...The Sabbath day is the day of rest and worship for individuals who follow the Christianity, Judaism or Islam faith. Half of the world’s population follows the three Abrahamic religions so the Sabbath day is a day that is highly recognized. Jesus said we are to both obey and teach the law and one cannot sacrifice truth at any cost. The enemy has gone to extreme lengths to make sure the Sabbath truth is not taught or believed and continues to go to extreme lengths and deceptions to keep us ignorant of this truth. But what is the truth behind the Sabbath Day? The actual Sabbath day is highly debated; but Appiah believes what people decide as their Sabbath day depends on what they were grown to know. Appiah pointed out that “a good deal of what we intuitively take to be right, we take to be right just because it is what we are used to” (21). Here Appiah is saying that the activities that we as human beings consider to be orthodox are the activities that we have been accustomed to doing. An example of this that Appiah mentioned is the female genital cutting that takes place in countries such as Africa. To them the removal of the female genital organ is normal while to an outsider it is a very cruel act. It is a very similar scenario with what one believes to be one’s Sabbath Day. If you were born as a Jew then you will be accustomed to knowing Saturday as your Sabbath Day but if you were born a Catholic then you will think of Sunday being the correct Sabbath Day. People of...
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...Analyse the importance of a significant person, a significant practice and ethical teachings within the religious tradition of Christianity within the lives of adherents. Christianity is the worlds biggest religion with about 2.1 billion followers worldwide. It based on the teachings of Jesus Christ who lived in the Holy Land 2000 years ago. St Paul of Tarsus, Saturday/Sunday worship and environmental ethics are 3 of the greatest impacts of Christianity within the lives of adherents. There is no other person apart from Jesus who has had a more significant influence on Christianity within the lives of adherents than St Paul of Tarsus. His influences included his contribution to the establishment of many of the early Christian communities as well as his influence on Christian ethics, liturgy and worship, authority and governance. Saturday/Sunday worship is a significant practice within Christianity as it is the time where Christians gather to honour and celebrate the memorial do the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Christian ethical teachings on the environment are based on Christian sources of tradition and the bible with the principles of the intrinsic goodness of God, stewardship and sacramentality being applied to environmental issues. St Paul was a significant figure within the religious tradition of Christianity. St. Paul is known as 2 names generally, The Apostles to the Gentiles and The second founder of Christianity. Paul was first known when he took part in...
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...RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Religious Background I come from a Catholic family. Since I remember, Sunday has always being the day dedicated specifically to God. We attend mass almost every Sunday. For this religious experience paper, I decided to attend a Seventh-day Adventist Church. I chose to explore this denomination because I was curious to know why they observe Saturdays instead of Sundays as Catholics do. Adventists hold some similar beliefs as many Catholics such as the Trinity, Christ’s divinity, the virgin birth, a physical resurrection of the dead, and Christ’s Second Coming (Brom). However, they believe that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon, the Pope is the Antichrist; in the last days, Sunday worship will be “the mark of the beast”; and that the soul sleeps between death and resurrection (Brom). Ideas Gained through this Experience At the moment I entered their temple, I started noticing differences. I felt everyone was looking at me, as if they knew that was my first time attending their church. Some of the differences I discovered between the Seventh-day Adventist and the Catholic Church are the following: the Adventist Church does not have any images of God, Jesus, Saints or Virgin Mary; all women wear dresses or long skirts, no one had jeans or pants, they do not wear jewelry either; Adventists start their service at 9am and finish at around 2pm, while Catholic masses only last one hour; their pastor wears a regular suit; Adventists take their Bible...
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...church, and taking discipleship class. I developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I learned to build Christlike character, and achieve spiritual victory. In my family going to church was something we did faithfully. I can remember as a little girl every Saturday and, Sunday we would have Morning Prayer at Grandmother’s house. I like going to church, but I didn’t like going every Sunday. When I was a teenager, I would tell myself, when I get older, and move away, I’m never going to church again. When I was eighteen I moved to Atlanta, and I did that exactly, I stopped going to church. At first it was good, I enjoyed my Sundays, working, relaxing, or just doing nothing. Some Saturday nights, I stayed out late, partied knowing that there would be no prayer or church first thing Sunday morning. I did this for many years went by, I didn’t attend church while living in Atlanta. Then one day I started feeling like something was missing from my life, I started missing going to church. First I had to find a church, one that I would enjoy praise, worship and the sermon. I sent out to find that church, and I did that. I went for a little while as a visitor and I joined church at Voices Of Faith. One Sunday, an announcement was made for discipleship class, I didn’t know what the class was about, but I was curious after church I spoke to a representative, and I signed up. Little did I know that the classes were every Monday at 7:00pm for a whole year, and there are four books...
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...Hard to Buy on Sundays Melissa Jaronik English 111-86B October 9, 2012 Final Paper 2 Prohibition ended in 1933, yet seventy-nine years later consumers in Indiana are still affected by its continuing impact. Indiana is one of just three states that do not allow Sunday carry out sales of beer, wine, and liquor. Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky are all benefiting of this law. The tax revenue generated to the states surrounding Indiana should be going to the state of Indiana. The ban of the sale of carry out alcohol on Sunday’s should be lifted in Indiana because, the year is 2012 and religious views should not be dictating consumers lives, thousands of dollars of tax revenue can be gained, it will increase sales to small businesses, and it would also make football fans happy to not have to rush on Saturdays to get their beer before Sunday. Hoosiers should be allowed to buy any form of alcohol and any amount of alcohol on Sundays. It is important to understand the meaning of why laws like banning liquor and beer sales on Sunday are put into effect. Indiana is one of many states that maintain a ban on Sunday liquor sales, even though Sunday sales of alcohol could bring in much needed revenues to the state. Sunday closing laws, often referred to as “blue laws,” generally proscribe all labor, business and other commercial activities on Sunday. These laws prohibit activities ranging from racing motor vehicles and dogs, hunting, operating pawnbrokers, conducting...
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...commonly practiced amongst religions such as Hinduism, and Buddhism, while other religions such Christianity, and Judaism practice “Monotheism” meaning having one sacred god. It is the belief of monotheism religions that God is a spirit that can be felt not seen. They believe that he sits high and watches and hears all that is being done. Polytheism believes the contrast that their god is in the form of an actual being such as an animal, statue, person, or another physical “thing”. Sacred time is viewed as how and when the group chooses to observe there religions. This could be things such as when the religion chooses to meet in their holy house for times of worship or when they choose to fast or feast as a whole religion. For example in the Christianity religion their time of worship is typically on Sundays, and as a whole religious group they partake in a thirty day fast known as LENT. Typically the Jewish group known as seventh day Adventist hold...
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...devil s trap of denying God s sovereignty over the earth. That trap is the ages-long effort to twist and destroy the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. Through Satan s false information and man s trust in traditions over the sure word of Scripture, millions of Christians have been led to discount or even reject the importance of observing the Sabbath. “The seyenth day is the sabbath of the Lord: in it thou shalt not do any work (Exodus 20:10). No one disagrees with the clear meaning of this text, yet millions are finding ways not to follow it. Why? The general Bible ignorance of the church and the clever arguments of Satan have created a climate of prejudice against the holiness of the seventh day in favor of the observance of Sunday. So in the interest of promoting God s law over the theories of men, let s take a moment to rediscover some amazing facts about the seventh-day Sabbath. Fact #1: ‘ The Seventh-day Sabbath Establishes God s Soverelgnty Why does Satan hate the Sabbath so much? Because the Sabbath identifies the true God and His claim of ultimate sovereignty. God certainly anticipated the controversy over the Genesis account of Creation. He knew that after the fall of man, there would be doubts about His claims of manufacturing all the staggering mass of matter by merely commanding it...
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...Black Hebrew Israelites Regina Hoosier Education Corporation of America Virginia College ENG 1020-A June 14, 2016 Some people say Black Hebrew Israelites is a religion. Black Hebrews is a faith. In this essay I will be discussing Hebrew Israelites and why blacks believe they are the descendants of the ancient Israelites. I will also talk about why our people serve a white god and have not waken up to the truth. I will also discuss when Sabbath Day is and why Yah is not praised on a Sunday. I have done a lot of research over the year. I also joined in on a conference call to listen to the Sabbath on Saturdays because I haven’t found an establishment in Baton Rouge. The fact that our people’s minds have been enslaved for centuries, praising a white God the same people who enslaved our ancestors, and yet they still worship this false God but my brothers and sister or waking up. So I chose to do my research on Black Hebrew Israelites and give my brothers and sisters an insight on what Yah wants from his people. Black Hebrew Israelites believe they are decedents of Ahayah, we were the common ancestors of different nations. Hosea (Hoshea 4:6) my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge. I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy Elohim, I will also forget thy children. The true Hebrews identity has been hijacked by posers best described as Appropiation: The action of taking something...
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...they all practice and worship in different ways. They all have certain beliefs, certain rituals and, traditions that they carry. This paper will explain how religious traditions describe and encourage the relationship with the divine; the relationship with the sacred time; the relationship with sacred space or the natural world; and the relationship with each other. This paper will also identify key critical issues in the study of religion. The relationship with the divine is understanding of the divine such as whom or what is sacred. Monotheism meaning one God relates to religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Polytheism meaning many gods relate to religions like Hinduism, Zen Buddhism and, many religions of ancient civilizations. Pantheism which, is drawn from Polytheism means all of nature. God is everything and everything is God. The concept of being or existence is how these religions see their Gods. Most Polytheism beliefs are that their gods come in the form an actually being such as calves, people, statues, physical things. Monotheism believes that God is a spirit, cannot be seen, but felt. They believe that the spirit can hear see and watch you’re observing how these religions have relationships with sacred time. To know the relationship of sacred times, we will need to know what sacred time is. Sacred time is how the religion is observed. Some religions fast or feast, this may include special worship services and regular times of worship. For example Christians...
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...they all practice and worship in different ways. They all have certain beliefs, certain rituals and, traditions that they carry. This paper will explain how religious traditions describe and encourage the relationship with the divine; the relationship with the sacred time; the relationship with sacred space or the natural world; and the relationship with each other. This paper will also identify key critical issues in the study of religion. The relationship with the divine is understanding of the divine such as whom or what is sacred. Monotheism meaning one God relates to religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Polytheism meaning many gods relate to religions like Hinduism, Zen Buddhism and, many religions of ancient civilizations. Pantheism which, is drawn from Polytheism means all of nature. God is everything and everything is God. The concept of being or existence is how these religions see their Gods. Most Polytheism beliefs are that their gods come in the form an actually being such as calves, people, statues, physical things. Monotheism believes that God is a spirit, cannot be seen, but felt. They believe that the spirit can hear see and watch you’re observing how these religions have relationships with sacred time. To know the relationship of sacred times, we will need to know what sacred time is. Sacred time is how the religion is observed. Some religions fast or feast, this may include special worship services and regular times of worship. For example Christians...
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...OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP BLOCK ROSARY CRUSADE BENUE STATE UNIVERSITY, MAKURDI ORDER OF PRAYER/DAILY ACTIVITIES MOTTO: PRAYER, PENANCE AND SACRIFICE MYSTERIES THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY: To be said on Wednesday and Sunday in ordinary time. THE JOYFUL MYSTERY: to be said on Mondays and Saturdays including (SUNDAYS) during Christian time i.e Advent. THE SORROWFUL MYSTERY: to be said on Tuesdays and Fridays including Sundays (during lent) THE LUMINOUS MYSTERY OR MYSTERY OF LIGHT: to be said on Thursdays. STARTING TIME: 7:00pm NORMAL SCHOOL DAYS 1. Hymn “Oh come to the throne of grace” 2. Sign of the cross 3. Rosary intentions 4. Come Holy Spirit 5. You, Lord shall open our lips 6. Calling to mind our sins asking God for forgiveness 7. The reparation prayer 8. The Apostles’ creed 9. Our Father 10. Hail Mary (three times) 11. Glory be 12. Oh my Jesus NOTE: The glory be; o my Jesus, Jesus have mercy on us, are ejaculatory prayers repeated after each decade of the Rosary. 13. Announcement of the appropriate mystery for the day 14. At the end of prayer these prayer follow 15. Hail Holy Queen 16. Let us Pray 17. Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary 18. Let us Pray 19. Catena (all stand, after which all kneel) 20. Let us Pray 21. Mary Immaculate 22. Confer oh Lord on us 23. Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel 24. Prayers of the faithful (Rev. Fr. Dominic Shimawua) 25. Meditation 26...
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...Holy days are different depending on the religion that you practice. Special holy days are set aside throughout the year, these are to honor the gods and commemorate important religious events (Bilhartz, 86). In the Ten Commandments the Jewish weekly Sabbath was the only holiday that was observed. Other important holidays include the Passover, the Pentecost celebrate the Shavuot, and the Feast of the Tabernacles celebrate the Sukkot (Bilhartz, 86). While the Sabbath was observed on the 7th day of the week, they had rest day on Saturday. With time the Christians changed their day of rest to Sunday. They considered the day of Resurrection as the most holy day of the week (Bilhartz, 87). “When the Roman Empire formally embraced the Christian religion...
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...church, and taking discipleship class. I developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I learned to build Christlike character, and achieve spiritual victory. In my family going to church was something we did faithfully. I can remember as a little girl every Saturday and, Sunday we would have Morning Prayer at Grandmother’s house. I like going to church, but I didn’t like going every Sunday. When I was a teenager, I would tell myself, when I get older, and move away, I’m never going to church again. When I was eighteen I moved to Atlanta, and I did that exactly, I stopped going to church. At first it was good, I enjoyed my Sundays, working, relaxing, or just doing nothing. Some Saturday nights, I stayed out late, partied knowing that there would be no prayer or church first thing Sunday morning. I did this for many years went by, I didn’t attend church while living in Atlanta. Then one day I started feeling like something was missing from my life, I started missing going to church. First I had to find a church, one that I would enjoy praise, worship and the sermon. I sent out to find that church, and I did that. I went for a little while as a visitor and I joined church at Voices Of Faith. One Sunday, an announcement was made for discipleship class, I didn’t know what the class was about, but I was curious after church I spoke to a representative, and I signed up. Little did I know that the classes were every Monday at 7:00pm for a whole year, and there are four books...
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...Religion and Belief Systems in Australia post Students learn about: | Students learn to: | Contemporary Aboriginal Spiritualities * Aboriginal spirituality as determined by the Dreaming * issues for Aboriginal spiritualities in relation to: * the effect of dispossession * the Land Rights movement Religious expression in Australia – 1945 to the present * the religious landscape from 1945 to the present in relation to: * changing patterns of religious adherence * the current religious landscape * religious dialogue in multi-faith Australia * ecumenical movements within Christianity * Interfaith dialogue * The relationship between Aboriginal spiritualities and religious traditions in the process of Reconciliation | * discuss how Aboriginal spirituality is determined by the Dreaming * kinship * ceremonial life * obligations to the land and people * discuss the continuing effect of dispossession on Aboriginal spiritualities in relation to: * separation from the land * separation from kinship groups * the Stolen Generations * outline the importance of the following for the Land Rights movement: * Native Title * Mabo * Wik * analyse the importance of the Dreaming for the Land Rights movement * outline changing patterns of religious adherence from 1945 to the present using census data * account for the present religious landscape in Australia in relation to: * Christianity as the...
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...Comparing and Contrasting Judaism, Christianity, and Islam “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” This was said by Stephen R. Covey and it means that similarities relate people to each other but differences cause them to become stronger by making them stand alone. Though they are similar in ways such as having multiple denominations, holy locations, and being linked to Abraham, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are different. They are unique in how they live their daily life, the way they worship, and their ages. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share many similarities but also many differences. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity have many things in common. For example, they all have multiple denominations within their religion....
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