* Romans 13 tells us that (v.1) the governing authorities are established by God, that the government is (v.4) "God's servant to do you good," and therefore that we are to (v.5) "submit to the authorities."

* In Titus 3:1, the Apostle Paul tells Titus to, "Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities ..."

"One of them names a benefactor called Gaianus who is described as a centurion. Another mentions a woman called Akeptous who '...offered this table in memorial of the God Jesus Christ'."

The inscriptions cast more doubt on claims made by prominent atheists and popular authors that Jesus' divinity was an invention by the fourth century church.

But is it true, I asked, that religion has done more than anything else to inspire violence?

Korn shows that Jews have always thought of salvation as corporate, not individual, for Torah's famous call to God's people to be holy in Leviticus 19 is in the plural imperative. Since holiness is to be social, primarily expressed in relations among human beings and especially in a holy society, a land is needed to ensure the freedom to create that society. This is why "the Land is essential to the divine biblical mission" (8).