Taken together with the other reasons for American support for Israel - particularly religious affinity for the people of the Bible - Gilder's book shows that the American and Israeli people are indeed natural friends and allies bound together by their exceptionalism that motivates them to strive for excellence and progress to the benefit of all mankind.
During the service, the pope washes and kisses the feet of 12 people to replicate the Bible's account of Jesus Christ's gesture of humility towards his 12 apostles on the night before he was crucified.
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Yet it is a beautifully detailed map of the Christian world, based on the topography of the Bible bewildering to the geographer, but sensible to people of faith.
Now, a lot of people try to read the Bible from cover to cover, but Phillip Patterson went a step further.
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There are lots of things that people think are in the Bible, but really are not.
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From the time the Bible was written until the early years of this century people married young and died young.
At the end of Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People, " a Bible salesman steals the main character's wooden leg.
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They have set up a stall in the middle of Tbilisi, to hand out the Bible, in Farsi, to Iranian people passing by.
The kind of people who send their kids to Bible camp are appalled.
On the first evening of the Alpha course at Holy Trinity Brompton in September, 600 people came to hear him defend the historical accuracy of the Bible and the existence of Jesus.
The report stated there had been a widespread assumption by many Christians, as well as many Jewish people, that the Bible "supports an essentially Jewish state of Israel".
What these people really believed and what gave them their whole strength was in the truth of the Bible as the absolute infallible word of God.
Consequently, outside of Bible-literate Christian communities, today most people are comfortable parroting the totally false Palestinian claim that Jews have no rights to Judea, Samaria or Jerusalem.
The MP Iris Robinson made headlines internationally for drawing freely on the language of the King James Bible in her description of homosexuality and suggesting that gay people can be "cured".
He has been struck by the huge queues of people (many wearing the Newcastle United colours) generated whenever the Lindisfarne Gospels, a richly illustrated 8th-century bible produced by Lindisfarne monks but now kept in London, have been on show in Newcastle.
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