"The dismemberment of the god's body has dual function and meaning, to which corresponds a dual tradition. Seth has not only killed his brother Osiris, but also, in a second act of violence, cut his corpse to pieces and thrown these into the water" (Assmann 1989, p
"Practical religious action needs to be related to conceptions of ethics and morality. These two terms do not refer to two different things so much as to two aspects of the same thing…Morality is integral to the normal interchanges of social life" (Baines 1991, p
"The heart was believed to be the center of man's personality, and provided continuity in the identity of the old and that of the new resurrected person. For this reason the heart was carefully left in the body during mummification and, as an extra precaution, a heart-scarab was added to the mummy" (D'Auria et al
Christianity and Science have compatible histories. Every non-western tradition where there is an existence of science shows that the individuals who initially cultivated the scientific spirits were the priests, which clearly shows that apart from the two life forms being compatible, there was a very obvious link between them (Agazzi, n
Both give explanations to the truth about nature, reality, metaphors, models and analogies (Young, 2012). There is a coincidence between both, even if their inquiries are carried out in two different domains (Clooney, 2014)
Science gives the objective opinion while Christianity provides the knowledge of the impacts the data could make. This makes it possible for both religion and science to develop a full knowledge of the entire world since they bring varied viewpoints to it (Orme-Johnson, 2008)
According to Hawking, God is simply not a necessity i. The ideology about the existence of a creator has been historically substituted with a genuine understanding of reality (Schumacher, 2014)
It is seen as a rite of initiation or of admission into Christianity. Granted, people can still practice the Christian faith without undergoing baptism, since "Living from a Christian worldview means that what you do aligns with what is true, and the Scriptures are the ultimate authority on Truth" (Fey)
The sacrament of baptism is largely attributed to the time period in which Jesus existed and to his influence on this practice. Both Jesus and John the Baptist were contemporaries of one another, and both were associated with baptism during their lives (James)
The covenant in baptism is that true believers in Christ and the Christian religion can effectively purify themselves -- by washing of the remains of original sin -- and become eligible for eternal salvation. This covenant is intrinsically linked to the concept of the trinity and the fact that God actually exists within Christianity in the form of a triad involving God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost, which explains statements such as "the righteousness that makes men good in the sight of God" is ascribed to "only faith in Jesus Christ" (Luther 102)