Incarnation

By the Blessed Trinity we mean one and the same God in three divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. IV. By the Incarnation is meant that the Son of God, retaining His divine nature, took to Himself a human nature, that is, a body and soul like ours. V. The Church is the congregation of all baptized persons united in the same true faith, the same sacrifice, and the same…

Certainly, every age is unique in the character of its culture. In the same way, Indian art forms have continuously evolved over many years. Eventually, ancient India had various art forms like paintings, architecture, and sculpture that had been gradually developed. Thereafter, advanced town planning is seen in Harappa and Mohenjodaro, with their centrally planned cities indicating a highly developed architecture. Another remarkable example of sculpture from the Harappan civilization comes in…

Christianity and Islam have many similarities and some fundamental differences. In God is Not One (2010), Stephen Prothero emphasizes the differences among the faiths. In contrast, in Huston Smith’s book, The World’s Religions (1958), Smith emphasizes what religions have in common. The differences among the faiths were mainly addressed by Stephen Prothero – such as: the Bible and the Qur’an, sin, and what happens after death. Opposed to Smith, who mainly focused on what the religions have in…

people. The king’s job was to unify Egypt and uphold ma’at, by balancing the relationship between the gods, kings and people. The king in his divinity obtains a titulary, a symbolism of power, which includes, the Horus name which says he is an incarnation of the god Horus, who represents the kingship of Egypt ( 2.5.2, Lephoron, 2015). Once the king died, he was associated with Osiris and was deified to become a god (2.5.2, lephoron, 2015). Christ possessed all the qualities above and he said no…

Nine years after his untimely death, we take a look back at Heath Ledger and his short but wildly successful acting career. As we approach what would have been the 37th birthday of Academy Award winner, Heath Ledger, we'd be remiss to ignore the fact that April 5th will also be the 23rd anniversary of the passing of Kurt Cobain; two giants of their respective crafts who left this world way too soon. Now nine years after the death of Ledger, we take a look back at his filmography and reflect on…

The Religious Life is an underlying phenomenon of every religion. Many Religious often raise the questions in others: “What is the reason behind becoming a Religious?” and “How can a religion shape your life?” In the following paragraphs, I will indirectly answer those questions by displaying the interpretation and origin of the Religious Life in Jainism and Roman Catholicism. Jainism Jainism is classified as an atheistic creed based in India - largely in Gujarat, Rajasthan and some parts of…

Cunningly, San Martin thought of a response, “Trac, you are clearly very vocal about women’s rights because you won’t stop mentioning it at almost everything topic we discuss. I may not agree with your views on women’s voting rights, but I do agree that the recent scramble for colonies from the major world powers’ desire to expand has negatively affected the natives under oppressive foreign rule.” “Nations need to expand or else they will end up being defeated by foreign nations. That is the…

The book of Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Genesis tells about the origins of life and its purpose, the human vocation, the tragedy of sin, and the hope of salvation. Within Genesis God creates the world in six days and rests on the seventh. God creates Adam and Eve as well as all the animals in the Garden of Eden, and forbids them from eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. A serpent tempts Eve into eating the fruit, and then…

Hinduism vs. Judaism Jihaad O Barnett Georgia Military College Judaism is a religion formed perhaps four-thousand years ago by a group of people called by God. These people called Hebrews, who considered to be “God’s Chosen People”, originated from the country Ur or otherwise known today as the Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia. Originally, the Hebrews were known as a nomadic people who grazed their herds along the Fertile Crescent. Abraham, a wealthy leader of the group of the Hebrews, was…

Did you know that 32 percent of black people killed by an officer this year was unarmed? Then follows white people with 15 percent, hispanics and latinos with 25 percent, and standing fairly next to blacks is Native American? In a assay published by The Guardian there are other facts, for example for every one thousand person that is killed, only one officer is convicted of a crime (The Guardian). This is a recurring issue happening among us everyday, which defeats the whole purpose of the bill…