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Over many historical adaptions of movies in Hollywood has always twisted the story of historical books and events to serve the purpose of the movie. The 1959 movie Ben-Hur is no exception , based off of the book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ written by Lew Wallace in 1880 tells a biblical story that intertwines thwith faith and the power of forgiveness. With a huge theatrical production like Ben-Hur with its elegent music score and production sets that brings to life the ancient cities, culture,…

Going by this logic, if the Church is the Bride of Christ, then it is “owned” by Jesus Christ. According to Revelation 21:9-27, the Bride of Christ can also be referred to as the New Jerusalem, and in this New Jerusalem, only those who are “unclean” may not enter. I disagree with the latter because the Church allows every single person to enter, not just saints but also sinners. This passage also refers to the Bride of Christ as the wife of the Lamb…

Lazarus is with Abraham in Heaven and the rich man is separated from them in Hell. Abraham tells the rich man “you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us” (Luke 16:26). The point of this parable is to emphasize that rejection of the teachings of Jesus is eternal and, once judgment has been carried out, cannot be undone or alleviated. We should not adopt the Apocrypha because its stories often contradict each other. The two books of Maccabees are about the Maccabean revolt. The…

 The ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls have been called by scientists “the greatest chirographic discovery of present times.” These scripts contain scrolls of the Torah and non-biblical texts, which are dated from 100 BC to 68 AD. The discovered writings are not original manuscripts, but copies produced by scribes. They are determined to be a thousand years older than the oldest attested traditional Hebrew text of the Torah, which make up the basis of the Old Testament…

Salahuddin Al-Ayubi - warlords who admired. Salahuddin al-Ayubi was born in 532 AH 1138 AD in Tarkit that part of the West Bank of the River Tigris, located between Mosul and Baghdad. His father, a governor named Najm bin Shadhin is the nephew of Sultan Nurudin Zenggi, Kurdistan descent who came from Azerbaijan. Aside from being a warlord, he was also a preacher and leader of the non-Muslim leaders of the Arab nation. During his lifetime, he was in a tent more war than live in the palace with…

Jew named Stephen who lived outside of Israel and died around c. 34. Stephen accepted Christianity and when he did he became one of the seven deacons. The seven deacons are chosen by the disciples to take care of the widows and the needy people of Jerusalem as stated in Acts 6:1-5. Stephen taught in the Synagogue and one day he was accused of a serious crime called blasphemy. Later on a witness that wasn’t true testified against Stephen saying that Stephen said the Jesus would destroy the Temple…

experiment. Those are also the questions John Campbell tries to explain and understand. Therefore, a better understanding of helping behavior can come from the “Jerusalem to Jericho” article on the Good Samaritan experiment and the “Altruism and the Experimental Data on Helping Behavior” article. Literature Review From Jerusalem to Jericho The Jerusalem to Jericho experiment is done to compare what individual traits determine helping behaviors, if any. This experiment put the example of the…

The video by Frontline, “From Jesus to Christ, Part 1: The First Christians” is about the beginning of Christianity. It talks about the story of Jesus and his followers. According to Meriam-Webster’s dictionary the term Christianity is defined: “the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies.” Christianity today is the biggest religion in the World. According to infoplease.com the religion is…

King Aretas III, and this alliance between Idumaea and Nabataea formed the fragile basis of the power their son was to develop.” (ROLLER P 1) Herod’s rise to power, as it were, began when Antipater appointed the older brother, Phaesal, governor of Jerusalem, and appointed Herod in 47 B.C., at the age of twenty-five, to be…

For centuries now human civilization has been trying to figure out the terrible question, why were they put on earth? The Hebrew civilization in 2000 BCE, Jerusalem believed that they were put on earth to follow Yahweh’s law. The Hebrews were monotheism, meaning they believed in one god and this god was known as Yahweh. They also did not believe in life after death, so they did everything they could do to live a good life while they were still alive. The Torah is a guidebook that was given to…