Essays 301 - 330
long prayer of confession.6 It may be because of Ezras knowledge and profound faith that God called him to serve in a different wa...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the no...
the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...
verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...
of England. If something that catastrophic were to happen today, would the Prime Minister respond to save the church? One can onl...
one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...
does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...
to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...
casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...
nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...
As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...
by allowing some evils to exist, it makes possible greater goods that cannot be obtained by any other route (Honderich, et al 255)...
that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...
of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
but rather it is Poseidon who hates him. Zeus says, "...its the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,/forever fuming against him for...
In five pages a God or supreme being is considered in a discussion of time and eternity relevance with reference to Brian Davies' ...
In six pages this essay discusses gods laws, obedience, rewards and punishments as they pertain to 2 Books of Kings in the Old Tes...
In five pages this essay cites verses and chapters from the biblical books of Jeremiah and Isaiah as evidence that only a singular...
In five pages this essay considers religions and their similarities such as philosophies and foundations with references made to T...
In ten pages this research essay compares Christian and Jewish views of God. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...