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They compared the thoughts and behaviors of the most important figures in the Bible, such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Paul, [78] with patients affected by mental disorders related to the psychotic spectrum using different clusters of disorders and diagnostic criteria , [79] and concluded that these Biblical figures "may have had psychotic ...
Bergsma wrote about the phenomenon of speaking in tongues, which he connected to high emotional stress in the subject. [12] He used the analogy of a computer which, if overloaded with information, may produce erratic nonsense output. He also suggested that the subject may voluntarily speak in tongues as a means of raising their status in ...
Her first book, Of Ribs and Joy – Women of the Bible, contains 22 stories depicting individual women, like Eve, Mary or Herodias, in their particular situations. Using the first person narrative, Ou represents their struggle, sorrow, fear, joy, as well as doubt, showing them as flesh and blood humans, with challenges and emotional turmoil.
Social/cultural: Rupture of family and social network, employment issues, financial stress, problems acculturating into society, interpersonal dysfunction; Developmental delay: emotional, intellectual, social, and sexual immaturity resulting from the control of information and discouragement of critical thinking within the religious environment ...
Guilt in the Christian Bible is not merely an emotional state; it is also a legal state of deserving punishment. The Hebrew Bible does not have a unique word for guilt, but uses a single word to signify: "sin, the guilt of it, the punishment due unto it, and a sacrifice for it."
He invokes stories and examples throughout the Bible. Edwards ends the sermon with one final appeal: "Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come." According to Edwards and the Bible, only by returning to Christ can one escape the stark fate he outlines.
Bible verses are often used to justify domestic abuse, such as those that refer to male superiority and female submission. Others counter that the use of violence is a misinterpreted view of the male role. [ 1 ]
The employment of unusual forms of language cannot be considered as a sign of ancient Hebrew poetry. In Genesis 9:25–27 and elsewhere the form lamo occurs. But this form, which represents partly lahem and partly lo, has many counterparts in Hebrew grammar, as, for example, kemo instead of ke-; [2] or -emo = "them"; [3] or -emo = "their"; [4] or elemo = "to them" [5] —forms found in ...