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Hence we may gather, that he was beheaded when the paschal festival was near at hand, and that at the passover of the following year, the mystery of the Lord’s passion was accomplished." [ 4 ] Jerome : "But all these things are full of mysteries; the Lord does these things not in the morning, nor at noon, but in the evening, when the Sun of ...
Footprints in the sand "Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God and another to themselves.
The Ten Commandments (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company). Yitro, Yithro, Yisroi, Yisrau, or Yisro (יִתְרוֹ , Hebrew for the name "Jethro," the second word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the seventeenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in ...
God's Story, Your Story, 2011. DVD ISBN 0-310-88986-3 [35] The Christmas Candle (2013) Mobile apps. His is Mine, 2011. Based on his book God's Story, Your Story: When His Becomes Yours, and compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
God creates the heavens and earth, including the first man, Adam and the first woman, Eve. Both live in the utopical Garden of Eden until a Serpent convinces Eve to disobey God by eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge, and in turn Eve convinces Adam to do the same. God punishes the serpent all and banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden.
Rather than use an idol, God chose to reveal himself in words, by working through people, and by working in history. [36] According to the Book of Joshua, Abraham came from a land and a family that worshiped strange gods. [37] However, when their God revealed himself to Abraham and called him to leave his native land for Canaan, he did so. [38]
The god Sundereshvarar then came as a chetty (or merchant) and offered nine valuable jewels for sale, explaining that they were once the body of an asura named Vala. This giant, by performing penance to Shiva, had acquired power to conquer the inferior deities; and one day Indra offering to give him a gift, he jeered the king of demi-gods, as a ...
The Book of Genesis 2:7 states, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being" [New Revised Standard Version translation]. In context, though, it is important to note that there are two creation stories in Genesis: the one just mentioned in 2:7, and ...