The Quran‚ The Bible‚ and the Islamic dilemma In Surah 29 verse 46‚ the Quran commands Muslim to say the Christians: We believe in what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to you. Our God and your god is one and to him‚ we submit. Yet many Muslims say something very different to Christians. They say we don’t believe in your book because it’s been corrupted and your god is a false god. If Muslims are commanded to say that they believe in what has been revealed to us why do they instead
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THE FIRST PRINCIPLES Hebrews 5:12 A Practical Bible Study and Discipleship Course For New Christians "As newborn babes‚ desire the sincere milk of the word‚ that ye may grow thereby: if so be that ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious." 1 Peter 2:2‚3 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES 21st Century Edition THE FIRST PRINCIPLES Hebrews 5:12 2007 Edition Record your name‚ and the name and telephone number of your discipler here… Your Name: ____________________________ Date Study Began:
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fitting to praise him" (Ps 147:1). Singing unto the Lord is "good" and "pleasant‚" because it enables believers to express to Him their joy and gratitude for the blessings of creation‚ deliverance‚ protection‚ and salvation. Singing is seen in the Bible as an offering of thanksgiving to the Lord for His goodness and blessings. This concept is expressed especially in Psalm 69:30-31: "I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord more than an ox‚ more
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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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Matt Dugan Nelson English 101 12 December 2012 Fossil Finds Contradict the Bible? Europeans had been digging up strange-looking bones along lakebeds and riverbanks for hundreds of years before the 18th century (Strauss). Many of the finds confused the Europeans since they could not wrap their heads around where the bones were coming from. The intact skeleton of the marine reptile‚ Mosasaurus‚ was incredibly important as naturalist Georges Cuvier identified it as belonging to an extinct species
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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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adulteress‚ just as the Lord loves the people of Israel‚ though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes‚” (Hosea 3:1) The definition of a marriage is “the instruction whereby individuals are joined by a…union‚” (Merriam Webster). Though the Hebrew Bible never specifically states that marriage is a one to one relationship‚ it does state that “you shall not commit adultery‚” (Exodus 20). Loving a known adulteress seems like an unusual request for the Lord to make to Hosea. What is the Lord motive behind
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Introduction Author John N. Oswalt begins The Bible Among the Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature? with a concise and well-written introduction that whets the reader’s appetite‚ compelling one to continue reading. He begins by informing the reader that his novel has been in the works dating all of the way back to the 1960s‚ when he attended the Asbury Theological Seminary. Oswalt quickly points out that one of the main points that the book will focus on is determining if “the
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Introduction The Poisonwood Bible‚ written by Barbara Kingsolver and published in 1998‚ is a novel set in Kilanga‚ a small village in the Congo of Africa. The Prices are a family of six who venture from their home in Bethlehem‚ Georgia into the foreign world of the Congo on a missionary trip. The novel is told by five of the family members’ perspectives. As the Congo grows on the family‚ each one of the daughters and their mother learn more about themselves and each other than they could have learned
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his article “Is the Bible True?” that “acknowledging complexity is a way not of hedging commitment to the Bible’s truth but of fully attending to the complex ways in which the Bible is true” (paragraph 3‚ p.1). This thesis leads the reader throughout the article and includes the author’s answer that the Bible is true but that it is more a question of trust and the different situations and interpretations the reader makes. Placher is trying to convince the reader that the Bible is true in its own way
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