YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Why Be A Christian
Essays 271 - 300
obvious, even if one had not heard the laws of God as such, this ignorance has never constituted an excuse for sin. As this indica...
country, he had done a lot of good there. He served as Emperor between 1804 and 1814 and then again between 1814 and 1815. He wou...
people and their farming and small area within a larger place within a town. My neighborhood in Brooklyns community is a five-bloc...
Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...
my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...
that are more passive and believe that "God will punish" or "evil will be punished" much less threatening than those that say "God...
a relationship with Him, cultivating that relationship is possible. Further, the relationship with God is personal. Despite the fa...
as well as their learning abilities. The Bible teaches people that it is important, and crucial, to care for others and to neve...
but rather gives the reader the big picture in respect to what was occurring on either side and how the people felt about what was...
Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...
what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meant again, so that I will not cause him to fall" (I Cor. 8:13). ...
memorial prayer for the dead: "O God full of compassion, who dwell on high, grant perfect peace under the wings of the Shekhinah, ...
edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...
wanted only man as His own: God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and ...
However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...
light that does not deceive us" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). This "natural light," in his estimation enables human beings to arrive at "...
Texts of the Worlds Religions" presents Islam as a religion which stresses that an individuals submission to Allah is what is most...
Koinonia Farm, an integrated Christian community in South Georgia (Winbush 12). A typical Habitat for Humanity home is a no-frills...
discuss the impact of the mans drinking on his wife and children. Although the author makes an attempt to include women in a chap...
covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...
perceived as Jesus being chosen by God to serve a divine purpose. This manner of perceiving Jesus was soon overshadowed by a diffe...
head position was responsible for "settling family disputes, and because he controlled the channel of communication with the all-i...
the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...
illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...
is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...
the war has a specific goal in mind. NON-CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT The problem, the non-Christian would say, is that these rules are ei...
with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...
Ostensibly, the Pardoner is a man of God. However, in the prologue to his tale, the Pardoner goes to great pains to elucidate his ...
the same as other parts of the country, it would seem. One of the first Christian Counseling centers appears to have started in th...
we think of as ourselves continue to exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick t...