When he creates man and woman, he makes them unlike any other creature because we can change our ways or course. ... This is shown in Colossians 1:16 where Paul writes, "For in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created through him and for him." ... (Genesis 1:2) In Colossians, we are told that God created the visible and the invisible. ...

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Pride, being one of the seven deadly sins of man in Christian belief, is a natural and common feeling of being understood, which makes his argument more compelling. ... Mather's article The Wonders Of The Invisible World shows a problem in the New Puritan settlement, and the houses of the good people there are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands,". ... In the Scarlet Letter Hester mentions a Black man who gives her the scarlet letter on her chest. ... The Black man is similar to this, representing the Devil. ...

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Equiano was a very religious man eventually becoming a Methodist, religion was a huge part of his life and even his identity. ... "I began to raise my fear from man to him alone, and to call daily on his holy name with fear and reverence: and I trust he heard my supplications, and graciously condescended to answer me according to his holy word, and to implant the seeds of piety in me, even one of the meanest of his creatures" (Equiano, 88). ... Piety and faith are two of Equianos strongest character traits, they are apparent through the way he talks about God "I was sensible o...

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As a "stripling Cherub," Satan asks Uriel, an archangel, for directions to paradise in order to adore man and to praise God. Uriel does not see Satan's hypocrisy, "the only evil that walks / Invisible." ... Either man must die, or justice must. ... Finally, the Son of God is most heroic when He offers to become the voluntary ransom for man. ... Satan comes to earth as an animal; the Son comes to earth as a man. ...

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Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another man's sins; keep yourself pure.... First, prayer of the ordination starts by laying grounds for the rest of the prayer, "Lord God almighty, creator of all, deliverer, savior, redeemer and renewer of mankind, who by your infinite beneficence distribute visible and invisible gifts to your Holy Church." Here we are reminding ourselves that God is the one who gives gifts, and as we know from the scriptures, Ordination is both a visible and invisible gift from God. ...

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This belief of Ik Onkar and the teaching of gurus passed down and taught put a Sikh on a journey that will transform him into a new man. ... Shinto followers place little emphasis on death and what happens after it "death means the kami is hiding in the invisible world, the same as birth means that someone has made an entrance into the visible world....

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Flannery O'Connor uses characters to challenge the opinion that man is unable to draw near to God and that God is reluctant to dispatch grace. ... Throughout his entire life, O.E. had been a dissatisfied man. ... Slattery describes "Parker's Back" "as a story that "explores how an individual learns to focus his moral vision on the visible creation in order to apprehend, if even for an instant, the invisible presence of the Creator by means of grace."" How a person accepts God is not directly reflected as the way God accepts man. Sarah Ruth lived her life ridiculing man for everyday i...

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