As in the rest of the world, in the past homosexual behavior in Russia was frequent and accepted, in fact, the first law that prohibited something related was that of Peter the Great, in 1716, to prohibit exclusively anal intercourse in the army. At present Russia leads the group of pedo...
Peter is not the "rock" of the Church. If you read the verse in Matthew 16:17-19 and do a Greek word study, Christ is referring to the Holy Spirit. Answer: Here’s what a couple of Church Fathers believed about Peter being the Rock: ...
you see Jesus, his mother Mary, and Mary’s mother Anne. The work was originally created to be a centerpiece in the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome but was seen as too vulgar.
Of course Jesus did what God had commanded His namesake to do (Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua or Yeshua) Josh 1:5“There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsa...
The termsempathy,sympathyandpatheticare all derived from the wordpathos, which means “suffering” or “experience” in Greek. It consists in appealing to your audience’s emotions—to make them feel what you want them to feel by triggering specific emotional reactions. Great storytellers are usual...
So we have to be very careful about how we understand it and what inferences we draw from them. In Greek the verb that means “to foreknow” isproginôskô, and the noun for “foreknowledge” isprognosis— yes, that’s the same as the English word prognosis. ...
Brought from the Mediterranean, olives are less popular in native German cuisine. However, theyarecommon ingriechischer Salat(Greek salad). der Kürbis(Pumpkin) Plural Form:die Kürbisse Native to North America, pumpkins were first brought to Europe in the 1500s. Now, they’re grown all over ...
Baltimore, Maryland Studying: Japanese It makes traveling so much easier. Being able to ask people even simple questions, in their language, is such a phenomenal experience. Jessica Washington, D.C. Studying: French, Greek, Spanish Trusted by...
Once we are more comfortable with the first two disciplines, then, we can move to refine our understanding of “impressions,” interrogating them whenever they arise, in a way made memorable by another Epictetean quote: “Practise, then, from the very beginning to say to every disagreeable ...
(John 10:14) The word “good” in the Greek means “ideal, worthy, choice, excellent” and I would have to say “amen” to every one of those, wouldn’t you? Not only is He good, He “calls His own by name” and “they follow Him because they know His voice.” As a ...