Bible stories, Judeo-Christian parables retelling some portions of the Bible, have been used in family religious worship, spiritual instruction and literature in Christian and Jewish societies.

Although Sydney was initially used by the British as a place of banishment for prisoners, the arrival of the British laid the foundations for Australia's democratic institutions and rule of law, and introduced the long traditions of English literature, Western art and music, and Judeo-Christian ethics and religious outlook to a new continent.

Post-Exilic Hebrew books of prophecy such as the Book of Daniel and Book of Ezekiel are given new interpretations in this Christian tradition, while apocalyptic forecasts appear in the Judeo-Christian Sibylline Oracles and in the whole field of apocalyptic literature, which includes the Book of Revelation ascribed to John, the apocryphal Apocalypse of Peter, and the Second Book Of Esdras.

However, Judeo-Christian thought also makes an " innovation of the first importance ", Eliade says, because it embraces the notion of linear, historical time ; in Christianity, " time is no longer the circular Time of the Eternal Return ; it has become linear and irreversible Time ".

Many persons and beings have falsely pretended to be gods or demons during history ; in particular, none of the ones claiming to be major figures from Judeo-Christian beliefs has turned out to be the real article, although a number of angels have appeared in recent years, as well as an apparent true rebellion and expulsion of angels from a higher realm known as Paradise, proving that some form of Heaven and Hell do exist in this Universe, seemingly like those in keeping with common real world religious belief.

Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897 ; Muslims maintain that Hagar was taken as Abraham's wife, which is mentioned also in Genesis 16: 3 but not as a slave or concubine as noted in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Modern thought repudiates the Judeo-Christian belief in the Biblical God as a mere relic of superstitious ages ( Fackenheim 1957, 272-73 ; Husserl 1931, ).

This age continues for around a thousand years as per Judeo-Christian prophecies ; and is characterised by the assembling of mankind under one faith as per Ahmadiyya belief.

Apart from their opposition to Moses there are other legends about these two Egyptian sorcerers ; it was said that during the end of their days they had necessary occult knowledge to embark on a journey to the Judeo-Christian heavens.

1837 ), in which he maintained that the mythology of Homer and Hesiod came from an Eastern source through the Pelasgians, and reflected the symbolism of an ancient revelation ; as a reconciliation with Judeo-Christian religion, it was, Walter Burkert has said, "" the last large-scale and thoroughly unavailing endeavor of this kind.

As these accounts contradict each other, due to their roles as propaganda ( the Cyrus Cylinder and Isaiah ; for the latter, see Cyrus in the Judeo-Christian tradition ), oral traditions ( Herodotus and Xenophon ) and conflicting records ( Berossus ), they are quite confusing.

For instance ; Judeo-Christian Fundamentalist pseudoarchaeologists argue that the Earth is 4, 000-10, 000 years old, depending on the source.

On December 15, 2010 the FRC ran an open letter advertisement in two Washington, D. C. newspapers disputing the SPLC's action ; in a press release, the FRC called the allegation " intolerance pure and simple " and said it was dedicated to upholding " Judeo-Christian moral views, including marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

* Glory ( religion ), in Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the manifestation of God's presence ; see also Hod ( Kabbalah )

The Sibylline oracles are therefore a pastiche of Greek and Roman pagan mythology, employing motifs of Homer and Hesiod ; Judeo-Christian legends such as the Garden of Eden, Noah and the Tower of Babel ; Gnostic and early Christian homilies and eschatological writings ; thinly veiled references to historical figures such as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, as well as many allusions to the events of the later Roman Empire, often portraying Rome in a negative light.

) MegaTen games are heavy in mythological references ; deities and creatures from Graeco-Roman, Norse, Celtic, Judeo-Christian, Egyptian, Chinese, Hindu and Japanese mythologies are featured, to be battled or recruited by the player.

Note that the term " Demon " ( akuma ) in the Megaten games is a catch-all term, similar to daemon ; in contrast to the more conventional, malevolent demons, anything from a folktale creature ( such as a Pixie ) to an ideal Judeo-Christian Angel ( such as Michael ) is referred to as a demon.

The Wyrms bears some similarities with Judeo-Christian mythology ; the Wyrm is sometimes identified with both the serpent in the Garden of Eden and the dragon in the Book of Revelation of John.

The Norse saw it as Bifrost ; Judeo-Christian traditions signs it as a covenant with God not to destroy the world by means of floodwater.

The series consists of ten short 35 mm films based on each of the ten commandments of Judeo-Christian tradition ;

When Marty is trapped under a closed covered bridge, Lowe, who has more or less gone insane, uses Judeo-Christian logic to rationalize the murders he has committed: he cites Randolph's murder during her suicide attempt as his effort to save her soul ( and as rationalization for not killing himself ); Westrum was a severe alcoholic ; he implies that Sturmfuller was abusing his wife and possibly his daughter ( this is made explicit in the novel ); and the vigilantes intended to murder someone in cold blood ( Lowe's logic cannot explain Brady's murder, however ).

The seventh interval figures prominently due to its numerological importance in the Judeo-Christian tradition ; also the first movement is written in the 7 / 4 meter, and the third in 10 / 4 ( separated into half-bars of 5 / 4 ).

An angel leads Judeo-Christian views of Lot | Lot out of Sodom and Gomorrah | Sodom and destroys the City ; as in Genesis 19: 25-26

In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the stages which construct the Seed of Life are said to represent the six days of Creation, in which Elohim created life ;,,,.

… only America has called itself Judeo-Christian.

Supporters of the Judeo-Christian concept point to the Christian claim that Christianity is the heir to Biblical Judaism, and that the whole logic of Christianity as a religion is that it exists ( only ) as a religion built upon Judaism.

Although much of the narrative of the Old Testament describes the Judeo-Christian God as interacting with creation primarily through persuasion, and only occasionally through force.

Adams writes that his theory is an attempt to define what being ethically ' wrong ' consists of and accepts that it is only useful to those within a Judeo-Christian context.

The latter is crucial to the correct understanding of the eremitic vocation, since the Judeo-Christian tradition holds that God created man ( i. e., the individual human being ) relational, which means that solitude can never be the purpose of any Christian vocation but only a conducive environment for striving after a particular spiritual purpose that forms part of our common human vocation.

Different pseudoarchaeological groups hold a variety of basic assumptions which are typically unscientific: the Nazi pseudoarchaeologists for instance took the cultural superiority of the ancient Aryan race as a basic assumption, whilst Judeo-Christian Fundamentalist pseudoarchaeologists conceive of the Earth as only being 10, 000 years old and Hindu Fundamentalist pseudoarchaeologists believe that the Homo sapiens species is much older than the 100, 000 years old it has been shown to be by archaeologists.

< BLOCKQUOTE > What bears no doubt in this fierce Judeo-Christian campaign against the Muslim world, the likes of which has never been seen before, is that the Muslims must prepare all possible might to repel the enemy, militarily, economically, through missionary activity, and all other areas.

Conspiracy theorists of the Christian right, starting with British revisionist historian Nesta Helen Webster, believe there is an ancient occult conspiracy — started by the first mystagogues of Gnosticism and perpetuated by their alleged esoteric successors, such as the Kabbalists, Cathars, Knights Templar, Hermeticists, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and, ultimately, the Illuminati — which seeks to subvert the Judeo-Christian foundations of the Western world and implement the New World Order through a one-world religion that prepares the masses to embrace the imperial cult of the Antichrist.

The party advocated more direct democracy through referenda and a return to the " Judeo-Christian ethic in democracy ".

Panels of ethicists and scholars presented the films, fielding questions from audiences and raising the alarm that, through Christian inattention, Western Civilization had slipped its Judeo-Christian moorings, drifting into a " post-Christian era ", under the sway of a secular civil religion that Schaeffer called " secular humanism ".

Thus the European Culture developed into a very complex phenomenon of wider range of philosophy, Judeo-Christian and secular humanism, rational ways of life and logical thinking developed through a long age of change and formation with the experiments of enlightenment, naturalism, romanticism, science, democracy, fascism, communism, and socialism.

MUS shares through prayer, the study of the Bible, and Chapel programs the richness of its Judeo-Christian heritage but makes no attempt to convert any student from his faith.

It has been said that the Judeo-Christian roots of the Anglo-Saxon world was preserved by the Benedictines during the Dark Ages through faith and courage.

One historian writes: " Barton believed incurably in material progress, in self-improvement, in individualism, and in the Judeo-Christian ethic, and none of the profound crises through which his generation lived appreciably changed the tenor of his writings or their capacity to reflect what masses of Americans, optimists in the progressive tradition, apparently continued to want to hear.

According to CYT / CCT's mission statement, " CCT / CYT is dedicated to developing character in children and adults through training in the arts and by producing wholesome family entertainment, all of which reflect Judeo-Christian values.

In the legal case of Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U. S. 783 ( 1983 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state legislature could constitutionally have a paid chaplain to conduct legislative prayers " in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

" In Simpson v. Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Supreme Court's holding in the Marsh case meant that the " Chesterfield County could constitutionally exclude Cynthia Simpson, a Wiccan priestess, from leading its legislative prayers, because her faith was not ' in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

In 1982, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, said that the UDHR was " a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition ", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.

Within this context, the character of Muhammad could be seen as a manufactured myth created to provide the Arab tribes with their own Arab version of the Judeo-Christian prophets.