The interpretation of the Bible story is often one which underlines the responsibility of Cain for his brother, as well as his guilt. "When God asks Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' he makes Cain responsible for his brother, that is, responsible for another" (Duyndam 2009)
"Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him' (Genesis IV: 8). So the spare yet evocative wording of Genesis records history's first murder" (Marshall 2013)
However, for those who are devout, religion is the source of truth and science, rather than revealing truth, is a tool that humans can use to help fulfill biblical commandments. "Science enables us to fulfill the mandate of Genesis 1:28," which instructed Adam and Eve to exercise dominion over nature (Crampton, 1997)
George Fooshee examined the Bible to reveal some principles about finances and business. In short, he discovered that the Bible advocates savings, helping people in need, living within your means and on a margin, avoiding debt, sticking to a budget, not cosigning on loans for others, and working hard (Fooshee, 2014)
For a Christian, examining action frequently takes a Utilitarian perspective, because it requires one to weight the consequences of various actions or inactions against one another. Presumably, for many Christians, the action that has the greatest tendency to promote the general happiness and well-being is the one that is most Godly (Hibberd, Unk
The same car that carries someone to a bar can also carry him to church, and the same internet that can deliver pornographic images can also deliver the gospel. The outcome, whether negative or positive, is determined by the application" (Westbrook, Unk
Its humane message and concern for ecology have been criticized in conservative quarters as a left-wing attack on corporate neglect and the depredations of big business. Cute is OK, but Kyoto isn't" (French 1)
Consumer capitalism, anticipating every possible need and swaddling its subjects in convenience, is an infantilizing force. But as they cruise around on reclining chairs, eyes fixed on video screens, taking in calories from straws sticking out of giant cups, these overgrown space babies also look like moviegoers at a multiplex" (Scott 1)
An originally and immutably sinful nature causes human relationships to be qualified by depravity, violence, and lust. "There is sin that is against our own bodies and souls, but there is also sin that is against other people who are created in God's image," (West, 2013, p
What is interesting about this fact is that men had a legal recourse to do so, as "defined as the property of men (Exod. 20: 17, Deut. 5:21) women did not control their own bodies" (Trible)
This geographical location is further suggested by the names given to the friends of Job, for they refer to places in the same region." (Gutierrez 3) Therefore, the dates of the creation of the story most likely coincide with or follow the dispersion of the Jews which could place the date as late as the third century B
The challenge regards the statement from the adversarial character who contends that if Yahweh will "Just stretch forth your hand now and strike all he possesses, and he will certainly curse you to your face." (Habel 76) The two sides square off based on their beliefs about why Job behaves in the way that he does
Some authors attach no religious origins to the story at all claiming instead that "that Job was originally a Greek tragedy in the manner of Euripides, written under Greek influence, at a much later date than has usually been assigned to it." (Penniman 238) Therefore, given the wide ranging claims regarding original purpose and era of the story, there is some value in accepting that it is a religious text that was designed to either promote specific behavior within the group or expound on the nature of deity
All of the trials and tribulations that Jonah, for example, endured certainly attest to this fact. Jonah was swallowed up by a whale and nearly drowned during some of the trials God put him through (Benckhuysen, 2012, p
Faith is a belief in something due to a strong conviction regardless of, or in spite of no evidence to prove it. Skepticism, however, doubts and disbelieves relatively everything unless there is proof of it (Klein, 2013)
There are even some atheists who, because they have endured a significant amount of hardships or inequalities in their life, and observed these same wrong doings within the world as a whole, became atheists due to this fact. People look at a number of the travesties that have taken place in the world today, such as the Holocaust (Ofer, 2013, p
One example is the fact that the biblical worldview denotes the fact that God created the universe and everything in it, either directly or indirectly. Atheists, however, tend to believe that there are scientific explanations (such as the Big Bang Theory) (Rashidi, 2013, p
Although Abraham did not have any idea why God wanted him to kill the newborn baby, he was willing to do so simply because an unseen presence had told him to do so. Abraham "did not oppose God in a presumptuous attitude" (Schliesser, 2012, p
" The empty self is concerned only with itself and in its narcissistic drive to be God wants immediate gratification for its desires at the expense of or without regard for everything else. In a sense, this empty self is very reminiscent of Sigmund Freud's Id (Freud, 1961)
We all have certain inherent beliefs that we are unaware of their source. One of these inherent beliefs is that things in the universe did not occur randomly, even though at one time the secular idea of macroevolution was thought to be driven by random forces, but even this idea has changed (Gould, 2002)