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The Greeks believed that crystal quartz was supercooled ice, [10] and applied the word crystallos to the both of them. It is likely that the Israelites acquired crystal quartz from Nubia. The Nubian Kerma culture created beads from quartz crystals in their natural shape, sometimes coating them in a copper-based glaze. [5]
Christian materialism is a widely discussed position in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, defended by figures such as Peter van Inwagen [2] and Trenton Merricks. [ 3 ] Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body lectures asserted that "The body, and it alone, is capable of making visible ... the spiritual and divine."
Some Christians believe that other authorities are sources of doctrinal truth. Catholics believe that the Pope is infallible when pronouncing on certain, rather specific, matters of church doctrine. [3] On the day he was crucified, Jesus said, "For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.
The most common false spiritual knowledge is derived not from an experience of God, but from reading another person's experience of God and subsequently arriving at one's own conclusions, believing those conclusions to be indistinguishable from the actual experienced knowledge. False spiritual knowledge can also be iniquitous, generated from an ...
Christian theosophy, also known as Boehmian theosophy and theosophy, refers to a range of positions within Christianity that focus on the attainment of direct, unmediated knowledge of the nature of divinity and the origin and purpose of the universe. They have been characterized as mystical philosophies. [1]
Anglicans (including the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the Church of England and others) believe that the Bible "contains all things necessary to salvation," while believing that "science and Christian theology can complement one another in the quest for truth and understanding." Specifically on the subject of creation ...
McCreary: For me the interesting thing was, because we were asking these similar questions, though the answers seemed really different -- like, Hindus believe in reincarnation and Christians ...
Islamic prayer beads, called Misbaha or Tasbih, usually have 100 beads (99 +1 = 100 beads in total or 33 beads read thrice and +1). Buddhists and Hindus use the Japa Mala, which usually has 108 beads, or 27 which are counted four times. BaháΚΌí prayer beads consist of either 95 beads or 19 beads, which are strung with the addition of five ...