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God and the Creation of Evil

This paper argues in five pages that God is the Creator of all goodness but that he allowed evil to exist despite the fact that He...

Old and New Testaments and the Theme of Salvation

Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...

Biblical Viewpoints on Forgiveness

be pardoned" (Luke 6:37). God is clearly telling us that it is in our own best interests to forgive others for whatever umbrage w...

What They Don't Tell You by Brown

p.103). In other words, the bible is real, but there are problems in its delivery. It is therefore seemingly wrong to argue everyt...

Mosaic Tradition and Divine Command and the Mosaic Tradition: Maimonides, Al-Ghazali and Augustine

the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...

Biblical Guidance References for a Sunday School Superintendent's Role

be either coerced or cajoled into taking a position of responsibility within the church, but should, rather, desire to serve in th...

The Death and Resurrection of Jesus

Gospel of Matthew it is noted that "When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against...

Role of Faith/Cry, the Beloved Country

of Western superiority, is the only correct view. By this novels end, it is clear that what Price calls "faith" is rather cultur...

Examining Religion

the Samaritans had settled in their land; although their religion was similar to the Jews, it was not identical, and there was hos...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

Lanford Wilson/Rimers of Eldritch

A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Lanford Wilson's play Rimers of Eldritch, which, on the surface, concerns a murder ...

The Importance of Trust

during important stages such as childhood and adolescence. The first stage in the model is trust versus mistrust and this is usua...

Flaubert's A Sentimental Education

friendship that endures, but had been weak and strong at different times in the lives, largely due to circumstance. Prior to the n...

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

Lord of the Flies: Jack & Hitler

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

Personal Fulfillment in 'Rabbit, Run' by John Updike

(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...

Analysis of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie"

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

Danny Zuko From The Movie Grease

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

Research Proposal: Nick in "The Great Gatsby"

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...

A Character Analysis from The Kite Runner

to torment me anew. Suddenly the air in Rahim Khans little flat was too thick, too hot, too rich with the smell of the street" (H...

Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables With a focus on Hepzibah

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...

Persuasiveness of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver and a Responsibility Letter

1959, and Price, like so many of his Western contemporaries at the time, believed that the inhabitants of the so-called Dark Conti...

Piety, the Bible, Sophocles, and Plato

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

Dante's 'Inferno' and Chaucer's Pilgrims

have been a part of hypocritical ways will be confined. Likewise, the idea and notion of lust is a level of hell where those who h...

The Character of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences

if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play...Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then the...

Queen Gertrude of Denmark's Character

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

Business, Technology, Science, and The Bible

and those regarding the sciences, technology, and business. The difference is that although we "sense" our religious beliefs we d...