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- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...
Goddess). She even enhances his physical appearance in order to assure he gets home. "Once Odysseus reaches the city that Nausi...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...
by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...
to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...
earliest in 1881, and again in 1920, 1925, and 1938; the strike that Sembene uses in his novel is the one that took place in 1947 ...
are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...
idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...
God, and that it is not something that is external or intrinsic to man. In other words, morality does not come from a force outsid...
proving background and an exegetical discussion. Commentaries and other authorities are referenced in this paper. Historical Con...
no means ironic. It refers to the characters of Tea Cake and Janie for the most part and the title of this book comes to life in a...
This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...
Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
In five pages this paper examines how the South influences Erskine Caldwell's writings in such works as God's Little Acre and Toba...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...