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Psalm 126 expresses the themes of redemption and joy and gratitude to God. According to Matthew Henry , it was likely written upon the return of the Israelites from Babylonian captivity . In Henry's view, the psalm was written either by Ezra , who led the nation at that time, or by one of the Jewish prophets . [ 2 ]
According to Marcion, the title God was given to the Demiurge, who was to be sharply distinguished from the higher Good God. The former was díkaios, severely just, the latter agathós, or loving-kind; the former was the "god of this world", [44] the God of the Old Testament, the latter the true God of the New Testament. Christ, in reality, is ...
It is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. More detailed definitions tend to emphasize the idea that natural law, existence and/or the universe (the sum total of all that it was and shall be) is represented or personified in the theological principle of 'God'.
The term comes from the theological concept of adoption, which says that believers are made part of God's family, and become his children. The use of "brother" as a designation for Christians has become restricted to members of religious communities (the Catholic sense ), or as an honorific for pastors (often used in Baptist churches).
3:But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4:For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5:But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
The Dream Book, iškar d Zaqīqu (“core text of the god Zaqīqu”), is an eleven tablet compendium of oneiromancy written in Akkadian. Tablets two to nine form the manual of deductive divination, while tablets one, ten and eleven provide rituals to alleviate bad dreams. Zaqīqu, which means "spirit" or "ghost," is a name of the dream god.
The Hebrew name Jerahmeel (Hebrew: יְרַחְמְאֵל Yəraḥməʾēl, Tiberian: Yăraḥmē̆ʾēl, [1] "God shall have mercy"), [2] [3] which appears several times in the Tanakh (see the article Jerahmeel), also appears in various forms as the name of an archangel in books of the intertestamental and early Christian periods.
The Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883–859 BC) built a temple to Mamu, possibly the god of dreams, at Imgur-Enlil, near Kalhu. [4] The later Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (reigned 668– c. 627 BC) had a dream during a desperate military situation in which his divine patron, the goddess Ishtar , appeared to him and promised that she ...