The Many Similarities Between Jesus and Buddha What Is the Definition of Atheist and Agnostic? Why Is Belief in God So Universal and Persistent? Atheists in the Pulpit: Clergy Who Are Non-Believers Mythic Origins of Christianity and How It's Similar to Paganism...
Why didn’t you just do it – accept Jesus into your heart? This is quite different from The Christian Zionists (mostly White) shouting praises each time a bomb is dropped saying, “Yes, Lord, Yes Lord,” with bright shiny beaming faces and smiley eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch...
After all, assassination, it was long claimed, was a recognized tool of the Jesuits in extending and securing Catholic influence. For more on the massive conspiracy theories surrounding the Jesuits, see my 2-part series on the topic, The Rise and Fall of the Society of Jesus. In 19th centu...
Genealogies of Jesus Christ in the New Testament aim at showing his descent from David, the one in St. Luke’s Gospel going as far back as Adam, “who was the son of God.” The idea of divine origin was reflected everywhere in a wildly polytheistic form among the Gentiles. Almost ...
In addition to the major historical approaches presented in the last chapter, many have attempted to write more-or-less popular lives of Jesus. These authors often advocate unorthodox interpretations: Jesus never died on the cross; he was connected with the Qumran community; someone else changed ...
Some scholars put it more mildly acknowledging that episcopacy may have existed in the time of the Apostles, but that there was no one unified teaching on church government from Jesus or the Apostles. For example. Hans Küng’s book Apostolic Succession: Rethinking a Barrier to Unity presents ...
I am an anti-capitalist before anything political, I would feel no different if nothing called socialism existed, I would still be a hardcore anti-capitalist! Children starve as billionaires play spaceman and buck rogers as if selfish toddlers. Shame on you! To me, I don’t get how people...
THE CHURCH AND IN TRADITIONS OF inevitably AFTER THE ANCIENT SOUL STILL IN OUR LIVES, unintentionally HIDDEN AS the Sant. AVGOUSTIN had declared that TRUE KNOWLEDGE WAS ALWAYS IN ANCIENT GREEKS, until the CHRISTIANITY came AND dubbed “CHRISTIAN” perpetual tradition existed, CHANGING THE JACKET ...
The point being, yes- Arian went too far in his belief that Jesus was a created being, Johns gospel refutes this belief strongly [as well as many other portions of scripture] but too say that Jesus was/is the full expression of the father, because he ‘came out from God’ is also ...
which is to shew unto the remnant of the house of Israel how great things the Lord hath done for their fathers: and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever; and also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Ete...