The Bible and history

problems people have with the bible is that it is such an old book. So how does one decide if the scriptures it contains are accurate? What about the historical events that are mentioned? Are those historically accurate too, did things really happen the way it was written. This goes for any old book really, it’s hard to decipher between the literal and metaphorical. Throughout the decades as science has progressed many Christians find it hard to accept both the bible and science. This paper will…

The Enlightenment period was disastrous for the Church, as skepticism rose in the scientific community; the ecclesiastics struggled to explain the inconsistencies in the doctrines of Christianity and its many diverging theories. Under the fire of the Enlightenment, the Devil lost all credibility and almost disappeared as progress were made in multiple fields of science; to cope with the rising skepticism, Christianity had to adapt and change its outdated traditions which ultimately was more…

Read the Bible for All its Worth: Report How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart is about ways to interpret the bible on your own and read it for all its valuation. There are many ways one can read the bible but the most common way to read it is reading the words and obeying the rules of God without fully taking it in for all of its worth and teachings. How to Read the Bible for all its Worth opens up in a comment about people not interpreting the bible but only…

Christianity and the King James Bible became prominent in the Black Church, church going slaves used christianity as a method to ease the pain and hardships of slavery, slaves found meaning and hope in a hopeless place. Before Christianity many tribes connected with the ancestors, these type and opposing religious beliefs are often shunned by modern Christians, even today. Proponents of slavery at the time used the…

Eschatology is “a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind.” The Christian teaching of Eschatology sometimes pulls in a belief in the Rapture in which some believe the world will be destroyed, a literal reading of The Bible says, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more” (Rev 21:1). This seems to in a literal sense state the world will be destroyed. In this…

said, 'Great men write about history, greater men make history". This is statement has been prove time and time again throughout world history. Men like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made when he lead the Civil Rights Movement and helped African American secure their God given rights to be treated as equals. Mother Teresa is another great example of a person impacting history when she helped thousand who were on hard times. Another individual who left his mark on history are Martin Luther of…

words is the truth, whom he is the god who speak the truth (Jn.17:17) whom he is our god which is the truth in the revelation is the bible. Although, he teaches that all men and women of all races is the creator of god equally. Christianity is the bible of the old testament (/old-testament) (the Jewish bible) also new testament (/testament). Although, Koran and the bible hold view of god, but they are similarity and the same. In god faith he worships love and allegiance. People who practices…

Throughout American history the most horrific action was argued against and sought as a positive activity. Before the Civil War, there were many debates on the topic of slavery. As Northern abolitionist attacked slavery and an unjust event, white Southerners had to defend the attacks made on slavery from the North. The North’s economy was set up through industrial work, employed by many immigrant workers who were paid less than the average worker. While the South’s economy was based through…

I believe that this statement is 100 percent true because without the use of facts nothing can be proven, however theories can help us create facts. With the development of theories there is a basic necessity for proof. The only way to prove a theory is with experimentation, which will lead to be factual information once experimented on. Of course there are some exceptions like in religion there are plenty of theories and none are based off of factual evidence. When it comes to Heaven and Hell…

Throughout human history a nearly innumerable amount of cultures have risen, each developing their own sets of sociological norms and beliefs. In complex societies, like Sumer, these norms developed further into laws or were expressed in religious texts. In History Begins at Sumer, Samuel Noah Kramer identifies parallels among the religious literature of ancient Sumerian society and the modern holy book of Christianity, the Bible. While there are certainly many differences among the Sumerian…