One is a mastermind of terrorist acts that have killed thousands and another a politician who overcame the weight of hundreds of years of slavery and discrimination against blacks to become the first African American elected president of the most powerful country in the world. They are opposites ...
Lenski said Saint Valentine is more legendary than a real person– actually, two people. Two bishops are associated with Saint Valentine and both were martyrs "who died on behalf of the Christian church in the face of persecution from the Romans," he said. One of the legends, Lenski said,...
Santeria ("worship of saints") is a Spanish term ascribed to a religious belief system which originated from West Africa. It combines aspects of Roman Catholicism with the indigenous West African pantheon. This was the outcome of the shipment of prisoners of war from Benin and Yoruba to the ...
The Apostle John (also known as Saint John) was one ofJesus Christ’s 12 disciples, and a prominent leader in the early Christian church. Along with James and Peter, John was one of Jesus’ closest confidants, so he appears in more biblical accounts than the other disciples. John is trad...
from others who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him." Here, false teachers are described as offering empty promises, leading others into bondage rather than the freedom they claim to ...
语法填空Do you know who Father Christmas is? It is said that in the year of 300 AD, there was a kind old man1 name was Saint Nicholas. He was always ready to help 2 poor and often gave presents to them.Today, Father Christmas is an imaginary figure,but nearly all young children ...
include some kind of horned deity. In Jungian theory, Baphomet is a continuation of thehorned-god archetype, as the concept of a deity bearing horns is universally present in individual psyches. Do Cernunnos, Pan, Hathor, the Devil (as depicted by Christianity) and Baphomet have a common ...
For of this you can be sure:No immoral, impure or greedy person–such a man is an idolater–has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.Let no one deceive you with empty words,for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who aredisobedient. Therefore do not be...
In December, 2010 I registered the toilet-guru.com domain and moved the pages to a dedicated server. What is it like to be a toilet guru? In 2014 I did some Linux consulting for Merrill Lynch at their large facility outside Trenton, New Jersey. I had most of one afternoon free, ...
would form the habit of asking the church-members, “are you a saint” instead of“are you a Christian,” the question would cause more searching of the conscience and the heart,for there seems to be the prevailing idea that any moral, religious Gentile who is not a Jew, is aChristian...