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Historical Jesus And Christ Of Faith

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

Leviticus and Christianity

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

Ancient Literature on the Life's Meaning of Moral Order

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

Questioning Who Jesus is and What He Represents

accompanies a mortal existence, one will reap the benefits of living a pure life; indeed, whatever trials and tribulations one exp...

Contemporary Product Name and the Greek God Apollo

their strong financial record demonstrates a doubling in their enrollments and their gross revenues between 1995 and 1999 (Company...

God, Science, and Religion

on through infinity. However, at some point, there had to be a first cause, which set these wheels into motion, which is the bein...

Religion and Anthropomorphism

out of favor as a more philosophical approach took over. In more recent years, however, the fundamentalist and evangelical movemen...

'The Holdfast' by George Herbert

from grace. I threatend to observe the strict decree Of my dear God with...

The Concept of Evil

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

Caravaggio/The Entombment

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

Miracles In The Gospel Of Mark

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...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

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...

Why Monotheism is Not Rational

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...

The Religious Orientation of the Deir el-Madina Villagers

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...

Book of Esther

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...

Concepts of God

throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...

Critique: “God in the Wasteland”

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...

Models Of The Church, Chapter 11 The Church And Revelation

about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...

Christian Leadership

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

Elijah's Message

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

Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

Is God Good?

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...

'Gilgamesh,' 'Monkeys,' Beings, and Gods

In five pages these stories are contrasted and compared in terms of their presentation of magical creatures and gods. There are n...

God and Suicide

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

Evil, God, and David Hume

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

The Rain God: A Desert Tale Viewed Critically

members of the Angel clan, as well as Mexican-American men and women. Gender restricts personal choices, and influences not only ...

God, Man, and Jean Paul Sartre

In five pages this paper discusses Sartre's existential perceptions regarding man's desire to be God as an exercise in futility. ...

Virgil's The Aeneid, Free Will, and Fate

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the concepts of fate and free will within the context of Virgil's epic and...

God and State Views of Leopold von Ranke

In eight pages this paper discusses von Ranke's views of history and how they relate to the State and God. Seven sources are cite...