.... and Pope Nicholas I. These same conflicts continued until 1054 when Pope Leo the IV excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinoble. Later the Patriarchs called together a council to excommunicate the papal delegates and the new Eastern Rite of the church was born. The Eastern Rite church is made up of eastern Christians that are in unison with the catholic church. There are many things that separate the Eastern Rite Church from the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern Rite Church uses a very Greek oriented tradition with their own liturgy and hymns. The Eastern Rite Church also uses more elaborate icons than the Ro .....

.... looking at world religion on a whole, one finds that Islam was no more violent than any other religion. In fact, not only is Islam not a fundamentally violent philosophy, but we can also see that many other religions normally considered "non-violent," such as Christianity or Hinduism, have been spread through bloody conquest. Thus, in searching for a universal constant of history, we ought not fall into the "fallacy of abstractions," as Sydney J. Harris keenly puts it, and assume that because of isolated incidents and conflicts of territorial ambitions, that all religions have violent tendencies. Islam has, throughout .....

.... the father of both Gods and men, although did not create either. He was a father in the sense of being the protector and ruler of both the Olympian family and of the human race. He preserved and ruled the world. Zeus was believed by the people to posses of almost every form of power and endued with great wisdom. Zeus observed attentively the general intercourse and dealing of people-everywhere demanding and rewarding uprightness, truth, faithfulness, and kindness; everywhere punishing wrong, falseness, faithlessness, and cruelty. As the eternal father of man, Zeus was believed to be benevolently at the call of the poorest and mo .....

.... was written and our earliest copy. There are more than 5,300 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and 10,000 Latin vulgate manuscripts, not to mention the other various translations. Totally there are around 24,000 total MSS for the New Testament. The next closest document in respect to MSS is the "Illiad" by Homer, with 643 manuscripts(McDowell 43). The textual reliability then continues with respect to the time interval between the original and the first known manuscript. The shorter the interval, the more reliable the text is. Homer's "Illiad" was written in 900 BC and the earliest copy was found in 400 BC. This is co .....

.... They viewed the One which they called the true God as having a feminine part which was the Spirit. In accord, they also held that Jesus came from God and the Spirit to form the Trinity. In the Gnostic version of creation of the world the Spirit of God is referred to as the Wisdom of God or Sophia who is also a feminine creative force. It seems she wished to give birth to a creature like herself. She did so without the permission of her partner. She was able to do this by the power within her. The fruit of her desire was something imperfect and different from her in appearance. She was ashamed of it, threw it outside of the .....

.... men." Throughout his life, these people attempted to discredit all of his work and teachings. Eventually, he was taken by these rulers and crucified for his so called crimes. "To the world the wisdom of God is folly and weakness, but to those who are being saved, Christ crucified is the power and wisdom of God. (Matera, 94)" When Jesus was crucified, Paul discovered the paradoxical intentions of God. God intended that his wisdom and glory be revealed through the foolishness of the educated man. "Rather we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rul .....

.... Zeus until Hera discovered him, and, in a jealous rage, warped their brains. In this version of the story, Dionysus was turned into a goat by his father in an attempt to hide him from Hera; from then on he had small horns on his head. After he was safe, he went to live with the nymphs, who taught him to make wine. Hera eventually found him again, and this time she also warped his brain. The nymphs rejected him, and he went to live with the satyrs, who were men with goat legs and horns, and their leader Silenus. Dionysus traveled with the satyrs, who disgusted everyone they encountered with their rude, drunken behavior. Silenu .....

.... and customs that have arisen after the Bible was written may thus be carefully scrutinized. Such practices may or may not prove sound after comparison with scripture. Before we discuss specific issues concerning women in worship, we should consider principles derived from the relationship of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis chapter one. The Apostle Paul frequently uses this passage as a guideline when discussing women and women's issues. Genesis 1 verse 27 states: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Most Commentators agree that man and wo .....

.... dynasty to rule Egypt. He had a long and prosperous reign between 570-526 BC. Six months after his death, Persia invaded and took over Egypt. The period around 560 BC in India was ruled by the Maghuda dynasty which was known to develop a caste system and yet have a laid back lifestyle. It was a strong dynasty ruled by Bimbisora (Shrenik) in Biher. Bimbisora was a great believer in Buddhism, however he was greatly influenced by his Jain wife. After personally seeing the practices of self-restraint and non-violence by Jain monks, he converted himself to be a Jain. His later life was greatly influenced by religion rather than politi .....

.... the potential. For example, in order for a house (which is in the state of actuality), to potentially become a pile of ashes something in the actual state (like a flame), has to cause the house to move from being actually a house and potentially a pile of ashes to actually a pile or ashes. In his third step Aquinas says, “Now it is not possible that the same thing should be at once in actuality and potentiality in the same respect.” He means that something cannot be in both the actual state and the potential state at the same time. For example, a house cannot be actually a house and actually a pile of ashes at the same .....