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- 1891: The Bible and the Word "Inspire"
- ... they recorded it. God can be viewed as an indirect author, and the inspiration for scripture. "We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and the comings of our Lord Jesus Christ but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty." "Above all you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the ...
- 1892: The Spaniard Quietist Miguel de Molinos
- ... The Church must never allow immoral people to continue living in sin. In 2 Th. 3:6 Paul again gives specific commandment concerning this issue: "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us". There is not only immorality that is to be forbidden inthe Church but ...
- 1893: Separation Of Church and State
- ... or mentioning God or religion. The government discerned, however, that the school districts were trying to achieve a religious purpose in the course and put a end to it. President Regan protested that the good Lord who has given our country so much should never have been expelled from our nation's classrooms(Whitfield 141). If one was asked to identify an issue of great importance, religion prevails. Yet, a group ...
- 1894: What Is Religion
- ... if they are different from his. For Jason, Christianity is the true religion. It is the only religion that he believes Has the right answers for life, and the correct way to salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. So his position is that there is only one true religion in the world, but that there are other religions in the world that people follow and their followers hold their religion to ...
- 1895: Prevent Coercive Prayer in Public Schools
- ... the courts ever reverse their interpretation of the First Amendment, it would threaten the very diversity of beliefs which the United States of America has always maintained. Were Buddhist schoolchildren forced to listen to the Lord's Prayer every morning, the school would be undermining the children's parents' right to teach religion to their children as the parents see fit. If, during the act of coercive prayer, administrators isolated students ...
- 1896: Stephen Dedalus: Religion
- ... no true feeling or outlet for these feelings. While Stephen eventually turns away from religion, it is an important facet in his development as an artist. Religion, originally one of the "nets" by which he flies, leads to the loss of his naivetι and later to his disillusionment with a conformist society as a whole. Stephen's thoughts are too independent and liberal for his contemporaries, and thus it is inevitable ...
- 1897: Exogetical Essay on Matthew 11:25-30
- Exogetical Essay on Matthew 11:25-30 This passage opens up with the phrase, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. This speaks of two kinds of people in his prayer: the "wise" - arrogant in ...
- 1898: Contradictions In The Puritan Religion
- ... that the chosen few had already been elected, the Puritans still strived to be good people. The Puritan life was one of plainness, strict prayer, and physical and social submission to the duty of the Lord. The Puritans valued themselves above others, because they felt that they were representatives of God. They saw themselves as compassionate, forgiving people, who believed that no matter what the crime, a man could do right ...
- 1899: Arianism
- ... Faith handed down. A creed was drawn up on behalf of the Arian party by Eusebius of Caesarea in which every term of honour and dignity, except the oneness of substance, was attributed to Our Lord. Clearly, then, no other test save the Homoousion would prove a match for the subtle ambiguities of language that, then as always, were eagerly adopted by dissidents from the mind of the Church. A formula ...
- 1900: Mayan Beliefs
- ... committed suicide by a noose, he or she would go to her paradise. And Izamna is the sun and sky god, he rules over the night. They also call him "God D." His title is "lord of knowledge." He was the founder of Mayan culture. He taught them script, healing, and the use of calenders and brought them his people maize, which is corn, and cacao, a coca seed. Ixchel is ...
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