He converted to Christianity, later changed his name to Paul, and became a missionary. ... "Paul's conversation was all part of God's sovereign plan to take His message from the Jewish-centered church of Jerusalem to the Gentile church of the Roman world, which was just about everywhere else " (Bickel & Jantz, 1998, p.245). ...
" Similar usage is found in 2 Tim. 1, when Paul reminds Timothy that "Rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands.... Paul orders Timothy, whom he had ordained, " In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without favor, doing nothing from partiality. ...
Creative expressions are used to deepen our understanding of religion and the different religious teachings bin them. They convey through music, film and literature. Furthermore music essential part of creative expressions as it holy mentioned that we should praise God through music - ''sing to him,...
Saint Augustine's intellectual and spiritual journey to understanding God was influenced by philosophical tendencies, Biblical Scriptures and personal experiences. Since Augustine did not believe any of these viewpoints completely, he spent most of his life searching for other types of truths that w...
IS RELIGION AN INVENTION OF MAN? If man were to "create" a religion, it would stand to reason that such a religion would please the necessary nature of man. If a religion existed that was entirely opposing man's essential nature, it would also stand to reason that such a religion would not be th...
Whether they come off the lips of Pope John Paul II, or perhaps the lips of a homeless man who has gone mad with hunger and knows no success on Earth, but believes that he will be justly rewarded in Heaven, when he is seated next to God. ...
As a man who was born into an atheist family, I've never frequented any place of worship before. The closest I've ever come to any religion was walking past the local Roman Catholic Church on my way home from school (I lived in New York, not South Carolina). The only personal religious experience I'...
Theism's philosophical self-defenses stand in relation to a potential attack. A country has coastlines, and if the government has reasons to think of an attack, it will deploy armies or defensive systems in readiness to defend its territory. That image serves as a metaphor in the philosophical defen...
The bible tries to put this suffering and evil in perspective of the rewards in the afterlife, as Paul explains, 'For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed to us' (Rom 8:18). ...
(Holy Bible, John 14:6) According to Ahlul Bayt, the Muslim would say that the Bible was corrupted by man so it can't be completely trusted; "Even though Jesus himself never claimed to be divine, Paul gave him this attribute for one reason - to gain converts among the Gentiles. ...
In recent years, angels have risen to the forefront of our culture. They have been the subject of numerous popular music songs, movies, tabloid news stories, books and even their own television program. The purpose of this paper is an attempt to answer many of the questions about angels, with a bi...
