Marbaniang, Domenic

Using topic notes in E-Sword Resources: Explorations of Faith.  Studies in Hebrews 11 . Topic note for E-sword. Download and unzip to C:\Program Files\e-sword. Psalm 50 for e-sword. Topic module. Download and unzip to C:\Program Files\e-sword. Outline of Theology for e-sword. Topic module Note: The installation files for both e-sword 8x and e-sword 9x can also be downloaded from e-sword-users.org: Explorations of Faith - 8.x   Explorations of Faith - 9.x       Outline of Theology -8.x        Outline of Theology -9.x    Psalm 50: A Psalm of Asaph -8.x    Psalm 50: A Psalm of Asaph -9.x      Three Major Religions: Introduction to Religions, Christian views, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam -8x  Three Major Religions: Introduction to Religions, Christian views, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam  -9.x Commentary: Psalm 50 Commentary -8.x    Psalm 50 Commentary -9.x     

SONGS BY DOMENIC MARBANIANG One Thing I Ask (English) Thank You for All that You've Giv'n (English) Trust (Hindi) Armaane (Hindi) Wedding Song (English) Hathon mein lekar (Hindi) Teri Baatein (Hindi) Chalte Chalte (Hindi)   Jago Tum (Hindi) Tum hath do (Hindi) Prabhu tu bana (Hindi) Usha Ke Kirane (Hindi) Friends (Hindi) Bas tu (Hindi)   Charo Taraf (Hindi)   Sab kuch badal gaya (Hindi)   Sap aur bicchu (Hindi)  

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Prices of agro-products soar higher in India, making fruits and vegetables almost a luxury. The Times of India reports: "The price of almost every vegetables except onion and potato has gone up to 25 to 30 per cent in the wholesale market and retail price staggering up to 45 to 50 per cent. A random market survey revealed an increase in the price of spinach to Rs 40-45 from Rs 10-15 kg a few days back. "The price of tomato has gone up to Rs 55-60 from Rs 40 a kg and capsicum to Rs 60-80 from Rs 40 per kg at the start of this month. The price of onion has gone up to Rs 20 from Rs 15-18 per kg but still remained steady in the market. "Variation between the wholesale prices and retail prices is staggering between 25%-30%." (Lucknow: July 17, 2009). Lauki (bottle gourd) went from being Rs. 7-10 per kg to Rs. 40 per kg. The price of lentils has shot up to Rs. 85 per kg from Rs. 40-45 per kg. The saying "dal bhat ab ameeron ka khana hei" (lentils and rice are n

How blissfully dribbles the rain Fuming over surfaces, flooding the drains. Drops after drops, their unceasing train, Make little oceans along the lanes. Ho! A child darts over the muddy banks Then sweeps into a messy swamp. His cries exhilarating draw in the ranks Of shirtless soldiers surfing the swamp. What peal of thunder, what cloud now bursts! The sky's now blistered to heal the earth! The wind brings shivers, the flood brings dirt! Yet, all together, they vanquish the dearth! See, the pearls now glitter In the shimmering sun; As colors bend over, The rain is done. Well, ask the farmer, It's not all done, Oh! It's not all done! "You, O God, sent a plentiful rain.... " (Psa 68:9). © Domenic Marbaniang, 2009.

1. Most scholars such as Albert Barnes, Adam Clarke, John Calvin and John Wesley believed that this referred to Christ's preaching to the people in the days of Noah. Through the preaching of Noah, he strove with men (Genesis 6:3; something like in 2 Corinthians 5:19; also see 1Peter 1:11; 1Corinthians 10:4, 9; Hebrews 4:2). 2. Another interpretation, especially by the Roman Catholic Church, is found in the Apostle's Creed affirmation that Jesus descended into hell. It is based on 1 Peter 3:19, 4:6; Acts 2:27; Romans 10:7; Ephesians 4:9; Revelation 1:17-18. I think the first interpretation is theologically better for many theological reasons: 1. Man doesn't have a chance to repent after death; so, there is no use to preaching to the dead. Both 1 Peter 3:19 and 4:6 would refer to those people who are now in prison or are dead. The Gospel was preached to them while they were alive. 2. The passage doesn't say that Jesus went to hell. It says that He went and preached to the

Breaking the Barriers in World Missions In Luke 10:2, Jesus made an important statement about our chronological placement in God's missionary plan: we are in the age of harvest - at the ends of time (in the end of times). The implications of it is that despite the apparent hostility of some mission fields, the fact abides that the world was already ready for harvesting at the time Jesus spoke these words. The coming of Jesus marked the beginning of the Harvest age and the end of times. The missionary has no time for such words as "hostility", "unresponsiveness", "stony ground", "mission impasse", etc. He is not ruled by the anxiety of temporalities and the angst of time. He is called to be an harvester and follows the passion and mission of the Lord of the harvest. He sees the harvest, comes to the field, and gathers it into the barns. But then, it's indispensably important to remember that the harvester must follow the strategy of the Lo

NO SHORT ROAD TO SUCCESS Successful living: What do you dream to be? You must dream to be a man or woman after God’s own heart! Meaning of Success Achieving the end, not the means Not money, etc. which are means not end. Hinduism – artha (material possessions), kama (pleasure), dharma (duty), moksha (liberation; moksha is final end) Aristotle would ask: why moksha? To be happy, would be the answer. Happiness. Everything points to happiness, but happiness doesn’t point to any other further state. It is the end. Health, wealth, and relationships are means to the happy life. Now according to Aristotle, happiness is not merely future but present since it is a state of life. It is not found at the end of the road but along the way, since life is continuous. In order to live happy lives, we must function properly. What is our proper function? He said it’s rational living – high morality. A person who lives a high moral life is happy and satisfied. It is so because the rational principl

Message by Dr. Matthew Thomas Pentecostal Church, Itarsi, India 1. If you don’t use what you got it will rot 2. Don’t let a setback make you sit back, arrange for a come back 3. The seed you sow is the only seed that will grow 4. What you don’t overcome will overcome you 5. You can be exempted, when you are tempted 6. If you need a lift use your gift, if you don’t use your gift, you will drift, sift, rift 7. Change your convictions and make them your addictions 8. You will never survive if you compromise 9. Don’t allow the failures of the past to dictate you future 10. What you feed on in your heart will determine whether or not you will fall apart 11. To prepare God’s way there is a price to pay 12. You will never know what manner of person you can be until Jesus gives you an identity 13. Discover that you can recover

Pearl of Great Price Matthew 13:44 P Precious in God’s sight. E Exclusive by God’s design. A Anticipated for righteousness R Redeemed by His blood. L Listed for service.

Sri Gaudapada, spiritual teacher of Sri Sankaracharya, wrote a Karika (expository treatise) in the early 8th century A.D. It was meant to provide a systematic and rational exposition of the main teachings of the Upanisads. It argues for the doctrine of non-dualism, which basically states that reality is non-dual (the Indian philosophers hesitated to use the term “monism” since they thought that reality can only be talked of via negative). It must be remembered that salvation or liberation in Hinduism is chiefly from the cycle of rebirth; that is one reason why the Christian term “born again” might not be preliminarily understood by certain Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists – since, for them salvation is a liberation from the bondage of being reborn again and again. In the Karika, however, there is nothing like emancipation from physical rebirth. In fact, all such phenomenal concepts of birth or rebirth are denied as false. Liberation or salvation is synonymous with a renunciation of the em

From the author's online book Explorations of Faith (2009) . Obviously, one’s way of looking at life is largely determined by one’s pre-understanding. It influences one’s way of thinking. One’s framework of beliefs, or worldview, determines to a great extent one’s interpretation of reality; for reality is never taken as it is – all belief is interpreted reality since reality by itself and in itself lacks meaning. Meaning is always found in a relation of things; that relating of things is interpretation. But meaning imposed (eisogesis) is not true meaning; for instance, a man may see a man picking a candy from a store and say he was stealing it, when in fact he may be the owner of the store. Meaning discovered (exegesis) is the only true meaning. False beliefs can lead to false conclusions. For instance, to an atheistic existentialist this universe is absurd, human life is absurd, and all toil is an illogical enterprise. However, the worldview of an atheist is itself composed of sev

Rational Analysis Truth is absolute, unchangeable, final. Future truth must also be absolute, unchangeable, and final. Therefore, future truth is necessary truth, not contingent. Empirical Analysis In those things which are not continuously actual, potentiality is multi-directional. Therefore, events don’t occur of necessity. Solution: Truth value in future statements exists as potentiality and not as necessity, since it is quantified by the now. This means that, future statements are contingent upon time. Past statements, however, are necessarily true or false, since they belong to an actualized time. Truth value is inseparable from phenomenon; phenomenon is inseparable from time.

Amazing love of Jesus Never minding my scarlet stains, He holds me up in His arms of glory And covers my heart with His unfailing grace. The sun may despise my heart of darkness The moon from me may cover her face. But never has His light once failed me, He holds me up in His heart's embrace. I'm wrong, not once I've fumed over My heart in doubt His Name disgraced. But still can I but love my Jesus, My Lord, my friend, my only praise? The stars above me hung in silence As thoughts confusing marred my face. Yet, deep within me was His assurance; He'd love me through the end of days. I'll doubt myself, my Lord I'll never Who saved me by the cross of shame. Each stripe He took, my soul delivered Each drop of blood, my life reclaimed. "...having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end" (John 13:1)

From the Appendix of Epistemics of Divine Reality (2007, 2009), pp. 197-199. Divine foreknowledge refers to God’s possession of the knowledge of future. The problem is whether God’s omniscience entails that He actually knows our future free actions. Rational fideism sees that the paradox is because of the distinct lines of rational and empirical epistemics by which theologians approach the issue. For instance, Norman Geisler in the rationalist way, and appealing to transcendence and infinity, argues that “An infinite, eternal God knows what we know but not in the way we know it. As an eternal being, God knows eternally.’ This kind of an approach, however, bears no meaning for an empiricist, since it refers to a non-empirical way of knowing. On the other hand, in the empirical way, Gregory A. Boyd has argued that God does not foreknow future free actions because there is ‘nothing definite there for God to know’. In other words, knowledge entails a subject-object relation. However, since

Man's attempt to understand himself and his world around him can be divided into three ways: 1. The way of authority. Much of what we know is based on this secondary source of information. Newspapers, books, teachers, TV shows, social consensus, religious authority, Scriptures, etc are few examples of this. We have epistemic value tags for any given source claiming authority of knowledge. For instance, one might rate a popular newspaper as more credible than a not-so-popular newspaper. Some Indian schools of philosophy do not consider it right for Scriptural revelation to be treated at par with these other secondary sources (some even consider authority as subject to the way of reason for including interpretation, which is a way of reasoning). 2. The way of experience. This refers to sense-experience and also includes the mystic experience in the Indian philosophical classification (the word pratyaksha refers to direct or immediate perception). 3. The way of reason. Arithmetic a