As we can see the Christmas origin begins with the predictions of Christ over the many centuries before His birth. ... For today's Christian, the Origin of Christmas is, and should be, the birth of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Bible, nothing more, nothing less. ... However, the message of Christmas is true, and the implications of Jesus' historical birth in Bethlehem about 2,000 years ago are enormous for all of us. ... Regardless, the truth of His birth whether in late summer, early autumn, or otherwise cannot be denied. ... After His birth, Jesus grew to be a man and started His...

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You will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. ... Even while she was pregnant, she helped her cousin in the last few months before Elizabeth gave birth to John the Baptist, Jesus" cousin. ... While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to a Son. ... Mary was the only woman present at Jesus" birth as well as witness to his death. ... The Catholic Church teaches us what she received from the lord through the spirit of god, that Mary the mother of Jesus was a virgin before and after giving birth to Jesus (McHugh 55). ...

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Didache 9:2-3, however, mentions and separates, in this sequence, the cup to be passed and shared, the bread to be broken and shared (The Birth of Christianity, page 438)." ... "The Didache is neither epistle nor gospel but community rule - manual of discipline or church order (The Birth of Christianity, page 365)." ... While there are many debates about the Didache, few would argue the insights that it has offered many scholars trying to understand the birth of a new religion....

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Issues such as birth control, divorce and remarriage, dancing, and some others are left up to the individual. The church does not condone birth control or divorce and remarriage, but they do not condemn it either. ... In some of the other religions I know a little about, the baptism symbolizes the new birth after the person gets saved. ...

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It appears it has stimulated scientific growth since the birth of the religion itself. During Christianity's Childhood Years Before the birth of Christianity there existed many polytheistic religions that were widely practiced. ... It wasn't until the birth of Christianity and the change in society that it brought about that people started approaching the way the world works differently. ...

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The life of Jesus Christ is extraordinary and pinnacle in humankind's existence. Not only in a historical aspect, but more importantly in a religious significance. In his life, being both fully human and divine and through his teachings and its messages, it has spurned a religion and its faith tha...

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In Isaiah 7:14, the author writes, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel." ... This prophecy was obviously fulfilled as mentioned in Matthew 1:18, which states, "This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. ...

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They believe physical birth gives bodies to these spirits, along with that, the opportunity to choose right from wrong, making our present life a period of probation in which we are tested. ... Both religions believe that Jesus Christ was born of Mary, and that the birth took place in the town of Bethlehem. ...

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An even better example is that of Mother Theresa, Albanian by birth, who, despite her strong Christian affiliation, was able to successfully take care of millions of Hindu India's poor. ... At birth, the United States, most of whose citizens were from Europe, took note of these and made a clear separation between church and state. ...

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Catholics would say that if the mother cannot cope with a baby, then she should give birth still and then could have the baby adopted, as there are many parents who cannot have a baby and would really be thankful for one. ... They believe that the baby is not a baby until birth. ...

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A goal of Hindus is to achieve Moksha, to be freed from the cycle of birth and death (when the "good" and the "bad" karmas balance.) or reach Swarga, the abode of the Divine Soul or Paramatma [God] to serve at His feet. ... The Old Testament (the part of the Bible written before Jesus' birth) was completed in 450 B.C., hundreds of years before Jesus was born. ...

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Christmas marks the day when the virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ the son of god and it is an extremely important day in the lives of Christians. ... For many people around the world, Christmas is the high point of the Advent season, which honors the birth of the son of god. ...

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We must have the humility to recognize with Luther that "as little as children know in their mother's womb about their birth, so little do we know about life everlasting"" (Schwarz, 1984). ... (Migliore, 2004) Christians Hope and its Rich Symbols are Immensely Evocative and Give Birth to Creative Human Activity When properly interpreted, Christian hope incites the imagination to dream new dreams and motivates individuals and societies to fresh effort to find ways of helping to "make and keep human life human" in the world." ...

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The effect received by being baptized into a new life is Grace and a birth into a new life in Christ, first recipients must go into the water which symbolizes dying and comes out of the water symbolizing new life. ...

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"Catholicism is a denomination, and is, therefore, a subset of Christianity. All Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics" (Catholicism vs Christianity, 2015). The world has more than a billion Catholics and with the ever growing religion, it will only get larger in number. T...

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Catholics believe that Jesus goes by many titles, such as the Messiah, the Son of God or the Light of the World, but one of the key titles that Jesus is called by is the fullness of God's Revelation. Through fulfilling salvation History; the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the world ma...

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Anne Hutchinson came to America as a Puritan seeking to find a place where she could worship freely, but after arriving she found that the Massachusetts Bay Colony religious rules were very narrow minded. So, she had brought her own ideas from England, but those ideas quickly landed her in trouble....

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Christianity is the world's largest religion with more than two billion followers. With a large number of followers comes large diversity in the way people follow the religion because different people have their own way of understanding religion. Christians, on the basis of their view about faith, c...

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The Role of the Local Church with Regard to Missions I. Introduction Intellectually, I know that not every believer will have the gift for soul-winning, that one person plants, another waters, and God brings the increase. The New Testament affirms that new birth is an important step but only...

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"Acts 2: 1-18 " In the beginning of Acts 2, the disciples had returned to Jerusalem from Mt. Olivet. They had seen the ascension of Jesus, but they weren't sad, as some might have expected. Jesus had promised to send a Comforter, and they could hardly wait. They were excited and were gathered i...

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Structure 1 Peter was written in letter format and starts out like most of the other letters at the time. The author introduces himself as Peter and apostle of Jesus Christ and then goes on to address the letter to who it was intended for, God's elect who were scattered all over Asia minor. A...

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Shakespeare and His Religion It is known that William Shakespeare did not follow or support any one religion. However, he evidently had a great deal of religious education. The question of Shakespeare's personal religious beliefs has intrigued scholars for hundreds of years. The late Unitarian ...

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Also, Jesus Christ and Beowulf is both hero, a being of Godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity, having come from miracles birth and adversely change people's life with journey that reveal them. ...

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Roman Catholicism is one of the largest religions in the world, with over a billion adherents distributed all over the world. Catholicism's history began when followers of Judaism accepted Jesus Christ as not just a prophet, but as the Son of God and the Savior of the world. Roman Catholicism was ...

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The Abrahamic religions of the Middle East developed quite differently from the religions of Southeast and Central Asia, despite their relative proximity to each other. This is especially true in the cases of Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Shinto, Taoism, and Hinduism, all of which are major theol...

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