As civilization has expanded and improved it has gone through many different religions. Some of the most interesting and different have been the Mesopotamian religion, the religion of the Greeks and finally Christianity. These three religions were practiced in different areas and different time periods and therefore they will be excellent for a comparison. Religion is a key part of every society and civilization. No matter how it is organized or what type of God they worship, a society would be nothing without some kind of deity to organize it. ...

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Both of these sets of laws are found in the religion's holy book: the Islamic Koran and the Christian Bible. Each religion has a holy city. ... Each Muslim, unless prevented by some handicap, is expected to make a hajj, or pilgrimage, to the holy city of Mecca. ... The Old Testament, which is the Jewish holy book called the Torah, is made up of twenty-four different books. ... "And most certainly We gave Musa [Moses] the Book [Old Testament] and We sent apostles after him one after another; and We gave Isa [Jesus], the son of Marium [God], clear arguments and strengthened him with the hol...

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The oneness of God in Christianity is sometimes misunderstood, because Christians believe that God is triune, the Holy Trinity (the father, the son and the Holy Spirit). ... Judaism's prophet is Moses and Jesus is believed to be a human, not the son of God or holy in any way. ... And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised; But He fashioned him in due proportion, and breathed into him something of His Spirit. ... They are an example of misinterpretations of holy text and they are responsible for the deaths of countless human lives. ...

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Another central theme of the Christian religion is the principle known as the Holy Trinity. This is the idea that Jesus was a single divine entity with three equal parts, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ... These "holy wars" involved the external struggle against the disbelief of other religious people. ...

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ATR followers see God as somebody who is good, merciful, holy, powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent, a spirit, unchangeable, and unknowable (Adedeji, 2012). ... This includes natural phenomena-hills, certain rivers, trees and the earth believed inhabited by the spirit..."...

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The tale states that there were three deities in the beginning: The Master of Heaven, the Producing Spirit, and the Producing Ancestor. ... Despite sharing the exact same God, and even using the same Holy Text (The Old Testament), Judaism and Christianity are divided by the fact that one group does not accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God. ... Shinto sees the world around them as split in two, between the visible world and the spirit world. ...

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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 status, or "place," of women in society has been a well-debated issue that is as old as the earliest civilizations. The inequalities between men and women can be observed throughout society in varying areas such as income level, job opportunity, sexual double standards, and rights to hold office...

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Kushner who writes "some interpret suffering as a test of an individual's spirit and commitment to God. ... Despite the fact that many passages of the Holy Text of Judaism reveal that suffering maybe a punishment from God, Judaism demands that man extend active sympathy toward the suffering of others [ CITATION Ste08 l 3081 ]. ...

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The Book of Jonah is an example of sanctifying grace, Browning discusses it to be the "gift of the spirit" it enables one to collaborate with God in the salvation of others and this is shown through God teaching Jonah that he must help the people of Nineveh no matter what his feelings are. ...

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