Essays on Religion Page 105

The Gods Must Be Crazy This film was a mash up of three separate stories – the journey of a Bushman to the “end of the world,” the romance between a researcher and a school teacher, and a group of revolutionaries fleeing persecution. The story begins with Xi and his tribe of Bushman members living…

            Fretheim begins his theological interpretation of Exodus 3 by providing an insight into theology and the role that it can play in interpreting and understanding the bible.  He believes that the bible is predominantly a theological book and thus he is interpreting it as it was written, not providing a theological interpretation of it. …

Christian worldview. The first is the question of origin, this explains such topic as how did life begin, and how did humans come to exist. The biblical worldview says that “everything that exists, including humans, is the result of God,” (Wider & Guttering, 2013). This can be proven by the following scriptures, Genesis 126 and…

Why Does God allow suffering? This question is probably as old as religion itself. It is a stumbling block for some of us, and for many more at given moments of tragedy. There are as many answers to this question as there are people who care to engage in theological dialogue. One understanding is that…

1. The unification of India came about when the Persian emperor Darius crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and conquered portions of northwestern India; there he established the kingdom of Gandhara in present-day Punjab. Achaemenid authority in India shed light on Persian techniques of administration to local rulers. A few centuries later, Alexander of Macedon crossed…

There has been a growing debate on whether religious education should or should not be offered in public colleges. While some people view religious education as an important subject matter for students whereas some people oppose religious education because they are concerned about students being indoctrinated and confused about the values taught in college vs…

Being a lecture delivered at Methodist Theological Institute, Shagamu, on the 21st of June, 2013 by 11.00 am. Unveiling the Concept of Church Growth Biblical Principles or Missionary Strategies Introduction Tremendous Church Growth is going on in the world today. We live in the age of most rapid forward advantage of Christianity that history has…

Quotation mark from Literature Many people try to discredit what the Bible Teaches, but my religion comes from God, through his word, The Holy Bible. Billy Graham wrote, “ Because the Bible is God’s inspired Word, it does non belie itself or learn falsities – because God can non lie. We may non understand every…

Would you trust him enough to be in a room alone with him? Many people would probably answer no to this question. They would assume he is a terrorist or part of a terrorist group. Why? The flaws he holds are all in how he looks. Just because he is a Muslim and people recognize…

When I was given this assignment on the first day of class I was concerned about how someone would take it if I walked up to them and said “You’re black and I’m white, want to do an interview on it?” or if I walked up to a gay person and said “You’re gay and…