Egypt The first known siting of the ouroboros design is the enigmatic book of the netherworld. In the 14th century b.c it’s about the movements of the god ra and his organisation with Osiris in the underworld. In a drawing the two snakes are holding their rear end in their mouths with a coil wrapped around there head with giant feet representing an enormous god whom may symbolise ra and Osiris coming together as a unit. Both snakes are examples of the (deity me hen) who is known to have…
From his miraculous birth to his ascension he was truly God and truly man. Neither did the two natures coalesce into one making him entirely divine (Eutyches). Christ is not a second God, a demigod (Gnosticism), nor is he only the wisdom of God, he is God, being eternally generated from God. The atoning work of Christ was accomplished through the uniqueness of who he was. To deny the deity of Christ, questions the accomplished work of salvation.…
Introduction Eschatology is a term that Christians use in reference to the study of last things. There are a lot of theories regarding the things to come throughout the history of the Church from the Early Church Fathers, through the Rise of Amillennialism, the Reformation Views, the Puritans, Jonathan Edwards, and the Modern Millennial Views. This paper is not a historical study, and not a defense of a particular eschatological view. However, this paper explores the history of eschatology…
1. Who was Muhammad? According to a Britannica article by Annemarie Schimmel, the Islam religion views Muhammad as the last in a series of prophets. Equally important, Muhammad is considered the messenger of Allah given the words to write the Qur'an through the angel Gabriel (Schimmel, 2016). 2. How is the Qur’an structured? When is Ramadan observed? The Qur’an has 114 chapters describing different aspects of life, including God, Satan, Heaven, Hell, social justice, humanity, and so forth…
As humans have grown throughout history, new questions have continued to be asked. A few examples being: How can food be more efficiently produced to prevent starvation? How could a shelter be built stronger so that they can withstand long winters? What is the shape of the earth? What are our bodies made out of? However, it was not till recent history that the study the brain and psychological concepts has become a large part of modern science. Many great people that contributed to the…
The timing of the birth of Jesus was the right time because it was the appointed time of God. God knew, before the earth was created, what He wanted to do and how life and history would unfold. This may sound odd, but I visualize the beginning of the world up until the birth of Jesus as a pregnancy. Just like time that goes by in a pregnancy, there are trimesters, or periods of time that are marked by specific events culminating in the birth of a child. Jesus, is that child and the different…
acceptance for a man and a woman to be friends and explicitly be sexual. Commitment is not an important factor in the movie because there is too much work involved. More so, you can make right what you feel in the moment. This relates to some aspects of Gnosticism. Gnostic hierarchal implies bodies do not matter as much, so do what you want with them. Like Smith proposes, our hearts are propelled by our natural desires and orient us to an end goal or telos. Summer and Thomas, who are the two…
believe that it is not the view that the Bible supports. Rather that this view is being read into scripture, causing people to believe that the Bible supports the body-soul dualistic view. Out of this body-soul frame work, developed the idea of Gnosticism. Therefore, “much of the focus of the life of the Christian church has been on…
Maria the Jewess as Framed by Zosimos of Panopolis The way that we perceive history is eternally limited and there are things that we will never be able to learn. We can only pick up the pieces of the puzzle that remain and hope that that’s enough to understand the entire puzzle. Maria the Jewess goes by many names. Maria the Hebrea, Mary the Jewess, Maria Prophetissa… Each name indicates what the person in question prioritized about her, and how they saw her. The majority of extant…
Prominent conservative intellectuals constantly debate the effects of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. On one side thinkers such as Mel Bradford and Richard Gamble believe that Lincoln set out to establish a civic religion that introduced the radical equality theory that resulted in the rise of progressivism. In response, thinkers such as Krannawitter came to Lincoln’s defense claiming that his use of religious language was merely a rhetorical tool used to unite the people after the Civil War.…