Most contemporary Christians believe that God has one and only one son and that that son is Jesus. They also believe that Jesus is literally God's offspring. This belief probably stems from the fact that the term "Son of God" is used to describe him in the Bible. That conclusion is...

I have wondered if Jesus was no more 'forsaken' than any of us have ever been before we come to salvation. Since we are born separated from God, we do not notice our condition until we know His acceptance. What Jesus was experiencing was the same separation from God into which we are born. The fi...

Can God Sin? When I talk about God, I'm talking about the traditional Christian theologian belief of god. That is. God is an Omni God. God is an all good, all knowing, all-powerful and perfect in every way god. Given this definition of God we run into a question that seems to contradict itself,...

One can only hope and pray to our Lord to die peacefully and not by suffering. Faithful accepted his punishment, the same way our Lord Jesus Christ did. Reading that passage reminded me of the times I spent in Sunday school, learning about all the different teachings of Jesus. When it came time t...

Leonardo Da Vinci, Annunciation 1472-75 circa Tempera on wood, cm 98x217 Inv. 1890, n. 1618 The work came to the Uffizi in 1867 from the monastery of San Bartolomeo of Monteoliveto, near Florence. It was ascribed to Domenico Ghirlandaio until 1869, when some critics rec...

In Edward Albee's controversial play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, religion plays a major, yet often overlooked theme. There are constant references to God and Jesus throughout the play; in the third act, "The Exorcism," George recites the Requiem for the Dead, the Ca...

What is the law of life? In my opinion, the law to life is the golden rule: "Treat Others As You Would Like To Be Treated". If everybody would treat everybody else according to the Golden Rule, we would find a harmony among all people that has never been seen before. We recognize an...

Christianity and Judaism share the same origins, in fact Christianity actually came about from Judaism. The first converts to Christinity were Jews; therefore, Christianity was seen as a sect of Judaism. The converts who were encouraged by the Apostle Paul eventually acknowledeged that their fait...

Had random people only questioned the teachings of Jesus is a minuet conflict. The real dilemma arises when the ones that are questioning Jesus' teachings are his own disciples. Ones that have been with him and believed in everything related to him from the beginning. As time passed various ...

Satanists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, and Hare Krishna are four different kinds of cults all over America. They will lie, they will beat their victims, and they will scare them into their cults. Harmful cult leaders are sending out recruiters to do and say anything necessary to get teenager...

There is a close, but often misleading relationship between Judaism and Christianity. The discrepancies are great, however, there are many similarities, many because Christianity emerged from Judaism. It is wrong to assume that Christianity as a whole is seen as the natural progression of Judais...

Mormons The church that I visited was the Church of Jesus Christ and the Later Day Saints in Santa Ana, CA. When I first got there I walked around the church and read some articles that I found on the walls. One article read that this church was the second largest Mormon Church in the world...