Essays 781 - 810
about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...
it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...
them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...
for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...
account of their experience with God" (Adamson, 2008). Human beings are capable of many things, and capable of believing, ...
theories of evaluating this today, such as the Big Bang. That is, there may be a world that has come about, and a cause, but the c...
and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...
no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...
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...
nature worship, and may have in common the 3 kind of occultism: Divination, witchcraft (magic) and spiritism, with the sacrifice o...
to happen. There is also the reality wherein a being that is powerful enough to create the entire world is far beyond...
other and as such their need to survive was often driven by their separation. Another example of survival can be seen in the rel...
states that the anthropomorphites commit a grave error because Jesus Himself said that God is a spirit and mans body cannot possib...
finally suspended the rule of law leading to the massacre of the aristocracy; it was class warfare at its ugliest. In a sense, one...
cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...
adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...
talking about Ulysses and his struggles to get home after the Trojan War: "So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck ...
1584. Menocchio declared: "in my opinion, all was chaos... and out of that bulk a mass formed - just as cheese is made out of milk...
Claire persisted - "But God will end good people to hell?" The Pastor also commented that since he did not know what was in the ma...
the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...
to merge . This would seem to be a level in ones spiritual development, in fact, it would be the final level on earth since Nirvan...
complex or larger than many families. In this basic setting one can see how the family is affected by the power of the nation an...
as a necessity of life as food, water, and comfort. The people who make no effort to know God cannot understand the world in whic...
forests and other vegetation; the teeming mass of life suggests that there is more than one god present. (This analysis of course ...
It appears that the village had a relatively high level of it received compared to the rest of Egypt, possibly in excess of 50% co...
observation as well noting that this prohibition is a substantive one just as was women being kept out of certain occupations in o...
The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...
Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...
who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who ca...