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African culture

The African traditional society according to Metala, Ajan Clinton is a homogeneous and close one with its unique characteristics features that set if apart from other cultures of the world. Some of their beliefs and practices like caste system and killing of twins and abinos, burying of chiefs with slaves, etc and certain practices against women and widows appear to be evil in the contemporary society and therefore, need to be sermonised against so as to revive them in the light of Superior religion like Christianity.     However, the culture of Africa is varied and manifold consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes that each has their own unique characteristics from the continent of Africa. African culture is expressed in its arts and crafts, folklore and religion, clothing, music and languages. 

Hell and the consequences of sin

     As with many other indispensable Christian claims—the Trinity, for example—the doctrine of Christ’s descent into hell is a careful theologi cal extrapolation from the biblical narratives. The single slender thread of  “evidence” is found in 1Peter 3:19-20 and 4:6,where we learn that the cru- cified Christ“ went and  preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the day of Noah,” so that“ the gospel was preached even to the dead.” Almost from the beginning, the earliest Christians began to link these claims with many other biblical affirmations.The Psalmist exults in the as-surance, for example, that“If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there” (139:8).So do we read in Matthew16:18 of Christ’s remarkable assurance to Peter that his confession of faith (“Thou art the Christ”) will become the foundation stone of the church, and that“ the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. ”The Old Testament Sheol and the Ne...

Pre Marital sex

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      Pre Marital sex is simply sex before marriage. It involves sexual relations among unmarried people. It is an adultery for either party to get married. The Bible does not specifies any prohibition against sex between unmarried people, but some Bible passages may be relevant.    Sexual morality is made in about twenty five passages in the new testament. The etymology of the word translated as"sexual immorality, unchastity or fornication is often understood as sex between unmarried people, but in the Bible it's a translation of porneia and refers to any sexual immorality.