Pastor Robert Emmitt of Community Bible Church said Ghawi -- despite the pain and embarrassment -- got back up.
Even Mahatma Gandhi, who was greatly influenced by the Bible, said he did not want missionaries to use their humanitarian deeds for proselytizing.
Using an example from the Bible, he said: "Faced with what looks like a simple challenge about whether you pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not, he famously shrugs it off, saying, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give God what belongs to God.
"I don't think most people know the Bible very well, " he said.
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"I never realized how practical the Bible is about money, " she said.
For example he said a lesson on the Bible story of Jesus feeding the 5, 000 could become "an exhortation to share your picnic rather than a discussion of whether miracles really happen or what significance they have for Christians today: for example those who say they have been miraculously healed or pray for healing".
"I think the stigma, at a very base level, is because the Bible tells us not to, " Gohde said.
He said readers would find all the familiar Bible stories.
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But the subject, exhibition organisers say, bears a strong resemblance to a later portrait of Golding Constable, which belongs to Tate, and the book in his hand is also said to closely resemble the Constable family Bible.
In those times, monks who made ornate copies of the Bible saw it as part of their sacred calling, said Anthony Tambasco, a professor of theology at Georgetown University.
Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as a part of a secular (public school) program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.
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So much paper and you become a person who said, Well, you know I started writing a Bible once and then I gave it up.
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She recited what the writer had said to her the way people recite a verse from the Bible.
"He's a jack leg preacher without a license, no Bible college, but it's just in him, " Bryant said.
"The stories in the Bible are skeletal, loosely told, with a lot of gaps, " he said.
Burnett has said he made the special effects-filled project to help tackle "Bible illiteracy" among young people.
"Anything to put the Bible in people's hands is a good thing, " Gideons spokesman Ken Stephens said.
"Today the world lost a Christian statesman, a dedicated servant of prisoners and a powerful example of God's ability to transform a life, " said Lamar Vest, president and CEO of the New York-based American Bible Society.
"I do not personally agree with gay marriage, as I am a Christian and believe what the Bible says about marriage being between one woman and one man for a lifetime, " said CNN iReporter Oluwasegun Olowu-Davies, who shot video of the Paris march on his phone.
"I do not personally agree with gay marriage as I am a Christian and believe what the Bible says about marriage being between one woman and one man for a life time, " said CNN iReporter Oluwasegun Olowu-Davies, who shot video of the march with his phone.
He had made the trip, "to bring the Bible to life, to see the places where Jesus walked, talked, taught, " he said.
"Bush connects more with Missourians because this is in the Bible Belt, so moral values mean more to Missourians than they do to most Americans, " said Warren, adding that many registered Democrats share this sentiment.
Skipper said Poland and his wife would often sit on their porch, drinking coffee, praying and reading the Bible.
The pope also looks at scholarly studies of the Bible, some of which have indicated for decades that the traditionally accepted birth date for Jesus is wrong, Speciale said.
And the Reverend Rod Thomas, vicar of St Matthew's Elburton, Plymouth and leader of the Evangelical group Reform, said the measure was forcing members of the Church "to accept something that we do not believe the Bible teaches".
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