The ultimate goal of this first-hand description of hellish and heavenly realities is reasonably clear: the way to escape eternal torment is to avoid sin.
”“true Catholicism,”“pure preaching,”“right administration of the sacraments,”“faithful summary of Scripture,” and so on, that is precisely the point in question. Who is it that defines those thingsfor you?
2. The form of the present revelation of God to Abram gives trouble to interpreters. Knobel thinks that the communication, Gen 15:12–16, belongs to a night-vision; on the other hand, the next succeeding utterances to the waking moments. According to Keil, the word of Jehovah comes to h...
The Buluotuo Scriptures is the combination of the myth, religion, ethic and folk customs of the Zhuang ethnics and impressed with the original religious consciousness of physiolatry and ancestor adore. The vivid and exquisite description, romantic and exaggerative techniques and straightforward yet clea...
The emphasis on the description of the afterlife punishment for sinners, typical of the Mulian narratives, also had important didactic and indoctrinating meanings in traditional society. There are many common features between the printed recension of the Precious Scroll of Three Rebirths and manuscript ...
6th & 7th Vials of Wrath (the 7 Vials of Wrath occur in the 6th Seal & 7th Trumpet Revelation 6:12, 16, 11:15, 18) Restoration ➥ Joel 2:1-11 is another description ofYHWH’s Destroying Army. Joel 2:10 Gives theREASON forthe “earthquakes,”“heavens tremble,”“sun & the moon...
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First is the description of the hard-hearted Israelites as having received "carnal commandments." We must therefore assume that not everything they did—or wrote—was in harmony with the will of God. Second is God's prohibition of offensive war, which applies to all of God's people at ...
Garuda PuranaThis is an abridged version of the Garuda Purana containing the description of heaven and hell and matters concerning funeral rites and afterlife. The Sacred Scriptures and Literature of HinduismAccording to tradition, the Shiva Sutras were found engraved on a stone by Vasugupta, who ...
Both begin with the description of hell and end with heaven but the central part of the Commedia, deals with the description of purgatory, whereas the central part of the Book of the Three Scriptures describes Christ's passion. While in the past Bonvesin's work has been dismissed as "...