1. The Case for Faith Chapter 5
In light of the fact that we are responsible for helping our neighbors, the Bible also clarifies that our "neighbors" are not simply the people that we live near. ... He states that simply helping certain kinds of people is not enough, because "whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it" (James 2:10). ...
She ends up in a ditch along with her son and daughter-in-law, "They all sat down in the ditch, except the children" (1047), which that suggests that the Grandmother is in a spiritual rut even if it is unknown to her. ... She realizes this near the end which is represented when she sinks further into the ditch "feeling so dizzy that she sank down in the ditch with her legs twisted under her" (1052). ...
But it is also made evident that one must live an abstentious lifestyle, and give up material goods; namely all worldly pleasures, in order to satisfy his viewpoint: "The laws of Moses said, "You shall not commit adultery". ... Though it is true that the world would undeniably do better without of some of the worldly goods available to us, it is near impossible to reject them completely. ...
Is the breeze the effect of something near you moving with such force that it displaces air in a given direction perhaps a car driving past? ... Charles Ryrie correctly responds to this definition by stating that it needs further explanation due to the changing meaning of law throughout history4. ...
Kerry Grogan THE 241-01 Task # 1 Oct. 23, 2014 1. Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visi...
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...
