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Essays 811 - 840
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
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...
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...
Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...
"probably influence a greater number of important decisions than do statistical projects, opinion polls, consultants reports or ev...
established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...
existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...
of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...
one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...
for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...
Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...
main gods of the Sumerians included the god of water (Enki); the god of earth (Ki); the god of air (Enlil) and the god of heaven (...
been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...
the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...
As would be expected there has been a great deal of outcry about this particular ruling. For example, one senator stated, "This is...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...
as it is with pure identity based on the unique woman that Janie is. Janies life is one that is likely very realistic as many Af...
unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the no...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...
knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...
when he has found what he sought, he wanders before every mans door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the he...
the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
also suggests that battle was not only crucial, but perhaps desired. We also note that in some legends Odin sacrificed one of h...
groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...
between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...