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...Zen Judaism, which is a frank reflection on the tensions between reason and faith in today’s context of knowledge, and on the need to inject Zen-like meditation into Judaism. This work also treats some issues in ethics and theodi...

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...1. God and Creation 7 2. Torah and faith 13 3. Biblical text and commentary 23 4. Tradition vs. innovation 39 5. The rabbinical estate 47 6. Judaic illogic 53 7. Jewish meditation 67 8. Enlightenment with...

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...nd.AbstractZen Judaism is a frank reflection on the tensions betweenreason and faith in today’s context of knowledge, and on theneed to inject Zen-lik... ...n-like meditation into Judaism.This work also treats some issues in ethics and theodicy.This book is drawn from the author’s larger work Logicaland Sp... ...n or destroy Judaism; ifanything, quite the contrary, I wish to strengthen and save it.But I regard that objective facts and rigorous logic mustimpera... ...thy Leary recommended. A recent example isThe Urantia Book, written in the early 20th Century in the U.S.There are countless more. Indeed, are not all... ...which comes from the Sanskrit dhyana.32 I would similarly advocate Zen Christianity and Zen Islam,to improve the tone of these daughter or sister ... ...usnesses other than one’s own.Still, our main concern here, at least at an early stage ofmeditation, is with meditation on other people. Becoming andb... ...rinciple found in Islam, nodoubt thanks to Jewish influence.With regard to Christianity, the issue is more complex,however. Some Jewish commentators (... ...and history has often shown us, many cases of thisdisease – in Judaism, in Christianity and in Islam, and nodoubt likewise in the other religions. To ... ... environmental component may cause a significant effect, and my early reply is a valid one, as a different conclusion has no scientifi...

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...e of ContentsCover 1facts and history about judaism 3Imprint ... ... 43 44Text: facts about and history about judaismAll rights reserved.Publication Date: December 4th... ...h 2011 43 shawntijudaismby shawnti 2facts and history about judaismJudaism (from the Latin Iudaismus, d... ...ditions and values strongly influenced later Abrahamic religions,including Christianity, Islam and the Baha'i Faith.Many aspects ofJudaism have also d... ...otheism existed inJudaism, including the interpretations that gave rise to Christianity.Moreover, as a non-creedal religion, some have argued that Jud... ...ides. Major changes occurred in response to the Enlightenment(late 18th to early 19th century) leading to the post-EnlightenmentJewish philosophers. M... ... translation of theApocrypha(Deuterocanon in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity), 2Macc. ii. 21 "Those that behaved themselues manfully to the... ...d asan independent state until it was conquered by a Babylonian army inthe early 6th century BCE, destroying the First Temple that was at thecenter of... ...Temple wasconstructed, and old religious practices were resumed.During the early years of the Second Temple, the highest religiousauthority was a coun...

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...After forty years of studying the Bible and reading ancient writings, I noticed two things. First, the Bible must be true because of proofs within the text and the natural world around me. Secondly, there is a lot missing. I read hundreds of books and spoke wi...

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... Of Her My People 30 The New Testament 33 The Law 36 The New Jews 46 The Lords' Name 49 Our Lord's Name 50 Why be called by The Lord's Name 55 Judaism 58 The Feasts 59 The Sabbath 60 The Passover 61 The Feast of First fruits 62 The Feast of Weeks 63 The Feast of Trumpets 65 The Day of Atonement 66 The Feast of Booths 68 Paul and the Feasts 70 History and S...

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... 66The Feast of Booths 68Paul and the Feasts 70History and Science ... ...nlychoice in a small town. It's usually either that orsomething ridiculous and obviously wrong. At leastit has the right God and the right book. Th... ...stit has the right God and the right book. The Truth is simple, obvious and it hasn'tchanged from the beginning of the world. The test isto recogni... ... יEשׁוּוּעAַ Yeshua 6 Christianity & Judaism A Foreign Name The strangest thi... ...ity & Judaism A Foreign Name The strangest thing about Christianity is, It's notOur Lord's Religion. It's not what the disciples w... ... Capitolina, like Micahprophesied.4 Then, a new religion was foundedcalled Christianity. That new religion was associated with manyfabulous stories... ...t in breadth and ninety feet high. But it was in Egypt (an early stronghold of the mystery religion) that the use of the o... ...tianity are actually from theoriginal Babylonian system. The disciples and earlybelievers would never have associated themselveswith such things while... ...care to adopt no solemnity from the Christians.xi Apparently, the early believers tried to shape theChurch according to scripture, but it was...

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...his, to insist on weekly attendance? The answer is very simple. People who 'go to church' every week put money into the collection plate every week! And this now invites a discussion of the 'offertory.'"...

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..., because that was when I had to wear shoes.For church. Otherwise I never did, and my clothingconsisted of one item – swimming trunks. We lived on the... ... South Africa, in a tropical climate thatwas always warm, even when it rained, and so my skin wasbrown, my hair white, and I never felt cold. Then, ... ...brown, my hair white, and I never felt cold. Then, when I was sent to school and had to wear clothes,it was still only on Sundays that I wore shoes.... ...o to church' once a week,"nor did he ever say: "You must 'worship' God." The early Christians invented the concept of meetingonce a week in a specia... ... 6 So what grew out of this weekly habit was a newreligion – 'Christianity.' Was this His intention? Let us pause here to consider ... ...kill them in order to suppress this dangerous, de-stabilizing movement called 'Christianity.' But what exactly was Jesus' intention when he said toP... ...lves,' there would be perfectpeace and happiness in the world. So it was the early church that itself created the idea ofthe new 'religion.' Christi... ... So it was the early church that itself created the idea ofthe new 'religion.' Christianity was never intended tobecome a 'religion.' The term 'Christ... ...ng His death. Eating supper, forthem, would never be the same again. But the early Christian seized on this to create a ritualwhich they insisted wa...

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...f ContentsCover 1Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries 3Imprint ... ...26th 2010 205 Annie BesantEsoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries 2In proc... ...templation of the mysteries of knowledge,we shall adhere to the celebrated and venerable rule of tradition,commencing from the origin of the universe,... ...h thosepoints of physical contemplation which are necessary to bepremised, and removing whatever can be an obstacle on the way; sothat the ear may be ... ...reception of the tradition ofthe Gnosis, the ground being cleared of weeds and fitted for theplanting of the vineyard; for there is a conflict before ... ...ook is to suggest certain lines of thought as to thedeep truths underlying Christianity, truths generally overlooked, andonly too often denied. The ge... ...in a way that injures both--had no place in the virile common sense of the early Christians. S.Clement of Alexandria says quite bluntly, after alludin... ...ssors, and, if spoken as denoting a special and definiteinstitution in the Early Church, would cause a smile of incredulity. It hasactually been made ... ...me a stock phrase.It is necessary, therefore, to prove clearly that in the Early Church, atleast, Christianity was no whit behind other great religion...

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...ng the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative log...

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...Contents Page Introduction 1 Chapter 1 10 Seeking Agricultural Sustainability: Science and Spirituality Chapter 2 20 Immortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipu...

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...Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism Lindsay Falvey ... ...Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism Lindsay Falvey 2005 Ins... ...te for International Development Adelaidei Falvey - Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and BuddhismPublication of ... ... Adelaidei Falvey - Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and BuddhismPublication of this work was assisted by a publica... ...f Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Falvey, J. Lindsay. Religion and agriculture : sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism. Bibliography... ...on entry: Falvey, J. Lindsay. Religion and agriculture : sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism. Bibliography. ISBN 0 9751000 2 5. 1. Sustainable... ...had a major effect on the development ofChristianity. In fact the early teachings of such teachers as theBuddha and Jesus may even relate mor... ...ty in Christianity and Buddhism 14suggested in the Orphic tradition of the early Neolithic periodwith its fertility and related rites being seen as di... ...nt Mediterranean teachings ofimmortality as a means of enhancing its early popularity,which incidentally produced such later aberrations ...

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...Theology is about God and Creation, or more precisely perhaps about our ideas of them, how they are formed and somewhat justified, although it is stressed that they can be neither proved nor disproved. This book is a thematic compilation drawn fr...

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...1. Chapter One 5 1. Logic and mysticism 5 2. On natural proofs of religion 8 3. Theodicy and the Believer’s Wager 17 4. Proof of God by analogy? 25 5. Disproofs of God? 27 2. Chapter Two 35 1. Nagarjuna’s main arguments 35 2. Other issues raise...

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...Compilation. ISBN: 978-1495972195AbstractTheology is about God and Creation, or more preciselyperhaps about our ideas of them, how they a... ...y occasional references to Godin some of my works as misplaced. In this day and age,any reference to God is considered by many as necessarilyapologeti... ...and age,any reference to God is considered by many as necessarilyapologetic and prejudiced. But I insist, my works aresecular and rational works of ph... ...ed and recur,to remain accurate. Only thus can we be reasonably sure.In the early stages of human development, whetherhistorical or individual, we ten... ...es it.It must be said at the outset that there are no unassailableproofs of Judaism’s beliefs; nor are there disproofs. Everyknown argument, one way o... ...acts of faith.10 THEOLOGYThese comments apply equally to Christianity, Islam, andother monotheistic religions. As fo... ...t I had left tooffer myself!4 As for the belief, found in Hinduism and Christianity,that God has appeared in human form (incarnation), it does no... ...bothpositive and negative gods (the Zoroastrian religion, or thecurrents of Christianity which believe in an independentdevil); but in those cases nei... ...s absurd to claim that God did not kill the likesof Hitler or Stalin or Mao early on in their careers, becauseHe wanted to give these evil individuals...

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...More Meditations, which is a sequel to the author’s earlier work, Meditations. It proposes additional practical methods and theoretical insights relating to meditation and Buddhism. It also discusses certain often glossed over issues relating to Buddhism – notably, historicity, idolatry, messianism, importation to the West....

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...1. Go directly and keep going 7 2. Breath and thought awareness 13 3. Self awareness 19 4. Meditation on the self 23 5. Various remarks on meditation 29 6. Mental health 41 7. Behold the mind 47 8. Four foundatio...

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...God's Love Story is a message on God's character and love, from Creation to Revelation. This book traces the breadcrumbs God left us through scripture; specifically His love, Messiah and timeline. Understanding our chapter in God's story helps us expand our limited view on ...

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...……… 38 Chapter 11: Abraham……..………………………………………….…………...………… 40 Chapter 12: God’s Covenant with Abraham………..…………….……………..……………. 42 Chapter 13: Sodom and Gomorrah……………………….……….…………………….……. 45 Chapter 14: Abraham’s Test…………………..………..……………………………………. 49 Chapter 15: Nation of Islam…………………….……………………………………………. 53 Chapter 16: Jacob………………………….………….…………………………………..… 56 Chapter 1...

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...2: God’s Covenant with Abraham………..…………….……………..……………. 42Chapter 13: Sodom and Gomorrah……………………….……….…………………….……. 45Chapter 14: Abraham’s Test………………….... ...00 3Chapter 25: Israel and Judah…………………………………………………………………. 104Chapter 26: Promised Messiah……………………... ...Chapter 26: Promised Messiah……………………………………………………………….. 106Chapter 27: Rome and Judea………………………………………………………………….. 111Chapter 28: Sky Over Bethlehem……………... ...119Chapter 31: Gospel Accounts………………………...……………………………………….. 121Chapter 32: Early Life of Jesus………………………….……………………………………. 123Chapter 33: Baptism…………………... ...… 168Chapter 43: Resurrection………………………………..…………………………………….. 173Chapter 44: Early Church…………………………...………………………………………… 181Chapter 45: Paul……………………...………... ...el. In fact, the three largest monotheisticreligions of Judaism, Islam and Christianity can be traced to the next chapter, so this next part isfundame... ...offering onone of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men wit... ...largestfaith denomination. (not combining Catholicism and Protestantism as Christianity) In fact, therewill be many reading this who adhere to the Mus... ...ion is enough for now. Although many will point tothe similarities between Christianity and Islam, understand that we do not worship the same God.Yes,...

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...ditation is a voluntary exercise intended to increase awareness, sustained over some time. The main purpose of the present Meditations is to inspire and assist readers to practice meditation of some sort, and in particular ‘sitting meditation’. This includes practices such as: observing the mechanisms of one’s thinking, stopping unnecessary thought, forgetting things abou...

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...PART 1: SOME THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS 7 1. What is meditation? 8 2. Thought and meditation 15 3. The goals of meditation 24 4. Theory and practice 31 5. Interpretations 37 6. The coexistence of the One and the many 45 7. Methods and experiences 51 PART 2: UNDERSTANDING THE SEL...

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...Judaic Logic is an original inquiry into the forms of thought determining Jewish law and belief, from the impartial perspective of a logician. Judaic Logic attempts to honestly estimate the extent to which the logic employed within Judaism fits into the general norms, and whether it has any contributions to m...

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... 1. INTRODUCTION. 9 1. The Development of Jewish Law. 9 2. A Logic Primer. 13 a. Some propositional forms and their interrelations. 14 b. Inductive logic. 18 c. Deductive logic. 20 2. ADDUCTIVE LOGIC IN THE TORAH. 27 1. The Art of Knowing. 27 2. Adduction in Western Philosophy. 29 3. Adducing Prophecies an...

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... JUDAIC LOGIC A FORMAL ANALYSIS OFBIBLICAL, TALMUDIC AND RABBINIC LOGIC Avi Sion, Ph. D. ... ... Information:Sion, Avi.Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic.No Index. No Bibliography. ISBN 978... ... ABSTRACT. Judaic logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic is an original inquiry ... ...lmost explicitly formulated already in the Torah of Moses, evidenceof a very early logical maturity, and it is not surprising therefore that they shou... ...and recur, to remain accurate.Only thus can we be reasonably sure. In the early stages of human development, whether historical or individual, we t... ... which are analyzed byH. Maccoby in The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity. The author mentions Paul'sfondness for the argument, but sh... ...ggest is that a-fortiori argument was a rathercommon form of reasoning since early on in the Biblical narrative, and on up to its end, withthe greates... ... whichultimately depend on acts of faith. These comments apply equally to Christianity, Islam, and other monotheistic religions.As for systems like... ...nt I had left to offer myself!292 As for the belief, found in Hinduism and Christianity, that God has appeared in human form(incarnation), it does n...

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...roccasion when my brother invited his friends home I began to explain the gospel to them, and they said, “You’re turning Protestant on us!...You’re no... ...atholic.” I responded byexplaining that the things I was telling them were from the Bible and that they were taught in the early church. While everyon... ...g that the things I was telling them were from the Bible and that they were taught in the early church. While everyone else went to bed, Daniel and I ... ...le and that they were taught in the early church. While everyone else went to bed, Daniel and I continued our discussion until about three o’ clock in... ...tion by faith alone seems too easy.All other religions teach a works based salvation; but Christianity says ―by faith alone.‖ Thisseems to go against ... ...sfellowship.org/pulpit/Posts.aspx?ID=4356>11 Ambrosiaster commenting on Romans 3:24. “The Early Church and Justification.” A Puritan’s Mind.Compiled b... ... Mind.Compiled by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon. Web.<http://www.apuritansmind.com/Justification/EarlyChurchJustification.htm> or<http://www.apuritansmind.co... ... I hope that you do agree. But you do you not realize that every otherreligion except for Christianity seeks to attain salvation by good works and goo... ...s bad as the leprosyitself. When the apostle Paul wrote of his works and righteousness in Judaism he wrote to thePhilippians saying: Beware of the ...

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of...

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... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOS... ... BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON ... .....................................................................................85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY............................................. ...of the Christian religion hasbeen to support the authority of the powers that be? This I say, of Christianity truly socalled, and of the apostasy I ma... ...ving the bonds of Christ, and that it will bring about aconfederacy of the powers now professing Christianity against the Lord and his anointed,there ... ...inary Discourse. Part II.want, as I have heard my sage friend referred to above oft remark, is, ‘Christianity defendedfrom its defenders.’ For while t... ...the evening. The object of our morning diet, to which we assembled at eighto’clock precisely, as early as we could well see, was two-fold; first, to s... ... keen eye spelt theirmoss-grown monuments, and do now delight to remember those the haunts of my earlyyouth, upon this lonely watch tower where the Lo... ...extent also,from that of the Theologians. This precise and formal declaration, which I make thus early,and which as we proceed you will see accomplish...

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...e condensed to combine the world’s stories, which renders Jesus life into Buddhist concepts in an ancient Indian setting. It is not a religious book, and so will appeal to open-minded Atheists, Animists, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Judaists, Muslims, Taoists … and Zoroastrians. Its fluid style is uninterrupted by the copious endnotes and glossary which discretely indica...

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...f Truth 167 Death to Delusion 181 Reborn in Reality 188 Conditioned Life 198 Glossary: Some Etymologies of Names and Places 201 Endnotes 221 Authors Comment: How to Read this Book 236 A Note on Historicity 247 ...

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...n entry Author Falvey, J. Lindsay. Title: Dharma and man : a myth of Jesus in Buddhist India / L... ... Jesus Christ--Teachings. Buddhism--India--Relations--Christianity. Christianity and other relig... ... Buddhism--India--Relations--Christianity. Christianity and other religions--Buddhism. Dewey Number: 294.3372Un... ...ced for free distribution for thebenefit of whoever seeks to understand more of life and themselves. Contents ... ...23T he next phase of the sutra begins with Devapatha. His birth formed the early part of the story just before thatof Dharma himself. Devapa... ...AS MAN 39‘‘I have read for a long time tonight’’, said the father. ‘‘But youarrived early so we have begun Dharma’’s sharing of his experiencesas he ... ... But both accepted it as the normal ageing process.Seeing his son he exclaimed, ‘‘so early, you are indeed enchanted byour Dharma!’’To which the boy r... ... this book is not a defence of one or other religion. Rather, it isan explanation of Christianity through Buddhism. Its message isrationally simple ye... ...sm. Bryan de Kretser’’s 1954 doctoral thesis published lateras ‘‘Man in Buddhism and Christianity’’ by Preethipura, Sri Lanka ...

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...The sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans. This thought-provoking work, besides dissecting the anatomy of Islam, steeped in the Quran, seeks to...

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...should dare torch their Ram Sevaks in a railway coach of that Sabarmati Express seemed to the Sangh Parivar like Saladin crossing the Lakshman Rekha. And that the dalits too joined the hysterical Hindu mobs to burn their persons and property was beyond belief to the ghettoed Musalmans nevermind that many among the rioters were felled by police bullets. In that setting, th...

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...(A Novella)Stories Varied – A Book of Short StoriesOnto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio playsBhagvad-Gita: Treatise of self – hel... ...hagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation)Dedicated to -All those men, women and children, who ever suffered at the hands of bigotson account of... ...n, who ever suffered at the hands of bigotson account of the dogma of their faith, and to those sacrificial animalsthat become victims of religious su... ...s the spiritual ethos of Hinduism and Buddhism onone hand and that of the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the other are sketched herein its rudime... ...not suffer any rivals, seems to have been diluted by the gentiles whoembraced the Christianity in the medieval times. Of course, that was well after ... ...sting to speculate what would have been the religious tenor of theHinduism and its early derivatives, the Jainism and the Buddhism, if only the tribes... ... in which the God created the world, as propounded byJudaism and subscribed by the Christianity, is narrated in the Torah thus: “There were no plants... ...ng. Brahmanicalritual was almost entirely eliminated and was disapproved of in the early pure form ofBuddhism: popular cults such as the worship of tr... ...suppressed castes and the outcasts, it was afailed avatar as Alberuni found in the early 11th century itself. On the other hand, byowning up the Buddh...