(Wiki 1) The most significant question to answer after reading this article is: Why did Ellison feel it necessary to swear his oath of office on the Koran? His fellow minority congress members Johnson and Hirono, proclaimed Buddhists, swore in using the Bible. The Koran is defined as the central religious text of Islam. (Oxford 1) Renowned public speaker and author Dennis Prager said, “America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.” (Prager 1) I will summarize this controversial article and provide my analysis. For many years congress members have followed the tradition of their incumbent.
Islam, the youngest religion in all three, was founded by Muhammad. In Islam, Muhammad is the last and the greatest prophet of the God and received revelations from the God. Muhammad agreed with some elements in Judaism and he was familiar with Christianity. He preached the messages which he believed was sent by God in Arabic countries. After all the messages were collected and written down in Koran—the Islamic
3.The Question of Meaning/Purpose-A Muslims purpose is to submit to Allah. They only believe that Allah's guidance is the only guidance as it has been told in the Holy Quran(Sura 6:71). They Believe that the Bible is correct that it has been corrupted and The prophet Muhammad was use by God to be the Last prophet to communicate his plan to mankind
The revelations that Muhammad received are now considered to pivotal text included within the Islamic Qur’an (Islamic bible). It is important to note when trying to understand Islam, that around 631 A.D. Muhammad was able to enter into the city of Mecca and convert all the Arabic tribes to Islam. Islam and Christianity are similar in many ways, however the main difference in the religions lies in their beliefs that God is singular, Jesus was just a prophet, Jesus was not crucified, heaven can be obtained by the works of man (doing good deeds, or bad deeds), and the concept of Trinity is unconceivable. Muslims believe that Allah will judge everyone in the afterlife based on whether or not they had a good belief system, and whether they fulfilled their obligations to Islam. Muslims are obligated to do the
Each of Aquinas’s three ways established a different role of God. His first way, the unmoved mover, follows this set structure of premises; Everything that moves must haves a something that moves it. He rules out the possibility of infinite regress because he believes you cannot have an infinite chain of events without something which at first caused it. Therefore there must be a prime mover, a first mover to which Aquinas states must be God. Thereby the first role of God established by Aquinas in his first way is that God is the ‘prime mover’.
At this point, his uncle Gil affected him greatly. He believed that his uncle Gil is the most religious man in the world, who along his spiritual path, Gil decided to take the Bible literally. Jacobs saw that his uncle Gil did everything the same as Bible’s teachings, and then his decided to follow the Bible literally himself. He had two reasons for that, and the one is the Bible requires him to tell truth. He wanted to write the book, so he had to do the thing.
THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL Presented to Michael O’Brien for BIBL 450 – Daniel/Revelation by Gregory Rains Student ID 23549 July 28, 2011 Of all the controversial texts found in Scripture, perhaps one of the most divisive is the prophecy of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel found in Daniel 9: 24-27. Written while the Jews were in exile in Babylon, this passage was a prophecy spoken by the angel Gabriel given to the Jewish people as a form of encouragement. “Whether Daniel understood all that he heard is not revealed to us, but Gabriel’s message assured him that the nation of Israel would be restored to their land, the city of Jerusalem and the temple would be rebuilt, and God would make provision for cleansing of the nation.” Scholars have disagreed over the interpretation of this passage with several points of view becoming fairly prominent over the years. However, the interpretation of the first sixty-nine weeks of the prophecy having now been fulfilled with the final week yet to come seems to be the most logical application of the text. This view is supported by the research herein and through exegetical study of the Scripture themselves.
Above all other areas of dogma within Christianity, monotheism tops the list. Monotheism is the belief in one God who rules over all. This one God is the creator, and stabilizer of the universe we reside in. Christianity also believes in the Bible being the only set of scripture inspired by the word of God; Virgin Birth; martyrdom; the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; the second coming of Christ; the creation of the world through the one true God; life after death; Hell; Paradise after death; and the Holy Trinity. Above all of these dogmas, the faith in a one creator God who rules the universe is the most important.
Towards Independence essay- Aboriginal Land Rights From ancient times till now, glimpses of laws had always existed, even when people don’t notice it. Back in the thirteenth century BC, the Hebrew Lawgiver Moses designed a set of rules called ‘the ten commandments’ which the Christians obeyed and strictly followed. Muslims also adopted the Five Pillars of Islam based on the teaching of the prophet Mohammed and these are only a few of the examples. Laws are needed to protect the citizens and keep everything in place. However, as time went by the Government started to realise that the current laws are no longer able cover everything and therefore the laws need to be changed.
The oneness of God, the prophethood of Muhammad, and the concept of life postmortem are the rudimental articles of its faith. They are predicated on reason and sound logic. All of the teachings of Islam flow from those basic beliefs and are simple and straightforward. There is no hierarchy of priests, no farfetched abstractions, no perplexed rites or rituals. Muslims believe that god is one while most Christians believe that God is three persons in one and most Jews believe that Aliazer is the son of god.