Q&A: The bible telling the future. (read details)?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by d-dog: The bible telling the future. (read details)?
Atheists how do you explain all the prophecies in the bible that have been fulfilled?

here are some examples.

(1) Some time before 500 B.C. the prophet Daniel proclaimed that Israel’s long-awaited Messiah would begin his public ministry 483 years after the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (Daniel 9:25-26). He further predicted that the Messiah would be “cut off,” killed, and that this event would take place prior to a second destruction of Jerusalem. Abundant documentation shows that these prophecies were perfectly fulfilled in the life (and crucifixion) of Jesus Christ. The decree regarding the restoration of Jerusalem was issued by Persia’s King Artaxerxes to the Hebrew priest Ezra in 458 B.C., 483 years later the ministry of Jesus Christ began in Galilee. (Remember that due to calendar changes, the date for the start of Christ’s ministry is set by most historians at about 26 A.D. Also note that from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. is just one year.) Jesus’ crucifixion occurred only a few years later, and about four decades later, in 70 A.D. came the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 105.)*

(2) In approximately 700 B.C. the prophet Micah named the tiny village of Bethlehem as the birthplace of Israel’s Messiah (Micah 5:2). The fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth of Christ is one of the most widely known and widely celebrated facts in history.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 105.)

(3) In the fifth century B.C. a prophet named Zechariah declared that the Messiah would be betrayed for the price of a slave—thirty pieces of silver, according to Jewish law-and also that this money would be used to buy a burial ground for Jerusalem’s poor foreigners (Zechariah 11:12-13). Bible writers and secular historians both record thirty pieces of silver as the sum paid to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus, and they indicate that the money went to purchase a “potter’s field,” used—just as predicted—for the burial of poor aliens (Matthew 27:3-10).

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 1011.)

(4) Some 400 years before crucifixion was invented, both Israel’s King David and the prophet Zechariah described the Messiah’s death in words that perfectly depict that mode of execution. Further, they said that the body would be pierced and that none of the bones would be broken, contrary to customary procedure in cases of crucifixion (Psalm 22 and 34:20; Zechariah 12:10). Again, historians and New Testament writers confirm the fulfillment: Jesus of Nazareth died on a Roman cross, and his extraordinarily quick death eliminated the need for the usual breaking of bones. A spear was thrust into his side to verify that he was, indeed, dead.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 1013.)

(5) The prophet Isaiah foretold that a conqueror named Cyrus would destroy seemingly impregnable Babylon and subdue Egypt along with most of the rest of the known world. This same man, said Isaiah, would decide to let the Jewish exiles in his territory go free without any payment of ransom (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; and 45:13). Isaiah made this prophecy 150 years before Cyrus was born, 180 years before Cyrus performed any of these feats (and he did, eventually, perform them all), and 80 years before the Jews were taken into exile.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 1015.)

(6) Mighty Babylon, 196 miles square, was enclosed not only by a moat, but also by a double wall 330 feet high, each part 90 feet thick. It was said by unanimous popular opinion to be indestructible, yet two Bible prophets declared its doom. These prophets further claimed that the ruins would be avoided by travelers, that the city would never again be inhabited, and that its stones would not even be moved for use as building material (Isaiah 13:17-22 and Jeremiah 51:26, 43). Their description is, in fact, the well-documented history of the famous citadel.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 109.)

(7) The exact location and construction sequence of Jerusalem’s nine suburbs was predicted by Jeremiah about 2600 years ago. He referred to the time of this building project as “the last days,” that is, the time period of Israel’s second rebirth as a nation in the land of Palestine (Jeremiah 31:38-40). This rebirth became history in 1948, and the construction of the nine suburbs has gone forward precisely in the locations and in the sequence predicted.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 1018.)

(8) The prophet Moses foretold (with some additions by Jeremiah and Jesus) that the ancient Jewish nation would be conquered twice and that the people would be carried off as slaves each time, first by the Babylonians (for a period of 70 years), and then by a fourth world kingdom (which we know as Rome). The second conqueror, Moses said, would take the Jews captive to Egypt in ships, selling them or giving

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Answer by kool dude
Peace

In this AGe of Science and Technology Do you want to win Converts without REASONING.. TIMES HAVE CHANGED DUDE.. CHRISTIANS CONVERTED PEOPLE WHO COULDN’T REASON.. NOW PEOPLE CAN REASON..

BRING A RELIGION WHICH CAN REASON.. AND THAT WOULD STAND THE TEST OF TIME..

THERE ARE MANY UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE.. NUMEROUS.. MORE THAN FULFILLED..

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What do you think of this God theory I made up?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by Dafnoosh: What do you think of this God theory I made up?
I am 14 and exploring what I believe. I was atheist for a time, but I felt I was missing something. Here is what I now believe.

Science and spirituality seem to be very different things, but spirituality is just science that isn’t provable by science (yet). The Big Bang Theory and God is one and the same. God is anything we want Him to be, because God IS EVERYTHING. Different descriptions of God, aka different RELIGIONS, can exist peacefully together. We can say God is the God of Moses, Buddah, Jesus, Muhammad, and the creator of every other religion. You can organize your belief in god any way you’d like. Add any structure you want. You can see god from different points of view. But in the end it is all the same thing – the same God.
Now what is science? It’s learning and understanding. There is so much that scientists don’t yet understand. That doesn’t mean that what wasn’t proved by science doesn’t exist. Souls. goodness, Ghosts, spirituality, afterlife. It’s more complicated than the hardest math equations, but it may very well exist anyways.
God is science in its completion. God is what we do and do not understand. God is a creator and creation itself, with all its mysterious and complex techniques, formulas and ways.We are still discovering new things and correcting old theories and formulas. But God is existence and nonexistence. God is everything and nothing, all we understand and can never dream of understanding.
God is just a name. Don’t let it limit your thinking and close your eyes to the possibilities of God – discoveries, knowledge, mysteries, the unknown.
Life and death. Good and bad. Ghosts and aliens. Another earth out there somewhere. A human colony in space.Space travel. Time travel. Multiple universes. Physics revolution. Antimatter. Computers that can create formulas for us though we can’t even begin to understand them (it’s true, look it up!). Mystery elements. Telepathy. The power of our mind. Mortality. Morality. What do we have in store for us?
Why stop ourselves from discovering as much as we can? What kind of God is a creator that doesn’t want us to learn and grow?
You know how the school subjects are all interconnected? Science can be found in History and English can be found in Science and Gym can be found in Math, etc. Every way you look at it, it’s all the same. It’s the same thing with God being everything.

I’m Jewish and will probably continue being Jewish. But I am seeing science as the part of God that is easiest to understand. It’s the part of God that was proved so far. Ultimately, God is a name, metaphor, a symbol, symbolizing all that is possible and impossible.

I will continue lighting the shabbat candles, the chanukiah, praying, telling my future children the stories of the Torah (with GOD’S HELP I willl :P ). But I will do it all with greater understanding and deeper meaning and appreciation. I will go beyond the traditional Jewish life though; I will discover more and more, telling others of my ideas and discoveries along the way. I will learn and explore until God will not allow me to continue.

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Answer by Scott
From what I can see you are wise beyond your years and seems to ring a lot of truth. And I like what you have thought up.

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Can someone edit my essay plzzz it is very important?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by : Can someone edit my essay plzzz it is very important?
The Tale of My Life

“I am honored to be here tonight, as a guess speaker ,and upholding this award. My name is Eyrk Ryncarz and this is my story.”
There were four of us in the family including Mitzi, our little German Affenpinscher. We were prided Poles and proud Jews. Although we weren’t religious, we were still Jewish and we celebrated every major holiday as any Jewish family would. I began assisting my mother on the household bill when my father died. I dropped out of my studies at the City College and got a job as a baker’s assistant. I made 55 zloty a day. My little sister Jasa was starting middle school then; it seemed only yesterday when I began changing her diapers.

Life was harder then, and even harder now, still, we found ways to keep on living and even ways to have fun. But then everything changed. September 1st, 1939 was a day I will never forget. I can still recall the scent of mother’s famous blueberry that woke me up for work.

That noon, we were attacked by Germans. Fighter planes bombard the town square. Within minutes, Wieluń center was in ruins. In panic, I ran home, still wearing an apron, dusty with flour. My village was virtually “untouched”
“We’ve been bombed, by Germans!” I shouted.
“Wha—what” stuttered mother, who was by then shaking.
Too awed to talked, we started packing in silent. We handed Mitzi to a neighbor who we ere going on a vacation before school started.
For two days we hid under in a abandon church, then the third day we were confronted by German soldiers. I stared them right in the eyes. One of the soldiers took Sarah from my mother’s hand and dragged her to a truck crammed with other children of the same age. Naturally punched him, hard enough that my knuckles became dislocated. The soldier stared back at me with the eyes of a tiger and yelled an order.

“Manschette ihn und bringt ihn in die Viehwaggons”.
Mother was part German, she must have understood. She signaled me to run and slipped a gold ring and an old watch into my pockets.
We ran as fast as we could, but my mother couldn’t keep up. The soldiers opened fire, and my mother froze. The Germans cuffed her, and dragged her to a different truck, but as crowded as the one that had just swallowed Sarah.

As far as I know they went straight to the gas.

A soldier motioned with his rifle for me to get on a truck, but I knocked him down and ran into the woods by the side of the road.
They fired at me but I was soon lost in the trees.

After many days of travel by night and lying low during the day, I came to the border. German soldiers were patrolling, but I timed their patterns and managed to slip across into Switzerland.

I smuggled my way to England, bribing a couple of German man soldiers who felt compassion. Once settled, I joined the RAF. I served as a radio operator in the bombing raids against German strongholds in France.

Sometime later my plane was damaged by antiaircraft fire and we ditched in the English Channel. We were picked up a few hours later by the Valiant, an American battleship. The friendly sailors gave us dry clothes and hot meals. When the Valiant returned to its British base, I rejoined my unit. The British government gave us medals.

Thank You.
As I finished my story, I’ve notice some students were sleeping, those who were not look bewilder. I’m proud I helped to defeat the Nazis, but I never saw Jasa or my mother again. The story to today still chokes me up. Sometimes I look back and I’m still impressed how far society has risen up in my lifetime. But even more so I was proud of myself for making the world a better place for future generations.

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Answer by Ana
It was really good. I’m kinda confused on what it was. Were you talking about a speech? Anyway, you do need to keep the same tense throughout the paper. eg: That noon, we were attacked by Germans. then you had: Fighter planes bombard the town square.
You do need to indent on your paragraphs too. Oh, and what is Mazis? You need to explain what things are such as the RAF. Even though you know what it is, some readers might not. Your paragraphs are tiny. Some should go together and make a bigger one. Besides that, your paper was very good. I loved the detail.

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I am confused, how did Jesus’s death bring good in the world?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by Lord Jeeves: I am confused, how did Jesus’s death bring good in the world?
I mean think about the circumstances before and after his death and what God knew.

God knows

1. everything
2. past
3. present
4. future

Jesus’s death

1. After death Jewish people blamed
2. antisemtism begins
3. next 2,000 years Jewish people are feverishly persecuted, killed, enslaved, humiliated, etc.
4. Holocaust, (1933-1945)
5. Israel is now a country (1947)
6. Palentinians try to oust Jewish people out of Israel through a series of three wars

Facts about Israel

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/is.html

brief history of antisemitism

http://www.humanitas-international.org/holocaust/antisem.htm

So the question here is if God knows everything, including the past, present, and future and he still carried out his plans to sacrifice his son, even though he knew that antisemitism would be the end result would antisemitism? He clearly created a 2,000 year conflict. He knows the past, present, and future. I mean how could he not see that coming? He sees everything, right? Wasn’t there a different way to end the conflict instead of killing his son? What good did that bring?

Wait his death was a representation of all the sins right? Isn’t God the president of the department of judgment? You know the lead judge? Couldn’t he just get rid of the policy that all men go to Hell for their sins and are instead forgiven? This isn’t making sense? Why did Jesus do something that God could’ve done? I mean God was perfectly able to get rid of the idea of people going to Hell for the sins in their life. God is all powerful. Why did he need to send his son, wait 33 years for him to preach and then kill him? He created the world in six days. He could’ve ended the go to Hell policy with a snap of his two fingers. This isn’t making any sense.
Adun Toridas: True but when Jesus died 90% of antisemitism came from the saints, apostles, chruch leaders, etc. antisemitism was nothing compared to when Jesus died. Nothing.

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Answer by Adun Toridas
Jewish people were treated poorly even before jesus christ was born.

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Beginning of a future novel, maybe – please critique?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by Marc Hector: Beginning of a future novel, maybe – please critique?
We live in an era with one overarching rule: a single man is worth little; he measures for not much. Ideals are outlawed as fanciful caricatures of reality deformed in all dimensions. Romance is a saga sold to soppy adolescent souls. Genius is stifled as abnormality, eccentricity, or plain pretentiousness. This is a worldview in which dreams cannot change anything. A man and a woman are no longer that, but a series of mathematical formulae expressed in physical terms, explained fully in biochemical reactions, mapped out as genetic code, and written off as an item of chance – a cosmic game, played without a player, with a die of infinite sides, on a board with no end in sight.
This was the philosophy in fashion when Carmel Freiberg, daughter of a rich Jewish gentleman from East Germany, registered to the Symposium, the proudest ecole in Europe. It was here, in this institution situated atop a mountain, aloof from the swarming forest, where she was to meet the one exception to that overarching rule. His name was unknown to her, as was his profession; his students called him master, his colleagues addressed him as maestro.
He called himself ‘the Sensationalist’.

Before she knew him, she was Carmel Freiberg: a girl of nearly seventeen, auburn hair, eyes of light grey. She had high hopes in becoming an acting star, wearing the classiest dresses while staging in the limelight. A few months later, she was simply Carmelita, seventeen solid, same hair, same eyes. But now she spent time barely clothed, lying meditatively still, and the lights especially dim. Her once lively soul was tamed, and was now a different person. Her genetic code had not changed, of course. The woman inside her had. This is the story of that transformation, and the man who made it happen.
He was the artist, and she was his to mould. He orchestrated it like the musician he was: smooth, subtle and sombre. And in true classical form, he played it out in three Acts.

There was no chance of this happening, yet, as Carmel and her family arrived at the gilded gates in a horsedrawn carriage.
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Target audience: adult and young-adult

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Answer by e.serenity
Wow, it’s good. lol, sorry I’m not good at this. One thing I noticed was the “horsedrawn carriage” made it seem like it was taking place in the past. I also liked the description about the “cosmic game.” Sorry I couldn’t help much. Good luck.

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I decided to let go of my girlfriend. Its hard to not feel bad?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by forme2now: I decided to let go of my girlfriend. Its hard to not feel bad?
Hi all- I share my feelings on this board, for it actually feels therapeutic. Though if any of you can add “your two cents”, that would be greatly appreciated. About 3 weeks ago, I broke up with my girlfriend of four months. This was the kind of girl, that most men decide to marry and have kids with. Physically she was amazing, she was a sweet girl, usually always had the right intentions, though like a lot of woman, she has her own agenda.

What that agenda was, I am not entirely sure, regardless, that is not why I am writing. I am a career driven man. For I am only twenty years of age, most of my life has been dedicated to my work, I LOVE my work. I feel its important to allow yourself to be passionate about your goals in life. If one interrupts or is not meshing with your points of views, then I think its safe to let the cat out of the bag. So this is what I did. For 4 months, I literally spent every single day with this woman. We laughed in the beginning, and I enjoyed. We played tennis, I brought her into my world. With little to no worry about the future. Shortly into the beginning of the relationship, we both decided to have exclusivity amongst eachother. That allowed me to be at ease, in addition to her. The relationship was off to a fun start. I thoroughly enjoyed being with this girl, though when your brain and instincts and body tell you otherwise, you can help but ask yourself “why”?. Why would one question a relationship. It could be many things. This woman came here from Tennessee, she came to an area, where its hard to find your way. Either you sink, or you swin. I was swimming, and swimming high, my career was on its way up, and she was still trying to figure out what she wanted to do in this town. She was from the south, I am a Jewish boy from the valley. She needed a lot of attention to maintain this relationship. She always stated that she “liked to be taken care of”. Quite honestly, this no longer felt like a relationship to me. It felt like a burden. As much as I liked her physically and sexually. I couldn’t carry myself to care for as much as she cared for me. Her dependence and lack of motivation, put a damper on my life and my career. I had lost my life well into the relationship. I was twenty, and very unhappy, I felt so trapped. I felt so lost, all I could think of is, “not taking a stand”, and living a life that I did not want.

Why should you be twenty and unhappy with a girl, let alone be fifty and unhappy with a “woman”. You should not, I feel that , if you like someone, you should enjoy being with them. Respecting each others time and space was important. My problem was, I wanted my space, almost too much. I don’t think she entirely understood.

It was not only my responsibility to give her all the attention that she wanted, though I had to help her find a job, find her furniture for her apartment. I wanted a relationship, though not with this heavy unhappy feeling. I didn’t like it, I lost my attraction for her in four months. I went from liking her to not liking her. I abruptly ended our relationship. From seeing her everyday for four months, to saying goodbye, and not talking one wink. The funny thing is , I don’t want to talk to her. I just want to get away, I don’t want to talk with her until Im healed of my attachment to her. I barely think about her. Though I feel hurt every so often, and want her back. I have dreams about her, though I know the decision I made was best for me. I feel it in my heart. I guess that this is what it comes down to. I know it was the right thing, though I am still a little sore from our relationship.

I was so drained when with her, I am better now, I guess I am having my withdrawal symptoms still… any thoughts guys?

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Answer by ЅсѓèŵҮоύ☺
I feel for both of you. Like you said, you needed the space and she needs to think about her future or goals. It’s better to be honest with her. Maybe you could e-mail this whole question to her so that she would know why you broke up with her and just hope that she will understand.

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Q&A: The Secret Life of Bees and The Color of Water?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by Nike: The Secret Life of Bees and The Color of Water?
Please help me come up with examples from the two books of one more similarity between Ruth/Rachel/Mommy and Lily. Here is what I have so far (I am miserable at English):

Lily and Ruth were both raised with values that became obsolete later in life through interactions with certain individuals. Through spending time with and thinking more about Rosaleen, Lily realizes that some degree of racism was ingrained in her because of T. Ray and other white racists among whom she grew up. However, her love for and relationship with August and the Boatwrights demonstrates to her that this racism truly was not deep-seated; it was based neither on reason nor on her own experiences. Though she was not extremely prejudiced to begin with, the individuals surrounding her caused her first to have racist attitudes, then, surrounded by different individuals, recognize that race is truly insignificant. Lily changes her whole attitude towards African-Americans, realizing that they are no different from whites. Ruth was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family with a vehemently racist father but came to marry two black men and have their children, and to become a Christian. Ruth already realizes that Tateh’s racist attitudes are asinine. However, Dennis encourages her to become a Christian, finally leaving behind her Jewish life for an ultimately happy future. Though some people pass unnoticed through one’s life, others leave lasting and irreversible impressions.

Oh and if you could give me some ideas for a thesis, that would be great.

Thanks!

By the way, I am not just being lazy. I have tried so hard to do this. I’ve had probably 5 theses that the teacher pretty much just stared at in disgust. I am terrible at English, and your help would be monumentally appreciated.

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Answer by Imaka
Here are a couple of sites I found that may be of some help to you for your work with The Color of Water.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/colorofwater/

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/colorwater/

Some help for The Secret Life of Bees:

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmSecretLifeOfBees01.asp

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/secretbees/

http://litsum.com/secret-life-of-bees/

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show_tag?name=secret-life-of-bees

http://www.k4teens.info/Stories/SecretLifeBees.html

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need help with world history!!!warning you all that there is 42 questions but PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by UCPB: need help with world history!!!warning you all that there is 42 questions but PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!?
i have this take home test to do for the weekend and i dont know more than half the stuff here and this test is a huge chunk of my grade. Just please help me out because i only have 3 days to do this . I’ll give at least 10 points for the best answer. I know it’s tedious but just think of how long it took me to type this crap. if youre willing just please help me out. i have so much other work to do aside from this..thanks to anyone who answers

1.What set Jews apart from other people of the Roman empire?
a.they did not fight in armies
b.they lived in the eastern mediterranean
c.they prayed to a single god
d. they prayed to their Gods everyday

2.Who first migrated with his family to Canaan and there founded the isrealite Nation?
a.David
b.Solomon
c.Moses
d. Abraham

3.The most sacred text of the Jews is the…
a. Torah
b.New Testament
c.koran
d. Dead sea scrolls

4. The jewish worldview is that
a. the gods direct human actions
b.religous leaders are above God’s law
c,people are free to amke moral choices
d.prophets can predict the future

5.Which religion was begun by a Jewish group after the diaspora?
a. Islam
b. Christianity
c. Hellenism
d. Universalism

6.Why did Jesus upset some jewish authorities?
a.He encouraged people to disobey jewish teachings.
b.He went to Jerusalem to spread his religious method.
c.He interpretd jewish beliefs in new ways
d. He claimed to be a descendant of Augustus Caesar
d.they prayed to their gods everyday

7.Christians fullfill their Covenant with God by their
a.strict observance of the law
b.love for humankind
c.faith in Jesus
d.hope for a better life

8.Why did Romans persecute early Christians?
a. Romans suspected Christians of disloyalty
b.Christians had tried to overthrow the Roman goverment
c.Romans did not allow other religions to exist in that empire
d.Christians caused social and economical problems

9. Achievement of thomas Aquianas was to
a. prove that Jesus was the son of God
b.declare that faith and reason exist in harmony
c.make the Roman catholic church rich and powerful
d.reunite the Roman catholic and Orthodox churches

10. Which statemnt describes the rlationship of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
a.Islam and judais are both based on Christian teachings.
b. Christianity and Judaism have little in common with Islam
c.Islam’s monotheism shaped Jewish and Christian beliefs
d. Christianity and Islam were strongly influnced by Judaism.

11.English king Henry II is well known for..
a.inventing feudalism
b. defeating the vikings
c.writing the magna carta
d.expanding the legal system

12.One impirtant principle in the magna carta was that
a. the king could make the law
b.the nobles had certain rights
c.Parliament was all powerful
d.democracy was the best system

13.The English Civil war was fought between
a. parliament and king
b.puritans and protestants
c. the Houses of Parliament
d. the Stuarts and the Tudors

14. what did the Glorious Revolution prove?
a. that England would no longer accept a king.
b.that magna carta was accepted throughout England.
c. that the monarchy had grown more powerful than parliament
d.That parliament had grownn more powerful than the monarchy

15.Before they could be crowned, William and Mary had to
a. agree to become Roman cathoics
b.promise to become absolute monarchs
c.accept the English bill of Rights
d. agree to establish a democracy

16. Which Greek city state was a feared warrior society?
a.Sparta
b. Thebes
c.Athens

17. In the republic, Plato argued that
a.Athenian democracy should be expanded to include women
b. the state should regulate every aspect of its citizens lives
c. the experience of the senses led to genuine knowledge

18.Which document signed by King John in 1215, helped to establish the democratic right of “due process of law”
a.Magna Carta
b. English Bill of Rights
c. Petition of Right

19. how did the hundred years war change England politically?
a.Parliament established heabeas corpus.
b. parliament established the english bill of rights.
c. Parliament won the “power of the purse.

20.How did the scientific revolution lead to the enlightenment?
a. It gave monarchs more power
b. it helped factories to grow larger and factory owners become rich
c.it encouraged people to use reason to try to understand social, political, and economic issues.
d. it extended the natural rights of european Citizens

21.Who wrote that people have a natural right to overthrow a goverment that violates their rights?
a. thomas Hobbes
b.Johnn Locke
c.Immanuel kant
d. Adam Smith

22.The philosophe who used sarcasm to expose goverment abuse was
a. de stael
b. Diderot
c. montesquieu
d. Voltaire

23.Which book stated that only freely elected goverments should impose control on people?
a. Levithan
b.The Social Contract
c. the critique of Pure Reason
d. The Wealth of nations

24. Which statemen

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Answer by katystabler
I can’t do your homework for you. Here is one answer: 20. C

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Q&A: How is Jesus, Moses, known by Muhammed or by the religion he started?

October 7th, 2010 Admin

Question by lyn1136: How is Jesus, Moses, known by Muhammed or by the religion he started?
See previous Ques.How is Jesus, Moses etc.,
Little by little the band of Believers grew. Higher ranking persons joined. But Muhammad’s relatives in Makkah were divided. One uncle, Abu Talib, father of Ali who stayed with him; [Ali will later claim and slay his way to succeed Muhammad] another uncle turned against him, and in typical Muhammad style, Muhammad that uncle “Father of Hell” a Surah modeled on the old Arabic invective poems). Later such reviled statements are to become a tool of fear and control for any dissenters. Those who followed him, however, were unimpressed by the boycott of his family and could not be suppressed. Nor did Muhammed’s followers win over the majority of the Makkans. Even after the family deaths in 619, when he family protected him, his position (of self-acclaimed prophet) was grim. He migrated to Abyssinia and counted on the Christian support against the pagans. But his position remained weak and he decided to concede to the Makkans their three chief goddesses as at least intercessors with himself to God. Soon, he revoked his concession and his departure from strict monotheism. A compromise was no longer possible with himself and several godheads, and death threats on his life surrounded him. He escaped the murderous attempts by seeking refuge in Madinah, 250 miles north, a town rent by hostile clashes between two tribes, Aws and Khazraj, and between these and three Jewish tribes. A compromise could only be brought by an outside arbiter. Envoys from the town approached Muhammad and he gladly obliged to intervene in 622. This was a final breach with his native city, Makkah. From this event Muslims date the beginning of their era. Henceforth Muhammad had secured his authority. He overcame difficulties at first by creating blood ties [with forced concubines] between the settlers, the Muhajirun and the natives, the Ansar, and he issued an ordinance which obliged everyone to protect the Muslims! Here began the “royalty” of a lineage and of unjust rule, so much despised in other future countries in Medieval centuries.
see Jesus, Moses, known by Muhammed, etc. pt. 3
Thank you bDeau, your information supports all the research done on Muhammad for fourteen centuries. The scholars are with you on your knowledge. I had wished you to include your references. Mine are in the other questions beginning How is Jesus, Moses, parts 1 and 3.
See Question: How is Jesus, Moses, known by Muhammed or by the religion he started? (pt 1 & 3)
Works are every language, the subject is well documented by every major university in
the world by scholars in nearly every researchable language. The following books will lead to the full bibliography of reference works, which is so vast that even then only a
tentative list can be given here.

The Age of the Caliphs, History of the Muslim World, Spuler, Bertold, 1969; Weiner, Pub. Princeton.
Encyclopedia of Islam, 1936, 4 vols.
Handbuch der Religionswissenschaft, Mensching, Gustav, 1948, Berlin.
Spuler, Bertold, Der Verdere Orient in islamischer Zeit, Berne, 1952, (lists works pub. 1937-51)
Zambaur, Eduard von, Manuel de genalogie et de chronalogie pour l’histoire de l’Islam, Hanover 1927, 2 ed. 1955.
La vie de Mahomet, Dermenghem, Emile, Paris 1929; tr. by Arabella Yorke, The Life of Mahomet, London 1930, tr. by Resat Nuri, Muhammedin
How is Jesus, Moses, and other important prophets looked at by Muslims in reference to Prophet Muhammad?

In the question above began the first part of my reply giving the researched scholarly history of not only Muhammed, but of the entire locale in which he lived, beginning with the history of the Caliphs, using extensive nepotism, which evolved into a religious dogma, another story in itself to retain control. These notes found in The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History, p. 32. Pub. London, England, 1961, Colin McEvedy, author.
mupet000…
… I do see a huge ammount of worthless text that I’m not going to read.

You are quite right. It is the ignorant who will not read. How else can they protect their cherished abominable ignorance?

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Answer by mupet0000
I’m sorry, I don’t see a question – but I do see a huge ammount of worthless text that I’m not going to read.

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to those who answered this quest(here’s what i think of the world’s major 3 religions)?

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Question by nordliga vandrare: to those who answered this quest(here’s what i think of the world’s major 3 religions)?
i asked that quest yesterday and all i got is a bunch of negative comments and the reason why .i think. is that u didn’t understand what i meant by :
ISLAM strange and thus it will always remain( i didn’t make that out) but the prophet muhammad says in a HADIT what nearly means
( islam began strange and it will end strange) and the self-same thing about atheism when i said that it will reign in the far future(again i mnt the one who made that out) the prophet says in a HADIT that a time shall come where men will consider religion as a myth or something and they’ll say to each other that they heard their fathers say something about God who they used to worship.
jesus didnt call to a new religion he was jewish and he just like the former prophets he came to finish what they started that’s why i considered christianity as a big lie.
so what do u think

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Answer by John R
This is what I believe: when Jesus was here He said to the priests of its time that “when Abraham was I AM”, meaning that He had existed BEFORE Abraham, in spirit, as the Son of the Almighty. Abraham communicated with God, because the scriptures say ‘he was God’s friend”. This happened around more than 2000 years before Christ would be born, this time as a baby human, with God as His Father. It was only 650 years AFTER His birth that Mohamed was born, and he was very much knowledgeable of the hebrew scriptures because there had been many jews living in Medina nat the time. He must have heard these relates and he wrote things that had relationship. My question is how is it you consider ‘christianity’ a big lie? What part of it? what time? which segment of it?
This tells me you know little about a subject you call a ‘big lie’. Don’t you think you must read something BEFORE judging?

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