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Divine retribution, the Glossary

Divine retribution is supernatural punishment of a person, a group of people, or everyone by a deity in response to some action.^[1]

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Abiram

Abiram, also spelled Abiron (אֲבִירָם "my father is exalted"), is the name of two people in the Old Testament.

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Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Dato' Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid bin Hamidi (italic; born 4 January 1953) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Rural and Regional Development since December 2022.

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Al-A'raf

Al-Araf (ٱلأعراف,; The Heights) is the 7th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an, with 206 verses (āyāt).

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American Family Association

The American Family Association (AFA) is a conservative and Christian fundamentalist 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States.

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American imperialism

American imperialism is the expansion of American political, economic, cultural, media, and military influence beyond the boundaries of the United States of America.

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Anal sex

Anal sex or anal intercourse is generally the insertion and thrusting of the erect penis into a person's anus, or anus and rectum, for sexual pleasure.

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Ananias and Sapphira

Ananias (חָנַנְיָהּ|Chānanyah) and his wife Sapphira (סָפִירַה|Ṣafīrah|label.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, is believed to have been the most sacred religious relic of the Israelites.

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Beth Shemesh

Beth Shemesh (House of the Sun) is the name of three places in the Land of Israel and one location in Ancient Egypt mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bible translations into English

Partial Bible translations into languages of the English people can be traced back to the late 7th century, including translations into Old and Middle English.

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Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Buddhist cosmology

Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries.

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Christian eschatology

Christian eschatology is a minor branch of study within Christian theology which deals with the doctrine of the "last things", especially the Second Coming of Christ, or Parousia.

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Collective punishment

Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group or whole community for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator.

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Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Creator deity

A creator deity or creator god is a deity responsible for the creation of the Earth, world, and universe in human religion and mythology.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Curse and mark of Cain

The curse of Cain and the mark of Cain are phrases that originated in the story of Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis.

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Dathan

Dathan (דָּתָן Dāṯān) was an Israelite mentioned in the Old Testament as a participant of the Exodus.

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Deism

Deism (or; derived from the Latin term deus, meaning "god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe.

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Deity

A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life.

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Deva (Buddhism)

A Deva (Sanskrit and Pali: देव; Mongolian: тэнгэр, tenger) in Buddhism is a type of celestial being or god who shares the god-like characteristics of being more powerful, longer-lived, and, in general, much happier than humans, although the same level of veneration is not paid to them as to Buddhas.

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Divine judgment

Divine judgment means the judgment of God or other supreme beings and deities within a religion or a spiritual belief.

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Divine providence

In theology, divine providence, or simply providence, is God's intervention in the Universe. Divine retribution and divine providence are attributes of God in Christian theology.

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English Standard Version

The English Standard Version (ESV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English.

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Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.

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Er (biblical person)

In the biblical Book of Genesis, Er ("watcher"; Ἤρ) was the eldest son of Judah and his Canaanite wife, the daughter of Shuah.

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Eternal life (Christianity)

Eternal life traditionally refers to continued life after death, as outlined in Christian eschatology. Divine retribution and Eternal life (Christianity) are Christian terminology.

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Eusebius

Eusebius of Caesarea (Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek Syro-Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist.

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Eye for an eye

"An eye for an eye" (עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. Divine retribution and eye for an eye are Christian terminology.

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Fall of man

The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. Divine retribution and fall of man are Christian terminology.

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Fiery flying serpent

The fiery flying serpent (Hebrew: sārāf mə‘ōfēf; ἔκγονα αὐτῶν ἐξελεύσονται; Absorbens volucrem) is a creature mentioned in the Book of Isaiah in the Tanakh.

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Flood myth

A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution.

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Frontier justice

Frontier justice is extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with judicial punishment.

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Garden of Eden

In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (גַּן־עֵדֶן|gan-ʿĒḏen; Εδέμ; Paradisus) or Garden of God (גַּן־יְהֹוֶה|gan-YHWH|label.

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Genesis flood narrative

The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Golden calf

According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.

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Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels.

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Graham Dow

Geoffrey Graham Dow (born 4 July 1942) is a retired British Anglican bishop.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.

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Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

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Hebrews

The Hebrews were an ancient Semitic-speaking people.

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Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer

Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (10 January 1800 – 21 June 1873) was a German Protestant divine.

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Hera

In ancient Greek religion, Hera (Hḗrā; label in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth.

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Herod the Great

Herod I or Herod the Great was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Hurricane Isaac (2012)

Hurricane Isaac was a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that came ashore in the U.S. state of Louisiana during August 2012.

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.

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Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) was an extremely large and destructive Category 3 Atlantic hurricane which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012.

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Immorality

Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israelites

The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.

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James J. Martin (priest)

James J. Martin (born December 29, 1960) is an American Jesuit Catholic priest, writer, editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine ''America'' and the founder of Outreach. A New York Times Best Selling author, Martin's books include The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life, Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and My Life With the Saints.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Job (biblical figure)

Job (אִיּוֹב Īyyōv; Ἰώβ Iṓb) is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible.

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John the Baptist

John the Baptist (–) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD.

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Josephus

Flavius Josephus (Ἰώσηπος,; AD 37 – 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader.

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Just-world fallacy

The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor.

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Karma

Karma (from कर्म,; italic) is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences.

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Karma in Buddhism

Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म, Pāli: kamma) is a Sanskrit term that literally means "action" or "doing".

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Korah

Korah (קֹרַח Qōraḥ; قارون Qārūn), son of Izhar, is an individual who appears in the Biblical Book of Numbers of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) and four different verses in the Quran, known for leading a rebellion against Moses.

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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (Novemberpogrome), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's nocat.

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Last Judgment

The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (translit or label) is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.

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LGBT people and military service

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) personnel are able to serve in the armed forces of some countries around the world: the vast majority of industrialized, Western countries including some South American countries, such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile in addition to other countries, such as the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Mexico, France, Finland, Denmark and Israel.

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Lynching of Jesse Washington

Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching.

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Massacre of the Innocents

The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a biblical story, recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.

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Massah and Meribah

Massah (מַסָּה) and Meribah (מְרִיבָה, also spelled "Mirabah") are place names found in the Hebrew Bible.

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Medusa

In Greek mythology, Medusa (guardian, protectress), also called Gorgo or the Gorgon, was one of the three Gorgons.

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Mills of God

The proverbial expression of the mills of God grinding slowly refers to the notion of slow but certain divine retribution.

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Moab

Moab is an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan.

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Moses

Moses; Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ); Mūše; Mūsā; Mōÿsēs was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader, according to Abrahamic tradition.

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Mount Sinai (Bible)

Mount Sinai (Har Sīnay) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible.

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Muqtada al-Sadr

Muqtada al-Sadr (Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader.

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Nadab and Abihu

In the biblical books Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, Nadab and Abihu were the two oldest sons of Aaron.

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Naraka (Buddhism)

Naraka (नरक) is a term in Buddhist cosmology usually referred to in English as "hell" (or "hell realm") or "purgatory".

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Nativity of Jesus

The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nemesis

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Nemesis (Némesis) also called Rhamnousia (or Rhamnusia; the goddess of Rhamnous), was the goddess who personified retribution for the sin of hubris; arrogance before the gods.

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Nephilim

The Nephilim (Nəfīlīm) are mysterious beings or people in the Bible traditionally imagined as being of great size and strength.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. Divine retribution and New Testament are Christian terminology.

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Noah

Noah appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions.

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Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark (תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ)The word "ark" in modern English comes from Old English aerca, meaning a chest or box.

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Nontheism

Nontheism or non-theism is a range of both religious and non-religious attitudes characterized by the absence of espoused belief in the existence of God or gods.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. Divine retribution and Old Testament are Christian terminology.

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Omnipotence

Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power. Divine retribution and Omnipotence are attributes of God in Christian theology.

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Onan

Onan was a figure detailed in the Book of Genesis chapter 38, as the second son of Judah who married the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.

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Pandeism

Pandeism, or pan-deism, is a theological doctrine that combines aspects of pantheism with aspects of deism.

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Pantheism

Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.

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Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023) was an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister.

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Penal substitution

Penal substitution, also called penal substitutionary atonement and especially in older writings forensic theory,Vincent Taylor, The Cross of Christ (London: Macmillan & Co, 1956), pp. Divine retribution and penal substitution are Christian terminology.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Plagues of Egypt

The Plagues of Egypt (מכות מצרים), in the account of the Book of Exodus, are ten disasters inflicted on biblical Egypt by the God of Israel (Yahweh) in order to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; they serve as "signs and marvels" given by God to answer Pharaoh's taunt that he does not know Yahweh: "The Egyptians shall know that I am the ".

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Poseidon

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.

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Punishment

Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Rabbi

A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.

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Retributive justice

Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caracas

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Caracas is an ecclesiastical territory of the Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela.

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Saṃsāra (Buddhism)

Saṃsāra (संसार, saṃsāra; also samsara) in Buddhism and Hinduism is the beginningless cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again.

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Shmuel Eliyahu

Shmuel Eliyahu (שמואל אליהו; born 29 November 1956) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi.

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Shmuley Boteach

Jacob Shmuel Boteach (born November 19, 1966), known as Shmuley Boteach, is an American rabbi, author, and media host.

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Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.

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Societal collapse

Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of violence.

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Sodom and Gomorrah

In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness.

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Solomon

Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.

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Southern Decadence

Southern Decadence is an annual, six-day, LGBTQ-based event held in New Orleans, Louisiana during Labor Day weekend, culminating in a parade through the French Quarter on the Sunday before Labor Day.

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Strategic bombing during World War II

World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power.

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Supernatural

Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.

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Talmud

The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.

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Two-state solution

The two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict proposes to resolve the conflict by establishing two nation states in former Mandatory Palestine.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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Unmoved mover

The unmoved mover (that which moves without being moved) or prime mover (primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause) or "mover" of all the motion in the universe.

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Utnapishtim

Uta-napishtim ("he has found life" 𒌓𒍣), was a legendary king of the ancient city of Shuruppak in southern Iraq, who, according to several surviving narratives, survived the Flood by making a boat.

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Uzzah

According to the Tanakh, עזה, Uzzah or Uzza, meaning "Her Strength", was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant.

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Vaivasvata Manu

Vaivasvata Manu, also referred to as Shraddhadeva and Satyavrata, is the current Manu—the progenitor of the human race.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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Venezuelan War of Independence

The Venezuelan War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela, 1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in South America fought a civil war for secession and against unity of the Spanish Empire, emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Victim blaming

Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them.

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Western Christianity

Western Christianity is one of two subdivisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity being the other). Divine retribution and Western Christianity are Christian terminology.

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William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism.

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William Whiston

William Whiston (9 December 166722 August 1752) was an English theologian, historian, natural philosopher, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton.

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WorldNetDaily

WND (formerly WorldNetDaily) is an American far-right news and opinion website.

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Yehuda Levin

Lew Y. Levin(February 4, 2013), Yeshiva World News.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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Zeus

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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1812 Caracas earthquake

The 1812 Caracas earthquake took place in Venezuela on March 26 (on Maundy Thursday) at 4:37 p.m. It measured 7.7 on the Richter magnitude scale.

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1953 Waco tornado outbreak

A deadly series of at least 33 tornadoes hit at least 10 different U.S. states on May 9–11, 1953.

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2007 United Kingdom floods

A series of large floods occurred in parts of the United Kingdom during the summer of 2007.

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2010 Haiti earthquake

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.

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2011 Virginia earthquake

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT.

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2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami

On 28 September 2018, a shallow, large earthquake struck in the neck of the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi.

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2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes

On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_retribution

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