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Historical Reminder Judeo-Christian And Saint Paul This article covers the Historical Reminder Judeo-Christian And Saint Paul. The majority of Christians believe that the Gospels were written by direct witnesses of the life of Jesus and therefore constitute unquestionable evidence concerning the events high-lighting His life and preachings. One wonders, in...
Scientific Error In The Biblical Texts This article covers the Position of Christian Authors With Regard to Scientific Error in The Biblical Texts. A Critical Examination. One is struck by the diverse nature of Christian commentators’ reactions to the existence of these accumulated errors, improbabilities and contradictions. Certain commentators acknowledge...
The Old Testament And Science Findings This article covers The Old Testament And Science Findings. Few of the subjects dealt within the Old Testament, and likewise the Gospels, give rise to a confrontation with the data of modern knowledge. When an incompatibility does occur between the Biblical text and science,...
The Books Of The Old Testament This article covers and compares The Books Of The Old Testament. The Old Testament is a collection of works of greatly differing lengths and many different genres. They were written in several languages over a period of more than nine hundred years, based on...
The Doctrine And Covenants The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Introduction The Doctrine and Covenants is a collection of divine revelations and inspired declarations given for the establishment and regulation of the kingdom of God on the earth in the last days. Although most...
The Pearl Of Great Price The Pearl of Great Price is part of the standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; see also Mormonism) and some other Latter Day Saint denominations. A Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith First Prophet, Seer, and Revelator to The...
Mormonism’s Sacred Texts Mormons believe in the Old and New Testaments, and the LDS Church uses the King James Bible as its official scriptural text of the Bible. While Mormons believe in the general accuracy of the modern-day text of the Bible, they also believe that it is incomplete and...
What Is The Book Of Mormon? The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to Latter Day Saint theology, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from 600 BC to AD 421 and during an interlude dated by the text to the unspecified time of the Tower...
The Articles Of Faith Within the Latter Day Saint movement, the “Articles of Faith” is a statement of beliefs composed by Joseph Smith as part of an 1842 letter sent to “Long” John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat, and first published in the Latter Day Saint newspaper Times and Seasons. It is a concise listing of thirteen fundamental...
The Bible The Bible (tà biblía, “the books“) is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred to Christians, Jews, Samaritans, Rastafari, and others. It appears in the form of an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms that are all linked by the belief that they are collectively...
Meditation In The Old Testament This article covers Meditation in The Old Testament. Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state. The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is...
The Excitement And Joy of Faith in the Old Testament This article covers The Excitement And Joy Of Faith In The Old Testament. Enthusiasm is intense enjoyment, interest, or approval. The word was originally used to refer to a person possessed by a god, or someone who exhibited intense piety. Faith is confidence or trust in a...
The Commandments Are Compatible In The Torah And Quran The prohibitions and commandments are compatible in the Torah and Quran. Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages....
The Attributes Of God According To The Old Testament This article covers The Attributes Of God According To The Old Testament. The Attributes of God are the character traits of God as they are revealed to us in the Old Testament. The Old Testament describes God in many different ways....
Religious Observances In The Torah And The Quran Religious Observances In The Torah And The Quran Are Compatible. Religious Observances such as Giving Alms, Zakat, Ablution, Wudu, Fasting, Daily Prayer, and Salat. Religious Observance includes all overt kinds of religious behavior. Research in this area shows the extent and patterning...
Devotion And Loyalty To God In The Old Testament This article covers Devotion And Loyalty To God In The Old Testament. Devotion And Loyalty To God mean your faith in Him. Faith is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as confidence or trust in...
Closeness To God In The Old Testament This article covers the verses related to Closeness to God in the Old Testament. The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. (Psalms, 145:18) Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my...
Book Of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs (מִשְלֵי, Míshlê (Shlomoh), “Proverbs (of Solomon)”) is the second book of the third section (called Writings) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became...
The Book Of Abraham The Book of Abraham is a work produced between 1835 and 1842 by Joseph Smith following the purchase of two Egyptian scrolls from a traveling mummy exhibition. According to Smith, the book was “a translation of some ancient records… purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in...
Doctrine And Covenants The Doctrine and Covenants (sometimes abbreviated and cited as D&C or D. and C.) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints:...
