Christian Views on Life after Death One way humans have devised for dealing with the tragedy of death and the knowledge of mortality is to develop complex visions of what might follow death. It is charged by some that this belief in an afterlife is an innovation of Christianity, and possibly an ...
The " Son of man" in Daniel 7:22, 27 is the head of a supernatural, worldwide kingdom; and (3) to find a missionary impulse, which led these believers, notably under the leadership of Stephen and his followers, to reach out to pagans (Acts 7:55-56; 11:19-21). ... "Lord" was already in use as the name of Yahweh applied to the exalted Christ; now it became useful in promoting the cultus of Jesus to those who were familiar with the deities of the Greco-Roman world (I Cor. 8:5-6), as later it was Christ's sole lordship that became the dividing line between Christian allegiance and the homag...
As I relaxed upon the couch a few days ago and began to read the freshly printed pages of Catherin Millard's The Rewriting of America's History I began to feel as warm and cozy about our countries past and the role Christianity played in it as the freshly printed paper in my hands. It seems Millard...
