Scholars have also suggested that the Book of Revelation uses combat myth imagery in its descriptions of cosmic conflict.

He dramatized Luther's views on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments, while remaining mindful of Luther's careful distinctions about proper and improper uses of visual imagery.

The Preface uses water imagery to explain what happens when visions are lost by quoting a passage from his poem The Picture.

Like other writers for New Worlds Zoline uses " science-fictional and scientific language and imagery to describe perfectly ' ordinary ' scenes of life ", and by doing so produces " altered perceptions of reality in the reader.

Bach's Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, while mainly based on the Parable of the Ten Virgins, also uses words and imagery from Song of Songs.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

Eclogue 4, addressed to Asinius Pollio, the so-called " Messianic Eclogue " uses the imagery of the golden-age in connection with the birth of a child ( who the child is has been highly contested ).

He dramatized Luther's views on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments, while remaining mindful of Luther's careful distinctions about proper and improper uses of visual imagery.

Concurrently with the 1971 film, a line of candies was introduced by the Quaker Oats Company in North America, Europe, and Oceania that uses the book's characters and imagery for its marketing.

Thematically, Viking metal draws extensively on elements of black metal, but uses pagan and Norse lyrics and imagery instead of those of an anti-Christian or Satanic nature.

In his thesis paper " Reawakening Pride Once Lost ": Indigeneity and European Folk Metal, Aaron Patrick Mulvany says that while much of the thematic history of heavy metal uses parodies of the occult in an incongruous fashion, Viking metal bands use " a very specific mythology which controls not only textual choices, but also the imagery used on albums and frequently the kind of music composed.

In Shakespeare's " Othello ", Desdemona's song before her death uses the willow imagery to highlight her lost love.

While Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi examine modern life in industrial countries and the conflict between encroaching industrialization and traditional ways of life, using slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and natural landscapes, about eighty percent of Naqoyqatsi uses archive footage and stock images manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing ( non-sequential ) workstations and intercut with specially-produced computer generated imagery to demonstrate society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based one.

When talking about the influence for the imagery that his band uses, Ellefsen has commented, " A lot of people do not get that you can do more than just look like you're waiting for a bus.

* One of Robert Frost's best known poems is " A Drumlin Woodchuck ," in which he uses the imagery of a woodchuck dug in to a small ridge as a metaphor for his emotional reticence.

Other uses of server farms include scientific simulations ( such as computational fluid dynamics ) and the rendering of 3D computer generated imagery ( also see render farm ).

Mr. Bleckner uses symbolic imagery rather than direct representation, and his work is visually elusive, with forms that constantly change focus.

Virtual colonoscopy, which uses 2D and 3D imagery reconstructed from computed tomography ( CT ) scans or from nuclear magnetic resonance ( MR ) scans, is also possible, as a totally non-invasive medical test, although it is not standard and still under investigation regarding its diagnostic abilities.

In general, Eliot uses imagery which is indicative of Prufrock's character, representing aging and decay.

In fact, much of the imagery Coverdale uses, such as the flames on Westervelt's pin and the serpent-headed staff he carries are direct references to Satan.

Researchers have applied a range of tests and techniques to determine the relative shares of Shakespeare and Fletcher in the play — Hallet Smith, in The Riverside Shakespeare, cites " metrical characteristics, vocabulary and word-compounding, incidence of certain contractions, kinds and uses of imagery, and characteristic lines of certain types "— in their attempts to distinguish the shares of Shakespeare and Fletcher in the play.

Similarly, his text on poetic metre uses only Christian poetry for examples.

While not considered orthodox Christian, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica uses roles and titles derived from Christianity for its clerical hierarchy, including bishops who have much the same authority and responsibilities as in Roman Catholicism.

The CE / BCE designation uses the year-numbering system introduced by the 6th-century Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus, who started the Anno Domini designation, intending the beginning of the life of Jesus to be the reference date.

Tom Cain uses the expression " founding myths " more broadly, to encompass such stories as those of the War in Heaven and the fall of man ; according to Cain, " the disastrous consequences of disobedience " is a pervasive theme in Christian founding myths.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

Christian physician Reginald B. Cherry views faith healing as a pathway of healing in which God uses both the natural and the supernatural to heal.

* Dialogue with the Moonies Article by a Christian theologian which praises the character of Unification Church members, yet uses the word Moonie.

The information used to create the late-4th-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

In Christian theology, traducianism is a doctrine about the origin of the soul ( or synonymously, " spirit "), in one of the biblical uses of word to mean the immaterial aspect of human beings ( Genesis 35: 18, Matthew 10: 28 ).

Claiming that true religious language is universal, Paine uses elements of the Christian rhetorical tradition to undermine the hierarchies perpetuated by religion itself.

Some modern Church uses also preserve the idea of an eight-day period, starting and finishing on the same day of the week, and retain the name " octave " for them ; for example, many churches observe an annual " Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity " on 18 – 25 January or in the week that begins with Pentecost Sunday.

Christian iconography sometimes uses the antelope's two horns as a symbol of the two spiritual weapons Christians possess: the Old Testament and the New Testament.

* Experimental Canadian poet Christian Bök ’ s Eunoia is a univocalic that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters.

The Old Testament of the Christian Bible uses Hebrews and Jews interchangeably, in the Book Of Esther ( 2: 5 ) Mordechai the Benjamite is called a Jew, though he is not of the tribe of Judah.

The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes.

He used the words " virtue " and " prudence " to refer to glory-seeking and spirited excellence of character, in strong contrast to the traditional Christian uses of those terms, but more keeping with the original pre-Christian Greek and Roman concepts from which they derived.

Balch Springs Christian Academy is a private school within the city limits that serves students from kindergarten to 12th grade, and uses the A Beka curriculum.

Religious music often changes to fit the times ; Contemporary Christian music, for example, uses idioms from various secular popular music styles but with religious lyrics.

The Arcana Deorum is a commentary on Ovid's Metamophoses ; the Dictys Cretensis is a history of the Trojan War ; the Historia Magni Principis Alexandri is a history of Alexander the Great ; the Prohemia Poetarum is a commentary on the lives and works of many classical and Christian authors ; the Defensio de praerogativis et dignitatibus ordinem monasticam concernentibus uses historical examples to defend monastic institutions.

God often uses the loving, Christian reproof of a fellow believer to be the means of bringing Christians back to God.

The second book of the Maccabees in the Septuagint, part of the Old Testament canon in the major Christian denominations: Latin and Greek Catholic, and Greek and Russian Orthodox, uses the word " naphtha " to refer to a miraculous flammable liquid.

Later historians applied the name to significant uses and expressions of elements of Averroes ' doctrines and to the exegetical tradition of Aristotle by Jewish and Christian thinkers as it had come down through the Latin and Hebrew traditions.