Christianity

"The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber. To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan."

"And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth."

"May God enlarge Japheth, And may he dwell in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant."

"And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel: "Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and they served other gods.""

"The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. 18 Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber. To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was [b]Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Abram, who is Abraham."

"(about the genealogy of Jesus)...the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech..."

"(About the toledot) And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder. The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Arphaxad begot Salah, and Salah begot Eber. To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations."

"In inter-Christian disputes, the name of the game is always to demonstrate that your own position is the truly Christian one while the opponent’s is “heretical”. But Christianity is very broad-based and admits of many more contradictory positions than Islam, for instance. Thus, you can find theological support for both pacifism and Holy War, for both social justice and obedience to authority, and so on. So in practice everyone is somebody else’s heretic on solid scriptural grounds. Whether you end up getting condemned as a heretic only depends on which doctrinal party is in power. ... It is precisely the apologist’s job to argue for the essential Christianity of what now counts as respectable and good, and to show the profound un-Christian nature of what now stands discredited or is held in contempt."

"I'm going to spend my life backing up people [who have] proved they care about people and God. When I could no longer do that through World Vision, that's when I resigned and started Samaritan's Purse."

"In the wake of World War II, YFC established “invasion teams” that the organization deployed for three- to six-month evangelistic tours to win the world for Christ. In contrast to typical career missionaries, these international evangelists exported their style of American revivalism. Short evangelistic sermons alongside upbeat music, Christian celebrities, and massive promotion, coupled with America's new global cachet, heightened international curiosity."

"As its motto, “Geared to the times, but anchored to the rock,” claimed, YFC embraced popular culture, American civic faith, and a potentially global outreach. Torrey Johnson, YFC's first president, told Time magazine that his organization's goal was the “spiritual revitalization of America and the complete evangelization of the world in our generation.”"

"We find all these and much more about the cross in contemporary writers, but none of them mentions a similar arched cross as existing in Malabar, although another cross and inscription of the kind in Malabar or elsewhere would most naturally have been brought to the notice of the Malabar and Portuguese Christians in general, and visited, observed, studied, sketched and described in their letters and books by contemporary writers. In the present state of my knowledge therefore I cannot but come to the conclusion that there was not even a single Pahlavi-inscribed arched cross seen in Malabar in or about 1547, the year of the discovery of the mount cross, and that the numerous crosses mentioned by Gouvea as existing in Malabar in 1599 were all imitations of miraculous Mount cross. These were not more than 53 years old when Gouvea heard in 1599 that they had been set up by Saint. Thomas himself or the first Christians of the first century."

"The Pahlavi-inscribed crosses of South India are one of the most celebrated examples of the vestiges of ancient Indian Christianity since their discovery by the Portuguese. Church historians have recently been successful enough to bring back the use of these crosses among Syriac Christians of India by explaining the historical background, purpose, and artistic syncretism during the 8th and 9th centuries. Today, almost all of the Christian world accepts these facts and interprets them as a continuation of the parallel developments that took place during the 6th–10th centuries in Persia, Central Asia, China, etc."

"GENESIS, KING JAMES BIBLE 8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the also in the midst of the garden, and the . 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads."

"BOOK 4. THE ARGUMENT Satan now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprize which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despare; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and scituation is discribed, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a on the , as highest in the Garden to look about him."

"By the garden of Eden in the Word is not meant any garden, but intelligence; and by tree is not meant any tree, but man."

"According to Gen. ii. 9, there stood in the midst of the Garden of Eden a "tree of life," apparently by the side of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil." Although Gen. iii. 3 seems to presuppose but one tree there, Gen. iii. 22 asserts that, after the primitive pair had eaten of the tree of knowledge, they were expelled from Eden lest they should put forth their hands and take of the tree of life and live forever. The view of the writer was that Eden contained a tree the magical power of the fruit of which conferred immortality upon him who partook of it, though Yhwh prohibited mortals from partaking of this fruit."

"The Tree of Life can never be disjoined from the Tree of Knowledge for both have one and the same root."

"Ardens sed virens."

"The Independents, whose first station Was in the rear of reformation: A mongrel kind of church s, That served for horse and foot at once, And in the saddle of one steed, The Saracen and Christian rid, Were free of every spiritual order, To preach, and fight, and pray, and murder."

"The bloody Bear, an independent beast, Unlick'd to form, in groans her hate express'd."

"The mayor will be here any minute his bloody self, and we’ll pass round the hat for the reverend so as to fix his Pressie kirk up."

"The presbyter, puffed up with spiritual pride, Shall on the necks of the lewd nobles ride; His brethren damn, the civil power defy, And parcel out republic prelacy. But short shall be his reign; his rigid yoke, And tyrant power, will puny sects provoke; And frogs and toads, and all the tadpole train, Will croak to heaven for help from this devouring crane."

"Five or six guys get up on the bimah on the stage, and they are facing the congregation. They get their talit over their heads, and they start this chanting, I think it's called duchening. And my father said to me, "Don't look!" So everybody's got their eyes covered with their hands, or they have got their talit down over their faces, or turned away, turned their back to these guys. ... And then the leader would shout out: "Yeborechecho!" ["The Lord bless thee!"] And the rest of them would respond: "Yeborechecho adonai v'yishmerecho!" ["The Lord bless thee and keep thee!"] It was chilling. Whoa, something major is happening here! So I peeked, and I saw them with their hands stuck out from beneath their talit like this, towards the congregation. ... I had no idea what was going on, but the sound of it and the look of it was magical."

"Their Beer was strong; Their Wine was Port; Their Meal was large; Their Grace was short."

"O Lord, when hunger pinches sore, Do thou stand us in stead, And send us from thy bounteous store, A tup or wether head! Amen."

"Ad cenam vitae aeternae perducat nos, Rex aeternae gloriae. Amen."

"For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. Amen."

"For what we are about to eat, Thank God—and the British Fleet."

"The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord: and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand: and fillest all things living with plenteousness."

"That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man: and oil to make him a cheerful countenance, and bread to strengthen man’s heart."

"And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight."

"Benedic, Domine, nos et haec tua dona quae de tua largitate sumus sumpturi. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen."

"Thou visitest the earth and blessest it: thou makest it very plenteous. The river of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, for so thou providest for the earth. Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness."

"Mensae caelestis participes faciat nos, Rex aeternae gloriae. Amen."

"The King will follow Christ, and we the King In whom high God hath breathed a secret thing."

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

"Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp’d town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, But am betroth’d unto your enemy; Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

"Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove;Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just."

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."

"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God."

"Man’s word is God in man."

"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

"Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven, Give us this day our daily bread: And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us: And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen."

"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end."

"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."