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A Consideration of the Theory of the Qur’an’s Influence from Ebionites in its Belief in the Distortion of the Bible Mohammad Ali Tabatabaee (Mehrdad) [Date received: June 26, 2018; date accepted: September 11, 2019] A group of Western Quranic researchers, who maintain that the Qur’an believes in the distortion of the Torah and the Gospel, have sought to accounted for the Quranic belief in distortion by an appeal to the existence of a Jewish-Christian sect, known as Ebionites, in the pre-Islamic era. Keywords: dreams in John’s Book of Revelation, traditional approaches to the Revelation, retrospective approach, judgments over Jerusalem, the Second Coming of the Christ A Reanalysis of the Doctrine of Holy Spirit in Pentecostal Church Mohammad Hossein Taheri Akerdi Yasser Aboozadeh Gatabi [Date received: January 2, 2019; Date accepted: September 11, 2019] The Pentecostal movement which arose in early twentieth century with an emphasis on the Holy Spirit, appeals to verses of the Bible and the teachings of its leaders and intellectuals to suggest that the Holy Spirit is dynamically present in the Church, drawing upon this to evangelize and propagate its religious tendency. Keywords: infallibility, Catholic Church, Pope, tradition, First Vatican Council Hormizd’s Will in Creation Maryam Rezaee [Date received: October 21, 2017; date accepted: September 11, 2019] In this paper, I delineate an expression in the Pahlavi text of Denkard Book 4, which does not appear in other Pahlavi texts.