Mary, the mother of Jesus, venerated in the Christian church and a subject in Western art, music, and literature. Mary has been ascribed several titles, including guarantee of the Incarnation, virgin mother, second Eve, mother of God, ever virgin, immacu
In the Hebrew Old Testament, all numbers are spelled out; however, in the ancient world, there were also two other ways of writing numbers other than as full words. Acrophonic systems were employed in which the initial letter of the word for a number was used to represent the number ...
The subject matter of the discipline is treated in a number of other articles. For a survey of systematic interpretations of the divine or sacred, see agnosticism; atheism; deism; dualism; monotheism; nature worship; pantheism; polytheism; theism; and totemism. For a survey of major theological...
When Jesus died a criminal's death on the hill of Golgotha outside of Jerusalem, hope died with him. His disciples and many others had come to believe in him as the Messiah. Some even believed he was the Son of God, that is, divine. Then the scourge tore into his back, merciless n...
23), simbang stand on the threshold of the divine realm and the human realm. Unlike other participants who stand on the threshold of the living and the dead only while the ritual is performed, simbang always stand on the boundary between the human and the divine. They are humans but are ...
One more thing about the proton. It’s tiny. Really tiny. If you blew up a hydrogen atom as big as your bedroom, the proton would be a tiny grain of dust almost too hard for you to see. In fact, it’s because the proton is so small that we can ignore the chaos within when de...
The Significance of Syria In the Bible History and Civilizations Introduction: Present map of Syria Syria, Syria, a noticeable word the world hears each day and watches its horrible events on each TV screen. All mourn and pity the hundreds killed every day. Everyone is asking how to stop the...
The Symbols of the Bible: 666 -- Number of the Beast of Rev. Seven -- Completion Four -- God Revealing Himself 24 The gatekeepers were assigned to the four directions: the east, west, north, and south. (1 Chronicles 9:24) 6 Against Elam I will bring the four winds ...
The number 40 in the Bible also emerges when we look at Moses and the covenant God confirmed with him. Moses is said to have gone up on the “mountain of God,” where he stayed for 40 days and 40 nights. This story is recounted in Exodus 24. ...
Early in the 21st century, the term woke became ubiquitous within the context of the culture wars. However, the meaning of the term has been notoriously difficult to pin down, and its use as a descriptor of the most bewildering range of phenomena has led