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    My Name | History of the King James Bible Week Two | June 18th‚ 2013 Written over 400 years ago‚ the King James Bible (KJB) has molded the English language. There is a miracle when its words are read. It’s not an original text‚ but is a translation of ancient Greek and Hebrew manuscripts from centuries ago and thousands of miles away. You don’t have to be a Christian to hear the power of the words of the Scriptures—they are: simple in vocabulary‚ cosmic in size‚ stately in rhythms‚ and deeply emotional

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    The supernatural characteristics within The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Hebrew Bible represent contrasting definitions. In The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ it portrays a supernatural type of world where every character that it lists holds a certain role in the events that occur so therefore these characters are gods and goddesses in their own respects. As for The Hebrew Bible‚ characters are mortal and the reason of events occur due to the single force that is the creator of all things in the living world‚ God

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    Rights and Responsibilities of Women In The Bible and The Qur’an Landon Friesen Senior Division‚ Research Paper Individual Process Paper The reason I chose this topic was because civil rights has been such a hot topic recently with the LGBT community‚ in the 1960’s with the African American community‚ and in the 1800’s and 1900’s with women’s rights. It got me thinking how women were treating dating back all the way to 6‚000 B.C. I built my paper around these basic

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    From the first glance‚ these passages seem to be very clear that the Bible advocates corporal punishment. However‚ upon further examination‚ there are several flaws in Pastor Handy’s evidence. First is the fact that Pastor Handy only provides four verses in his sermon and that all of these verses are from the same book of the Bible. In order to make a sound judgment on the Bible’s stance on corporal punishment‚ more verses should be considered. Verses speaking about corporal punishment should be

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    three sections of the Hebrew Bible‚ and briefly describe the contents of each. The Jewish Bible is the foundation for both Christian and Islamic scriptures and is divided into three sections: the Torah‚ Nevi’im‚ and Ketuvim. As a whole it is oftentimes called Tanakh (Tanak) which is an abbreviation for the three sections: t‚ n‚ k according to Molloy on page 285 in our textbook. The first section – the Torah or Teaching is considered the holy core of the Hebrew Bible. These teachings encompass

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    January 29‚ 2014 Have you ever wondered what the Bible says about dreams and dream interpretation? The Bible talks about dreams and visions quite frequently. The two most well-known occurrences would be the stories of Joseph and Daniel. Both Joseph and Daniel interpreted dreams. Were they born with supernatural gifts? Many people have this confused. Some people think that they did have a special gift or talent. Well‚ maybe we should look to the Bible for this one. In Genesis 40‚ two prisoners each

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    misinterpret the Bible. Most common thing that Christians do is taking the words out of context and use it the way they want to. Taking sentence or phrase out of context and leads to a different meaning of the original message. When we pulled individual verses out of the text‚ we ignored the surrounding paragraph which causes us to misunderstanding the real definition of that story. Schultz talks about the four types of Biblical context which could be distinguished when discussing the Bible; Literary context

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    isn’t condemned in the Bible The Bible doesn’t say alcohol itself is bad Paul tells Timothy “Stop drinking only water ‚ and use a little wine because of your stomach and frequent illnesses” Solomon wrote “Go ‚ eat your food with gladness and drink your wine with a joyful‚for God has approved what you have done Jesus turned water into wine for the guests in The Wedding at Cana “Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he made water into wine” The Bible isn’t clear on Christians

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    After reading Walter Wink’s analysis‚ I discovered that the Bible contains many defenses and strategies that contest all of the injustices toward the poor and homeless. Within Wink’s excerpt‚ he targeted three core sayings that the evangelists Matthew and Luke employed in their Gospels‚ “turn the other cheek”‚ “give the undergarment”‚ and “go the second mile”. I have read and heard of all three of these sayings previously‚ but I never understood them the way that I understand them now. When I first

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    time at which there was a predominantly Christian culture in America. A common way for authors who grew up in this era of Christian culture‚ like F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ to portray their experiences was by drawing parallels in their novels to The Holy Bible. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses religious symbolism and biblical allusions to liken Gatsby as a Christ-like

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