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In Christian apologetics, the argument from undesigned coincidences aims to support the historical reliability of the Bible.So named by J.J. Blunt, based on previous work by William Paley, [1] [2] an undesigned coincidence is said to have occurred when an account of one event in the Bible omits a piece or pieces of information which is filled in, seemingly coincidentally, by a different ...
(Job, Ecclesiastes, Malachi; Corinthians I and Revelation) in the Critical and Explanatory Pocket Bible, 1863–4. Studies in the CL. Psalms, 1877; 2nd edit. 1885, an application of the argument from "undesigned coincidences". The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopædia, originally issued in parts, in volume form, 1878. It ...
In his chief book, Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old and New Testaments (1833; fuller edition, 1847), he coined the term undesigned coincidences. Some of his writings, among them the History of the Christian Church during the First Three Centuries and the lectures On the Right Use of the Early Fathers , were published ...
In the late 19th century, Gibbethon has been identified with al-Majdal, near Ashkelon, and so possibly on the border of Danite Israel and Philistia. [3]Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar located it in 1960 in a region to the north of the Sorek Valley, [4] possibly at Tel Malot, [5] located northwest of the city of Beit Shemesh and due west of the city of Gezer.
William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, which made use of the watchmaker analogy.
Some quite famous coincidences weren’t even mentioned in this list. For example, the one about the writer Mark Twain and the comet. He was born on November 30, 1835, when Halley’s comet came ...
This verse is considered to be a summation of the entire sermon. Some editions append it to the end of Matthew 7:7-11, and the rule does seem to be an expansion on the teaching about prayer in that section. However, the word therefore and the mention of the law and the prophets implies that this is a more far reaching teaching.
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.