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In five pages this paper argues that in certain situations God would not condemn a person for committing suicide. One source is c...

unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the no...

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

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...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...

them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...

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...

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...

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

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...

God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...

age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...

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). ...

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...