What Is The Role Of Prophethood And Of Prophets? This article covers the answer to the question: “What is The Role of Prophethood and of Prophets?“ Prophethood is the highest rank and honor that a man can receive from God. It proves the superiority of that man’s inner being over...
What Is Messengerhood? Messengerhood is the highest rank, the highest honor, possible. It proves the superiority of a man’s inner being to that of others. A Messenger is like a branch, which arches out from the Divine to the human realm. He is the very heart and tongue of creation....
Table Of Prophets Of Abrahamic Religions This is the table of prophets of Abrahamic religions collected from the sacred texts. The prophets are sometimes called messengers. Table of prophets in Abrahamic religions See all in Prophets And Messengers Judaism Christianity Islam — — Adam (ʾĀdam) — Abel Abel (Hābīl) Seth (Sheesh) — Enoch...
Why Did God Create The Universe? This article covers the answer to the question: “Why Did God Create The Universe?“ When analyzing this issue, some facts must be kept in mind. While we perceive things from a human perspective, God does not. While we act out of necessity or desire,...
Why Cannot We See God? This article covers the answer to the question: “Why Cannot We See God?“ The Holy Book teaches: Vision comprehends Him not, but He comprehends all vision. After the Messenger’s ascent to the heavens, his Companions asked him if he had seen God. He answered: What...
Who Created God? The Great Messenger on one occasion he said: “A day will certainly come when some people will sit with their legs crossed and ask: ‘Given that God created everything, who created God?” The purpose of the question is to avoid the responsibility owed by a creature to...
Majority of The Mankind Believes in The Existence of God The overwhelming majority of mankind has believed in the existence of God from the very beginning of human life Before doing so, it is worth reflecting upon the simple historical fact that, since the very beginning of human life, the...
Skeptical Movement The skeptical movement (British spelling: sceptical movement) is a modern social movement based on the idea of scientific skepticism (also called rational skepticism). Scientific skepticism involves the application of skeptical philosophy, critical-thinking skills, and knowledge of science and its methods to empirical claims, while remaining agnostic or neutral to non-empirical claims (except those that...
Sociological Classifications Of Religious Movements Various sociological classifications of religious movements have been proposed by scholars. In the sociology of religion, the most widely used classification is the church-sect typology. The typology states that churches, ecclesia, denominations, and sects form a continuum with decreasing influence on society. Sects are break-away groups from...
New Religious Movements And Cults In Popular Culture New religious movements and cults have appeared as themes or subjects in literature and popular culture, while notable representatives of such groups have themselves produced a large body of literary works. Beginning in the 1700s authors in the English-speaking world began introducing members of...
Cult The term cult has come to usually refer to a social group defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal. This sense of the term is controversial and it has divergent definitions in both popular culture and academia and it also has been an ongoing source of...
Anti-cult Movement The anti-cult movement (abbreviated ACM; sometimes called the countercult movement) is a social group which opposes any new religious movement (NRM) that they characterize as a cult. Sociologists David Bromley and Anson Shupe initially defined the ACM in 1981 as a collection of groups embracing brainwashing-theory, but later observed a significant shift in ideology towards pathologizing membership in NRMs. One element...
State Atheism State atheism is the incorporation of positive atheism or non-theism into political regimes. It may also refer to large-scale secularization attempts by governments. It is a form of Religion-State relationship that is usually ideologically linked to irreligion and the promotion of irreligion to some extent. State atheism may refer to a...
Marxism And Religion 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, had an antithetical and complex attitude to religion, viewing it primarily as “the soul of soulless conditions”, the “opium of the people” that had been useful to the ruling classes since it gave the working classes false hope...
Apotheosis Apotheosis (“to deify”; deificatio “making divine”; also called divinization and deification) is the glorification of a subject to divine level and, most commonly, the treatment of a human like a god. The term has meanings in theology, where it refers to a belief, and in art, where it refers to a genre. In theology, apotheosis refers to the...
Timeline Of Religion The timeline of religion is a chronological catalogue of important and noteworthy religious events in pre-historic and modern times. This article reaches into pre-historic times, as the bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history. Written history (the age of formal writing) is only c.5000 years...
Man And Religion This article covers the relationship between man and religion. The earthly life of man manifests itself in two aspects, one individual, the other ‘social’-by ‘social’ l mean the whole circle including ‘human and natural’-. The individual aspect implies the inner perfection of each man and struggle for...
Ethics In Religion This article covers ethics in religion. Ethics involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. A central aspect of ethics is “the good life”, the life worth living or life that is simply satisfying, which is held by many philosophers to be more important than traditional moral conduct....
Criticism Of Religion Criticism of religion involves criticism of the validity, concept, or ideas of religion. Historical records of criticism of religion go back to at least the 5th century BCE in ancient Greece, in Athens specifically, with Diagoras “the Atheist” of Melos. In ancient Rome, an early known example is Lucretius’ De rerum natura from the 1st century...
![In the 19th century, geology and paleontology were still connected to Old Earth creationism. The above depicts a brutal world of deep time, existing before Adam and Eve, from Thomas Hawkins' book on plesiosaurs.[19] Artist: John Martin, 1840](https://slife.org/wp-content/uploads/Great_Sea-Dragons-520x351.jpg)
What Is Theistic Evolution? Theistic evolution, theistic evolutionism, evolutionary creationism, divine direction, or God-guided evolution are views that regard religious teachings about God as compatible with modern scientific understanding of biological evolution. Theistic evolution is not in itself a scientific theory, but a range of views about how the science of general evolution relates to...