History of the Latter Day Saint movement

Thomas S. Monson is one of the first that comes to mind, at least for the LDS church, when someone mentions a saint. Yet these contradicting leaders share numerous skills with each other, as well as with other leaders of power who vary in theory. Attributes that make them proficient include determination, resilience, vision, and charisma. Early in Hitler’s life he believed that one day he…

The world is just an illusion that we lived in according to The Bhagavad-Gita teaching. Its something we can’t rely on because the world is in the ever-changing process, nothing will be the same. The world will change and people will change. The Bhagavad-Gita stated that our desire and agonize are ignorance and misunderstanding, we will go through the same cycle of birth and death, the endless cycle of suffering. That is why the teaching of The Bhagavad-Gita will help us escape from the…

Being” written in 1930, deals with the consciousness of human sinfulness and the revelation of God. . He completed his dissertation entitled, The Communing of the Saints at the age of twenty-one. Bonhoeffer said that his true genuine faith in Christ did not begin until after his first dissertation was published. Communing of the Saints with the subtitle- “A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church” was a “virgin” endeavor to link the disciplines of both sociology and theology in the…

Baptism is a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally. The canonical Gospels report that Jesus was baptized—a historical event to which a high degree of certainty can be assigned. Baptism has been called a sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ. In some denominations, baptism is also called christening, but for others the word "christening" is reserved for the baptism of infants. Baptism has also given its…

The Renaissance The period that came right after the Middle Ages was known as the Renaissance. According to Mr.Dowling, “ The Renaissance was the birth place of modern history”. During the Renaissance Europe saw a plethora of values come back to life from Rome and Greece . New technologies were developed like the Printing Press. People wanted to know so much about the world around them so they sailed away on ships and new continents were discovered. Art was especially big during this time…

perfection in mind, with the idea of painting what they see how it is, and then there are painters who paint not what they see, but how they see it. Two of the most famous painters in the latter category is the infamous Vincent van Gogh, and the Cubism creator, Pablo Picasso. These two painters shaped human art history as we know it, with their art work being valued at millions, and their creativity being priceless. It is important to see who these artists were, and see what shaped them and how…

For the follower of King Messiah there comes some many forthright questions which need to be answered in the regards of revelation of the Bible, how the Bible was inspired,and what is the authority of the Bible. In other words: is the Bible speaking to me? How do I know the Bible is not just another document? Why should this old book have authority over me? These are valid questions which many believers today take for granted. Yet, the importance of these questions infect the life of the…

Gun control, gay marriage, legal marijuana, prostitution, illegal immigration; this is only a partial list of the large number of controversies that plague America. Included in this large list of controversies is a big one that has been dividing Americans, the topic of abortion. This has been an ongoing debate for many years, covering the morality and legality of permitting induced abortions. There are two major sides involved in the debate. One side is known as "pro-choice". They advocate…

Augustine’s views within a wider context of Church history. The debate between Augustine and Pelagius brought about several important church rulings. These included the synod in 418, where the Council of Carthage condemned the teachings of Pelagius. He was later exiled to Constantinople in 429. Again in 431…

she lost her father and on June 8 1290, she herself died at the age of twenty-four, probably from a miscarriage. Dante could never have claimed her hand in marriage; her belonged to an impoverished aristocratic family. As was the custom in those days, her hand had most likely been ‘promised’ in marriage at a very early age to a husband of suitable standing by legal contract between the two families, just as Gemma Donati’s hand had been to Dante in a formal document dated 1277 when Dante was…