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…that will cover the earth , killing humanity. This idea is similar to the Christian belief in the flood that was sent down centuries ago to destroy all the evil in the world. Also, all the modern aspects of the movie (courtroom, David's office..etc) are filmed…

…for his lectures, he came to believe that Christians are saved not through their own efforts but by the gift of God's grace, which they accept in faith. Both the exact date and the location of this experience have been a matter of controversy among scholars…

…that there is much more to this Universe than what we can see with our eyes and grasp with our minds. I rejected my family's religion, Christianity, because despite many claims of it being filled with peace and love, I found their holy book to be filled…

…was accounted for by the religion of the natives, it gave the Europeans a reason to convert them to Christianity while harvesting the natural resources. The writers that described the newly discovered lands used the presence of cannibalism as a justification…

…and Spanish fleet led by Don John of The Netherlands against the Ottomans. The battle was essentially Christians versus Islam. · Despite being unexpected, the battle of Lepanto had few consequences. Braudel, however, asserts that the consequences would have been…

…book written in the New Testament. At the time of James' writing the church was less then 25 years old, a church still very young. Robertson states that "the picture drawn in the epistle is that of Jewish Christians of the poorer classes, with a small number…

…"A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death" stating that "the use of the death penalty is unnecessary and unjustified in our time and circumstances." Christians for the first three centuries were pacifistic and non-violent in their ethics but this non-violent…

…The background. St. Paul was a Jew, brought up in the Greek city of Tarsus, a member of the pharisaic party, educated in Jerusalem to be a rabbi, so zealous for the law that he persecuted Christians relentlessly until; on the road to Damascus he had…

…, rituals, dogma, and creeds were merely empty forms that should be abolished. Fox argued that the teachings of early Christianity were corrupted when the church became institutionalized. He taught that everyone has within him or herself the "same power…

…form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which gave him a base of operations throughout the South, as well as, a national platform from which to convey his message. In 1959 King and his and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference members…