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Christianity

Abrahamic monotheistic religion founded on the teachings, person and life of Jesus

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Nov 17, 2025
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Is Satan and Lucifer the same person

Different traditions and translations have treated "Lucifer" and "Satan" in overlapping but not identical ways: many Christian traditions equate Lucifer (a Latin rendering of a Hebrew term in Isaiah 1...

Nov 23, 2025
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Did Moses exist

Scholars remain divided: some recent archaeological claims — notably a 2025 reinterpretation of Proto‑Sinaitic inscriptions that may read “This is from Moses” — have reignited debate but are contested...

Oct 28, 2025
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How has Donald Trump's presidency impacted the relationship between Christianity and politics in the US?

Donald Trump’s presidency reshaped the public fusion of Christianity and American politics by energizing , institutionalizing faith-aligned policy mechanisms, and emboldening strands of while provokin...

Dec 15, 2025

Compare monotheistic and polytheistic religions’ characteristics

Monotheism centers on belief in a single, unique God and typically connects divine authority to a unified moral and legal order; major monotheistic faiths named include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, S...

Oct 7, 2025

What role did Christianity play in the formation of Nazi ideology?

Christianity influenced, intersected with, and was instrumentalized by elements of Nazi ideology, but it did not wholly determine Nazism’s core racial doctrines; , while Nazi racial antisemitism and s...

Jan 18, 2026

How do different religions view the start of human life?

Religious answers to “when human life begins” vary widely: some faiths and denominations locate personhood at conception, others at later developmental milestones or birth, and many traditions offer l...

Dec 18, 2025

How did early Christian theology transform Jewish concepts of satan into a personified evil?

Early Christianity transformed a relatively marginal Hebrew figure—ha‑Satan, an agent who tests or accuses—into a fully personified, cosmic Prince of Darkness through a mix of late‑Jewish apocalyptic ...

Dec 18, 2025

How did translations like the Septuagint and Vulgate influence the conflation of celestial imagery with a personified devil?

Translations like the Greek Septuagint and Jerome’s Latin Vulgate helped transform poetic celestial imagery in Hebrew texts into lexical items—Phosphorus/Heosphoros and Lucifer—that readers and theolo...

Dec 10, 2025

What criteria do scholars use to determine canonicity in the Ethiopian Church versus Western churches?

Scholars describe Western churches (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant) as using three core tests—apostolicity, orthodoxy/doctrinal conformity, and widespread church use or recognition—developed between t...

Dec 9, 2025

How do Nick Fuentes' gender views align with his America First movement?

Nick Fuentes’ gender and sexual‑norm views are explicitly reactionary: he promotes traditional, patriarchal gender roles, opposes feminism and LGBTQ+ rights, and has praised policies and rhetoric that...

Dec 7, 2025

is Christianity a religion of peace

Christian traditions and official teachings repeatedly present peace as a core Christian aim: Advent and Christmas liturgy emphasize "peace" as a recurring theme and promise . Institutional practice a...

Nov 5, 2025

During the viking raids, was Lindisfarne undefended?

The best reading of the evidence is that Lindisfarne was effectively vulnerable and lacked organized military defenses when Norse raiders struck in 793, but the sources do not prove the priory was lit...