Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.

You can ignore His Book, the Bible, and His church.

The following approaches arose from the study of Christianity ’ s most central eschatological document, the Book of Revelation, but the principles embodied in them can be applied to all prophecy in the Bible.

Christian Scientists believe that through scientific study of the inspired word of the Bible, especially Jesus ' words and works, one can learn to heal.

Because almost every argument, quotation, and issue raised for decades can be found here, the work is often termed ' the deist's Bible '.

Its roots can be traced to the early church when the term " doctor " referred to the Apostles, church fathers and other Christian authorities who taught and interpreted the Bible.

In his reply Eusebius not only regretted the whole controversy, but also stated that he would abide by the words of the Bible, according to which the bread and wine after the consecration become the body and blood of the Lord ( see transubstantiation ); if one asks how this can take place, the answer must be that it is not according to the order of nature but in accordance with the divine omnipotence ; at any rate one must be careful not to give offense to the plain Christian.

The first formulation of American fundamentalist beliefs can be traced to the Niagara Bible Conference and, in 1910, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which distilled these into what became known as the " five fundamentals ":

In the Old Testament, the Bible says that through sacrifice one's sins can be forgiven.

While describing how the Bible predicts Muhammad, he speaks of the " Gospel of Saint Barnabas where one can find the light " (" y así mismo en Evangelio de San Bernabé, donde se hallará la luz ").

A typical tech usage from the Linux Bible, 2005 characterizes the Unix software development philosophy as " one that can make your life a lot simpler once you grok the idea ".

The sources for the history of ancient Israel and Judah can be broadly divided into the biblical narrative ( the Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanonical and non-biblical works for the later period ) and the archaeological record.

The instructions for its use can be found in the fictitious Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, verses 9-21, parodying the King James Bible and the Athanasian Creed

Without knowledge of the Bible there can be no peace in the life of the Church or of society, and outside of it there is no real and abiding good ; it is the one authority for the faith.

Other common leftist concerns such as pacifism, social justice, racial equality, human rights, and the rejection of excessive wealth can be found in the Bible.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

Primary sources about Mary Magdalene can be divided into canonical texts that are collected into the Christian New Testament and apocryphal texts that were left out from the Bible, being judged as heretical during the development of the New Testament canon.

Critics have doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.

A number of Philistine-related words found in the Bible are not Semitic, and can in some cases, with reservations, be traced back to Proto-Indo-European roots.

A number of Philistine-related words found in the Bible are not Semitic, and can in some cases, with reservations, be traced back to Proto-Indo-European roots.

In the Hebrew Bible El ( Hebrew: אל ) appears very occasionally alone ( e. g. Genesis 33: 20, el elohe yisrael, " El the god of Israel ", and Genesis 46: 3, ha ' el elohe abika, " El the god of your father "), but usually with some epithet or attribute attached ( e. g. El Elyon, " Most High El ", El Shaddai, " El of Shaddai ", El ` Olam " Everlasting El ", El Hai, " Living El ", El Ro ' i " El my Shepherd ", and El Gibbor " El of Strength "), in which cases it can be understood as the generic " god ".

In Revelation the tree again appears in the middle of the garden ( taking the entire Bible as a spiritual symbolic journey of self discovery and improvement ( spiritual growth )-also called regeneration ), which provides then that the leaves are for the healing ( which is that the truths which can be understood ) are able to be applied to one's spiritual life for the betterment of our character, " healing " our innate selfish tendencies.

Describing the Bible as " fabulous mythology ", Paine questions whether or not it was revealed to its writers and doubts that the original writers can ever be known ( he dismisses the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, for example ).

* God created all things " very good " (), yet many Christians understand the Bible to teach that after the fall, all are sinful at birth ( Job ; ; Psalm ; John ) and from conception ().

The Committee on Bible Translation wanted to build a new version on the heritage of the NIV and like its predecessor create a balanced mediating version, one that would fall in-between the most literal translation and the most free ; word-for-word ( Formal Equivalence ) and thought-for-thought ( Dynamic Equivalence ).

In the fall of 2012, GSN will premiere a revival of Pyramid, with The Price Is Right producer Mike Richards hosting, and The American Bible Challenge with Jeff Foxworthy.

Since there is a wide range of opinions regarding the historical accuracy of the Bible, it should not be surprising that any given scholar may have views that fall anywhere between these loosely defined camps.

The story of the fall of humanity, the promise of the Messiah, and the birth of Jesus is told in nine short Bible readings from Genesis, the prophetic books and the Gospels, interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols, hymns and choir music.

In the fall of 1953, a generous friend of the Seminary gave a copy of the missing leaf to the General Theological Seminary Library, "... and the Seminary's great Bible became the first imperfect Gutenberg Bible ever restored to completeness.

Many churches with roots in Restorationism reject being identified as Protestant or even as a denomination at all, as they use only the Bible not creeds, and model the church after what they feel is the first century church found in scripture ; the Churches of Christ are one example ; African Initiated Churches, like Kimbanguism, mostly fall within Protestantism, with varying degrees of syncretism.

These movements fall outside of traditional taxonomies of Christian groups, though both cite the Christian Bible as a basis for their beliefs.

The Book of Enoch ( a pseudepigraphal book of the Bible ) describes the fall of the Grigori and the demons who might be the Grigori themselves, or the offspring of the union of the Grigori and mankind.

Beliefs include: the Bible as the inspired infallible word of God ; the eternal existence of God in three persons ; the virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, ascension, present intercession, and personal return of Jesus ; mankind's fall and the need of salvation ; the sanctity of human life ; marriage between one man and one woman ; the doctrine of non-resistance ; and the resurrection of all people to either eternal happiness or eternal separation from God.

Their confession of faith reveals the churches of the US Conference accept God in three persons ; the divinity, humanity, virgin birth, atonement, resurrection, ascension and return of Jesus ; the Bible as the inspired word of God ; the fall of man and his salvation through the atoning work of Christ ; the Lord's Day ( Sunday ) as a day of worship ; and the resurrection of all men, either to eternal punishment or eternal happiness with God.

The confession of faith of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches ( held in common with the US Conference ) reveals the churches accept God in three persons ; the divinity, humanity, virgin birth, atonement, resurrection, ascension, and return of Jesus ; the Bible as the inspired word of God ; the fall of humankind and salvation through the atoning work of Christ ; the Lord's Day ( Sunday ) as a day of worship ; and the resurrection of all people, either to eternal punishment or eternal life with God.

Believers argued that the great flood described in the Bible and the destruction of Atlantis were caused by the fall of previous moons.

In the fall of 1948, with some 45 students attending, a small beginning was made in Fort Worth, Texas, under the name of Southern Bible Institute.

Surviving copies of the Wycliffite Bible fall into two broad textual families, an " early " version and a later version.

These programs fall under the oversight of eight academic divisions including the Division of Bible, the Division of Business, the Division of Education, the Division of Communicative Arts, the Division of Music, the Division of Arts and Sciences, the Division of Basic Sciences and Engineering, and the Division of Nursing.

But there is one passage in the Bible where people " fall to the ground " just by hearing the words " I am He ".

The translators of the King James Version of the Holy Bible intentionally preserved, in Early Modern English, archaic pronouns and verb endings that had already begun to fall out of spoken use.

" In the story of the trumpets of Jericho in the Bible, the walls fall down when the tribes of Israel walk around the city and blow their trumpets.

It takes three subjects from the Bible as its illustrations: the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the fall of Belshazzar.

Biola holds two annual student conferences, the Missions Conference during the spring semester and the Torrey Memorial Bible Conference during the fall semester.

It also presents an esoteric interpretation about the mission of Christ and an occult analysis of Biblical texts which include the fall of man, the Law of Cause and Consequence and Bible and rebirth, and many other themes which were further developed in the subsequent books, lectures and lessons given by the author at the time ( 1910s ) in the United States.

In the fall of 1941 the Reverend Thomas McKinney, a recent graduate from Dallas Theological Seminary, established an evening Bible study class in Memphis, Tennessee.