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    followers as un-disturbed and accurate word to guide ones faith. The Islamists have the Quran, the Jewish people have the Torah and the Christians have the bible, which has not been un-disturbed through the centuries. In Peter J. Thuesen’s book In Discordance with the Scriptures, The study presents the debate concering the translations of the bible amongst Conservative and liberal Protestants in America, specifically, over translations in the RSV (Revised Standard Version). Thuesen writes a…

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    Enemies Bible serves as a fundament for Christian religion. Followers believe that this book is saint and they can find all answers in it. It provides people with a certain model of lifestyle, which includes a set of rules to obey. Moreover, the book describes the history of people 's creation and development. Based on the knowledge received from the Bible, humans create a new religion called Christianity. However, nowadays there exist multiple interpretations of the book. According to the…

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    Luther’s idea of providing the basic education for girls was adopted. The idea of universal education for everyone developed into the public education system for the first time in America. The common school system was modeled after Calvin’s Geneva Academy. By 1647, a Massachusetts law mandated that every town of 50 families or more support an elementary school and every town of 100 or more families support a grammar school where boys could learn Latin in preparation for college. Like Luther…

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    250ish Founding Fathers. Out of these 250 founders, roughly speaking, ninety-five percent belonged to various Christian Denominations. Of those founders who signed the Declaration of Independence twenty-nine of fifty-seven, or 50.87%, held Seminary or Bible school degrees. Also, “out of 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 49 declared themselves affiliated with some Protestant denomination.” Forty-nine out of fifty-seven is 86% (rounded up) of the signers professed Christianity as…

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    The Bible has always been a facinating amongs people, and face some crititisms from some who belived it to be inaccurate. The Bible has been questioned by many scholars in the field of biblical criticism. Critics always questioned the authenticity of its content, its roots and the credibility of q the authors. After watching all these videosI think the Bible should be accepted as historically accurate and as a reliable guide to morality . It was interesting to learned these fascinating fact…

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    Intertestamental Period and the Methodology of Recording the Prophecy of Jeremiah and the King James Bible Translation Thesis: The Book of Jeremiahs gives insight into the creation of the prophetic text which was written hundreds of years before Intertestamental Period, a period that much is known except for the knowledge provided by varying texts, while the analysis of the translation of the King James Bible provided insight to the accuracy of the text. Topic Statement Paragraph 1 – God…

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    America; specifically people felt that they could remake the world using faith as their motivation and mold it into a perfect society. The changes and molding that religious people wanted to make was believed to be ordered by God using sources like the Bible, the Book of Mormon, direct revelations (ex. visions, trances, dreams and divination) and re incarnation of God or another religious figure. But to what extent were the ideas about race, gender, and wealth in different revivals,…

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    them. The stories from Shakespeare and Coleridge portray biblical allusions to create an alternative meaning behind the true story the author has created, while evoking a strong emotional and intellectual connections with those associated with the bible. Christian and pagan themes are confounded at times in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The Ancient Mariner…

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    ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Justice: The God of the Bible is a just God in that He has complete authority over everything He created. God’s justice is reflected in His law. ------------------------------------------------- Read Exodus 20:1-21 & Matthew 22:37-40. What are the characteristics of God in these passages? Exodus 20:1-21 Tells how god is a jealous God…

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    Anne Hutchinson was raised on the ideas of the typical Puritan theology. This theology believed that God originally established a covenant with Adam specifying that firm obedience of God’s law would result in salvation. After the fall, humanity sank into sin until God formed a second covenant with Abraham. Because post-Lapserian man could not abide by a covenant of works, God established a covenant of grace whereby certain individuals were preordained as the spiritually elect, but were concealed…

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