Orthodox Judaism

Christianity is one of the three major monotheistic religions. A monotheistic religion is one where there is only one god. The god of the Christian religion is Jesus. Jesus is the creator of the world as shown in John 1:1-4. Another view of Jesus is as the judge and punisher of human. kind. The judgement will occur during the apocalypse, also known as the second coming. The apocalypse is the day that Jesus will return to earth to judge the evil people and reward those who have been faithful.…

In Roman history, there were many leaders treated Christian very bad, they regarded Christian as evil. Because they thought Christian is a threat to their traditional religion and their dominant position. So they started persecute, to frame and even killing Christian. On the basis of Tacitus which is a Rome historian’s record and narrate. Nero deliberately incendiary in Rome city and fabricate it against Christians. Afterwards Galelious did same thing to Christian twice in fifteen days. It…

Judaism is an old monotheistic religion, which uses Torah as the foundational text, on the other hand; Christianity is the religion of most people in the world, and they believe in Jesus being the son of God and their saviour. There are many contradictions in trying to show how these two religions relate, the following passage explains their relation. Many people insist that Judaism is the foundation of Christianity because Judaism began when God revealed himself to Abraham and Moses; Christians…

The film Hidden in Silence is based on a true story. In Przemysl, Poland, during WWII, the city comes under Nazi control. The Jews are sent to ghettos. Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska (called Fusia in the movie) sneaks 13 Jews into her attic while raising her little sister. Every day, they risk execution--by smuggling food and water to the silent group living above them. The film is not very explicit in the violence against the Jews; instead, it conveys a message of hope for mankind,…

Cuneiform, invented by the Sumerians, is among the world’s oldest known writing systems. In about 1792 B.C., a babylonian ruler named Hammurabi started creating the Code of Hammurabi. This was a list of 282 laws which covered many aspects of crime that was committed in everyday life. Strong punishments were enforced if having committed a crime. Major offenses included punishments such as having an arm broken off or an eye gouged out. Execution was the worst punishment, and it still is in some…

The Cthulhu Mythos manifested first with Lovecraft in his short story ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, published in 1928.(24) The ‘heroes’ of the story, at least to the followers of the cult, are the Great Old Ones whose earthly followers might evoke them from extraterrestrial dimensions when astral alignments are right. Their followers were, from Lovecraft’s description, the most degraded dregs of the Earth: They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and…

Elie Wiesel How would it feel if you did everything you could do to keep a loved one alive? What would it feel like to lose a loved one over starvation and tiredness? How would it feel if you had to lie to a loved one over your siblings or mother to keep one another happy? Elie Wiesel is the main person who always stayed strong through all this no matter what. Elie was fifteen years old when he was put in the concentration camps Elie lost his mother and his 7 year old little sister when he was…

The Great Hymn to the Aten is an epic poem written during the reign of King Amenhotep IV in the 1300’s BC. The center of this was Aten, the sun god, and was is referred to as Atenism. This hymn was the description of Aten and praise of his power. “You made the earth as you wished, you alone, All peoples, herds and flocks;...” (Puchner 31). There are several references to creation in various forms, all attributed to Aten. Up until this point, Egypt, like many cultures were polytheistic…

Many of the Jewish people were outraged by the cruel treatment of not only the Nazi SS police but also the Jewish ghetto police. In 1942 many in the ghetto mainly the older people and people in the government inside the walls thought it was not possible for the four hundred thousand people totally killed off, so they felt it was not necessary to take action. After more and more people saw their families being deported some decided to take a stand. Those that were more enraged were the teenagers…

While reading about prophets in Carvalho many questions came to mind. The first question that came to mind was how do prophets come to be? How does God choose who is a prophet, and how does God communicate with them? One aspect I did not know was that there are many different kinds of prophets. Growing up I assumed that the only prophets were the ones listed in the Bible, such as Moses, Elijah, and Joseph. However, this is not the case, according to Carvalho, there were hundreds of prophets just…