With all the various forms and flavors of false doctrine that exist in our current world, it is important to maintain familiarity with these different erroneous teachings. One teaching that has plagued the Lord’s church as of late is that of “Realized Eschatology”. This radical approach to interpreting Biblical prophecy has caused a number of Christians to stray from the faith. Members of the church should educate themselves in error like this so as to resist falling prey to it and be able…
of Tarsus (originally known by the Jewish name of Saul) was the most significant figure in early Christianity. Paul was a wealthy Roman citizen and Jewish. He was a well-educated apostle that was given a very thorough Hebrew education as well as a traditional Greek education. Originally, Paul was a member of the Pharisees, an active persecutor group of Christians. He was strictly committed to Jewish law in which believed the Christians perverted Judaism by claiming Christ’s divinity. He was…
Koran shows that it says everything and its opposite. It would therefore be necessary to adopt a different approach, to approach Islam from another perspective: as a doctrine of salvation, that is, as a system of thought, which, like Christianity and Judaism, but also of the "religions" of the twentieth century, such as the Communism and Fascism, claims to hold the absolute…
indulgences, which gave sinners a way to pay their way out of sin. Martin strongly disagreed with this idea that the Catholic Church was practicing. He thought that people could only truly be saved by having faith and by their honest repentance to God. On October 31, 1517, Martin wrote the “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” which was also called the 95 Theses. He posted it on the Castle Church chapel door in Wittenberg. During this time it was normal practice to nail ideas…
were rounded up by the Nazi party and thrown into concentration camps; Elie Wiesel is one of these Jews. Like most Jews, Elie is religiously faithful, but unlike many he is also interested in the cabbala, which is a “mystical branch of Judaism teaching that God is the origin of the world” (Wiesel 1). Moshe the Beadle, his teacher in the ways of mysticism, is one of the first Jews collected from Sighet, due to being foreign. When he returns with stories of the horrible atrocities committed by…
Remus and Romulus, twin sons of Mars, the god of war, founded Rome. Placed on the Tiber in a basket to drown, they were rescued by a she-wolf. The brothers defeated the king of nearby Alba Longa and founded their own city on the riverbanks. Later, Romulus murdered his brother and became the first king of Rome. In the Latin Plain of Central Italy, Rome, a single city-state grew into an empire that ruled the entire Mediterranean coastal region. The Roman rule can be divided into two…
According to a Sociologist, Marx, saw religious beliefs as ideological shape individual lives which is attributing to gods as a divine power to, in fact, lies within the power of societies and human beings. The dominant within a society frequently acts to support the position of religion. However, Marx also saw that religions can be a ‘heartless world’, thus the relatively…
analysis of religious fundamentals however should not be a process where one overthinks; rather it should be a process where just a few different aspects are compared to see basic similarity. The aspects being compared should be if there is a belief of a god, if there is belief that a religious figure lived on earth, and if there is a belief in written evidence. Noting similarities in all three of these categories will allow us to fully comprehend underlying similarities, and may shed some light…
Many Americans’ dreamt of flying cars that would captivate and set a path for the future. As we have entered the twenty-first century, cars that hover above us are no where to be found but in fictional stories. Fifty years ago, no one would have imagined that technology could excel past flying transportation. In the last few years, scientists have become intrigued by the idea of combining DNA in order to further our species medical technology. By researching this topic, we’ve stumbled on a…
Site Visit The Site that I visited was Dawn Mountain Tibetan Buddhist temple on Sunday the 27th at 11:00 a.m. I choose to go to Dawn Mountain because I like the fact that Buddhism doesn’t really have a god, and it’s more of a Philosophy. Also I like to meditate, it’s very tranquil and relaxing. I didn’t have many expectations going in just because I didn’t really know what was going to happen during the service. All I expect was it would contain focus breathing a lot of silences. I didn’t…