Medgar:Yeah. That’s correct … This is something that comes up a lot with, for example, white cis-het wealthy Christians. Right? It’s not that you don’t suffer in this life. It’s not that there are not hardships. But it’s that those hardships aren’t because of systems working...
Salvation is defined as the deliverance from sin and its consequences. In a Christianity sense, salvation is when a person accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior, and they believe the fact that he died for the sins of Christians. The term of salvation is often referred to as being ...
The question is not, why are Christians *sad* but why do they view a child’s death as a bad thing, such a bad thing many will try to *avert* it. No averting in your vaccination example. Incidentally I am not confident this is the right blog to tempt the vaccers on! Your ...
First, for Jews the alternative models of the afterlife were total annihilation (this was the Sadducees’ view) and resurrection (the view of the Pharisees). When Paul says, “If there is no resurrection then the dead in Christ have perished,” he may be alluding to the Sa...
Christians shut down the temple in 391 A.D., and the statue was guaranteed safe-keeping until either 462 or 475 A.D., when it was burned in a fire. We know quite a bit about the statue. Just as United States' currency depicts important monuments and faces, ancient Greek coins ...
Cannibalism also produces a sense of otherness. It explains why one culture is not like another or is less superior. The established Romans believed the Irish practiced anthropophagy; as recently as the 18th century, pagan Scots were considered cannibals by European Christians. Using cannibalism as...
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am just an average guy who's a researcher and philosopher. I don't pretend to know the truth. I. DO. NOT. KNOW. what happens after death. No one does for certain. This is just my speculation and opinions. They very well may be wrong. Each person needs to go wi...
A prevalent view today is that all paths lead to God, that one religion is as good as another as long as you are sincere and a “good” person. If you are certain of this view, you may stop reading now. You have nothing left to learn, and your ascent to a positive afterlife is ...
but none of these views had a secret rapture attached to them. Darby’s view encouraged a generation of Christians to hold onto a view of escapism and not having to face difficulties in this World, while we see the New Testament Writings clearly teach the body to persevere and endure tribul...
While he did concede that modern Christian’s have come to understand this false idea as a “truism”, he points out that the original language and attitude of the first Christians towards 1462 Words 6 Pages Better Essays Read More The Bible in The Upside Down Kingdom by Donald B. ...