Religious law

The David C. Cook Bible in Life Adult Sunday School curriculum for December 2015 to February 2016 follows the International Sunday School Lectionary (ISSL). It consists of 13 lessons, broken down into 3 units, thus each month centers on a specific theme: December focuses on the Christmas story and compels Christians to sacrificially and generously give to God; January examines the marriage relationship and how it could speak about our relationship with God; and February explores the Old…

Breed in a desperate attempt to try and explain the unexplainable of the time period, superstition are ramped in the Middle Ages. With the Middle Ages being an age of uncertainty and an overall lack of knowledge in the very world that surrounded the people living in this time, superstitions became apart of everyday life and could even be considered routine. While today many of the fears of the people of the Middle Ages which were the root cause of superstition are considered non-realistic and…

often than not, women are considered lower and treated poorer than men in their religions. Women are treated differently in four major ways: how they are treated in religious traditions, how they are described in sacred texts, how they are described in general, as well as what their roles in society are. Societies values often impact religious views on women, but how much? Some religions have more equality than others, but which ones? Which religion is the most oppressive?…

In every faith there will always be group of people who tend to hold a more extremely traditional belief of their religious views. These groups of individuals are more commonly referred to as fundamentalists. While there are fundamentalists for all religions, this looks very different depending on the faith. Understanding Fundamentalism Christianity, Islam, and Jewish Movements, by Richard T. Antoun, aids in looking at fundamentalism in the three most widely practiced religions in the world. In…

Water, one of the highest of holy rebirth references in existence. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy the two characters, the boy and the man, take a long journey, including a struggle of death versus life shown through the use of symbols to represent both sides of the struggle. One of the heaviest symbols in the novel is McCarthy's use of biblical references in many forms to portray feelings of hope and rebirth/resurrection, while also showing filth and irony in that of the water in the new yet…

In Doriani chapter eleven he stresses that reflection is the key to applying the main point of the biblical text. He then explains the goal of reflecting is to discover and teach the main lesson of biblical text. Doriani goes on to explain steps which are to identify, topic, point, message, application, and Christ. Doriani explains that some texts are easy to answer the steps, but others are going to have more attention to find the answers to these steps. Doriani then breaks these steps down and…

If you ask me my heart hasn't been broken so hard in my life as, when I found out that everything I knew was a lie. It destroyed me. I'm only 16 years old, but I'm very intelligent with the new knowledge I have of thyself. It's pretty cool to learn about all these new things and know where I really come from. The Bible and the Christian religion is a lie because it's similar to the stories in Egypt stealing the African Culture, The Bible is only an allegory, not meant to take literally by…

“This is a process of changing your whole way of life and it requires the re-education of your body, your emotions, your intellect, and your spiritual outlook. Be fair to yourself. Keep on!” The Basic Ideas of Science of Mind, pg. 24 Perhaps you are familiar with the technique of affirmative prayer that Ernest Holmes called a spiritual mind treatment. Perhaps you did not know that Holmes never taught a five step approach to treatment, as it is commonly taught in Science of Mind classes.…

Narrative ethics is the idea that a person is within a story that he or she should follow (Wilkens, 2011). Christian narrative ethics hold this same idea; however, it follows the story of God and Christianity. The narrative of Christianity is the point of ethics and therefore, cannot be separated. Stanley Hauweras believes strongly in Christian ethics as the main narrative ethics. He claims that ethics cannot be separated from the theology and points to new ideas as proof. Precis Hauerwas…

I want to talk with you about the Bible. I think the Bible is a very interesting subject because it is such a worldwide book, everybody has their own idea about the Bible. Maybe you can think of your own thoughts on the Bible. Some say it is a book of God. Still, others say it is just a book written by humans many years ago. I wanted to dig deep to see what the facts are about this book that many have devoted their life to, The Book of God. The Bible itself says that it is inspired by God but to…