Author: Bob Fu
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441244662
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, many of them leading double lives or in hiding from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. Bob Fu, whom the Wall Street Journal called "The pastor of China's underground railroad," is fighting to protect his fellow believers from persecution, imprisonment, and even death. God's Double Agent is his fascinating and riveting story. Bob Fu is indeed God's double agent. By day Fu worked as a full-time lecturer in a communist school; by night he pastored a house church and led an underground Bible school. This can't-put-it-down book chronicles Fu's conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his brethren. God's Double Agent will inspire readers even as it challenges them to boldly proclaim and live out their faith in a world that is at times indifferent, and at other times murderously hostile, to those who spread the gospel.
Author: Iikka Pyysiainen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019970175X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The cognitive science of religion is a rapidly growing field whose practitioners apply insights from advances in cognitive science in order to provide a better understanding of religious impulses, beliefs, and behaviors. In this book Ilkka Pyysiäinen shows how this methodology can profitably be used in the comparative study of beliefs about superhuman agents. He begins by developing a theoretical outline of the basic, modular architecture of the human mind and especially the human capacity to understand agency. He then goes on to discuss examples of supernatural agency in detail, arguing that the human ability to attribute beliefs and desires to others forms the basis of conceptions of supernatural agents and of such social cognition in which supernatural agents are postulated as interested parties in social life. Beliefs about supernatural agency are natural, says Pyysiäinen, in the sense that such concepts are used in an intuitive and automatic fashion. Two dots and a straight line below them automatically trigger the idea of a face, for example. Given that the mind consists of a host of such modular mechanisms, certain kinds of beliefs will always have a selective advantage over others. Abstract theological concepts are usually elaborate versions of such simpler and more contagious folk conceptions. Pyysiäinen uses ethnographical and survey materials as well as doctrinal treatises to show that there are certain recurrent patterns in beliefs about supernatural agents both at the level of folk-religion and of formal theology.
Author: Diane P. Mines
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A vivid account of ritual, power, and social inequality in rural India.
Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 0197530680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences of so-called 'good things.' With wit and sensitivity, along with a large measure of fearless self-scrutiny, he points to and invites us to recognize the gloomy, neurotic, despondent tendencies of reasonably sentient humanity.
Author: Kyle Higgins
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Players from all sides converge on Brazil. Pitted against the strongest warriors of the Realm of the Gods, will the Awakened be able to reach the Prodigy and begin the end of the world? And will they all make it out alive?
Author: Lyn Benedict
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101513942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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View our feature on Lyn Benedict's Gods & Monsters. Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable. When she finds the bodies of five women in the Florida Everglades, Sylvie believes them to be the work of a serial killer and passes the buck. But when the bodies wake and shift shape, killing the police, Sylvie finds herself at the head of a potentially lethal investigation.
Author: Jeannie Mane
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728351677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 765
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The chorus of frightening voices began to cackle maniacally and chanted in a strange language. Diana picked up the fruit but dropped it when it burned her hand to the touch. To Greta’s horror, an upside-down cross was beginning to sear into the palm of Diana’s hand. Her eyes were solid white before she crumpled to the ground. “AHHH... FRESH MEAT, SO SWEET. WE’LL MAKE THE GODDESS PURR... PURR... PURR!” sniggered the evil being in a cacophony of guttural sounds. It took all the courage inside Greta to leap onto the levitated bed. While she struggled with the entity possessing her teammate, she was amazingly able to force the blood amulet over the demon’s neck. In that instant, the bed slammed to the ground. Diana sat up looking quite dazed as well. Greta inspected them before breaking her silence. “Are you both okay?” Shade was sobbing. “What happened? Why am I tied up? Please untie me. I’m so scared.” Diana was about to release Shade, but Greta immediately grew concerned. She wisely chose to keep it to herself because Diana still had the telling mark on her hand. I need to get Priest. He’s the only person who can fix this issue religiously.
Author: Anti Christ
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462837271
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 581
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This book is for you! Anti Christ introduces you to yourself, your government and to your god. People, from all walks of life and religion, wonder about the validity of religion. Are physical creatures eternal beings cast in a prison of flesh or did life accidentally spring forth from the absurd and incoherent twists and turns of evolution? The several kinds of reality this book introduces fill the voids of understanding about reality with real knowledge. The book is not about religion, spirituality, occult, or anything concretely physical. It encompasses all the deceitful control schemes laid on you like obedient dogs in their traces. You cannot afford to stay ignorant for your continued existence depends on knowing what and who you are physically and spiritually. The mysteries of life are caused by your belief systems. To believe means that you do not know. Belief is the portal to hell, the permanent state of living death; knowledge is the portal to reality and eternal life. Science and religion cannot give the insight this book brings. Whether you believe the material is for you, or not, you cannot afford to remain ignorant for the route back to true reality is made clear. Ignorance always portrays itself as brilliance. The world is full of brilliant pretenders. My brother, Anti Christ leads you from example to example to understand the hoax on which physical reality is based. The more real life seems the more you are betrayed and trapped. The greatest mystery in the mind is the mystery of yourself. Vaguely, you all believe to be strangers guilty of something not understood. Anti Christ gives you the better outlook on life than any ideology, ism or cult you now subscribe to. Through believing clever deceits mankind never saw physical awareness for what it is. What humanity endlessly searches for lies revealed in the pages of this book. It overrules all human and, so-called, godly knowledge. I could not have said it better. Make it yours. Jesus Christ
Author: Russell Nohelty
Publisher: Wannabe Press, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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This boxset collects the three books of The Lobdell Chronicles. Every Planet Has a Godschurch The Horde invaded. Demons fought with us. Now, they live among us. Now, they rule us. I work for one of them as a hired assassin. I hate the work, but it's a better life than most. The only thing that keeps me going is my hatred of the gods that allows monsters to escape Hell to begin with... ...and left us to pick up the pieces. The Horde was bad, but at least they would have vaporized us quickly, not kept us as slaves. Luckily, a new contract just came across my desk. The chance to kill a god. Velaska. She deserves to die, and I'm going to put a bullet right between her purple eyes. It won't make my life any better, but at least it will give me some satisfaction, at least for a moment, and that's all you can hope for in this crazy, mixed up world. If you love mythology, space opera, and edge of your seat thrillers, then this book is for you. There's Every Reason to Fear The gods are being hunted. They are dying. The Godless are winning. I've hunted them across the galaxy, but every time I take down one Godless cell, three more take their place. They are relentless, determined, and pissed off, but they are also wrong. The gods are scared. They have never worried about death before, and now death lurks around every corner. I've protected them as best I can, but my best hasn't good enough. I must find the Godless base and destroy them before they kill every god in the universe; before they destroy the Godschurch in the process. If you love portal fantasy, subverting mythology, and magic, then you'll love this book. The End Tastes Like Pancakes The Godschurch is gone. Its members have scattered throughout the galaxy. There is no hope left. The Godless have kept us on the run since destroying our base two years ago. We've hopped from planet to planet, trying our best not to be wiped out. Now, we finally have a lead. We know where they've moved their base, and we're ready to mount an attack. We don't have enough resources. We don't have enough men. We don't have enough gods on our side. But we have to take our shot. It's the last one we might ever have. If we don't stop the Godless now, there will not be another chance. It's all or nothing, and the odds are stacked against us. If you like reinterpretations of mythology, non-stop action, and exciting battles, this is the book for you. Three books in one! Get it now.
Author: Michael Pietrzyk
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1640282416
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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What do you do when family and friends doubt the existence of God? How do you respond and are your Christian core beliefs on solid ground? Mike decided to research the atheist beliefs and confirm his natural belief in God and Jesus. Over three years, Mike read no less than eighty-four books by both Christian and atheist authors and reviewed multiple debates between Christians and atheists. In doing so, he established his common sense viewpoints that God's wisdom is present in this Universe, Mankind, Salvation and the Supernatural. This book is a compilation of Mike's common sense viewpoints, which are simple to understand. They are substantiated through the research writings of various Christian authors. The main concern of this book is that when your spirit leaves this life, you will have eternal happiness in the presence of Jesus. Validation of Mike's confirmation is his own supernatural experience of God's protection, which was outside the boundaries of science. The atheist premise that nothing happens outside the rules of science falls apart with Mike's experience and the experiences of many, many others. This book is an excellent source not just if you are searching for answers about Christianity and atheism, but it's an affirmation that God is love
