Posted in A, tagged abel, abrasive, aggression, Bible, cain, christianity, crime, evil, genesis, gentle, God, jewish, killing, life, love, murder, myth, old testament, peace, punishment, sin on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Abel In the biblical book of Genesis (4: 2-16), Abel is the second son of Adam and Eve who was killed by his brother Cain.
Cain’s motives were most likely jealousy and anger.
Abel was a shepherd and Cain a farmer. Cain and Abel had made sacrificial offerings to God but only Abel’s was acceptable to the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged afterlife, agnostic, agnosticism, belief, doubt, faith, gnosis, God, heaven, hell, ignorance, knowledge, religion, skepticism on April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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Agnosticism In the strongest sense of the term agnosticism refers to the belief that we can never know if God, the afterlife, heaven and hell exist because all human experiences, including internal ones, are said to be subjective.
By way of contrast ‘weak agnosticism’ maintains a “maybe, maybe not” position that, until some kind [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Akhenaton, ancient, Aton, egypt, freud, God, gods, moses, nefertiti, pantheism, realism, solar, sun, theism on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
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Akhenaton The first ruler in recorded history to advocate a type of monotheism.
Originally Amenhotep IV, this 18th dynasty Egyptian King changed his title to Akhenaton (”he who is beneficial to Aton” 
and reigned from 1350-1334 BCE.
He replaced the many Egyptian deities, particularly Amun, with the sun god Aton.
While this was a [...]
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Posted in A, tagged alien, Aliens, angel, angels, Bible, devil, et, extraterrestrials, God, Greece, heaven, jewish, jupiter, missing time, moses, myth, paranormal, parapsychology, religion, rome, Satan, siva, ufo, unexplained, zeus on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Aliens and Extraterrestrials (ETs)
The belief in aliens from other planets dates back for centuries, as does their alleged sightings.
47,000 year-old rock carvings in the Hunan province of China could be interpreted as evidence for UFOs.
Airborne “fire circles” were reported to the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III (1504-1450 BCE).
In the Middle Ages [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Allah, belief, God, Islam, religion, spirit on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque
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Allah The Arabic word for God.
After a revelation given to the prophet Mohammed on Mount Hira, the name Allah referred to a single God.
Previously the Arabic term Allah designated a supreme God among other gods.
Moslems believe that Mohammed is the greatest among many prophets to have walked the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged anselm, aquinas, belief, canterbury, christianity, faith, God, jung, knowledge, middle ages, ontological argument, reason, religion, saint, spirit on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Anselm, St. (of Canterbury, 1033-1109) The somewhat undisciplined son of a noble landowner in Aosta, Italy, who eventually took monastic vows and became the archbishop of Canterbury.
St. Anselm is one of the earliest and most prominent scholastics of the Middle Ages.
He is best known for defining the ontological argument, a theological proof for the existence [...]
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Posted in A, tagged aquinas, Aristotle, belief, catholic, Christian, God, Italy, jesus christ, medieval, Philosophy, reason, religion, scholastics, schoolmen, St. Thomas Aquinas, theology on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Aquinas, St. Thomas (1225-74) Italian theologian born in his family’s castle near Aquino.
While in a Dominican monastery his family members were unwilling to accept his decision and abducted him, taking him prisoner for two years.
He fled to Germany where he taught in 1248 after studying under Albertus Magnus.
His theological work borrows heavily from Aristotle, recasting [...]
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Posted in A, tagged arius, catholic, christianity, God, heresy, Jesus, jesus christ, religion, spirit, theology, trinity on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Arius (c.250-c.336) Libyan Christian theologian responsible for the heresy of Arianism.
Around 319 CE he created controversy by saying that Christ is ‘divinized’ but remains subordinate to God.
For Arius, God is absolutely transcendent and cannot be present in a human being.
Although he gained some support, Arius was excommunicated in 321 by a synod of bishops at [...]
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Posted in A, tagged agnosticism, Atheism, belief, faith, God, Hume, life, opinion, Philosophy, psi, religion, remote viewing, shelley, soul, spirit on March 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Atheism The belief - and that’s what it is - that God does not exist.
If one were to say that they are “of the opinion” that God does not exist, then they more correctly would be called an agnostic.
Famous atheists include the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and, some say, the philosopher David Hume.
While Hume [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aton, egypt, freud, God, gods, monotheism, myth, pagan, religion on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Aton An important but short-lived Egyptian sun god, established under the reign of king Amenhotep IV (1350-1334 B.C).
Amenhotep re-named himself Akhenaton and introduced a monotheistic form of religion based on the sun’s rising and setting.
Aton, originally the term for the sun’s disc, came to be the name for the new sun-god.
Archaeological evidence suggests that most [...]
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