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    Prodigal Son Insight (A critique on the story of the Prodigal Son) The King James version of the bible has influenced generations for hundreds of years. It’s translation into many different languages allowed for the first time people to interpret scripture on their own. This was a high moment in languages of Hebrew, Greek and other versions of Greek such as Aramaic. The King James version was a standard as he authorized the compilation. The works in the bible had a religious aspect as well as told

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    The role of judgment in a political society is important because it influences our relationship to authority. Saint Augustine, The Bible, and Martin Luther describe differing roles of judgement in structuring a political society and its function. While Saint Augustine believes that self judgement encourages people towards order, The Bible inspires people to structure a society that is ordered hierarchically under God. However, Luther would argue that a community’s role of judgement is meant to prevent

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    James I Influence

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    James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James Stuart) The popularity of the King James authorized version of the Bible, published in 1611 is well known; however without research, the history behind this Biblical translation can be obscure. Without the influence of King James VI and I, the translation would not exist. In addition, the life of King James VI and I reflects important societal and personal values that are in conflict today. Born into royalty within a country with

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    However, there are also distinct differences as to how both of these sacrifices initiated. The story of Isaac’s sacrifice starts with God testing Abraham’s by telling him to take his son to Moriah and to offer him as a burnt offering (Authorized King James Version, Genesis 22:1-2). Furthermore, upon arrival Abraham goes the process of the sacrifice, but tells Isaac that God will provide the lamb (AKJV, Genesis 22:8). The complete obedience and faith that Abraham displayed was the reason that God

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    Song Of Solomon Analysis

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    song of Solomon in terms of its linguistic features, and how these compare to PDE (Present Day English). The text contains 51 lines in which to portray these findings. The song of Solomon is written in the King James Bible, of which is also called the authorized version. This version of the King James Bible was written in the year 1611AD (early 17th century), as a translation from the Christian bible dating back many years prior. William Tyndale was the fast person to translate the bible directly in

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    The King James Bible remains the most significant book of all English literature to date, however, a substantial part of the population appears to be ignorant of the history of Bible translation. In this essay, the reader will go through some of the principal names in the history of Bible translation. Particularly important questions will be answered such as, “What are the consequences that ran upwards to the translation of these texts?” “What are the pros and cons of this translation?”, in addition

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    Greek Dichotomy

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    The biblical view and the Greek dichotic view of an artist are very different from each other. This paper will be focusing on explaining the dichotic view of the artist that the Greeks held and the biblical view on the artist. After discussing both the dichotic view of the Greeks and the biblical view, this paper will discuss how the biblical view corrects the Greek view. The Greeks held a dichotic view of the artist (Clevenger et al.). Dichotomy means “division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision

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    Where Did We Come From?

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    Where did we come from? Even children become struck with the question about the origin of life. As tough as it may be to tell a young child how babies are made, it does not compare to the complexity of explaining how the entire universe began. Every human has a natural desire to discover the truth, but it stands as one of the most controversial subjects. Some philosophical minds, Evolutionists or Darwinists, believe everything started with a “Big Bang” and then began to evolve into the world and

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    content and structure of the bible when it is translated. One factor is emotional attachment to already familiar version. Since the group of people revising the bible are Christians themselves, they must have studied an already existing version for their whole life. This is impossible to ignore and it appears intactly on their work, like King James Version (KJV) and Revised Korean Version (RKV). Another factor is the difference in languages. This is important because the structure of language is different

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    Proof Jesus Resurrection

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    Paul’s conversion was a personal appearance which made it a primary source. Habermas and Licona said, “For most, belief is based on secondary sources” (65). Thus, making this sudden change unique and people usually convert due to a secondary source. James was suddenly

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