shade,shadow: Bothshadeandshadoware poetic synonyms forghost.Shadeis sometimes specifically used to refer to spirits of the dead in theunderworldas imagined in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. What is apoltergeist? Apoltergeistis aghostthat makes itself known by making noises, moving things around...
Gnosticism, which gets its name from the Greek word gnosis (“knowledge”) was a religious movement beginning, possibly, before the time of Christ and...
Bruce, The Fire that Consumes, Edward Fudge)Conclusion: Except for the Epicureans, Greek philosophers taught of the soul's natural immortality-without God.Jewish Apostles Taught:However, the Scriptures teach the soul is destructible and immortality is part of the gospel....
The drawing refers to Christ’s statement, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:25). Hirsch created an image of a camel contemplating this seemingly impossible task. The title tells us the camel ...
In simplest terms, patriotism is loyalty to one’s “Fatherland” (derived from the Greek “patrios – father” and “-ism” – belief in), one’s country.. To be loyal to one’s homeland and its traditions and values, and having a strong affection for it and all it stands for, is...
.as though they were nomads in the desert walking as though they were aviators on the first transatlantic journey as though they were solitary walkers like me as though they were a Greek chorus as though they were Roman soldiers as though they were lying in their bathtubs dying as their ...
Soul In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf. Ghost In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead...
This is the Greek wordgôrāl:The Word Study Dictionarytells us it is “a masculine noun indicating a portion or lot. A lot was cast, probably a stone or stones, to decide questions or appoint persons for various reasons; for apportioning land (Numbers 26:55;Numbers 33:54;Joshua 18...
distinctionis not a new issue… Consider, for example, I Corinthians 13:13, which in Greek usesἀγάπη, but which has been translated to English both as “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (KJV)and as “And now faith, ...
Whereas most Greek philosophers believed that immortality implies solely the survival of the soul, the three great monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) consider that immortality is achieved through the resurrection of the body at the time of the Final Judgment....