By K. A. Kitchen
For greater than 2 hundred years controversy has raged over the reliability of the outdated testomony. questions on the factuality of its colourful tales of heroes, villains, and kings, for instance, have led many critics to determine the full Hebrew Bible as little greater than pious fiction. during this interesting new ebook, famous historical historian ok. A. Kitchen takes powerful factor with today's "revisionist" critics and provides a company starting place for the historicity of the biblical texts.
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From Adam’s sin all later humanity inherited the inclination toward evil, thus, all humans since Adam have been sinners. Only God’s grace could overcome that propensity. No number of good works chosen freely by latter-day men and women could atone for so grievous a fall. God proffered salvation to those he deigns to give grace, knowing that many would refuse it. For humankind, the possibility of eternal damnation was the price of moral freedom. Divine foreknowledge does not obliterate human freedom.
During this imprisonment his interest in yoga deepened. In 1910, following “a sudden command from above,” Aurobindo moved to French India. He spent the next forty years of his life in Pondicherry, formulating his vision of spiritual evolution and integral Yoga, and refusing to pursue direct involvement in political events. “Spiritual evolution,” or the evolution of consciousness, is the central framework for understanding Aurobindo’s thought. Consciousness is a rich and complex term for Aurobindo.
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