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Existence Of God
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 625.... a realm
to which we cannot comphrend. Our minds well never allow us to comprhend
immortality but our souls can that is faith.
This faith belongs to no clan of self righteous humn being that think
that becuse there rules that they follow our better then another. Se the truth
is god does not have a check list of whos good and whos bad but rather he make
the decision we have morals or as some calit a concous. This world is about the
first stepping stone that we take this is a test can you live in an imperfect
world and handle without cheating your fellow man. This is faith in .....
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Eve And The Apple
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 779.... would be a sin.
The main reason Eve eats the apple is because she wants to become a
Goddess. The serpent said that he was a beast and after eating the fruit from
the tree of knowledge of good and evil he became more human like. Eve was
enticed by the words of the serpent who said that "If the fruit makes a serpent
like a man, it should make men like gods." (Line 710: "That ye should be as
Gods, since I as man, Internal Man, is but proportion meet; I, of brute, human;
ye, of human, Gods.)
Other arguments that the serpent used to manipulate Eve included; 1,)
You shall no .....
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Relations Between God And Man
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 990.... evil,” but He told them they can eat from any other tree in the garden. What tree do they eat from? Of course, the “tree of knowledge,” which directly disobeys the LORD’s basic command. God gave Adam and Eve a paradise to dwell in and the opportunity to manage it and all the animals there in, but even with all this, they weren’t content and violated God’s request. They directly disobey God even after He has taken care of them so well.
God brings about a great flood to destroy the wicked people that inhabit the earth. Noah is told by God to build an ark and to put his fami .....
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Jesus
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1450.... honor the Godhead. "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 2:9).
Luke 24:45-47 records that just before His ascension, opened the disciples' understanding. It was necessary that their understanding be opened, and many today need this same operation in order to understand the Scriptures. Then said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day." The disciples had their understanding opened so that they could grasp the vast importance of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. V .....
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Christianity And Change
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1189.... about the ending of the world.
There was a time when Christians naturally turned to God when they
had problems. Today that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Traditions
have drastically changed. It almost seems as if religion is a dying
tradition all together. “The signs of death are seen in the declining
membership of the mainline Protestant traditions and in both the declining
attendance and declining authority now seen in the Catholic and Orthodox
churches” (Rollins). People are just not going to church anymore. There
are probably various reasons for this new trend .....
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The Journey To New England And Religion's Future
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 960.... England were following Puritan religious leaders. Before starting off on this journey they had already been part of a religious community that was established throughout England. This made it so there was an organized group of people with a purpose already established. The purpose of starting a whole new religious community.
The first few settlements of New England had many hardships and established a very close community. As more ships arrived every year the original settlements wanted to keep the same tight nit communities intact. The community was so close because eve .....
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Thomas Aquinas And The Existence Of God
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 876.... by something in a state of actuality.” Aquinas means that the change of state requires something in the state of actuality to actualize the potential. For example, in order for a house (which is in the state of actuality), to potentially become a pile of ashes something in the actual state (like a flame), has to cause the house to move from being actually a house and potentially a pile of ashes to actually a pile or ashes. In his third step Aquinas says, “Now it is not possible that the same thing should be at once in actuality and potentiality in the same respect.” He .....
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Myth In The Bible
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 806.... is to look at something for what it literally is. Generally, Protestants view their bible in this way. Analogical imagination is to look at the words and consider them to be metaphors for what is really meant. The Catholics view the bible in this way. We use metaphors in this way to confront the world, and the scripture is written this way.
Older myths of creation that are more primitive and ultimately closer to human nature show a more pronounced interest in humans and their immediate environment. The Bible has been shown to adopt aspects of mythical imagery. .....
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