Christianity, in addition to the tradition contained within the Hebrew Bible, also refers to fire in the New Testament. ... In the New Testament stories regarding judgment (Matthew 13), weeds, which represent people not chosen, are sent to the "furnace of fire." ... In the Old Testament, Abner is refered to as "the son of Ner", Ner meaning "to glisten or shine like a lamp" in Hebrew. (Strong 78-80) Coming from the Chaldeean root "nuer", translated in the Old Testament as "fiery" or "fire". ... And the battle at Gilboa against the Philistines, the King and a number of his sons were killed, the ...

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This series of battles was called The Recon quest. ... Breuilly, Brien, and Palmer state, "It is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. The word testament means "witness," and Christians believe that the Old Testament contains the witness of God originally to the Jews, and the New Testament the witness of people who knew Jesus or were closely associated with events in the early church." (46) The Bible is the guide book for the Christian. ... Muslims study the writings of the other profits including the Old and New Testaments but believe that they have been distorted over ti...

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In the Old testament God did in fact come within the boundaries of our human experience. ... The past experience of the Old Testament gives us a general idea of who God is , the general idea of his presence, and the action He chooses with His chosen people. ... We have to understand the Old Testament before we can get clear vision of the New Testament, for both show how God saves and delivers. ... The resurrection was not a point to make us believe God was real, but a divine action extending, the promises of history, and we see complete fulfillment in the Old Testament. ... David we see t...

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Much of the Old and New Testaments are filled with used of metaphor, simile, personification, allegory, and pun and of course, hyperbole. ... In terms of use of hyperbole in the New Testament, there is one central figure who provides us with some of the most eloquent and recollective verses where his use of exaggeration seems so perfectly chosen that once understood, the images are forever with us. ... There is example after example of this style of hyperbole in the Old Testament. ... (Judges 20:2-3) Here we see a third commonly used form of exaggeration that is found throughout the...

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I do not think a church is a place of battle. ... I think using the church as a place to hide or blow up is kind of like in the Bible where merchants started selling things in the house of God, using it for the wrong reason Jesus was displeased with that because his fathers house is a place of worship, not selling things, and defiantly not battle. ... In the Old Testament when Abraham sinned with his wife, handmaiden God said that Ishmael (Palestine) and Isaac's (Israel) nations would always fight over whose land it was. ...

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Old Testament King David In second Samual, King David is depicted as a true, but imperfect, example of an ideal king. Later kings were compared to him. I think the main point in this is that; King David was a good king despite his sinful nature, and we can learn from his actions both good and ba...

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At nine years old, I never really thought about religion before. ... For thousands of years Israel and Palestine have been battling over an ideology that has no basis in fact "struggling over a strip of land no bigger than Los Angeles. ... Another shortcoming to this toleration-society is that in attempting to embrace all religions, a culture similar to that of Old Testament Israel is promoted. ...

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First, I will discuss the struggle and eventual loss of religious faith by Elie in his battle to maintain humanity in this de-humanizing environment, and what ultimately enabled him to survive. ... Because of his old age, Elie's father is constantly struggling with the militant style of camp life. ... One day as he and his father are loading diesel engines into a train, one of the guards strikes out at his father.You lazy old devil?... I believe that Elie Wiesel wrote this book as a living testament, being one of the few survivors of the Holocaust. ...

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The group made their way through England and overcame many battles that stood in their way. Some of these battles became physical, as random crowds of people ridiculed them and attacked their causes. ... We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and that they only constitute the divine rule of Christian faith, 2. ...

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In the New Testament and in pagan texts, however, it is daimonia that enter into people causing illness (Luck 1985, 164). ... The New Testament authors used a new word to connote something different than daimon or daimonion because they were aware of the negative connotations already attached to these words. ... As in the Iranian battle between the ahuras and the daevas, the lesser divinities were relegated to the rank of daimones, which by this time meant lesser spirits who acted as intermediaries between humankind and the gods (or God). ...

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It is not far-fetched to state that every generation since the Old Testament period has had an individual who has been exalted to that status. ... His shield also incorporated the image of Mother Mary inside it2, which he supposedly did because he would look into her eyes in times of battle in order to fend off fear.3 His courage and his faith was derived from both Mary and Christ's wounds on the cross, which further establishes his piety.4 Another example comes later on in the book after Sir Gawain left Camelot. ... "I was held back by mere trifles, the most paltry inanities, all my...

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He simultaneously functioned as a social critic and moral guide as he believes that: The playwright must dig at the roots of sickness today as he feels it the death of the old God, the failure of science, and materialism to give any satisfying new one for the surviving primitive religious instinct to find meaning for life.17 It must be noted that the deepest emotional drive in O'Neill‟s plays is usually based on the father-son, father-daughter and mother-son relationship. To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in hi...

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