Content tagged with "faith"
There are lots of theories for why Christians believe Jesus had to die on the cross – called “the atonement” – many of which have been around for over a thousand years. Why Jesus went to his death is generally accepted in Christianity – to save Mankind from their sins and to give Mankind eternal…
There doesn’t seem to be a consistent definition for this. It’s not an organized denomination. From Got Questions: Bible churches are those which profess to adhere to the Bible as their standard of faith and practice. However, they are of no particular Christian denomination , so there is no formal…
In the Old Testament, several people are stated to have lived almost 1,000 years. Is this literal, figurative, or a mistake? One theory says that a simple translation error caused months to be counted as years. If someone was said to have died at 950 years, it was really 950 months, which is 79…
There are dozens of books, chapters, and gospels that were once included in the Hebrew Bible, or that various scholars believe should be included. Some of these books have questionable attribution, or were written by groups that eventually came to be considered heretical. Others are accepted only by…
This refers to things that are allowed under Islamic law. This is the opposite of haram. I kept getting it confused with haram. I knew that was was good and one was bad, but I didn’t know which was which. I sort of thought they were the same word, just spelled different.
This is used to describe anything outlawed by the Quran. It’s the opposite of halal. I read a tweet somewhere about woman not being able to ride in cars because the vibrations will cause sexual excitement, and “this is haram.” I kept getting it confused with halal.