In the book of Job, Satan is also an intelligent angel who asks god to let him challenge Job in his faith. Job, of course, proves to be loyal to god. ... He mostly uses Satan in his gospel as challenging Jesus in a more personal face to face battle as he did with Job. ... In this book Elaine Pagels mentions "The book of James", "The book of Philip", and "The book of Thomas". ... I thought that Elaine Pagels did a great job of describing the history of the sequence of events that lead up to the primal rise of Christianity and the belief in Satan. ...

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Job, according to Yancey, is not basically about suffering but rather his faith in God. ... One response that seems to be predominant in the book of Job is to express your feelings to God. ... The only thing that I found was difficult in reading this book was that it was hard to follow once it got to the middle of the book. ... I felt a little lost in the midst of the book until towards the end. ... Yancey uses the book of Job in a way that many of us may never have seen to present God's case. ...

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The title of the book I chose to read is "Matthew, Tell Me about Heaven." I found this book to be quite different than a book that I would normally read. ... Throughout the book, Suzanne discussed conversations with her dead son. ... The book also talks about angels. ... These angels have an important job, they are there to guide, watch over, and protect us from harm. ...

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In the book of Nehemiah we are told that the city of Jerusalem and the temple were rebuilt, "because the people had a mind to work". ... Later, in the New Testament book of Thessalonians, Paul urged the people to work, "if one in the faith community does not work, then that person shouldn't eat either". ... There is considerable disagreement about which jobs are more important, but nevertheless, we agree that pay should reflect the work we do. ... For all of us who work in the Kingdom, at any honorable job, our work is our response to God's grace. ... To be an effective employer,...

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In the book, nearly every character has a problem contributing to the story line. ... She remains strong because of her steadfast faith, and she remains a voice of reason throughout the book. Even though the book ends before Raskolnikov is free from prison, she knows has a second chance at life like Lazarus. ... For the majority of the book, Raskolnikov is blind to his own mistakes. ... Marmeladov suffers from a drinking problem so severely, he is unable to keep a job. ...

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I showed her the book and explained it was for school and asked if she was learning to read in school. ... I felt badly for the girl that she had to struggle through such a difficult book at such a tender age of 9, but at the same time I was so proud of her that she persisted. ... I also learned some leadership skills while serving as I had to keep an eye on the other girls working and make sure everybody had a job and knew what she was to do next. ...

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The theme of the book of Amos is divine judgment and its aim is to effect repentance and reformation in view of the inevitability of impending judgments unless the people amended their ways, that is why violence is shown so much in this book. The message of the book logically divides into four major parts: (1) a denunciation of evil coupled with a warning of judgment (chs 1:1 to 2:16); (2) an appeal to return to the Lord (chs 3:1 to 6:14); (3) an emphatic warning of the finality of this appeal (chs 7:1 to 9:10); (4) a promise of national blessing and restoration in the event of ...

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Just reading the chapter on baptism in Menzies' book was a huge help in writing this paper. Actually, the book gave a couple examples of times when Christians had become saved before they were baptized. ... Something that I did agree on though, is what Menzies" book said on infant baptism in chapter six. Menzies really does a nice job of stating, in his own words, the belief of the Assemblies of God church. ... I just learned a couple days ago while reading Menzies" book that when we say "in the name of Jesus Christ," we are really saying in Greek, "upon the name of Jesus," or "upon t...

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The book of Genesis starts with God first assuming he is the creator of the universal and mankind. ... Cain's job is of a farmer whereas his brother Abel is a shepherd. ... In the book of Luke we were told that Mary "kept in her heart" the indications of Jesus divinity and special mission. ...

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Moody's book, I couldn't help but be amazed at how many of his examples paled in comparison to the world today. ... I didn't finish that job - I just left and took a long walk, thinking about my LORD! There ended up being plenty of time for the completion of the job on Monday. ... A few months ago, he took a job at a local grocery store as a bagger. ... My dad is a man of God, working even this job as unto the Lord! ...

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Gay men and lesbians are legal citizens who pay taxes, serve in the military, and work in government jobs. ... Well, ok, unless you count the book of Leviticus where it says that no man should lay with a man as he lays with a woman, which many scholars now believe was referring to gay prostitutes and not gay persons in general. ...

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In the last pages of the book, the only way Owen was able to save the Vietnamese children, as prophesized in his dream, was by catching a grenade and getting their attention with his unreal voice... Sophocles does a good job of creating irony that produces humor in the midst of tragedy. ... These examples of irony and others are found throughout this book. ...

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The word ordination comes from the Latin word Ordinatio, which means to bestow an ordo, (gark tnel, gark dal), or to appoint an official to an office. The Armenian word Dzernatrutyun comes from the Greek word cheirotonia, which means "the lifting up of hands." In Classical Greek, this word signifies...

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INTRODUCTION In his book "Love of Enemies" William Klassen examines the various interpretations of love of enemies in relation to war and peace in the Jewish and Christian faiths. ... He feels that most of the Anglo-Saxon scholars have not done a good job of actually listening to the word and what it really means. ...

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Whether it was from a death of someone close, a loss of a job, or getting cancer; they decided that God must not exist because he let this unfortunate event to happen. ... As it is said in the book of Matthew chapter 10 verse 32-33: "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. ...

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The Birth of Jesus According to Matthew The first Gospel presented in the New Testament of the Christian Bible is the Gospel of Matthew. Said to have been written in Syria during the last third of the first century, it is most likely the third of the four Gospels created (Brown: Messiah 45). Like that of Luke's, Matthew's Gospel draws its content from the Gospel of Mark, the elusive "Q" source, and from stories and other preexisting information from Pagan, Jewish and Christian sources (Wilkinson: 165). In Matthew's description of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, th...

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One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...

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