Religion

To understand prophecies and their relevance then it seems to us that studying the few prophecies that allegedly were fulfilled would be a necessary criteria for the student of predictions. The handwriting on the wall is probably one of the most known fulfilled prophecies that instantly met Biblical criteria for a 'true' prophet, Daniel.

Although deeply influenced by Plato, Aristotle is far from uncritical. He abandons his mentors' concept that absolute truth is 'out there' in the shape of 'The Forms of Reality' in favour of a much more down-to-earth approach to understanding based on observation more than on reasoning. This empirical rather than idealist approach runs through all his huge output of works on logic, politics, biology, physics, medicine, and, here in one of his most famous works

A transitional state of mind is clearly evidenced by the present division and perplexity of Christian thought concerning the Christian miracles. Many seem to regard further discussion as profitless, and are ready to shelve the subject. But this attitude of weariness is also transitional. There must be some thoroughfare to firm ground and clear vision. It must be found in agreement, first of all, on the real meaning of a term so variously and vaguely used as miracle.

King James Version : Apocryphal Books : Bell and the Dragon, Prayer of Azariah, (Missing parts of the Book of Daniel), 4 Ezra, 1, 2, 3, 4 Maccabees, Book of Tobit, Book of Baruch, Epistle of Jeremiah : Historical records and account of Jewish and Middle Eastern history removed from Protestant Bibles in 1826. King James Version from the Apocrypha... Larger Print Edition.

This unwillingness to acknowledge the shortcomings of Jesus is partially due to fear of sustaining a great loss. The familiar answer to heretical arguments is that faith should not be destroyed unless something can be put in its place -- ignoring the fact that something always may be substituted for beliefs destroyed. That substitute is faith in the world as it really is. And our modern world, with all its shortcomings, is infinitely preferable to the earth, or even the heaven, of the first century.

A Modern Panarion is of like nature with the intent of Church Father Epiphanius, only in the 19th century heresy has in many instances become orthodoxy, and orthodoxy heresy, and the Panarion is intended as a means of healing against the errors of ecclesiasticism, dogma and bigotry, and the blind negotiation of materialism and psuedo-science.

That we may rightly appreciate what this Monism is, let us now, from a philosophico-historical point of view cast a comprehensive glance over the development in time of man's knowledge of nature.