Despite distinctive cultural and ecclesiastical origins, insofar as such critiques have been generated, repeated, and developed in the contexts of most often USA Divinity Schools, they tend to have a common character drawing on much the same authors. And if one is attempting to develop a '...
who was considered the first king of Egypt. The pharaoh, said to be the son of Ra, was the sun-god's representative on earth. In later Egyptian religion, under the rule of Ikhnaton, the sun-god Aton gained complete supremacy in what was Egypt's only monotheistic period. In Mesopotamia...
This mutual drawing near reflects the covenant relationship between God and His people, where God is always willing to meet us more than halfway. It is a reminder of His grace and the transformative power of His presence in our lives. Cleanse your hands, you sinnersHere, the call to "...
saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,15to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”...
Drawing Close to God 4What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?2You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and ...
tale, inspired in the concept "Bible told as a story". The film follows this model, telling Jesus'story from birth to ascension. Purists may not like it but, nowadays, this material can be very useful, drawing attentions to the Bible in a world when every less people have it in home....
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who has always hated that God would dare to make us in the divine likeness. But God confounded Satan all the more by becoming man Himself, and by His death on the cross refashioned us anew in His image. And by the sacrifice of Christ, man has become, more than ever, capable of grea...
Then the teacher, Bill Barley, took center stage and spoke passionately of God’s gift to mankind through His son, Jesus Christ, who gave us salvation through Grace while on the cross. He is remembered by Christianity at Christmas, which we celebrate as his birthday, and again at Easter, ...
No one can believe that God sent His only begotten Son into the world to die on the cross without feeling a sense of praise and thanksgiving. Think of Saul of Tarsus there on the road to Damascus. The moment he saw and understood something of what had happened to him, he said, “...