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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, [77] with patients affected by mental disorders related to the psychotic spectrum using different clusters of disorders and diagnostic criteria , [78] and concluded that these Biblical figures "may have had psychotic ...
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 ...
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 ...
There is no express biblical warrant condemning and prohibiting suicide, and there are people mentioned within the Bible who die by suicide. [19] [20] Depending on a denomination's canon of books, there are seven or eleven suicides mentioned in the Bible. [21] On the other hand, the descriptions of people in the Bible who died by suicide are ...
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.
Emotional conflict is the presence of different and opposing emotions relating to a situation that has recently taken place or is in the process of being unfolded. They may be accompanied at times by a physical discomfort, especially when a functional disturbance has become associated with an emotional conflict in childhood, and in particular by tension headaches [medical citation needed ...
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 ]
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.