The meaning of a Bible in a dream often depends on one’s religious upbringing. Can indicate insight (revealed knowledge), “good news,” tradition, or even intolerance (“Bible thumpers”). The Bible is often used metaphorically to describe authoritative publications in other realms, as in th...
The tradition of Jowett still dominated the study of ancient philosophy when I was reading Greats. One was brought up to believer that the real meaning of Plato had been misunderstood by Aristotle and wildly travestied by the neo-Platonists, only to be recovered by the moderns. When recovered...
But concerning the most common application of forgiveness of sins of ignorance involves interaction with non-Christians. Paul writes,"I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; yetnot at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and ext...
Christ is the Lord of the sabbath. The simple, clear and obvious meaning of this is that He who is the Christ of God instituted the church, fulfilled the sabbath, dispensed with the sabbath, and abrogated the sabbath, in exactly the same way and to exactly the same degree as he did al...
Hedonism is an evil moral ethic. “Without hedonism, there would be no point or meaning to our moral decisions” (Joe Barnhart inThe Warren-Barnhart Debate on Christian Ethics versus Utilitarian Ethics, November 5, 1980, Denton, Texas). ...
Media that implicates new drugs in compromising the development of children can rapidly ignite public concern. These issues cause outrage because they effect the vulnerable, those individuals that have no choice but to rely on the judgement of others. Who in turn must have faith in pharmaceutical ...
Think of all the beauty around you. 237. Christians should always be joyful about what God is doing and has done. 238. To make a judgement before hearing all the facts is very unwise. 239. Worry is today's mouse eating tomorrow's cheese. 240. It's not what happens that matters as ...
Unfortunately, the love talked about was exemplified by the misuse of real love in society. The word love itself had lost its meaning. Was it just a statement against war (the actual subtext of the lyrics) or a call to get along no matter what? Did it talk about the love for my spou...
. Most will say that they are just filled with hate, but I think that doesn’t explain the whole picture. It’s too easy to just label someone you disagree with and walk away. There’s usually more going on under the hood and until you understand it better your comments lack meaning....
Langlois reread the scholarly literature to see if anyone had written about the dot—but, he said, no one had. Then, using the pencil on his iPad Pro to imitate the monument’s script, he tested every reconstruction previously proposed for line 31. Taking into account the meaning ...