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- 4221: Christian Love And Community
- ... time in the most exemplary family life with spouses and children. Ecstatic love is an occasional, fabulous, wonderful overflowing of spectacular affection that adds immeasurably to the joy of life, but it cannot be the day to day standard for ordinary life even in the family or the church. Can Christian love in the ethical sense be an appropriate norm for a large, secular, pluralistic, civil society? Can unconditional love for the other ... a matter of practical discernment and social wisdom in a particular situation.Christians should insist that if capital punishment is to be practiced, it must be administered in a just way. On this count, present-day society fails miserably. My prediction is that a society that becomes sensitive enough to make sure that the death penalty is administered in a just way will then do away with it altogether in ...
- 4222: Religions' Views on Life After Death
- ... existence, the practice of worshiping a supreme being, and the idea of life after death. All religions came into existence in different ways. Christianity developed at around the death of Jesus, Which was 33 A.D. Under the Christian idea, which Jesus first started to preach, God created man. The first man who was created was Adam. The only reason that we don't use Neanderthals, the early cave dwellers, as ... life to come. Muslims believe that angels in heaven make a record of a person's good and bad deeds. Death is the gate to eternal life. Muslims believe that they will have a judgment day where everyone will receive the record of their deeds on earth (Haneef 39). The record books will be placed in the right hand of the good, and the record books are placed in the left ...
- 4223: Sacred Cow, Holy Bull
- ... sacred in India. Long ago in Indias early history, cattle was used basically for food to feed ones family. It was also used as trade, like money. In about the year 350 A.D., a law was made called the Code of Manusmriti. The law did not specifically order the Indian people not to eat the cow, but it stated that they would be better off not to. After ... will come back and face him. He believes that what he has done to others will be done to him, if not in this life, then in another. In Karma, the Hindus believe that one day he will be in the same position of anyone he has harmed . If someone does things out of the kindness of their own heart, like giving money to the poor or working for an elder ...
- 4224: Hinduism
- ... closer to Brahman by what best suits them. I believe the worship of millions of different dieties to be another important aspect of individual devotional procedures. I like the fact that new dieties arise every day. The people choose what they worship for themselves. Hindus may be atheists, monotheists, or even polytheists - it is an all-encompassing perspective, as far as I can tell. I believe the idea of Brahman, or ... a Roman Catholic. As a Catholic I believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. I believe in heaven and hell and what is written in the Bible. Sunday is the Sabbath, or holy day, for Catholics and it is the day most attend church. There are many similarities between Roman Catholics and the Hindu perspective, as well as many differences. Catholics are true monotheists and Hindus can be mono-, poly-, or atheists, but the Hindu ...
- 4225: Judaism: One Religion or Many Small Religions?
- ... has made it quite a busy place for the various groups. Jerusalem is where the temple of the Jews once stood; the only place on the whole Earth where one could leave the confines of day to day life and get closer to God. In 586 BCE when the temple was destroyed, no Jew would have denied Jerusalem as being the geographic center of the religion. From that point on, the Jewish people ... above that many factions of the same religion were active. Competing philosophies, outside political forces, and geographic isolation are among the most obvious of the dividing forces. However many other influences pound each and every day on a given social institution, subtly forming it and changing it into something it was not. For this reason, the answer to the debate whether Judaism is a single, or multiple religion(s) is ...
- 4226: The History Of Religion
- ... left town to avoid being caught on religious charges , he was probably thought to be in the throes of forming a new (and dangerous) religion. Martin Luther's attack on the organized church of the day was viewed with as much suspicion at the time as David Koresh's ideas have been in today's society. Does this mean that all new religions are cults? No, it does not. Again, it ... is guiding his church into more and more truth. They trace this back to the reformation, with John Calvin beginning this journey." John Calvin had a vision of Christianity that was wildly radical for his day. He had discovered the concept of Predestination. He believed that people were predestined to go to either hell or heaven, and that there was nothing that could be done to change your eternal destination. People ... government, you are in complete control of not only the business end of things, but the religious aspects as well. Calvin's followers were expected to follow strict religious observances, attending several church services a day, following every biblical law Calvin deemed important, and violation this set of principles, could cause a member to be excommunicated, or killed. According to the questions asked above, regarding cults, John Calvin, and his ...
- 4227: Baptism
- ... properly? The name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is Jesus Christ. The actions of the apostles in the book of acts prove this to be true. In the name of Jesus From the day the Church began, baptism in the New Testament Church has always been in the name of Jesus Christ. On the day of Pentecost, Peter instructed those religious Jews who had gathered for a religious celebration to "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins, and ... was not an arbitrary instruction by Peter, because Jesus himself in his last words to the disciples had informed the disciples that Christ was the one who suffered and rose from the dead the third day and that "repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name" (Luke 24:45-51) The disciples followed this commandment by preaching repentance and forgiveness of sins through baptism in the name ...
- 4228: Buddhism
- ... encountered a serious illness. He found out that the man had grown old and that such afflictions were just the result of age. Siddhartha was amazed to find that most people see such sights every day but persist in short-sighted pursuit and mundane affairs, apparently unconcerned that they will become sick, grow old, and die. In three other journeys outside the palace, Siddhartha saw an old man and corpse, and ... suffering. He met up with five spiritual seekers who told him that the way to salvation lies in severe asceticism. He followed their practices, and eventually was eating only a single grain of rice per day. He grew so weak that he almost died. This experience taught Siddhartha the futility of asceticism and that it can be just as bad as hedonistic indulgence. Siddhartha continued on his journey. One day he settled under a tree to mediate. During the night, Siddhartha entered into progressively deeper meditative states, in which the patterns of the world fell into place for him, and thus he came to ...
- 4229: Succot: The Jewish Holiday
- ... for blessings on the land and fruit of Israel. In biblical times, the willow, the palm, and the Etrog were used in decorating the Succot. At the end of the Autum harvest, on the fifteenth day of Tishri (September-October) Succot is celebrated. It is believed that the festival originated with the ancient Canaanite celebration after the grape harvest at the end of the annual dry season. During this time rites were performed to incourage the rains. Boughs of fruit trees and evergreens were made into little booths which the early Jewish farmers lived during the festival. The last day of Succot is called Simhat Torah. It means the "rejoicing of the Torah." On this day, the reading of the Torah is completed, and is then immidiately begun again. This symbolizes the fact that the study of the Torah has no beginning and no end. Children are given the honor ...
- 4230: Sufism
- ... fact, Sufi's that claim to be at the same level of God cannot be classified as a Muslim. (Frager 11) Sufi's stress love, because they believe that love will help you in the Day of Judgement. That the people who you truly love, will give you their good deeds, so that you may enter Paradise. Normally these people who give their good deeds away are known as dervishes (this ... it. As the years went on Abraham finally had a son by the name of Ismail. After that God revealed to prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son for him. When prophet Abraham awoke the next day, he couldn't believe his dream. He thought that it was the devil, because he knew that God didn't allow human sacrifices. This happened for a period of three nights, and then prophet Abraham ... that he would tell him the answer, if he came with him and did work. For one year Hussain asked the man, and the man would always say he would give the answer the next day. Finally Hussain became fed up and screamed at the man for an answer. The man finally said that patience was the answer to wisdom. That if a man doesn't have patience, then he ...
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