For those who are religious and support the coexist movement, I have never seen any kind of desire to defile their own religion and create a bastardized super-religion. There have always been people of different beliefs on this planet, and there always will be. We can choose to follow the...
through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe.22For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom,23but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,24but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God...
“he will invariably first find ways to make himself hated; we are so unhappy that we cannot help longing for a change; in my position another would hope for your death, but I desire only my own; having no hope of being separated from you by any other means, I shall nevertheless be ...
but it is more plausibly explained by the evangelist’s desire that this idealwitnessrecognize the full character of the Christ and as a necessary consequence of the tension between the highly developed understanding of Christ in thisGospeland those details in early Christian tradition that suggested...
I knew that, not only was I not a wise man, but even worse, I was both a scorner…and a fool. The Lord had placed wonderful men in my life, men whose only desire was to teach me how to be an authentic and honorable man of God, not only for my sake but also for my future...
If you desire to live such that your religion is safe and your portion is full and your honour is sound, guard your tongue and never mention another’s faults remembering that you yourself have faults and others have tongues.” (Thanks to Sheikh Hamza Yusuf for the translation) ...
The “ritual of refinement and beautification” contributes to the theme of collective identity in that individual women’s bodies are purified and perfumed not only to satisfy the King’s desire, but also to please the male leadership of Persia (Oren 2009, pp. 149–50). Jewish commentaries ...
Well educated for the times, Gregory may have had legal training before entering public service. Hisconversionto monastic life in 574 was not sudden but grew from a lifelong conflict between his personal desire for contemplative purity and the public duty to serve others in the “pollution” of...
The basis of ability to control sexual desire originates in the female of the species. To put it simply, a man can have many children in one year, but a woman cannot. It’s not adaptive for a woman to “just have sex”. The female strategy “playing hard to get” evolved as a so...
But Jesus requires a second thought. Jesus requires you to figure out how to LOVE this "enemy."That's relatively easy for you to do in the case of your son, or someone you already love and desire to protect.But what if you see a perfect stranger getting ready to commit an act of ...