While reading the similar translated stories of the Koran and the Bible, one can get the impression that the people or the judges would acknowledge a leader for their tribes due to their connection with God. ... The plagues included, were the turning of the water into blood, infestations of frogs, lice and flies, the plague of locusts which devoured their crops, and the final plague being the death of the first born.22 With the final plague came the death of the Pharaohs son and the release of the Jews.23 Only later did the Egyptians begin to pursue the released Hebrews, cha...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Book of Revelation has been the source of controversy for many centuries. There have been several interpretations and different views on Revelation. Many have argued whether the Book is a symbolic or literal interpretation. While reading through Revelation the reader must consider these two inte...

• Word Count: 2735
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Book of Revelation has been the source of controversy for many centuries. There have been several interpretations and different views on Revelation. Many have argued whether the Book is a symbolic or literal interpretation. While reading through Revelation the reader must consider these two inte...

• Word Count: 2735
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"To appreciate fully how Judaism has accommodated both spirituality and law within its practice, we can find no better illustration than the teachings pertaining to the proper manner of reading the Shema.... When reading this chapter, or anywhere in the Talmud for that matter, it is interesting to note that no matter what century the scribes were writing, they always wrote as if the second temple worship is still in existence to this day. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Here we have our requirements for baptism as laid out by the Bible: 1) You must repent of your sins 2) You must be immersed in water 3) You must come to be baptized (not be brought) Later in Matthew 28:18-20 Jesus adds to these requirements that the believer: 4)Be baptized by another believer 5)Be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit According to the scriptures "John the son of Zechariah i...

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" However, he later admits that every word in the original language used to describe sin somehow has "reference either to failure to come up to the standard of divine law or to breaking divine law.... " (Luther 201) Luther later credits Chrysostom when he said "It is clear that it is not the sin which comes from the transgression of the law but the sin which derives from the disobedience of Adam, which contaminates all things.... An Augustine, who interpreted the phrase in Roman 5:12 reading "for that" in the KJV or "because" in other translations, to me...

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• Has Bibliography
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I must warn you that reading this may put in danger the view you have of God and his relationship with mankind. ... A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living...

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I call the theory temporary disembodiment because it envisions the following scenario: We human beings are born, live for a time as psycho-physical beings, and then die; after death we exist in an incomplete state as immaterial souls; and some time later in the eschaton God miraculously raises our bodies from the ground, transforms them into "glorified bodies," and reunites them with our souls, thus making us complete and whole again.Now temporary disembodiment has several theological and philosophical assets. ... The explanation (which naturally goes far beyond Jesus' simple statement) i...

• Word Count: 10695
• Approx Pages: 43
• Grade Level: High School