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THESIS STATEMENT: If only the Christians were allowed to profess their faith and do what ever they want to in express to their faith, then non of these would have happened. Way back before when Christianity was still a bud starting to grow and become a full-bloom flower, a lot of people especially the Roman…

It is quite popular these days to have a tattoo. It is not unusual even for people professing faith in Christ to have tattoos. Some Christians, however, have a problem with this. The issue came up recently at a Bible study my daughter attends, so I decided that a Fact Sheet on the subject was…

Christianity and Islam are two of the most significant religions since theircreation. Islam means submission in Arabic, and a Muslim is one whosubmits to the will of God (Islam page 223). Christians were called so becauseof Jesus title Christos, which is Greek for Messiah (Christianity page 198). Both religions are very similar with only some…

“A Pagan Joke” A Pagan died and, much to her surprise, found herself at the Pearly Gates facing St. Peter. He walked up to her and said, “Hello, and welcome. ” She stared at St. Peter in complete confusion. “Wait a minute,” she said. “I was supposed to end up in the Summerlands. ” He…

Buddhism and Christianity were each founded by one person, and then eventually grew into two of the largest religions in the world. Each religion had different reasons for the success in the spreading of each respected belief. Although both faced many hardships, the two religions overcame and prevailed through their problems and continued to find…

A Brief History of Christian InterpretationFrom Introduction to Biblical Interpretation, by Klein, Blomberg, and HubbardaPATRISTIC PERIOD (a. d. 100-590)From the death of the Apostle John until Pope Gregory I, 590 a. d. “Patristic” in that it features the contributions of the so-called Church Fathers. The period in which the N. T. canon was developed, O….

In Christianity and the Machine Age, Eric Gill attempts to prove that Christianity is true. Gill turns not to philosophers, theologians, or archaeologists, but to his own consciousness to answer this question. If there is God, if there is Christ, it is to man, to the individual man that He calls. Gill bases his argument…

As described inThe Grand Inquisitor by DostoevskyThe writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Helen Ellerbe show substantial evidence that the orthodox Christians did in fact steal from humanity the divine freedom it was promised by Jesus Christ. This thesis is supported in Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor” from his book The Brothers Karamazov. The dark side of…

Christianity is a religion inwhich events are claimed to have occured but which cannever be proved. Those who practice it live by differentmorals than are preached by the most holy texts. It is aninstitution in which the most holy scripture is contradictory,and wherein the supreme being, by the very definition,cannot exist. Christianity is, therefore, a…

Christian EvidencesCHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISMBuddhism was spawned in a Hindu environment, and therefore has some similarities to Hinduism. Just as is the case for Hinduism, there are countless forms and expressions of Buddhism. Many of the same criticisms that are used against Hinduism have been used against Buddhism. “Buddha” is a word which means “awakened one….