” (Psalm 144:3, ESV). How we define ourselves—the human race—is tied to worldview and greatly affects how we live now, not to mention what we believe about the future. Notice the question is not seeking a definition as much as it is asking God why he cares so much for us. To...
by the people, and for the people," his statement attracted no attention insofar as his emphasis on the centrality of Biblical law was concerned. That law should be God's law was held by all; Wyclif's departure from accepted opinion was that the people themselves should not only ...
each rooted in my research. The characters experience the harsh reality of their circumstances. I cried while writing more than a couple of the scenes. It is just plain hard to wrap my head around living smack dab in the middle of war, where your neighbor is your enemy and your home is...
Nevertheless, poverty is defined here as "the unfulfilment of basics human needs required to adequately sustain life free from disease, misery, hunger, pain, suffering, hopelessness and fear…"3 This definition is chosen because it describes succinctly the situation of the poor. Causes of Poverty...
Two of the plagues of Egypt were of this character. According to Prosper Alpinus (De Med. AEgypt.), diseases prevalent in Egypt, and other countries of a similar climate, were ophthalmies, or diseases of the eyes; leprosies, inflammations of the brain, pains in the joints, the hernia,...
a mighty forest, represents, by way of contrast, the great person who makes the subject of this chapter as a slender twig, shooting out from the trunk of an old tree, cut down, lopped to the very root, and decayed, which tender plant, so weak in appearance, should nevertheless prosper...
Definition of Anarcho-Theocracy Prima facie Case for Anarcho-Theocracy Response to Objections Bibliography "For the Americans," Tocqueville found, "the ideas of Christianity and liberty are so completely mingled that it is almost impossible to get them to conceive of one without the other; it is ...
The cause of its total decay has been ascribed, not without reason, to the royal attention being withdrawn from it by the distractions of the country. In more recent times its naturalization seems to have been attempted in Egypt; for Prosper Alpinus relates that forty plants were brought by ...
⇒Definition ofquail ⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.