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Suspicious, the insurance companies began to investigate the Hillmon claim. [6] At this time, life insurance fraud was not uncommon — there had been several cases in which people had bought large amounts of insurance, killed someone, and disguised the corpse as the policy holder, who would be somewhere in hiding. [10]
Early Christian inscriptions are the epigraphical remains of early Christianity. They are a valuable source of information in addition to the writings of the Church Fathers regarding the development of Christian thought and life in the first six centuries of the religion's existence. [ 2 ]
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ – 1894 book by Russian journalist and adventurer Nicolas Notovitch purporting that Jesus visited India during his unknown years, studying under Hindu and Buddhist masters. Allegedly based on the document Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men, which was seen by him at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, India ...
Religious fraud is a term used for civil [1] [2] or criminal fraud carried out in the name of a religion [3] [4] or within a religion, e.g. false claims to being kosher [5] [6] or tax fraud. [ 7 ] A specific form of religious fraud is pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus ), whereby one employs lies and/or deception in order to convince others of the ...
Types of life insurance fraud. Life insurance fraud can take many forms. In some cases, the insurance agent, not the policyholder, is the party committing life insurance fraud. Common instances of ...
Randi also examines claims of miracles at holy sites such as at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes again finding fraud and no verifiable cases of healing. Prior to turning his attention to faith healing, Randi spent many years exposing fraud by psychics and mediums such as the famous Uri Geller. An updated edition of this book was released in ...
The inscription was determined to be a statement of faith in Jesus Christ, written in Latin. The statement shows that the wearer "was clearly a devout Christian, which is absolutely unusual for ...
Although early Christianity had many diverse sects and doctrines, critics of the stance of downplaying the proto-orthodox's prominence (such as Larry W. Hurtado), generally argue that the writings of the Catholic anti-heresiologists condemning others as heretics were still essentially accurate: that of all the Christian groups, the "proto ...