Essays on Religion Page 76

THE NATURE OF ISLAM:  PEACEFUL OR WARLIKE? Order 32335144             Is the Quran, the holy book of Islam, a text promoting a violent and warlike nature or is it a text advocating a peaceful life?             This question has a special relevance in the present context because Osama bin Laden, doubtlessly the world’s most widely…

What is the Christian’s Relationship to the Old Testament? Introduction. Before the gospels and Pauline epistles, early church Christians related to the Old Testament as Scripture and viewed their Christian walk as the fulfillment of the promises made to Israel from the Old Testament, which foretold of the coming age of the Messiah. The first…

While the story and the contents of the film stays true to the Old Testaments of the Bible, It seems like the story takes place In a distant future after a global post-nuclear disaster, unlike In the Bible, In which the story did took place In the distant past during a time when modern civilizations…

The House of the Spirits is a novel written by Isabel Allende in 1982. One of the main characters in the novel is Esteban Trueba. As the story progresses, we see Esteban continuously thinking he can get what he wants but never stays satisfied. He goes through many changes throughout the novel. The main alterations…

Robert E, Howard’s “The Pool of the Black One” (Weird Tales, October 1933) features a magical pool that kills humans by transforming them into miniature statues.  There is firm evidence that the concept was borrowed from the works of Sax Rohmer and Robert W. Chambers, two authors whom Howard frequently listed among his favorite writers. “Robert…

I have complete trust in an all-powerful and incomprehensible supernatural being. This divine entity manifests Himself to me through various extraordinary and even earth-shattering deeds, confirming His position as the ultimate creator and ruler of the universe. He holds dominion over the entirety of humanity, every living being on this planet, and every occurrence that…

Unlike most modern spiritual groups. the Westboro Baptist Church is alone in the fact that the organisation doesn’t meet in a modern church puting. Alternatively. the Westboro Baptist Church meets on Lord’s daies to picket and protest the funerals of people whom they feel have created profane Acts of the Apostless against God. This late…

Marriage in Islam             Each country and culture is rich with rituals that are extravagant and elaborate. From someone outside that country, learning how these rituals are done is an eye-opening experience. Marriage in Islam is something that can teach people about the sacredness of the ritual. Marriages in Islam are based on equality and…

Ninian Smart’s religious dimensions include that of the ethical, defined as how people behave based on the doctrines and teaching of his particular religion.  This provides people with a certain set of ways on how to “act”.  Ethics is relational “whether expressed as laws, moral commandments, custom, or a system of values, it is the…

Whatever I do will be done, not by the prudence of men, but by the counsel of God. If the work be of God, who shall stop it? if it be not, who can forward it? Not my will, nor theirs, nor ours; but Thy will, O Holy Father, which art in heaven. The Protestant…