RELI 100 Lecture 1: RELI 100 Lecture Notes 1

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELI 100
• Professor: David Dakake

Document Summary

Means anointed: anointed by gods with holy oil. Named for a term meaning submission: submission to the idea of god"s will. Ultimate goal to be in harmony with a principle. Moved south into pakistan into the sind river (1) in b. c. Aryans brought this which are sacred texts today. Hindu people are not necessarily of hinduism religion. Means the duty, the principle, the spiritual way. Texts reveal what it is to be human. Truth that manifests itself over and over: christianity- christ comes once. 10 known: the first 3 are animals. They heard from heaven the words of the scripture in sanskrit. Sanskrit the sacred language: a sacred language is a language in which heaven spoke, christ spoke in aramaic, his deciphers wrote down his words in greek, no linguistic relationship, greek was the most known language around the mediterranean. Christianity does not have a language in which god spoke: no sacred language.