[PDF] The Religion Conundrum eBook

Author : Todd D. Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780986303203

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The Christian religion is supposed to provide answers to some of life's most important questions, yet Christians must address and answer some very important questions that pose an interesting conundrum. For instance, is the Bible inerrant and, if so, does Christianity completely follow the Bible? Did the Messiah abolish the Commandments by fulfilling the Law? Should Christians obey the Commandments? Did the Christian Church replace the Covenant Assembly of Israel? These are just a few of the questions addressed in this straight forward and hard hitting book that goes to the heart of the Christian belief system. In this book the origins of Christianity and the teachings of the Messiah are examined and placed within their original context. The Scriptures that define the Christian faith are detailed and compared to the traditions promoted by modern Christianity. Most Christians will likely be shocked to discover that the religion they ascribe to is not the same faith lived and taught by the Messiah. The passage of centuries and millennia of time has resulted in many traditions that have redefined the religion and have obscured the Scriptural truths that are at the heart of the Christian faith. This has resulted in a conundrum as many people think that they are following the teachings of the Messiah but they actually are not. The problem stems from the fact that most people are raised with certain inherited beliefs and rarely do they take the time to investigate their authenticity. Every person should make the effort to assess the substance and origins of their traditions and beliefs. This book takes on widely held religious traditions and examines them in light of the Scriptures. It exposes the conflict that has developed between certain traditions and the truth. Prepare for a frank and eye-opening discussion on this most important issue which will strengthen your faith and help you to resolve the Christian Conundrum.

Author : H. R. Gillespie
Publisher : Infinity Publishing (PA)
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780741460615

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Religion has become a dangerous tool to manipulate the minds of Homo sapiens as life developed on our planet. Continuing down this path could lead to annihilation of the human race.

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1101560134

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Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our true goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increase sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. David Owen's The Conundrum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and anecdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. This is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it? That is the conundrum.

Author : Joyce Ann Mercer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004324240

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In this landmark volume, internationally recognized scholars address key intellectual and practical conundrums that not only trouble practical theology but also reflect biases and breakdowns in the construction of theological knowledge in academy and religious communities at large. With critical facility and unheralded honesty that includes reflexivity about their own lives in the academy, the authors tackle complex issues that refuse easy solutions— racism, hierarchy of theory over practice, devaluation of small case studies, risks of interdisciplinarity to scholarly identity, inequities between Christian traditions, unreflective Christian-centrism, and tensions between the production of scholarship and public service. Outcomes of these issues will have serious implications for the discipline and the study of theology for years to come. Contributors include Tom Beaudoin, Eileen R. Campbell-Reed, Faustino M. Cruz, Jaco Dreyer, Courtney T. Goto, Tone Stangeland Kaufman, Joyce Ann Mercer, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Phillis Isabella Sheppard, Katherine Turpin, Claire E. Wolfteich.

Author : Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791476345

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Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity-this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native. Book jacket.

Author : Andrew Carruth
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780956427656

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A must-read for skeptics and believers alike, this book deciphers the mysterybehind the mythical figure of Jesus by using the latest scholarly research toprove, once-and-for-all, that Jesus was a mere mortal man.

Author : Khaled Ahmed
Publisher : Viking
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9780670095087

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Pakistan was born amid communal violence and a collective consciousness of danger. Right from the outset, democracy was up for debate between the politicians nurtured by the British Raj and an orthodox clergy that advocated a utopia in which Islam was to be the ideological guide. Today, the threat of religion as an extra-legal force is causing many Pakistanis to think if the state can move forward into the future with Islam as its credo. In this carefully curated collection of his writings in several publications, senior journalist Khaled Ahmed examines Pakistan's policies regarding terrorism against the backdrop of increasing pressure from international organizations. Despite joining the US in its war against terror after 9/11, the country has been perceived as a safe haven and breeding ground for terrorists. Ahmed looks at the origins and activities of the various terrorist organizations, the role of the state and the ideology of its founding figures, some of whom seem to have been forgotten.

Author : Steve Wright
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2021-09-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781312678323

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Christians have been missing out on the richness and hidden mysteries of their Jewish faith through the Messiah. Jew and Gentile must come together to embrace the salvation of Yeshua (Jesus). Take a journey into the Jewish roots of the Bible and learn how it all points to the Messiah.

Author : Susan Neiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy
ISBN : 0691168504

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Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.

Author : R Santosh
Publisher : White Falcon Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9389530946

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The Dubai Airport Police are in the toughest situation they have ever been in. The sovereignty of their country has been challenged. They have to decipher things fast. What could connect the following random events? The maiden flight of the airlines owned by an American billionaire has already taken off from Dubai to Chennai. It has the most powerful bomb known to humankind on board. Two people, Rajesh R and Gabriela Fabregas were deplaned from the same flight exactly a minute before takeoff. They both had conjunctivitis. They mysteriously are now missing. A maverick terrorist has been tracked. For him, personal revenge seems greater than the mission he has set out to achieve. A nuclear physicist in Europe has discovered the exact conditions before the Big Bang. A religious leader in India is out to re-inculcate the faith of God. The war that had lasted a thousand years and claimed the life of millions has resurfaced. The lives of another million people are now at stake.