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Jewish philosophy stresses that free will is a product of the intrinsic human soul, using the word neshama (from the Hebrew root n.sh.m. or .נ.ש.מ meaning "breath"), but the ability to make a free choice is through Yechida (from Hebrew word "yachid", יחיד, singular), the part of the soul that is united with God, [citation needed] the only being that is not hindered by or dependent on ...
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.Its adherents, known as Christians, believe that Jesus is the Christ, whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament, and chronicled in the New Testament. [31]
The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God."[St. Irenaeus] "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."[St ...
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The New International Version translates the passage as: children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [4] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse but also has entered academic discourse.
However, while Islam relegates the man Jesus the Christ to a lesser status than God — "in the company of those nearest to God" in the Qur'an, mainstream (Trinitarian) Christianity since the Council of Nicea teaches without question the belief that Jesus is both fully man and fully God the Son, one of the three Hypostases (common English ...
"[T]he Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God." [Primary 4] "For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God" [Primary 5] "[H]is is beauty, the true beauty, for it is God; and that man becomes God, since God so wills.
Born Free is a book by Joy Adamson. Released in 1960 by Pantheon Books , it describes Adamson's experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa . It was translated into several languages, and made into an Academy Award -winning 1966 film of the same name .