enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: what does fire represent biblically

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fire and brimstone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_brimstone

    The Old Testament uses the phrase "fire and brimstone" in the context of divine punishment and purification. In Genesis 19, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah with a rain of fire and brimstone (Hebrew: גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ), and in Deuteronomy 29, the Israelites are warned that the same punishment would fall upon them should they abandon their covenant with God.

  3. Baptism by fire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_by_fire

    The term baptism with fire originated from the words of John the Baptist in Matthew 3:11 (and the parallel passage in Luke 3:16).: [1]. Matthew 3:11 "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire" King James Version 1611

  4. Pillars of fire and cloud - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_fire_and_cloud

    The Pillar of Fire by Paul Hardy, The Art Bible (1896) The pillars of cloud and fire are first mentioned in Exodus 13, shortly after Moses leads the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt. The narrative states that the pillar of cloud went ahead of them by day to guide their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light. [1]

  5. Holy Spirit in Christianity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit_in_Christianity

    The Holy Spirit does not simply appear for the first time at Pentecost after the resurrection of Jesus, but is present in Luke (in chapters 1 and 2) prior to the birth of Jesus. [7] In Luke 1:15, John the Baptist was said to be "filled with the Holy Spirit" prior to his birth, [40] and the Holy Spirit came upon the Virgin Mary in Luke 1:35.

  6. Lake of fire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_of_fire

    A Lava lake, also known as "fire lakes" The lake of fire is a concept that appears in both the ancient Egyptian and Christian religions. In ancient Egypt, it appears as an obstacle on the journey through the underworld which can destroy or refresh the deceased. In Christianity, it is as a place of after-death punishment of the wicked.

  7. Flaming sword (mythology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_sword_(mythology)

    In Vajrayana/Tibetan Buddhism, the flaming sword represents specifically wisdom-piercing-ignosis, and is depicted in the *right* hand of any Buddha in a T'hangka painting, whereas the *left* side of the same Buddha shows the BEing, instead of DOing, e.g. being the meanings of a particular dharma, as symbolized by a flower springing from their ...

  8. Fire worship - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_worship

    Zjarri i Vatrës ("the Fire of the Hearth") is regarded as the offspring of the Sun and the sustainer of the continuity between the world of the living and that of the dead and between the generations, ensuring the survival of the lineage (fis or farë). [22] The absence of fire in a house is traditionally considered a great curse. [21]

  9. Moloch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

    Since the medieval period, Moloch has often been portrayed as a bull-headed idol with outstretched hands over a fire; this depiction takes the brief mentions of Moloch in the Bible and combines them with various sources, including ancient accounts of Carthaginian child sacrifice and the legend of the Minotaur. [7]

  1. Ad

    related to: what does fire represent biblically