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Salome with the Head of the Baptist (1761) Bible: Mark 6.14-29: the beheading of John the Baptist involves a rash promise of king Herod Antipas to Salome, the daughter of his second wife Herodias, who, by her mother's advice asked for the head of John.
Concursus dei or concursus divinus (Latin, lit., 'divine concurrence') is a theological and philosophical teaching that divine activity runs parallel to the activity of people and things. [1]
The crucifixion of Jesus is an example of an event that meets the criterion of embarrassment. This method of execution was considered the most shameful and degrading in the Roman world , and advocates of the criterion claim this method of execution is therefore the least likely to have been invented by the followers of Jesus.
Example of a Sharps Carbine. The name "Beecher's Bibles" is in reference to Sharps rifles and carbines, associated with the New England minister and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, [4] of the New England Emigrant Aid Society. Beecher was an outspoken abolitionist and he raised funds to buy weapons for Kansas' free state (anti-slavery) settlers.
From the time of Constantine I's conversion to Christianity in the 4th century, the question of the relationship between temporal and spiritual power was constant, causing a clash between the Church and the Empire.
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Three particular religious movements were pinpointed as being examples of the spiritual deception that are characteristic of the biblical signs of the end times: the Spiritualist churches, the Theosophical Society, and Buddhism. [18] Pember criticised these three movements on the grounds that their teachings were contradicted by the Bible.
Luke 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records several parables and teachings told by Jesus Christ and his lamentation over the city of Jerusalem. [1]