bible and angels are mentioned in the bible and are meant to be spiritual creatures. ...

• Word Count: 587
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• Grade Level: High School

The death penalty is promoted in probably the two most important literary writings that America has ever had or revered; The Constitution and the Bible. ... Another source, besides the Constitution, that promotes and implies that the punishment for murder is death, and that the death penalty is a deterrent, is the Bible. ... Many people attempt to use the Bible as a form of rationale for opposing the death penalty. ...

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By taking a closer look at some of the Religious references used in the book it becomes clear that they refer to numbers in the bible. ... In the bible it refers to Jesus being in the desert for forty days and nights. ... In the bible it says that "all who follow Jesus will live in eternity with him in heaven" referred to by the old man as paradise. ... Reading this book is like reading about the life of Jesus strait forward from the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 445
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1076
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, Confucianism' teachings are based on "The Analects, a collection of sayings made by Confucius' followers, and five books called The Five Classics,2" while Christianity is based upon the Bible. The Bible contains the Old and New Testament and has been worshipped by all Christians since created. ... While the Bible is concrete and without error, Confucius' teachings are said to be "pretty bare bones, and much of what is commonly reported about the man is based on legend and conjecture.3" Therefore, because the teachings of Christianity are set in s...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, has been a hot topic in the last ten years or so. Is it moral? Is it immoral? What are causes for putting the death penalty on someone? These questions have been throughout the news since I can remember. My earliest recollection of hearing th...

• Word Count: 743
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• Grade Level: High School

However, not all of them believe in the same interpretation of the Bible (the sacred religious text of Christianity). ... In addition to the Bible, the Anglican Church is one of the few denominations with their own additional sacred text. ... They still do use the Bible, but for this sermon they mostly read from the Book of Common Prayer. ... In addition to this, they think that the Pope cannot be infallible because it never claims so in the Bible. ... He told me Judaism follows only the first section of the Bible, the Old Testament, and a book called the "Tanakh", which is the Jewi...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author will also seek to prove that according to the Holy Bible the human race can once again live in a utopian world if they choose to live a life of obedience to God. ... More's imagination about this society and the inhabitants of this civilization is supported by an Old Testament book of the bible. ... Nevertheless, this contradicts the Holy Bible. ... As the bible tells us in the New Testament of St. ... Then the bible sums it up by telling us in John 3:36 that whoever believes in him can have eternal life. ...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author will also seek to prove that according to the Holy Bible the human race can once again live in a utopian world if they choose to live a life of obedience to God. ... More's imagination about this society and the inhabitants of this civilization is supported by an Old Testament book of the bible. ... Thomas More describes the aforementioned chapters of Genesis as a nonexistent perfect society nevertheless, this contradicts the Holy Bible. ... As the bible tells us in the New Testament of St. ... Then the bible sums it up by telling us in John 3:36 that whoever believes in him ca...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Peter quoting the 16th Psalms in the Bible, traditionally ascribed to David, he spoke of an greater. ... In the Holy Bible, Acts 3:13 says, "The God of Abraham and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our Fathers, glorified his servant Jesus. ... For example I could be in legalism if I said, I have to read my Bible every day. Yes, I should read my Bible every day but to say I got to read it to please God is legalism. ... Author corresponds to the themes discussed with the Bible, and has used cites from other books. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School