The word Trinity comes from a Latin abstract noun which most literally means "three-ness" (or "the property of occurring three at once"). The term Trinity does not appear in the Bible, and indeed did not exist until about AD 200 when Tertullian (who eventually converted to Montanism) coined it as the Latin trinitas and also probably the formula Three Persons, One Substance as the Latin tres Personae, una Substantia itself roughly derived from the Greek treis Prosoponoi, Homoousios in the early third century. A term which ro ...

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The word Trinity comes from the Latin noun Trinitas, meaning the state or condition of being three, or a group of three persons or things. The first recorded application of this Latin word to Father, Son and Holy Spirit was by Tertullian in about 200. The Greek term with the same meaning, Τρίας, has given the English word triad. The Sanskrit word, Trimurti, has a similar meaning. The earliest Christians were noted for their insistence on the oneness of God, in contrast to the polytheism of the p ...

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The word Trinity comes from the Latin noun Trinitas, meaning the state or condition of being three, or a group of three persons or things. The first recorded application of this Latin word to Father, Son and Holy Spirit was by Tertullian in about 200. The Greek term with the same meaning, Τρίας, has given the English word triad. The Sanskrit word, Trimurti, has a similar meaning. In view of what is stated about Tertullian, it would be vain to look for the word "Τρίας" (Trinity) in the New T ...

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In October 1946, the president of the Watch Tower Society, Nathan H. Knorr, proposed a fresh translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures. Work got under way on December 2, 1947 when the New World Bible Translation Committee was formed. On September 3, 1949, Knorr convened a joint meeting of the board of directors of both the Watch Tower Society's New York and Pennsylvania corporations to announce that work on a modern-language English translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was completed and had been turned over to the Society ...

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Azazel - Azazel in Leviticus. The first appearance of the name "Azazel" is in Leviticus 16:8, when the Lord orders the high priest Aaron to "place lots upon the 2 goats, one marked for the Lord and the other marked for Azazel" on the Jewish Day of Atonement. The goat designated by lot for the Lord is to be used as a sin offering, while the goat designated for Azazel "shall be left standing alive before the Lord, to make expiation with it and to send it off to the wilderness to Azazel" (Lev. 16:10). Aaron was to " ...

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In Judaism it is commonly thought that the canonical status of some books was discussed between 200 BC and AD 100, though it is unclear at what point during this period the Jewish canon was decided. Protestants cite the Old Testament canon defined by the Council of Jamnia in AD 90 as their basis for not including the Deuterocanonical books, where Roman Catholics assert that Jewish council was convened in reaction to the ri ...

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Supporters for this belief generally cite the following primary sources in the New Testament: "Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left." (Matthew 24:40-41) "[Christ] shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all thi ...

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The Zoroastrian sacred scripture is called the Avesta. It is made of many parts written over many centuries. The oldest portion, believed to be the writings of Zarathustra himself, are called the Gathas. Within the Gathas, Zarathustra does not mention homosexuality nor sexuality in general. Zoroastrians who reject the later writings in the Avesta as being corruptions of Zarathustra's teachings believe this is proof that homosexuality is not sinful. However, many Zoroastrians accept the entire Avesta as their religious guide including ...

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The Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, is the highest authority in the Sikh religion. It serves as a guide to Sikhs on how to live positive lives, and details what behaviour is expected of all Sikhs. It is silent on the subject of homosexuality. However, there are parts of the Guru Granth Sahib that have been interpreted to mean that homosexuality is wrong. There are five vices outlined in the Guru Granth Sahib that are to be avoided by Sikhs. These vices are called the Five Thieves. They are Pride (a’Hankar), Anger (Kr’odh), ...

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For Christians, the Bible refers to the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Protestant Old Testament is largely identical to what Jews call the Bible; the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament is based on the prevailing first century Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, the Septuagint. The Bible as used by world Christianity consists of two parts: The Old Testament, largely the same as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. The New Testament, consisting of books added after Jesus' death T ...

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For Jews, the Bible means... Torah - The five books of Moses. The word Torah literally means instruction. It is also called Chumash (Hebrew for "five") and Pentateuch (Greek for "five books"). Neviim - The books of the Prophets Ketuvim - All the other books of the Bible (literally: "Writings"). Judaism has traditional held that along with the Torah God revealed a series of instructions on how to interpret and apply the Torah. The Torah is re ...

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The New World Translation is intended to be a literal rendering rather than a paraphrase. To a very great extent, one English word has been selected for each Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic word and effort has been made to adhere to this rendering, context allowing, and where such would not conflict with their beliefs ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]). Some maintain that this makes the translation sound wooden, stiff or verbose, whereas others feel that it favors accu ...

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The New World Translation is intended to be a literal rendering rather than a paraphrase.[citation needed] To a very great extent, one English word has been selected for each Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic word and effort has been made to adhere to this rendering, context allowing. Some maintain that this makes the translation sound wooden, stiff or verbose, whereas others feel that it favors accuracy, facilitates cross-reference w ...

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The event is described in the Gospel of Luke (2:22-40). According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth to dedicate him to God, in line with Jewish law of the time. Upon bringing Jesus to the temple, the family encountered Simeon; the gospel records that Simeon had been promised "he should not see death before he had seen the Messiah of the Lord." (Luke 2:26) Simeon prayed the prayer that would become known as the Nunc Dimittis, or Canticle of Simeon, and prophesied regarding Jesus. The prophetess Anna (Bible) was als ...

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The idea of the singular authority of Scripture is the motivation behind much of the Protestant effort to translate the Bible into vernacular tongues and distribute it widely. They believed each man should be able to read the Bible for himself and compare the teachings of the Church and the Reformers against it. In comparison, Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism have been motivated by its incarnational theology to translate not only the Bible but also the prayers and liturgies of the church. The Catholic Church also published hundreds of verna ...

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Johnson grounds his argument for theistic realism in several verses in the New Testament and Old Testament of the Bible. Particularly John 1:1-3, Romans 1:20-23, and Proverbs 1:7. As with much of Johnson's work in the area of science and religion, biblical citations are considered convincing arguments since his audience tends to be theists, and particularly Christians who are on the creationist side of the creation-evolution controversy. ...

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All these religions rely on a body of scriptures, some of which are considered to be the word of God — hence sacred and unquestionable — and some which are the work of religious men, revered mainly by tradition and to the extent that they are considered to have been divinely inspired, if not dictated, by the divine being. Abrahamic religion - Judaism. The sacred scriptures of Judaism are comprised of the Tanakh, a Hebrew acronym that stands for Torah, Nevi'im (Prophets), and KetuvimSee also:

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Several women sages and seers are mentioned in the Upanishads, the philosophical part of the Vedas, notable among them being Gargi and Maitreyi. The sanskrit word for female teachers as Acharyā (as opposed to Acharya for teacher and Acharyini for teacher's wife) reveal that women were also given a place as Gurus. In contrast, the Bhagavat Purana, says that women are unfit for hearing the Veda: "And as women, Sudras and the inferior members of the twice-born classes were unfit for hearing the Veda, and were infatuated with the ...

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In his Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus (December 8, 1854), which officially defined the Immaculate Conception as dogma for the Catholic Church, Pope Pius IX primarily appealed to the text of Genesis 3:15, where the serpent was told by God, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed." According to the Catholic understanding, this was a prophecy that foretold of a "woman" who would always be at enmity with the serpent — that is, a woman who would nev ...

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Those Christians who meet together in homes usually do so because of a desire to return to the simplicity of Church meetings as found in the Christian Bible and specifically the New Testament. Rather than formalized meetings and doctrine, the first Christian church showed a simplicity of belief and practice in the New Testament Book of Acts: "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts. 2:38 NASB) "They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking ...

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The Sadducees are mentioned in the New Testament/Greek Scriptures of the Bible. The Gospel of Matthew indicates that the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Matthew 22:29, 31-32 says: 29 In reply Jesus said to them: “You are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. 31 As regards the resurrection of the dead, did you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’? H ...

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The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures has been released in 53 different languages around the globe. Of those, 33 are complete editions: Afrikaans, Arabic language, Cebuano, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Iloko, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Sesotho, Slovakian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu. The Christian Greek Scriptures of the Holy Scriptures is availa ...

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