What is the biblical evaluation of sex?

My parents named me Sarah, which is a biblical name.

When you read the biblical plague of boils, that was smallpox.

That's a Biblical name. Do you want to know its meaning?

Or you can whisper in the ear of a supposed terrorist some Biblical verse.

So one third of it reprises the stories of Biblical figures like Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Mary, Jesus.

A fine biblical scholar, Bishop Usher, has determined for us the exact date and hour of the Creation.

This is also expressed in biblical vocabulary when we are taught that we were created in the divine image.

Because I learned that I was thinking, I was doing all these rituals, these biblical rituals, separating my wool and linen, and I would ask these religious people

And when I'm on my bike, I feel that I connect with the profound beauty of Israel, and I feel that I'm united with this country's history and biblical law.

These things resonate with us, and, if you think about blogs, you think of high art blogs, the history paintings about, you know, all biblical stories, and then you have this.

It happened I was in the park, and I was dressed in my biblical clothing, so sandals and sort of a white robe, you know, because again, the outer affects the inner.

It happened I was in the park, and I was dressed in my biblical clothing, so sandals and sort of a white robe, you know, because again, the outer affects the inner.

And if that wasn't good enough motivation for everyone out there, they also have more how shall I say this on this stage? they know each other more in the biblical sense as well.

But the heart of the matter is the preservation of ancient patriarchal rights that go back to Biblical times, reformatted to fit the demands of globalized capitalism. Governments and international aid organizations have failed to take into consideration the role of

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

In the cavalier spirit that prevailed after 1967, the Israeli government extended the city s boundaries from 10,875 acres to more than 31,000 acres. Netanyahu s claim that this extended Jerusalem is the biblical capital of the Jewish people is a historical travesty.

Now by taking the biblical epithet abomination and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short circuits the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.

Because I learned that I was thinking, I was doing all these rituals, these biblical rituals, separating my wool and linen, and I would ask these religious people Why would the Bible possibly tell us to do this? Why would God care?

But creationists, whether biblical fundamentalists or believers in intelligent design, do pose a threat to scientific thinking. Indeed, creationism s insidious genius lies in its ability to reinvent evolution in its own image as a dogmatic belief system and thus the antithesis of science.

To be sure, some of these deniers are simply scientifically ignorant, having been failed by the poor quality of science education in America. But others are biblical fundamentalists, who reject modern science because they take the word of the Bible as literally true.

Israel has become post modern, producing new and sometimes startling synergies among its avant garde high tech sensibility, its secular and ever more orthodox religious identities, and its overall ethno nationalist outlook. Its ancient biblical past can now coexist seamlessly with its ultra modern present.

It was the latest resort to terrible violence in order to resolve how to share in peace what Christians still like to call the Holy Land. Mahatma Gandhi criticized the biblical justification of retribution, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Religious and non religious people alike have viewed this rebirth as a modern miracle, the realization of the vision of the Hebrew prophets. Yet ever since that miracle occurred, we have all been hoping that it would be accompanied by the fulfilment of another biblical prophesy

But Netanyahu s school of thought is radically different. Not only does it advocate an Israeli presence in the West Bank (the Biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria) it also links territorial concessions to the Palestinians to the neutralization of existential threats emanating from the outer circle of the region.

To judge by Yellen s recent speeches, the Fed may no longer believe in any version of the natural unemployment rate. Friedman s assumptions of ever accelerating inflation and irrationally rational expectations that lead to single minded targeting of price stability remain embedded in official economic models like some Biblical creation myth.

These are clearly biblical archetypes, and the thinking behind that was to create positive, globally resonating storylines that could be tied to the same things that other people were pulling mean messages out of because then the person that's using religion for the wrong purpose just becomes a bad man with a bad message.

But the heart of the matter is the preservation of ancient patriarchal rights that go back to Biblical times, reformatted to fit the demands of globalized capitalism. Governments and international aid organizations have failed to take into consideration the role ofFarhang, perhaps because the power of unwritten law remains largely inconceivable in the West.

Indeed, a week before Rato s resignation announcement, the Fund asserted that it had the right to censure countries whose intervention policies threaten to undermine global economic stability. The Fund s policy change drew the ire of Chinese officials, who have been intervening on a biblical scale to hold down the value of their currency, the Yuan.

Centuries of inculcation with Confucianism was as important to the rise of East Asia s hyper growth economies as the conjunction of Protestantism and the rise of capitalism was to the west. Confucianism s tenets still provide an inner compass to most East Asians in a post Confucian age, just as Biblical admonitions remain standards for the West in a post religious age.

Without the preconditions that made the Brady Plan work, simply transplanting a debt write off would only augment uncertainty and fuel the political revulsion that already threatens to undermine European integration. And it may be that Europe because of its relative prosperity is less in a mood for the biblical seven lean years than was a much poorer Latin America in the 1980 s.

That was also the logic of the Barcelona Process in the late 1990 s, whereby the European Union worked to promote the development and democratization of the countries of the Maghreb as the best way to stem the uncontrolled tide of illegal immigration into Europe. But, unlike the EU, the Dominican Republic is not an economic giant that can assume exclusive responsibility for extracting Haiti from its Biblical destitution.

Obama is a revolutionary phenomenon in American history he certainly does not fit the traditional pattern of American presidents after World War II. He was far less shaped by religious and biblical teachings than all of them, and the narrative of Jewish history and of Israel s heroic emergence out of the ashes of the Holocaust is not the primordial sentiment in his attitude toward the Arab Israeli conflict.