Where no religious body has provided sanction or authorization, scriptures have had to stand on their own authority.Muslimsbelieve that theQurʾāndoes this easily. The Qurʾān, their only sacred canon or standard offaith, authenticates itself, they believe, by its internal self-evidencing po...
“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”– 1 Corinthians 12:27 This is the third entry in a series of blogs I’m writing on the topic of service and hospitality. If you haven’t read the other two, I’d recommend doing so before you read this...
that behavior is not something that should be overlooked or ignored. If one friend learned that the other was embezzling his company, or cheating on his wife, he would be wise to step in. If we love the
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ONE The Number of "Unity."It symbolizes the Unity of God. Mark 12:32. John 10:30. In Eph. 4:4-6 we have seven distinct "Unities, " One Body, One Spirit. One Hope, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God.TWO The Number of "Union."...
Salatis alsoabodilyprayerwhich,dependingon thetimeof theday, involvesfourbodypostures:standing,bendingforwardwithhandsonknees,prostrating,andsitting(Haeri2013,8).Salatis aspeechevent,anencounterbetween“aseeminglytimeless text”andthevoiceof“its presentperformer”whoenactsit(duBois2009,31). In this...
In the BEGINNING there was the Great One, the Glorious and Most Great on HIGH. The GREAT ONE lived first in itself, needing no world around it; for it was the most GREAT, and needed nothing, and wanted nothing. but there was darkness around the GREAT ONE'S body, and the darkness for...
Doctrine is simply a body of principles presented for acceptance of belief. In other words, it’s something that is taught; a teaching. No one can escape doctrine. Everyone, whether they know it or not, believes and practices some type of doctrine. And that doctrine may be true, or it ...
In the Second Vatican Council retrieved the doctrine of the One Table, but without offering a sustained or comprehensive presentation of it: "the Church has always held the divine scriptures in reverence no less than it accords to the Lord's body itself, never ceasing—especially in the sacred...
altar. Doreen Valiente says, "Use of a living woman's naked body as the altar where the forces of Life are worshipped and invoked goes back to before the beginnings of Christianity; back to the days of the ancient worship of the Great Goddess of Nature, in whom all things were one."...