Marbaniang, Domenic

Like a storm that grows fiercely strong, then calms down into a modest breeze, has been the advent of the BJP into the present political scene. But what can be predicted ahead of all this? Let's use the following three tools to analyse that: 1. The Modus Operandi Tool. (The Empirical a posteriori Tool) The markets have already responded in prospect of predictions based on Modi's previous modus operandi and expressed commitment to economic empowerment of the nation. There are estimated statistics of the number of jobs that'll be created and economic surges to come. One needs to wait and see if the predicted market efficiency will be real. 2. The Essentialist Tool. (The a priori Tool) Will the BJP be patient to address its central and essential motives for choosing to become a political party? Issues like Article 370 on the Kashmir issue, a Uniform Civil Code, Anti-Horizontal Conversions, and the Ram Mandir can only be ignored given the zeitgeist of the Party has trans

A dream may be defined as "thoughts, images, and visions that pass through the mind while one is asleep" (cf. Daniel 4:5 (NIV); Daniel 2:29 (NKJV)). There are at least three sources of dream: 1. The Human Body (The senses being awake to external stimuli while one is asleep). 2. The Soul (Mind, Will, Emotions) 3. The Spirit 1. Body E.g. (a) A person hears someone calling his name in a dream; he awakes and finds that someone in reality had been calling his name. (b) A hungry man sleeps and dreams of eating something; he awakes and finds that it was just a dream. "as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched." (Isa 29:8 NIV) 2. Soul E.g. (a) A scientist has been thinking a lot about a particular problem; in a dream, the thoughts converge into a solution. (b) A depressed person experiences dreams of anxiety. (c) A man has been watc

Kama-1, Kamayani. Jai Shankar Prasad मैं देख रहा हूँ जो कुछ भी वह सब क्या छाया उलझन है? सुंदरता के इस परदे में क्या अन्य धरा कोई धन है? Is my vision of all I see a shadowy snare? Or, the veil of beauty has some treasure unaware? Kama-2 "यह नीड़ मनोहर कृतियों का यह विश्व कर्म रंगस्थल है, है परंपरा लग रही यहाँ ठहरा जिसमें जितना बल है। This world is a play theatre of nesty pleasant works, The governing principle is that the strongest remain on earth देखा तो सुंदर प्राची में अरूणोदय का रस-रंग हुआ। Behold in the beautiful east the joyous blushing of the dawn!

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Whirlwinds wind up wonderfully When the heart is in Christ reposed; God abounds graciously Where the heart to the world is closed; Light glimmers lustrously In a heart that's only to Christ disclosed.

Then the commander came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes." The commander answered, "With a large sum I obtained this citizenship." And Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." (Act 22:27-28 NKJ) In Paul's time, citizenship was not determined by religion but by birth. Therefore, he could boldly say "I was born a citizen." Later on, when the emperor cults arose, Christians were persecuted in a religious pogrom that interpreted their refusal to offer sacrifices to the emperor as acts of treason. However, such religious nationalisms are illogical because citizens cannot be forced to change their belief-system when the "Head" of a State changes his - even to the extent of claiming himself as god. The very reason that government exists is in order to assure citizens the right to freedom. Also, citizenship in Paul's time was not determined by race. That's why Paul could both be a Hebrew and Roman a

Clothing and culture are closely knit together. Often, clothing is identified with culture. However, in modern times, people in most parts of the world are embracing a plurality of inter-cultural dress culture. The dominating influence is Western. People of some cultures have protested against the new dress forms (imported or innovated) as threatening the indigenous forms. Much can be written on the variety of issues that concern the dress ethic and theology. However, that is not the goal here. One can take any of the many approaches to understand the origin, nature, function, and end of clothing. For instance, one can take the historical approach and study the origin and evolution of one or many dress forms; similarly, one can take the psychological approach and study human behavior and attitudes towards clothing from childhood to old age. Likewise, one can also take the religious approach and see what religion has to say about clothing with regard to sin, purity, ritual, and salvatio

Raja-niti refers to the politics of party and power ("raja" means king and "raj" means rule). It is the common word used for "politics" in India. In contrast to it, the Sarvodaya philosophers, especially Vinoba Bhave, in the Gandhian line promoted what they called as "Loka-niti", i.e. the politics of people. For the Gandhians, centralization of power in any form (dictatorial or "democratical") is a threat to swaraj (self-rule). "...any state, with separated and strongly developed organs of legislation, execution, and judiciary in well organised large societies, cripples the free-play of individual's faculties and curbs his initiative by enlarging the regions of state control. Progressively it attains the position only next to air in its all-pervading nature. No matter whether such government is an elected representative of its people or a dictatorially established one against the will of the people, it unfailingly produces the

"Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. (Gen 28:2 NKJ) Isaac had an Eleazar, but Jacob had none; he was to find a wife by himself, and that was done. The marriage of Isaac and Rebekah have often been quoted as the ideal one. Of course, the entire episode is quite dramatic, and involves strong themes of obedience, faith, excitement, and wisdom. Jacob's story is also dramatic, and romantic as well, filled with episodes of heroism, love, deception, tragedy, patience, sly, escape, brokenness, surprise, mourning, and indefatigable faith. We know it already that Isaac was very old when he sent Jacob away. Abraham was also very old when he had sent Eleazar away to find for Isaac a wife. But, though Abraham had an Eleazar to fetch a wife for Isaac, Isaac had none for Jacob; perhaps, he didn't think it was necessary. However, Isaac did have some instructions

We are 1. Made for Worship (Rev.4:11; Ps.139:13-18; Job 10:10,11; Jn.9:3) 2. Destined for Worship (Rev.4:10,11) - The Absolute Acknowledgement of the Source – “You Have” - The Joyous Consideration of Our Purpose – “For Your Pleasure” Col.1:16; Eph.1:10; 2:7 3. Meant to Worship (Acts 17:25-29) –To seek Him 4. Perfected for Worship (Ps.29:2; Heb 9:9,14; 10:19-22; Isa.61:3; Rev.15:4)

Tall and magnificent buildings do often elicit awe from meagre men who can't afford to build a room for themselves, perhaps hardly even find a place to rest their head. Jesus's disciples in Matthew 24 were also immensely stricken by the beauty of the famous Herod's Temple. However, Jesus had a different opinion. He saw the present with the eyes of its future. He told the disciples that not one of the Temple's stone would remain upon another. Isn't that also true of any major edifice we know of today? However, that doesn't undermine their present use. If there wasn't, Jesus would not have cleansed the Temple. However, we must also learn not to be wrongly awed by shadowy visibles, while remaining oblivious of the glorious world to come. It is better to remain awed by only things that will remain to the end, and forever.

There are at least two ways in which we can attempt to answer this question: 1. Historical Approach . Try to understand the wedding customs during Jesus' times and see if people in His times gave fermented wine at weddings. But, a general practice doesn't need to be a necessary practice in every instance. For instance, just because a few instances tell us that Christians play also secular music during weddings doesn't prove that they do so in every wedding. Also, every Christian wedding on the same day in the same town may not include non-vegetarian food in dinner. 2. Theological Approach . The logical method in theology would certainly conclude that Jesus could not have made fermented drink to help people get drunk in abundance. That would be a miracle that facilitated drunkenness. Certainly, He made pure unfermented grape juice. Grape juice continues to be served today in hotter regions.  Some Observations by Jim McGuiggan Source: Wine: Fermented and Unfermented (Access

Excerpted from Hamartiology (2006) Shame is the result of eyes being opened. Man sees, therefore he shies. The knowledge of good and evil, thus, first produces the sense of shame. An analysis of shame reveals the following characteristics of the newly obtained knowledge: * Self-consciousness. It is not merely the consciousness of one’s existence; but the consciousness of one’s existence above and against others. One who doesn’t possess this kind of self-consciousness is never ashamed since he is lost in the consciousness of the other. * Other-consciousness. Before the Fall, Adam saw Eve as a bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh. Now he sees her as other. The personal psyche of autonomy has cleft humanity into a plurality of polities. Consequently, shame is the result of a distortion of dharmic love-relationship. Shamelessness is not the opposite of shame but a willful digression from it. Shamelessness only occurs in the presence of divine revelation. It occurs as the willful supp

 Excerpted from Hamartiology (2006) Sin can only be sin if it has an eternal dimension. Sin can only have an eternal dimension if there are eternal beings. Sin can be said to have an eternal dimension only if there is an eternal order that it violates so as to have eternal repercussions. In this sense, then, sin is the violation of an eternal order. ‘Where there is no law, there is no transgression.’ Sin exists as a disruptive factor among eternal beings. The eternal order is founded upon the nature of the Source (of all being): God the eternal Spirit. Consequentially, the eternal order is an order of love. Truth is the consistent characteristic of this eternal order; therefore, justice is the necessary antidote to the violation of the order. Therefore, sin is essentially the distortion of love and truth with eternal repercussions. In other words, it is a violation of the eternal order (definitive) of love and truth. A violation of the eternal order is directed against the Source &

1. Suffering has meaning (Job.23:10) 2. Mourning is not despair (Job 6:10; 7:6; 14:7; 19:10; 13:15) 3. Bad theology never glorifies God (Job 4:15; 8:8; 15:10) (spiritual privilege, tradition, experience are not the bases) 4. Silence comforts more than words or speech (Job 16:2; 13:5) 5. It’s before God that a man stands or falls. (Job 13:1-4; Rom.14:4) So stay focused on Him. Job didn’t give in to the counsel of his friends 6. We only know the outskirts (edges) of His ways (Job 26:14) 7. God knows and God cares (Job 38-41) 8. God doesn’t write tragedies - He never made a piece of junk - He never designed failure