The First Crusade
.... often grossly exaggerated, of the horrible pollution of the sacred places
at the hands of the Turks" (Campbell p23). Other stories of the destruction of
the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the burial place of Jesus, by the Turks
surfaced in the early eleventh century. The news of the destruction of the
Sepulcher was mourned in every Christian country. The nations looked to Rome
for a solution to this most serious of Problems.
The Byzantine emperor asked for the aid of the Pope to help him with his
Turk problem. To the Pope, it would be a strategic move to aid the Byzantine
emperor. The Pope realized that this offered the o .....
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, And John
.... to Jerusalem that the others omit (Luke 9:51-19:27).
The others omit the Judean Ministry, except the Last Week, which all four cover
rather extensively. The Last Week occupies one-third of Matthew, approximately
one-third of Mark, one-quarter of Luke, and one-half of John. John devotes
seven chapters, about one-third of his book, to Crucifixion Day, sunset to
sunset. Thus all four writers present the one and same Person: the God-Man,
Servant of the Lord, King of Israel, humanity's Redeemer. The special emphasis
of Matthew is that Jesus is the Messiah foretold by Old Testament Prophets. As
he quotes from the Old Testament .....
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The Greek Orthodox Church
.... III (680), and Nicaea II (787) (Encarta
1996). The power of teaching and guiding the community is bestowed on certain
ministries, particularly that of the bishop of each diocese or is directed
through certain institutions, such as councils. Because the church is composed
not only of bishops, or of clergy, but of the whole laity as well, "the Orthodox
church strongly affirms that the guardian of truth is the entire people of God"
(Encarta 96).
The doctrine of seven sacraments is accepted in the Greek Orthodox
church, although no supreme authority has ever limited the sacraments to that
number. The central sacrament is th .....
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Isaiah 10:1-6 The Hebrews Prophets: Isaiah & Amos
.... of Isaiah. One is speaking of
the oppression committed by man upon man. It is Jesus asking why man whom were
created as brother and sister making unjustly laws...deprive the poor of their
rights...withhold the justice from the oppressed of my people.
I strongly believe there is a judgment day. For all the wrongs committed in
society against one another and against oneself; as the sacred body that be.
Harming thy brethren, killing thy neighbor, steeling. All to satisfy the wants
for themselves. It is all competitive. Part of my heritage being of Blackfoot
Indian descent, the way of life is to create and live life from th .....
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The Bible And The Word "Inspire"
.... story that is being told, it can be
easily inferred that Paul had confronted opposition to the belief that scripture
was in fact inspired by God, and therefore valid. Using literary criticism
allows us to stay on the surface of what is being said, and not necessarily have
to dig behind it to find the true meaning (we'll leave that to historical
criticism) and therefore by looking at the phrase "scripture is God-breathed" we
can further say that God breathed His word into the authors, and they recorded
it. God can be viewed as an indirect author, and the inspiration for scripture.
"We did not follow cleverly invented stories when .....
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Succot: The Jewish Holiday
.... for the people who have no good deeds and no
education. These plants are carried around the synagogue in a procession while
prayers are recited for blessings on the land and fruit of Israel. In biblical
times, the willow, the palm, and the Etrog were used in decorating the Succot.
At the end of the Autum harvest, on the fifteenth day of Tishri
(September-October) Succot is celebrated. It is believed that the festival
originated with the ancient Canaanite celebration after the grape harvest at the
end of the annual dry season. During this time rites were performed to incourage
the rains. Boughs of fruit trees and evergreens .....
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The Life Of Jesus
.... the bread and
wine. Jesus went to pray in Gethsemane with his disciples when Judas arrived
with an armed crowd sent by the chief priests. They arrested him. Jesus was
brought to Pilate and he sentenced him to death. Then he was crucified. When he
died, a man named Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus and he
replied yes. Joseph took the body down wrapped him in linen and placed him in a
tomb. He rolled a large stone across the entrance. Jesus's body still had to be
anointed, so the day after the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of
James came to dress him. When they arrived the stone was rolled open .....
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The New Age Movement
.... several cults which could be classified within,
such as the Transcendental Meditation and the followers of deported Indian guru
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Cult membership is by far the exception and not the
rule for New Agers. New Agers tend to be eclectic which means that they draw
what they think is the best from various sources. Exclusive devotion to a
single teacher, teaching or techniques is not long term. They move from one
approach to "wholeness" to another in their spiritual quest.(Miller. 1989. P.18)
New Agers consider spirituality much more a matter of experience than
belief. Some New Agers do not believe that their be .....
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The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ
.... our earliest
copy. There are more than 5,300 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and
10,000 Latin vulgate manuscripts, not to mention the other various translations.
Totally there are around 24,000 total MSS for the New Testament. The next
closest document in respect to MSS is the "Illiad" by Homer, with 643
manuscripts(McDowell 43).
The textual reliability then continues with respect to the time interval
between the original and the first known manuscript. The shorter the interval,
the more reliable the text is. Homer's "Illiad" was written in 900 BC and the
earliest copy was found in 400 BC. This is compared to the Ne .....
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The Roots Of Judaism And Christianity
.... account is based on historic realities. According to the Book of
Genesis, God ordered the patriarch Abraham to leave his home in Mesopotamia and
travel to a new land, which he promised to Abraham's descendants as a perpetual
inheritance. Although the historicity of Abraham, his son Isaac, and his
grandson Jacob is uncertain, the Israelite tribes certainly came to Canaan from
Mesopotamia. Later they, or some of them, settled in Egypt, where they were
reduced to slavery; they finally fled to freedom under the leadership of an
extraordinary man named Moses, probably about 1200 BC. After a period of desert
wandering, the tribes inva .....
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The Sacred Divine
.... being the best
person I could, I never missed church on Sundays, and to the best of my ability
tried to live the life Jesus has paved for us. This is by far the most
religious experience, that I have ever experienced in my life. I never found
myself so part of a religion, that I was so Christian that I was going to live
my life in such a way that I was going to heaven. In my judgment there has
never been a time in the history of the world when men and women were so eager
to find a religion or religious truth. They seem to be looking for something
they should have found in their childhood, like I did. I realized that at an
early .....
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The Symbolism Of Religion And Comparison
.... answers to his
questions. And that was proved when Ozzie asked a question in class and Rabbi
Binder went crazy and hit Ozzie because he thought Ozzie was trying to be a wise
guy. So Ozzie tried to prove a point to Rabbi Binder and his fellow classmates
by running to the roof and making believe he was going to jump. With Ozzie
being on the roof it gave Rabbi Binder a bigger belief that Ozzie was crazy and
troubled. Ozzie wasn't really crazy, he was just trying to make a point that he
really wasn't dumb. Ozzie just wanted to believe that there was really a Christ.
So with the point that Ozzie was trying to make helped to con .....
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