What is the spirituality of Chinese Kungfu and Japanese Samurais?
What is the spirituality of Chinese Kung fu and Japanese Samurais?
When i watch Japanese films, they don’t give a clear idea about their spirituality. Chinese film shows buddhist deities in their films , here and there. But then Who are Taoist ?
Just Google Taoism and Buddhism for Chinese religion and google Shintoism and Zen Buddhism for Japanese religion.
As far as I know, and anyone can correct me if I’m wrong, Taoism is the religion that founded the Yin Yang Philosophy of Tai Chi and is centered in the Wudang/Wu Tang Mountain Temple. While Buddhism is centered in the Shaolin Temple.
Shintoism is the ancient Japanese religious practice of venerating their ancestors and is as old as Japan itself, while Zen Buddhism is an offshoot of Chinese Chan Buddhism and was the religion practiced by most of the Samurai during the medieval era.
Categories: Spirituality Tags:
What is a good bible verse for this theme?
We are making shirts that are camo and want a Bible verse on them. We want it to go along with the theme of searching for God or finding God. Got any verses that would fit?
" … Seek, and ye shall find … " Mat. 7:7
Categories: Bible Verse Tags:
How old is the theology of the rapture presented in the Evangelical churches?
This theology has not been around in the current form very long . So what did they say about the rapture 200 years ago?
The concept of the rapture, in connection with premillennialism, was expressed by the American Puritan father and son Increase and Cotton Mather. They held to the idea that believers would be caught up in the air, followed by judgments on the earth and then the millennium.[13][14] The term rapture was used by Philip Doddridge (1738) and John Gill (1748) in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on the earth and Jesus’ Second Coming. The concept of a pre-tribulation rapture was articulated by Baptist Morgan Edwards in an essay published in 1788 in Philadelphia.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture
more here
Categories: Theology Tags: