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… we die, we will come back to this earth in another form. We may still be humans, we could be animals, but somehow we will come back as a form of life on the earth. Abiding by this view, we would be saying that we are in a cycle. We will be born, live,…

… from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century AD.” (Shelton) It has become the largest of the world’s religions. Yet in Ancient Rome in the first century A.D. they were not welcome.…

… is Hospice? According to Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary, hospice is a place of entertainment or shelter. Dictionary.com defines hospice as a program that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional, spiritual, social, and financial needs…

… at Qumran interpret the scriptures? With this essay I am going to deal mainly with the Habbakuk commentary, which is also known as the Habbakuk ‘Pesher’ or 1Qhab. This well preserved and detailed exposition of the first two chapters of the book…

… profoundly during his life. Although he has always been the same person, his life can be divided in four parts, in which his character is as different as possible. Malcolm Little: He was the son of a Baptist preacher and follower of Garvey. He…

… eventually sacrificed his life for his faith. He experimented with several schools of philosophy before converting to Christianity. Justin’s philosophy offered a sort of marriage of Greco-Roman philosophy with Christian theology. He was consider…

… who used nonviolence, peace, and unity to establish an independent Indian nation. The confidence and determination with which Gandhi lived the second half of his life was extremely different than his early years. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was…

… say the Catholic Church is wrong to baptize infants. Baptism, they say, is for adults and older children only because it is to be administered only after one has undergone a "born again" experience. That is, after one has accepted Jesus…

… to say that Buddhism seems a subset of Hinduism. It is a form of Hinduism that is easier for ordinary people to understand and follow. Some of the differences between the two religions and their complexities lie in their origins. The multiple levels…

… cooperation and unity among Christian Churches. The term ecumenical is derived from the Greek word oikoumenç, meaning inhabited. In the 19th century, the term ecumenical came to denote the Roman Catholic Church a concern for Christian unity and…