A Christian is a person who lives their life according to their belief in God and Jesus. They will accept the Biblical stories of His life, teaching, ministry, sufferings, death and resurrection, as summarised in the Creed/s (a collective prayer or prayers, where gathered Christians publicly ...
surrender and humiliation because He was man. Now the Christian belief is that if we somehow share the humility and suffering of Christ we shall also share in His conquest for death and find a new life after we have died and in it become perfect, and perfectly happy, creatures. This ...
Extending further this work, I argue that, given the historic alignment of family and religious values in Christian nations, a loss of religious belief and practice is, at least in part, the spill over effect of the opposing influence of values emerging from ever more dominant nonfamily social...
The five "fundamentals" of Christian belief that were enumerated in a series of 12 paperback volumes containing scholarly essays on the Bible that appeared between 1910 and 1915, entitled The Fundamentals. Those included:Biblical inerrancy The divinity of Jesus The Virgin Birth The belief that ...
“atheism” first started to be used as merely a descriptive term for lack of belief in the monotheistic Abrahamic God. In Western society today, this is how the word “atheism” is most commonly used—it simply means “disbelief in God” (where God refers to the Abrahamic God worshipped ...
An idea is a thought or concept formed in the mind, potentially leading to innovation or creative thinking, while belief is a conviction or acceptance that something is true or exists, often without the need for empirical evidence.
Youtube.com - This is a quite accurate science-documentary about evolutionary creation(I used this ambiguous term to stay impartial). They forgot to mention the molecular cloud and they didn't elaborate on the origin of life in terms of evolution. The ocean vents is a valid theory, but the...
doctrine of predestination, the belief that God has preordained who shall be saved by grace, and who will suffer eternal damnation. The theology is even more controversial than it is complicated, and it is one of the doctrines that Protestants had a difficult time agreeing on during the ...
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief. —Mich...
My guest today is Joseph Henrich, a professor at Harvard, and an expert on the evolution of human cooperation and culture. I am a big fan of his book, “The Secret of Our Success” and he just published a new one called the Weirdest People in the World about people who fall under ...