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This is a table containing prophets of the modern Abrahamic religions.^[1][2]

Table of prophets in Abrahamic religions[edit]

Judaism	Christianity	Islam	Bahá'í Faith
Adam	Adam	Adam [3]	Adam [4]
Kenan [5]	—	—	—
Enoch—	Enoch [6]	Enoch (Idris) [3]	Enoch [7]
Noah	Noah	Noah (Nuh) [3]	Noah [4]
Eber [8]	—	—	—
—	—	Hud [3]	Hud [4]
—	—	Saleh [3]	Salih [4]
Abraham [9]	Abraham	Abraham (ʾIbrāhīm) [3]	Abraham [10]
Sarah [9]	—	—	—
—	—	Ishmael (Ismā'īl) [3]	Ishmael [4]
Isaac [9]	Isaac	Isaac (ʾIsḥāq) [3]	Isaac [4]
Jacob [9][11]	Jacob[11]	Jacob (Yaqub) [3]	Jacob [4]
Joseph [12]	Joseph[13]	Joseph (Yusuf) [3]	Joseph [4]
—	—	Lot (Lut)[3]	—
Job[9][14][15]	Job	Job (Ayub)[3]	Job[4]
—	Jeduthun[16]	—	—
—	Asaph/Asoph	—	—
—	Ruth	—	—
—	—	Shoaib[3]	Shu'aib[4]
Bithiah[17]	—	—	—
Aaron[9][18]	Aaron[18]	Aaron (Harun)[3]	Aaron[19]
Miriam[9][20]	Miriam[20]	—	—
Moses[9][21]	Moses[21]	Moses (Musa)[3]	Moses[10]
—	—	Luqman[3]	—
Joshua[9][22]	Joshua/Josue[22]	—	—
Phinehas[9]	Phinehas	—	—
Deborah[9]	Deborah	—	—
—	Gideon (Eastern Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic)	—	—
Eli[9]	—	—	—
Elkanah[9]	—	—	—
Hannah[9]	—	—	—
Samuel[9][23]	Samuel[23]	—	—
King David[9]	David[24]	David (Daud)[3]	David[4]
Abigail[9]	—	—	—
King Solomon[9]	Solomon[25]	Solomon (Sulayman)[3]	Solomon[4]
Ahijah HaShiloni[9]	Ahijah HaShiloni[26]	—	—
—	Hezekiah	—	—
Mordecai[9]	—	—	—
Eliphaz (the Temanite)[14]	—	—	—
Bildad (the Shuhite)[14]	—	—	—
Zophar (the Naamathite)[14]	—	—	—
Elihu (the Buzite)[14]	—	—	—
Beor[14]	—	—	—
Balaam[14][27]	—	—	—
Gad[9]	Gad	—	—
Nathan[9]	Nathan	—	—
Shemaiah[9]	Shemaiah[28]	—	—
Hanani[9]	Hanani	—	—
Jehu[9]	Jehu	—	—
Jahaziel[9]	Jahaziel/Chaziel	—	—
Eliezer[9]	Eliezer	—	—
Ahiyah[9]	Ahiyah	—	—
Iddo[9]	Iddo	—	—
Micaiah[9]	Micaiah	—	—
Obadiah[9][29]	Obadiah/Abdias[29]	—	—
Oded[9]	—	—	—
Azariah[9]	Azariah[30]	—	—
Ezra (Arabian Peninsula only, formerly)	Ezra/Esdras	Ezra (Uzair)[3]	—
—	Nehemiah/Nechemia	—	—
Hosea[9]	Hosea/Osee[31][32]	—	—
Huldah[9]	Huldah[33]	—	—
Amos[9]	Amos[34][35]	—	—
Micah[9]	Micah/Micheas[36][37]	—	—
Amoz[9]	—	—	—
Elijah[9]	Elijah[38]	Elijah (Ilyas)[3]	Elijah[4]
Elisha[9]	Elisha[39]	Elisha (Al-Yasa)[3]	—
Jonah[9]	Jonah/Jonas[31][40]	Jonah (Yunus)	—
Isaiah[9]	Isaiah/Isaias[41][42]	—	Isaiah[4]
Jeremiah[9]	Jeremiah/Jeremias[43][44]	—	Jeremiah[4]
Zephaniah[9]	Zephaniah/Sophonias[45][46]	—	—
Nahum[9]	Nahum[47][48]	—	—
Habakkuk[9]	Habakkuk/Habacuc[49][50]	—	—
Ezekiel[9]	Ezekiel/Ezechiel[51]	Ezekiel[3] (Dhul-Kifl)	Ezekiel[4]
Obadiah[9]	Obadiah/Abdias[52]	—	—
Uriah[9]	Uriah	—	—
Baruch ben Neriah[9]	Baruch ben Neriah[53]	—	—
Neriah[9]	Neriah	—	—
Seraiah[9]	Seraiah	—	—
Haggai[9]	Haggai/Aggeus[54][55]	—	—
Zechariah[9]	Zechariah/Zacharias[56]	—	—
Malachi[9]	Malachi/Malachias[31][57]	—	—
Esther[9]	Esther	—	—
Joel[9]	Joel[58][59]	—	Joel[4]
[some say] Daniel—	Daniel[60]	Daniel (Daniyal)[61]	Daniel[4]
—	Zechariah (the Priest)[62]	Zechariah (priest)(Zakariya)[3]	Zechariah[4]
—	John (the Baptist)[63]	John (the Baptist) (Yahya)[3]	John (the Baptist)[4]
—	Jesus of Nazareth [64]	Isa (Jesus of Nazareth)[3]	Jesus of Nazareth[10]
—	John of Patmos (except Syriac Orthodox Church)	—	—
—	—	Muhammad[3]	Muhammad[10]

 

HUMAN - MEN

 WOMEN

 

 

 

KIDS

Marriage in Islam

In Islam, marriage is a legal contract (Literary Arabic: عقد القران ʻaqd al-qirān, "matrimony contract"; Urdu: نکاح نامہ‎ / ALA-LC: Nikāḥ-nāmah),(In Persian (Farsi): ازدواج (ezdevāj) (= marriage) and سند ازدواج or عقدنامه (Sǎnǎde ezdevāj; aqd nāmeh) for the certificate), between two people. Both the groom and the bride are to consent to the marriage of their own free wills. A formal, binding contract is considered integral to a religiously valid Islamic marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom and bride. There must be two Muslim witnesses of the marriage contract. Divorce (Arabic: Talaq) can be effected through husband or through khula is permitted and can be issued by both the bride and groom with equal rights as per Islamic laws and Shariah.^[1]

Nikah (the term for Islamic marriage) literally means "sexual intercourse."^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}Islam is totally opposed to monasticism and celibacy.^[10] Marriage is an act of Sunnah in Islam and is strongly recommended.^[10][11]

  

 

 

 

 

 

Christian views on marriage

Most Christian authorities and bodies view marriage (also called Holy Matrimony) as a state instituted and ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife. They consider it the most intimate of human relationships, a gift from God, and a sacred institution.^[1] Protestants consider it to be sacred, holy, and even central to the community of faith,^[2] while Catholics^[3] and Eastern Orthodox Christians^[4] consider it a Sacrament. Biblically, it is to be "held in honour among all…."^{[Heb. 13:4]}


Jesus maintained the importance and sacredness of lifelong marriage in his own teachings. He quoted from both Genesis 1 and 2, stating in Matthew 19:3-6 that God had created humanity as male and female,^{[Genesis 1:27]} and that in marriage "'the two will become one flesh'.^{[Genesis 2:24]} So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate".


The New Testament teaches that sex is reserved for marriage.^[5] It calls sex with the wife of another, or sex with someone else other than the husband, the sin of adultery. (See also fornication.)

Jewish views on marriage

In traditional Judaism, marriage is viewed as a contractual bond commanded by God in which a man and a woman come together to create a relationship in which God is directly involved. (Deut. 24:1) Though procreation is not the sole purpose, a Jewish marriage is traditionally expected to fulfill the commandment to have children. (Gen. 1:28) In this view, marriage is understood to mean that the husband and wife are merging into a single soul, which is why a man is considered "incomplete" if he is not married, as his soul is only one part of a larger whole that remains to be unified.^[1][2] However, some Jewish denominations such as Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative Judaism recognize same-sex marriage and deemphasize procreation, focusing on marriage as a bond between a couple.^[3][4] However, this is seen not as an alternate interpretation but as a diversion from the Law of Judaism.

The search for Hang Li Po

By ALEXANDER WAIN - April 7, 2017 @ 9:18am

As a person of Chinese ancestry who lived among Malay Muslims, Hang Li Po is a prototype for the lived experience of many modern-day Malaysians

EVEN though the Malacca sultanate had existed for a little more than a century, it gave birth to an astoundingly rich assortment of historical figures — one of the most prominent of whom, however, was not actually from the city itself: the so-called Chinese princess, Hang Li Po.

Despite (or perhaps because of) her foreign origins, however, today, Hang Li Po is one of Malacca’s most relevant figures, constituting a possible template for contemporary Malaysian-Chinese identity.

Like so many figures associated with Malacca, Hang Li Po sits firmly within Malaysia’s national consciousness. Supposedly the daughter of a Ming Emperor, Sejarah Melayu claims a Chinese official named Ling Ho sent her to Malacca as a bride for Sultan Mansur Shah (r.1459-1477), and with whom she later had a son called Paduka Mimat.

Controversially, however, in 2014, historian Khoo Kay Kim claimed Hang Li Po was a myth. Khoo argued that because the Ming shi-lu (imperial records of the Ming dynasty) contained no record of either her or her marriage, she must be a fabrication — the probable invention of early Malay chroniclers.

Khoo predicated his conclusion, however, on a commonly-held, yet apparently incorrect, assumption: that Sejarah Melayu is the only early source to refer to Hang Li Po.

Although Khoo is quite correct that no known Chinese source mentions her, it is possible that several early Portuguese texts do, albeit in a different guise.

Although Sejarah Melayu is central to any understanding of Malaccan history, Tomé Pires’s Suma Oriental is no less significant. Unlike Sejarah Melayu, which was produced in Johor around 1612, the Suma was written in Malacca itself between 1512 and 1515 (that is, shortly after the Portuguese conquest).

Intended as an official report for the Portuguese king, it was (primarily) constructed using a Javanese chronicle; because the Javanese constituted a majority in pre-Portuguese Malacca, Pires considered this text to be the most reliable at his disposal.

The Suma, therefore, recorded some of Nusantara’s earliest traditions about Malacca.

Significantly, therefore, although it did not mention a Chinese princess wedded to Sultan Mansur Shah, it did refer to an unnamed Chinese girl who married Malacca’s second ruler, Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah (r.1414-1424). When examined carefully, this girl, who was unmentioned in Sejarah Melayu, emerged as the probable origin of the Hang Li Po legend.

According to the Suma, at the beginning of his reign, Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah decided to visit China to pay allegiance to the emperor.

After he had been received with great honour, and when the time came for him to return home, the sultan was entrusted to the care of a “Great Captain”, with whom he travelled back to Malacca and: “The captain brought with him a beautiful Chinese daughter, and when the said Xaquem Darxa (Iskandar Shah) reached Malacca, in order to do honour to the said captain, he married her although she was not a woman of rank.”

Later, this girl bore Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah a son with the title Paduka Raja.

Although this account differs in certain respects from Sejarah Melayu (it refers to a regular Muslim girl, not a non-Muslim princess; involves Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah, not Mansur Shah; and speaks of a Malaccan ruler’s visit to China, something unmentioned in Sejarah Melayu), the two undoubtedly shared a common core — a Chinese girl is escorted to Malacca by a Chinese official before marrying a Malaccan ruler, with whom she had a son with the title Paduka.

Ultimately, however, that the two accounts were indeed linked was demonstrated by the Chinese official: in each case, this official appeared to be the famous Zheng He (1371-1433/5).

Both before and after Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah’s reign, Malacca acted as Zheng He’s Southeast Asian base of operations, intimately connecting him to the city. Moreover, in 1419, Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah visited China in the company of Zheng He.

This strongly suggests that Pires’s “Great Captain” is a memory of Zheng He; no other historical figure tallies so well with the Suma’s account.

Significantly, therefore, the name of Sejarah Melayu’s Chinese official, “Ling Ho”, is an obvious corruption of “Zheng He”. But, if both officials are, therefore, representations of Zheng He, the probability arises that Pires’s unnamed Chinese Muslim girl is an earlier version of Hang Li Po, whom the author of Sejarah Melayu (which was written nearly two centuries after the events in question) must have mistakenly associated with Sultan Mansur Shah.

Taking all this into account, Khoo’s 2014 assertions appeared premature. Although it could still be protested that no known Chinese record of Zheng He’s voyages mentioned either this marriage or the girl, ultimately this is neither surprising nor damning.

As is well known, Zheng He’s official logs were destroyed, meaning any information about a marriage could simply have been lost. All other sources pertaining to his voyages, including the travelogues of Ma Huan and Fei Xin, were rarely discussed diplomatic matters.

If, however, Zheng He had chosen to marry a Chinese girl to a foreign ruler, he would only have been following common diplomatic practice.

Ultimately, whether Hang Li Po was a real figure is not merely a question of historical curiosity.

As a person of Chinese ancestry who lived among Malay Muslims, Hang Li Po is a prototype for the lived experience of many modern-day Malaysians.

To seek out her historical veracity is, therefore, an inherently important task within the context of contemporary Malaysia’s nation-building efforts, helping to firmly root an important modern identity.

Alexander Wain is a research fellow at the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studied Malaysia. He can be reached at alex@iais.org.my

ANIMALS

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Declassified ‘UFO’ Documents Don’t Prove Alien Life

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Declassified ‘UFO’ Documents Don’t Prove Alien Life

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Alien spacecraft and little green men remain elusive figures in the latest trove of official UFO files released July 12 by the United Kingdom government.

There’s no smoking gun anywhere in the 6,700 pages, which represent the ninth collection of government UFO files made public by the U.K.’s National Archives in Kew. But the new batch, which contains documents dating from 1965 to 2008, is full of interesting tidbits nonetheless.

For example, the files recount the story of a hotel owner on the Welsh coast who said she spotted a UFO in 1977. She claimed to see an object the size of a minibus fall from the sky and land in a field at the back of her property.

As she watched, two “faceless humanoids” clad in silver suits emerged from the mysterious craft, unnerving her so much that she asked the local authorities to investigate. [10 Alien Encounters Debunked]

Somewhat surprisingly, they did. An officer from a nearby Royal Air Force base checked out the field, and other military personnel made some inquiries locally to get to the bottom of the mystery.

While the investigation didn’t produce any definitive results, it did zero in on one likely explanation, said David Clarke, senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and author of the book “The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-life Sightings” (The National Archives, 2009).

“It turned out that they suspected, as a result of this investigation, that someone had been involved in a practical joke, and that they’d borrowed a firefighting suit that had been on display in a local shop,” Clarke said in a video produced by The National Archives to accompany the new release of UFO files.

“It was sort of white with a big black visor over the face,” Clarke added. “This person had been walking around in this suit late at night, and maybe this had been what caused some of these weird sightings.”

The new batch of documents also reveals what it was like to work at the U.K.’s UFO Desk, a Defence Ministry organization that assessed UFO reports for intelligence value before it shut down in late 2009.

The job wasn’t quite as exciting as it perhaps sounds, according to a document written by a UFO Desk officer.

The idea of investigating unidentified flying objects ”tends to suggest to the public that there are top secret teams of specialist scientists scurrying around the country in a real life version of ‘The X-Files’ …. [but] this is total fiction,” the officer writes.

In reality, much of the work consisted of performing Internet searches, the officer added, according to National Archives officials.

The files also reveal a healthy dose of skepticism among governmental UFO investigators in the U.K. For example, in a 1978 briefing, one officer throws cold water on the thought that aliens may have visited our planet many times in the recent past.

“One is driven to the conclusion that a visit to an insignificant planet, such as the Earth, of an uninteresting star (the sun) would probably not occur more than once in 1,000 years or so, even if one assumes that every intelligent community makes, say, 10 launches a year,” Clarke said in the video, reading the officer’s report and paraphrasing his reasoning.

“He basically says that, therefore, claims of thousands of visits in the last decade by alien spacecraft to planet Earth is just too large a number to be credible,” Clarke added.

Source: http://www.space.com/16644-ufo-files-united-kingdom-national-archives.html

DEVIL n EVIL

What is the difference between devil and evil?

As nouns the difference between devil and evil  is that devil is (theology) a creature of hell while evil is the forces/behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good evil generally seeks own benefit at the expense of others and is based on general.

GHOST n DEMON

GHOSTS, DEMONS, AND SPIRITS

by EDITOR on SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Demons Carry A Damned Soul In Hell. 13th Century Fresco From The Basilica Of St. Julien in Brioude. Photo: Marie-Lan Nguyen

What’s The Difference Between Ghosts, Demons, And Spirits?

Are ghosts and demons the same? Is every spirit a ghost? If not, what are the differences? And what about angels?

First off, a spirit is any supernatural, usually incorporeal (bodiless, massless) being. Ghosts, demons, and angels all are types of spirits. Clearly, then, not all spirits are ghosts. In fact, in the set of ancient belief systems known collectively as animism, everyone and everything has a spirit, including animals, birds, trees, and rocks.

Nor are demons and ghosts the same. While both are spirits, there is one important distinction.

Basically, a ghost is the spirit of a person who was once alive, whereas a demon is a spirit that was never alive, and always existed in the supernatural realm. In fact, the quality that makes ghosts at once so appealing and so sad to many of us is their lingering and hopeless humanity. Not only are ghosts very much like us, but we know—or fear—that one day we could become like them.

As for angels, as far as we can tell nowhere in the bible does it say that people turn into angels after they die. Like demons, then, angels also are supernatural beings that never walked the earth in human form. The difference between angels and demons is that angels are “good,” at least by human standards, whereas demons, or fallen angels, would strike most of us as “evil.”

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Viral Photo Has People Insisting They See Ghostly Spirit at Car Accident Scene

Now you see it, now you don’t? A viral photo posted to Facebook Tuesday, July 12, has people insisting that they see a ghostly spirit rising from the scene of a fatal car accident in Powell County, Kentucky.

The image, taken from across the highway divider, shows two ambulances, a police car and numerous people gathered around something presumed to be a car accident victim.

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“I took this picture just few minutes ago from the cab of my truck it was an accident between campton and Stanton on the service road just off of the mountain parkway, zoom in and pay attention to the shadow just off the top of the state trooper hat,” Vazquez captioned the image, which has been shared more than 10,000 times since it was first posted. “All I say is I hope everyone involved is okay!!”

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The photo indeed has what appears to be a small puff of smoke rising just above the state trooper’s hat in what looks like a human form.

“Wow brother that’s amazing,” one commenter wrote in response to the chilling image.

“I think there’s a person that passed away is watching his looking down on his own body,” another wrote.

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According to local station LEX 18, the crash took place around 5:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the man on the motorcycle was the only one involved. The unidentified motorcyclist was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

Vazquez has declined to comment on the viral photo, only telling LEX 18 that the photo has not been altered in any way.

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SPIRIT and SOUL

What Are the Three Parts of Man?

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Answer: Spirit, Soul and Body

~Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:26-27 NASB)

According to the Bible, mankind is distinct from all the rest of creation, including the animals, in that he is made in the image of God. As God is a tripartite -- Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- so man is three parts -- body, soul and spirit. In the most explicit example from Scripture of these divisions, the Apostle Paul writes:

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:23 NASB).

Man is made up of physical material, the body, that can be seen and touched. But he is also made up of immaterial aspects, which are intangible -- this includes the soul, spirit, intellect, will, emotions, conscience, and so forth. These immaterial characteristics exist beyond the physical lifespan of the human body and are therefore eternal.

These immaterial aspects -- the spirit, soul, heart, conscience, mind and emotions -- make up the whole personality. The Bible makes it clear that the soul and spirit are the primary immaterial aspects of humanity, while the body is the physical container that holds them on this earth.

The Body (Greek, "soma")

This is the entire material or physical structure of a human being -- it is the physical part of a person.

The Apostle Paul, writing to the Romans again connects the body, the mind (soul) and the spirit.

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:1-2 NASB).

For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body (1 Cor. 6:20).

The Soul (Greek, "psyche")

Genesis 2:7 states that Man was created as a "living soul." The soul consists of the mind (which includes the conscience), the will and the emotions. The soul and the spirit are mysteriously tied together and make up what the Scriptures call the "heart."

The writer of Proverbs declares, " Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life." (Prov. 4:23 NASB). We see here that the "heart" is central to our emotions and will.

But a natural (psuchikos -- soulish) man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised (1 Cor. 2:14 NASB).

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, "Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day" (Acts 23:1 NASB).

The Spirit (Greek " Pneuma")

In Numbers 16:22, Moses and Aaron, "…fell upon their faces and said, 'O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will you be angry with the entire congregation?'" This verse names God as the God of the spirits that are possessed by all humanity. Notice also that it mentions the flesh (body) of all mankind, connecting it with the spirit.

Another key verse that describes the separation between soul and spirit is Hebrews 4:12:

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart (Heb. 4:12 NASB).

We see in this passage of Scripture that the soul and spirit can be divided -- and that it is the Word of God that pierces our heart to bring the division of soul and spirit, something that only God can do.

As human beings, we live eternally as a spirit, we have a soul, and we dwell in a body. We can rejoice with the Psalmist and declare,

For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well (Ps. 139:13-14 NASB).

ANGELS

Are Angels Real?

By Benjamin Radford, Live Science Contributor | January 8, 2013 01:05pm ET

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Images of angels surround us all the time, and especially during the holidays. They appear in paintings, figurines,T-shirts, and just about everything else. Angels appear in several religions; in Islam angels are said to be made of light. Early versions of angels had no gender, though later Christian angels were tall, slender males with soft features, often dressed in flowing robes specially tailored around their large white wings.

The Archangel Gabriel, painted 1431-1433 by by Fra Angelico

The word "angel" can be traced back to the Greek word "anglos," which means "messenger" in Hebrew. Angels can take many forms, usually appearing as human or a glowing light or aura. Often—especially in cases of averted tragedy or disaster—angels will not be seen at all, but instead recognized by their actions. If something good, unexpected, and seemingly inexplicable happens, it's often assumed to be the result of angelic intervention. [Pareidolia: Seeing Faces in Unusual Places]

The angels most people are familiar with today are the Christian angels, which originated from the Hebrew Testaments. The Catholic Church has devoted considerable effort to describing and developing an extensive hierarchy of angels. There are nine different types of angels within three groups or choirs — seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels and angels — with an official census of 496,000 angels.

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In Christianity and Islam, angels function mainly as God's messengers (mostly announcing births and deaths), but in modern times they function more as guardians. Indeed, the word "angel" has come to describe any hero or benefactor. Angels are said to appear to people in times of need; other times they are sensed as comforting but unseen presences.

'Real Angels'

Despite centuries of theological speculation about angels — from their number to their duties to how many can dance on the head of a pin — no one knows if they exist outside of stories and legends. Many people believe they do: Polls suggest that nearly 70 percent of Americans think angels exist. In their book "Paranormal America," sociologists Christopher Bader, F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph Baker note that "Angels pervade popular culture in books, television shows, and movies.... Believers exchange informal testimonials in newsletters and interpersonal conversations about the potential power of angels to influence the world, and more than half of Americans (53 percent) believe that they have personally been saved from harm by a guardian angel." [Senator Claims Angels Visited Him in Hospital]

A 2007 Baylor Religion Survey found that 57 percent of Catholics, 81 percent of Black Protestants, 66 percent of Evangelical Protestants, and 10 percent of Jews reported having a personal experience with a guardian angel. Curiously, 20 percent of those who identified themselves as having no religion also claimed having encountered an angel.

In one famous 2008 angel encounter, a North Carolina woman named Colleen Banton claimed that an angel miraculously healed her daughter. While in a hospital's waiting area, Banton noticed that a patch of sunlight appeared through a nearby window and shone in the hallway outside her daughter's room. Her daughter soon got better, and Banton attributed the recovery to the angelic visit. (While everyone was glad at the girl's recovery, others noted that the patch of sunlight regularly appears in that spot, at the door of patients who both do and don't recover.)

Though angels are said to dwell in heaven, their visits to the earthly realm are not always benevolent. The most famous angel is Satan, who rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven. Biblical angels wage warfare, lay siege to cities, and kill people. The archangel Michael, for example, is often depicted as the leader of God's Army, destroying armies with his terrible powers and flaming sword. These avenging angels seem to have disappeared in modern times; it would be strange indeed to hear the victim of an accident or disaster blame an angel for their misfortune.

Whether real or fictional, angels have been with humans for millennia; their mythology will evolve and their presence will continue to comfort.

Benjamin Radford is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and author of six books including Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries. His website is www.BenjaminRadford.com.

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Adam and Eve

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Adam and Eve (disambiguation).

The Fall of Man by Peter Paul Rubens.

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions,^{[1][2][3][4][5]}were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans.^[6] The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that God created human beings in a Garden of Eden, although they fell away from that state into the present world full of death, evil, pain and suffering. It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors.^[7] It also provides much of the scriptural basis for the doctrines of the fall of man and original sin that are important beliefs in Christianity, but which are not generally held in Judaism or Islam.^[8]

In the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, chapters one through five, there are two creation narratives with two distinct perspectives. In the first, Adam and Eve are not mentioned (at least not mentioned by name). Instead, God created humankind in God's image and instructed them to multiply and to be stewards over everything else that God had made. In the second narrative, God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Adam is told that he can till the ground and eat freely of all the trees in the garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Subsequently, Eve is created from one of Adam's ribs to be Adam's companion. They are innocent and unashamed about their nakedness. However, a serpent deceives Eve into eating fruit from the forbidden tree, and she gives some of the fruit to Adam. These acts give them additional knowledge, but it gives them the ability to conjure negative and destructive concepts such as shame and evil. God later curses the serpent and the ground. God prophetically tells the woman and the man what will be the consequences of their sin of disobeying God. Then he banishes them from the Garden of Eden.

The story underwent extensive elaboration in later Abrahamic traditions, and it has been extensively analyzed by modern biblical scholars. Interpretations and beliefs regarding Adam and Eve and the story revolving around them vary across religions and sects; for example, the Islamic version of the story holds that Adam and Eve were equally responsible for their sins of hubris, instead of Eve being the first one to be unfaithful. The story of Adam and Eve is often depicted in art, and it has had an important influence in literature and poetry. The story of the fall of Adam is often understood to be an allegory.

There is no physical evidence that Adam and Eve ever literally existed, and their literal existence is incompatible with human evolutionary genetics. However, there is in some countries a large discrepancy between the scientific consensus and popular opinion; a 2014 poll reports that 56% of Americans believe that "Adam and Eve were real people", and 44% believe so with strong or absolute certainty.^[9]

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Kebanyakan kita tahu mengenai sihir, namun masih ramai yang tidak memahami apa sebenarnya disebut sebagai ilmu sihir. Dalam kebanyakan hal berkaitan sihir, ia berpunca daripada perasaan dengki, cemburu, cinta, kasih dan marah serta pelbagai emosi yang sukar dikawal. Dari sisi perubatan Islam, sihir terbahagi kepada sembilan jenis.

1. Sihir pemisah suami isteri (tafriq)

Sihir jenis ini memang secara jelas kewujudannya berdasarkan dalil al-Quran. Allah menerangkan di dalam al-Quran, surah al-Baqarah ayat 102, yang bermaksud:

“Mereka mempelajari daripada kedua-dua malaikat ilmu sihir yang boleh menceraikan antara seorang suami dengan isterinya, padahal mereka tidak akan dapat sama sekali memberi mudarat (atau membahayakan) dengan sihir itu seseorang pun melainkan dengan izin Allah.”

Antara tanda seseorang itu terkena sihir jenis ini termasuk perubahan tiba-tiba daripada cinta menjadi benci, enggan memohon maaf, timbul keraguan, memperbesarkan perselisihan faham, melihat suami atau isteri dalam rupa menakutkan atau hodoh. Orang yang terkena sihir pemisah ini akan membenci setiap perbuatan yang dilakukan pasangan, tidak betah tinggal bersama dan mudah rasa amat benci.

2. Sihir percintaan

Banyak petanda yang boleh dikesan sekiranya terkena sihir percintaan. Biasanya seseorang itu akan berubah menjadi angau, sukar mengawal perasaan, rindu bayang berlebihan, gelora cinta membuak-buak dan mengikut kata pasangan secara membuta tuli.

3. Sihir pandangan

Mereka melihat benda yang diam seolah-olah bergerak dan sebaliknya, melihat yang kecil menjadi besar dan sebaliknya, nampak sesuatu tidak sebagaimana yang sebenarnya.

4. Sihir buat seseorang menjadi gila

Orang yang terkena sihir ini menjadi bingung, bodoh dan pelupa. Bercakap yang tidak berkaitan, matanya layu, sentiasa resah dan bergerak ke sana-sini, enggan duduk diam, tidak mampu meneruskan pekerjaan tertentu, selekeh, tidak tentu arah dan suka tidur di tempat sunyi.

5. Sihir membuatkan seseorang tidak bermaya

Seorang yang normal akan berubah menjadi pasif, suka berseorangan, memencilkan diri sepenuhnya, diam berterusan, tidak suka bertemu orang, fikiran melayang, selalu pening, lesu dan tidak bermaya.

6. Sihir panggilan

Selalu mengalami mimpi ngeri, mendengar suara yang bercakap kepadanya dalam keadaan jaga tetapi tidak melihat orangnya, kerap waswas, meragukan teman dan orang yang dicintainya, mimpi seakan-akan jatuh dari tempat tinggi atau mimpi melihat haiwan mengejarnya.

7. Sihir membuat penyakit

Kebiasaannya mangsa yang disihir akan menderita penyakit tertentu. Contohnya jika disihir lumpuh maka orang yang terkena sihir akan benar-benar lumpuh. Tanda seseorang yang menjadi mangsa sihir ini termasuk selalu sakit pada salah satu anggota badan, saraf tersumbat, lumpuh salah satu anggota tubuh, lumpuh menyeluruh dan kegagalan fungsi salah satu pancaindera.

8. Sihir pendarahan

Sihir ini berlaku kepada wanita. Tandanya mudah. Seorang perempuan yang terkena sihir ini akan mengalami masalah kedatangan haid yang tidak berhenti-henti, ataupun tempohnya lebih panjang daripada kebiasaan.

9. Sihir menahan pernikahan

Mereka yang terkena sihir ini akan berubah menjadi takut, marah yang sukar dikawal dan lalai. Tanda sihir ini ialah pening yang berterusan, sesak di dada terutama antara waktu Asar hingga tengah malam, fikiran melayang, gelisah ketika tidur, selalu sakit di perut dan sakit di tulang punggung.

Antara rawatan yang disarankan untuk merawat sihir adalah dengan membawa surah al-Fatihah, diikuti ayat Kursi. Kemudian susuli bacaan surah al-Furqan (ayat 23), surah Yunus (ayat 81 hingga 83), surah al-Anbiya (ayat 87), akhir surah al-Mukminun diakhiri surah al-Hashr (ayat 21).

Perlu diketahui juga antara barang yang selalu digunakan dalam menundukkan pasangan ialah:

• Nasi tangas

• Tulang kera duku

• Tulang burung jampok

• Azimat tertentu yang biasanya dibalut kain kuning, hitam, merah

• Beri makan kotoran seperti rambut, debu atau kuku

Artikel ini disiarkan pada : Jumaat, 24 Mac 2017 @ 11:31 AM

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why god create human.....

do human have mercy like god........

1. men.......women.....children..... as god required ????