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Washer reports converting to Christianity while studying at the University of Texas at Austin to become an oil and gas lawyer. [5] [6] He moved to Peru and served there as a missionary for 10 years. [7] In 1988, while in Peru, [8] Washer founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support indigenous missionaries witnessing to people of their own ...
Paul mentions only the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension, presenting them occurring in a mythic realm rather than an earthly one. The death-resurrection-ascension sequence was common in earlier mythologies and religions , suggesting that the Jesus character was inspired by similar forebears, divorced from any tangible experience ...
Blasphemous thoughts are a common component of OCD, documented throughout history; notable religious figures such as Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola were known to be tormented by intrusive, blasphemous or religious thoughts and urges. [27] Martin Luther had urges to curse God and Jesus, and was obsessed with images of "the Devil's behind."
26. Περὶ διακρίσεως (On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues; on expert discernment; brief summary of all aforementioned) 27–29: Acquisition of hesychia, or peace of the soul, of prayer, and of apatheia (dispassion or equanimity with respect to afflictions or suffering) 27.
Theodoret, an early Christian bishop and theologian, wrote, "wild and blasphemous are they who ascribe passion to the divine nature," in his Demonstrations by Syllogism. [ 3 ] Augustinism , one of the chief Christian schools of thought associated most often with Roman Catholicism and Calvinist Protestantism , strongly asserts the impassibility ...
In 2020, Donald Trump pardoned cybersecurity executive Chris Wade for crimes that had been sealed. Unsealed documents show he was part of a sophisticated spam email operation busted by an informant.
Citing Numbers 31:13–47 as an example, in which Moses orders the slaughter of thousands of boys and women and sanctions the rape of thousands of girls at God's behest, [37] Paine calls the Bible a "book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty!" [38]
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