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Psalm 54 Exegesis

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). ...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

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

Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

Is God Good?

for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...

Models Of The Church, Chapter 11 The Church And Revelation

about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...

The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

Historical Jesus And Christ Of Faith

one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Jesus And Moses In The Bible And The Koran

born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...

The Role of the Gods in "Medea"

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

Miracles In The Gospel Of Mark

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...

Jewish Calendar, Life Cycle And Meaning Of God Is One

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

Caravaggio/The Entombment

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

Jesus The Son Of God

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

The Concept of Evil

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

Jesus of Nazareth As God

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

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

Jesus is God

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...

Evil and God

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...

Exploitive Criticisms of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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...

Self Assurance in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston

unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the no...

Encountering God and Diane Eck's Unconvincing Argument

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

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

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...

Herodotus and Ancient Leaders

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

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...

Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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