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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 (...

also suggests that battle was not only crucial, but perhaps desired. We also note that in some legends Odin sacrificed one of h...

As would be expected there has been a great deal of outcry about this particular ruling. For example, one senator stated, "This is...

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

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

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...

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...

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...

carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...

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

"probably influence a greater number of important decisions than do statistical projects, opinion polls, consultants reports or ev...

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...

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

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...

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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