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In the Second Meditation, through the thought-experiment of wax, he explains the immortality of the soul. When the wax is brought close to the fire, it loses all its sensible properties like shape, color, hardness, and form, but the wax remains. What is it that is constant in the wax even when the form changes?
We will also examine the key strategies pursued by the Polish Catholic Church at this point and also the Evangelische kirche Deutsche after the end of the communist rule and their effects on the modern world. Religion in its essence is a strong thriving force because of the effects it has on the masses and the support it enjoys from its people and the state.
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Women in biblical times were generally uneducated and were not allowed by the rabbis to learn law and other teachings. Women had a very minute role to play in social life and were supposed to be within the confinement of the house. They were considered as temptations to sin and did not have any role in spiritual ceremonies and rituals.
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That Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah or Christ, is the founder of Christianity is held as an unquestionable assumption by many Christians is obvious, but careful scholarship requires that the assumption be qualified, if not refuted. A founder may be defined as a person who establishes, initiates, originates or lays the foundations of an idea, movement, group or institution.
Locke was an empirical philosopher and was far less interested in religion acting as the foundation stone for the building of society and saw it more as the paint which gave it color. While some colors were useful and good, others could only be accepted in certain places and the rest could not be applied for different reasons.
Birth, death and marriage are important events in the life of a Jew. Human life is the most important in Judaism. They believe that all have come from a single person and hence taking a single life amounts to destroying the entire world. Euthanasia is not supported. Judaism requires violating the commandments if necessary to save a human life.
The author states that the Catholic Church became the most powerful institution in Europe, even more, powerful than the rulers. The activities of the Church in the Dark Ages provided the base for the call for reform in the Church. The reform movement gathered pace prior to the fifteenth century, but the Catholic Church managed to control these fires.
In saying ‘God was in Christ’ immediately a relationship of Christ with God can be established. “God has put all things under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and has made Christ Head of the Church, which is his body”. Jesus reigns over all things in heaven and earth. Thompson highlights that the New Testament emphasizes that “Jesus is Lord.”.
Taoism unlike Confucianism, which has a civil status and can trace its origins to a single historical person, recognized by everyone as a leader and to a precise set of classics that constituted the basis of its teaching throughout its history and evolution; Taoism has neither date nor place of birth.
On the threshold of the third millennium, humanity starts summing up all achievements, setting new objectives, and reconsidering universal values. The changes also concern the religious aspect of life. According to the needs of the modern individual religion should provide moral support and insure spiritual inspiration.
Pope Paul VI (Optatam Totius,1965) made a declaration that priestly training should conform to the needs of the locality and region without compromising on the universal laws. It is a divine vocation and priests are the messengers of God. The need, the nature and the importance of priestly vocation should be made clear to the priests.
Israel the nation will not be completely rejected by God for salvation but the Jew who refuses to accept Jesus as Messiah will have to eat the bitter fruit of judgment. Paul still believes that God will not totally cast away Israel because of the foreknowledge of God, as he says, “God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.”
Paul is an acknowledged convert to Christianity, and nowhere else in Catholic teaching is Paul considered a founder. So, this line of thinking is quite unfounded. Paul was popular, that is not a thing t be contested. But the reason was obvious: due to the events surrounding his conversion and the aggressive and dedication in propagating early Christianity.
Some of the Church’s judgments have universal authority, such as the ecumenical creeds. There are also judgments of the Church and not just of particular individuals or groups, it is the Church, which “hath authority in controversies of faith” (as the articles say) and must determine how the bible is to be correctly understood.
A problem that continues to loom significant today is that Europeans were never able to grasp the language of the Islamic world in terms of the body within which the context of the language had meaning, and that was in the context of the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad as represented by the Koran.
In the absence of a common magistrate, Locke holds that each individual has the right to defend their property as they see fit within the bounds of God-given reason and justice. It is to avoid these inconveniences of constant vigilance that Locke says men are predisposed to join a society and therefore voluntarily relinquish the powers of self-regulation.
In the life of a man where Christ is present, sin has no place as it is already overcome by the spirit of God. Sin is a violation of God’s given law. In the Old Testament, an individual commits sin when he violates any of the ten commandments of God. However, in the New Testament, it is clearly stipulated that sin can be committed not just by doing the “actual” violation.
A study of the three epics reveals that through the execution of karmas, through experiences, man can evolve himself and attain godhood at the end. The purpose of human life itself is to merge with God and this has amply been demonstrated through all the three heroes. Godliness within has to be established through the release of impurities.
A religion of numerous gods finds many solutions to one problem; a religion of only one God presents one too many. Life is seldom fair. Rules rarely work. To explain the reason why, polytheisms adduce multiple causes of chaos, a god per anomaly. Diverse gods do various things, so, it stands to reason, ordinarily outcomes conflict.
The Heart-of-Sky was responsible for the creation process in the Popul Vuh as was God for the Christians. The creation process for the two stories was made into a reality through the uttering of words. The creation of the human beings was done in collaboration with other parties as it is the case in the two stories.
Philips (2006) has mentioned that if being a secular state means keeping religion out of public life and out of education then quite clearly Britain is not a secular state. He also mentioned that since the founding of the English nation it has seen itself as a Christian nation, its monarchs have affirmed allegiance to Christ.
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Heaven is a good thing in our minds therefore allowing it to be easily accepted as truth. Hell on the other hand is not necessarily a good thing and therefore we tend to deny its existence.
According to Confucianism, the essential duty of any human being is to do the right thing in one’s life rather than worrying about the next world. Confucianism tends to dwell on the creation of a society that is just and moral. Such a society is constructed on the foundation of mutual respect that involves, evincing respect for each other, respecting the culture and tradition, and respecting the salient social institutions.
According to the report religious discrimination in the workplace is not uncommon occurrence in China. Even before a person is employed they have to go through several stages of being filtered and selected in a highly discriminative way by the ethnicity, appearance, religion, habits, and sexual orientation.
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However, although other religions are also multi-faced, studies show that Taoism is more multi-faced than most of these religions, this is because for a long time this religion has been involved in several Chinese divergent strands.
The prince’s life was full of power, health, and love. One day his father took him to a farm; there he saw nature out the window for the first time. Upon his arrival at the castle, the king asks the religious leaders about his child’s experiences. He was told that he would either be a tremendous king or a great religious leader.
Considering the nature of God, Christianity focuses on the concept of the Trinity. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit represent the concept of God. Christianity believes in one God, who is represented in these three forms. Jesus plays a particularly important role in understanding the nature of God.
The article generally aims to help people understand what Muslims are all about in relation to their lack of acceptance in the existence of other religions. The article describes itself through the Quran and a number of Quran verses are mentioned o sensitize the objective of the article which is to glorify and support the reasons why Muslims barely.
Biblically and historically, justification through faith in Christ has been the center of the Christian Gospel. Both the nature of justification and condition of faith are challenged. If evangelical Christianity is to remain distinct from all other religions and aberrations, then defense of the Faith must begin with defense of faith as the only condition of justification. However, there are contradicting views that warrant faith alone as the condition for salvation.
What is the relationship between the subculture on the First Presbyterian Church of Coral Springs on meeting the objective of the church? The application of a literature review approach provides support to the study and hence its success.
The Holy Ghost People is a documentary narrated and directed by Peter Adair; it describes the church service of a community of Pentecostal believers in Creek, Western part of Virginia that took place in 1967. Furthermore, during the church service, there is speaking in tongues, faith healing, singing, and snake handling.
Sullivan’s arguments on “The Impossibility of Religious Freedom” are valid and true. Being an inmate, the grooming policy for Arkansas Department of Correction had prevented Holt, a Salafi practicing Muslim, from rearing his mustache beyond a quarter inch long, citing a diagnosed dermatological problem.
In the past few years, certain issues have been contentious in the US; school shootings and gun violence. The mass shootings are bringing into limelight the problem of gun violence. An event is classified as a mass shooting if more than four people are killed. According to the police department, more than 283 million guns are in the hands of civilians.
Anglican Church considers itself both catholic and reformed. As a catholic, it considers itself as part of the global church of Christ an uninterrupted continuation of the apostolic and early medieval church. It is expressed through a commitment to the teachings of the Church Fathers, formalized in the Apostles, Nicene creeds and Athanasian Creed.
Mainly, these categories embrace those touching on philosophical like the natural law polemical, human rights controversies such as the procreative liberty, controversies based on positive or negative consequences of contraceptives, controversies concerning the effect of over-population, and religious controversies.
Xuanzang was a Chinese Buddhist monk and a prolific Buddhist writer and translator. The Heart Sutra is one of the Xuanzang’s translations. Xuanzang translated the Heart Sutra so as to make the Heart Sutra available to the speakers of Chinese language, and also to summarize the main teachings or the main tenets of the original Heart Sutra.
The gospel books in the New Testament contain the life of Jesus Christ as well as some of his major teachings. The Beatitudes for example, which Jesus taught the crowds and his disciples on the mountainside explains to Christians some of the behaviors they should embrace in order to live by the teachings of Christ.
According to the report various ideologies were also stated in condemning slavery by terming it as a sin and an outdated way of living. The whites were expected to resolve the issue and accommodate the blacks as full members of the American society. Slavery was also associated with denying the blacks various rights like voting.
Leadership is a responsibility that requires absolute concentration and passion in the specified area. There are many leaders in the world, but a few leaders are outstanding in their responsibilities. From the readings, it is clear to conclude that contemporary Christian leadership is a sacred calling to an individual.
According to the report, Role of Religion in the American Civil War, religion is a very central theme when it comes to understanding civil war both in the era before the war and during the war. During the war, there were divisions that were caused by the North and South and those divisions helped precipitate conflicts and divide after the war.
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Religion forms an integral part of every human’s life as it forms the basis of the moral, social and ethical components. Interaction with the immediate environment is dictated by religion. The structural composition of a given community is defined by the manner in which religion is regarded. The unifying aspect of a community remains religion.
Redemptive is considered as an important phenomenon in our modern society. They are meant to choose people who can lead us and make decisions on our behalf. In the Scripture, the concept of redemptive refers to the process by which, God chose mankind to serve Him and his fellow mankind. It also refers to the process by which God chose places that would serve His people.
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That explains why segments of the population practice Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and why certain individuals are Buddhists. In as much as all the religions have the common goal of ensuring that their believers remain spiritually enriched, some of their teachings differ from each other.
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As the rpeort declares the emerging issues in Christianity are the major drivers that are changing the fundamental principles of the faith. Lyons intimate that there has to be a strategic response to deal with the issues that are manifest in Christianity in the modern dispensation. The occurrences are unique and demand.
As the report stresses Hamlet in her article while contending emerging set of values like hip hop through Nommo would pass to other generations. Since, she does not consider the essence of Nommo or any other form or oral tradition encompasses relaying similar aspects to generations without seeming to undergo utter transformations.
As part of the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is seen as a harmonious combination of the divine and human natures. Nevertheless, despite this, each of the New Testament Gospels focuses on the individual qualities of Jesus. In particular, by analysing Matthew, one can conclude that the author portrays Jesus primarily as a Jewish wisdom teacher.
Over the course of history, women have been largely viewed as being inferior to men. Religion has largely contributed to perpetuating such stereotypes through the absence of female symbolism and the overflow of male epithets when referring to God. In the book, The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels asserts that such is the tendency.
Debates on religion and religious matter have been subject of discussion for a long time. Many scholars have contributed to the role of religion. The mixed feelings arise from the fact some support while other oppose the significance of religion in the society. The focus, with respect to this writing, is a comparison of Ingersol and Graham.
They also follow the strict doctrines of Jesus Christ and view him as their savior and Messiah. Observers of the religion expect that miraculous works and wonders follow these people and as such there would be a set of expectation. When I watched the documentary, I expected some works of wonder and miracles to happen or take place at any stage.
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In the paper, it is evident that the Baptist Church has a strong foundation of its polity that has continued to be followed over the years. A fact worth noting is that the manual presents a new version of the Baptist polity expected by many members of the church. The manual is notably brief but with specific details of the Baptist Church.