Most religions have some divine being or beings. Some religions focus on one god or higher power while others have multiple gods. Usually, a god is omnipotent or all-powerful if he or she acts alone versus various gods who usually have respective limited powers. The Christian religion has a central ...

Comparing and Contrasting the Creation Accounts Coming from a family with a Christian lineage as far as the eye can see, its no wonder that my mouth widened just a bit when I read through the Enuma Elish for the first time. How could this "Ancient Babylonian Story" be so similar to t...

"From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death." (Gilgamesh, 16) The fascination and fear of death is present in all cultures. Questions of an afterlife have attempted to be answered through philosophy and reli...

Solomon's temple was constructed around 966 BC, at Mount Moria, out of the finest wood and metals. The temple remained there for almost four hundred years when it was destroyed by the army of Nabuchodonozor in 586 BC. In Hebrew, it is called Bet Yehovah, meaning "house of Jehovah", the New Testa...

Christianity is defined as, "A major religion, stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century AD." (Shelton) It has become the largest of the world's religions. Yet in Ancient Rome in the first century...

A Comp arison: Sumerian and Hebrew Views of the Afterlife For centuries religion has been a significant and intricate part of human societies. Some would say that religion is as important to mankind as food and water. While food and water keeps us going,religion provides a reason and purp...

Christianity is defined as, "A major religion, stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century AD." (Shelton) It has become the largest of the world's religions. Yet in Ancient Rome in the first century...