5 A few examples include: 2 Nephi 33:3 –When Nephi stated that he cried unto God for his people and that his “eyes water my pillow by night, because of them,” he was echoing the lament in Psalm 6, which states in the KJV translation: “all the night make I my bed to swim...
GOD wants to refine us in the process, but He also can be our defender. We should always examine ourselves, but we can also ask GOD to vindicate us. David knew this, and prayed prayers such as: TheLordjudges the peoples; Vindicate me, OLord, according to my righteousness and my integr...
Two examples of the critical nature of EBM that comes to my mind are with heart medicines and with hormone replacement in women. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) was the first in my career to completely change practice. It had long been assumed that using medication to keep the...
Within this introduction, he lays out some key theoretical assumptions: 1) the notion of individual authorship is anachronistic in the historical context of the Hebrew Bible and its formative years in the first millennium BCE (p. 1) and 2) notions of individual authorship “assume the convenience...
Examples of these are furnished by the Greek religion, such as Thermis and Dike, personified law and justice; Metis, Mnemosyne, Thanatos, the daemons of battle; and a great number in the theogony of Hesiod. The Roman religion is full of vague, misty shapes floating between reality and ...
I agree that religious healing refers to either spiritual healing, as in believing in God and being rid of past sins, and healing physically from an illness. Can anyone tell me more about healing in the Bible with more examples? By candyquilt — On Apr 26, 2011 I've never believed...
, involving the verb and its nominal derivatives, in liturgical language in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, applying the understanding of metaphor developed in the context of Conceptual Integration theory; Psalm 49 and passages from the Qumran Hodayot are singled out as examples....
The Moslem therefore resorted, in the first place, to oral tradition, and by the aid of reported expressions of the Prophet, and examples in his public and private life (Hadith and Sunnah), supplemented the deficiencies and elucidated the obscure passages of the Koran (q.v.). When this ...
Benefits of fasting and prayer Why should we fast? There are many reasons to fast and many spiritual benefits of biblical fasting. We see from the biblical examples that fasting should be used as a means to humble ourselves before God and seek His forgiveness, comfort, help, guidance, strengt...
As examples of these "just and devout" persons, the evangelist presents us with a few short but beautiful sketches in his first and second chapters. Besides the blessed Mary and faithful Joseph, there are Zacharias and Elisabeth, Simeon and Anna-pictures of holiness to be met with among men...