The five points he uses for his arguments are: God is of infinite goodness, nature and efficient cause, possibility and necessity of existence of God, gradation in things, and governce of the world. ... According to the definition, if god is all good he would not want bad things (evil) to happen. God being all knowing would know about bad things and if he is all powerful would be able to stop all the bad from happening. ... For example, imagine a small room, there is absolutely nothing in there not even a spec of dust. ... Many argue if a god does exist then why do evil things happen as expl...

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This indicates that the God that they are interpreting is the creator of all living things. ... There are more letters included in this painting then just the Chi, Rho, and Iota, but they are a great deal smaller then the Chi, Rho, and Iota. These colors are shown in the smaller size letters, underneath the Chi, Rho, and Iota. ... The color gold could also suggest that their God is royal, or even that God is wealthy. ... (Possibly combine the top two paragraphs since both talk of color) The smaller letters in the painting are a great deal smaller then the Chi, Rho, Iota, this great size of ...

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Thus God exists. ... Thus God exists. ... Thus God exists. ... Through consistency and coherence, people mistake new perceptions of things as old ones because they cannot tell the small differences that make it seem to be the same thing. ... Hume lists off other examples that basically portray the same picture that we say that things are the same but fail to realize that they are constantly changing. ...

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In the poem "i thank You God for most this amazing,"" E. ... As the creator of all things natural, God is responsible for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees- and the "blue true dream of sky- that fascinate and enthrall the speaker.These phrases, found in the first stanza of the poem, show how Cummings uses diction, color symbolism, and imagery to relate to the idea of rebirth.The spirit of a group is the essential nature of that group, the basic feelings and ideas that it holds.Trees are one of the most basic symbols representing nature.Therefore, by thanking God for the "leaping greenly s...

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The Power of God's Elect Puritan beliefs are very numerous and strong. One of their biggest beliefs was that they were of "God's elect." ... However, she justifies this act with scripture from Job, " The things that my Soul refused to touch, are as my sorrowful meat" (36). ... She shows that being God's elect takes much work and knowledge. ... It was God's will....

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Letting God Back In As long as there were test that I forgot to study for I was praying in high school. ... Many of her classmates said that "God is apart of our graduation because he has blessed us and given us the chance to make it this far." Unnfortunatly some people don't see things in that perspective. ... Most students that attend school in a small community may not know that this type of activity is illegal today, according to most school board policies. ... I can sit in a History class and talk about the rise and fall of Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan but if I speak of the wor...

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As a Hindu you can believe in one god such as in Christianity. ... Atman is just a small part of the totality that exists; a spacio-temporally located actualization of infinite potential is what you are. ... (World History, 1999, pg.110) All of this information from the Vedas sets the stage for how things work, but does little to explain how one should live their life. ... Living a virtuous life and staying away from bad things help greatly in freeing Atman from Maya. Bhakti-yoga focuses on devoting yourself to a god as a path to freedom through prayer and worship. ...

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Therefore, "as long as [things] exist, they are good" (St. ... Augustine p. 125) all the good things have "mutual conflicts of interest" (St. ... Looking more closely at Augustine's confessions, we can see a third and even smaller circle emerge next to the circle of perversity. ... To be the smaller circle implies that it takes more focus and attention to actually act on this natural instinct towards avoiding sin, and perusing God; implying that it is much easier to start down the path of perversion, for it takes up a greater amount of all that is human. ... He made people see that it was...

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If a person wished to pray to a god, or invoke their intervention, they would go to one of the shrines or temples of that god and say a prayer and leave a small gift. ... There were also dedications of small statuettes or even large painted vases (Webster, p79). ... Later on in the Roman Empire things changed, Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the entire Empire. ... Many of the rituals and customs that are observed came from things done in the early days of the church (Williams, p3). ... One of the interesting things about Christian churches is their steeple. ...

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The Things We Choose Not To See The topic of violence is a recurrent theme in the media today. ... Now imagine yourself as an 18-year-old kid living in a small dilapidated home with 10 other members of your family. ... "God, what I could do with that money!"... You get into an argument about him being on your turf and things get out of hand. ... Try to think a little further into the things you see on the news next time. ...

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There are small constant rivalries. ... People believed the god or goddess could speak through priests. ... He is the most powerful god, the god of justice, oath, and hospitality. ... The Greeks contributed many things in life. ... The ancient Greeks achieved many things during its civilization. ...

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The seafood we eat comes from the sea and they feed on the small fish and algae. God gave us this earth to give us the things we need to survive. ... We must take care of this earth so that it can continue to provide us with the things to sustain life for all of God's creation. ... They only took the things that they needed to survive. ... We, again, are not the only ones using this Earth; all of God's creatures are using the things the environment provides. ...

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Deceiving God: " And yet firmly rooted in my mind is the long standing opinion that there is an omnipotent God who made me the kind of creature that I am. ... I can know that God exists, I cannot know that "God." ... Primary and Secondary Qualities: Locke defines primary qualities as things actually in the world such as size, shape and motion that we perceive in the objects. ... In actual objects there is only size, shape and motion that causes in us the sensation of such things as color, taste and smell. ... He says that antecedent skepticism can get further by taking small steps to somet...

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In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. ... With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man... We see straight through to what we seek; whence each thing is created and in what manner made, without god's help." ... Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for thing...

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Some of the houses were big, most were small. ... Some of the town workers included: black smiths who made things out of metal like horse shoes, white smiths who made things like candles, joiners, who fashioned furniture from wood and cobblers, who crafted wood for tools and later became joiners. ... When a man resigns himself to God, he is freed to live his whole life to God's glory. ... "If God be God over us, we must yield Him universal obedience in all things. ... The hero of the poem must become all of these things, for he must become a savior for the Danes. ...

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Upon discovery of the largest and most beautiful pearl the small village had ever seen, the life of Kino and his family is changed forever. ... Regardless of which "God" each character lives under, the role of God in each characters life varies. For example, Zorba looks to God but still holds his own beliefs and does not let God rule his life. ... For Kino, any good things that happen in Kino's life is a result of Gods will and His understanding of good and bad. ... I've done things for my country that would make your hair stand on end, boss. ...

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Satan challenges God to test Job, and reluctantly, God accepts. ... God seems to have the character of a small child here, wanting to uphold his name, to show Satan that he "can too" prove that Job is faithful. ... He bragged to Satan about how faithful and righteous his servant Job was, like the small child we saw him as before. ... God does astonishing things, He helps those who are hurt and oppressed but destroys the corrupt. ... God tells Job that if he is going to question the way He does things, he had better have the wisdom and might to do better than He can. ...

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This destination does its part however large or small, to leave one more thing explained. ... If we can someday answer our own questions then who needs GOD? ... Seeing how Sagan's denial of the existence of GOD leads him to believe that not all things are knowable, and Hawking's consideration of GOD leads him to believe that there is a font of answers that can be known, makes me wonder. ... Perhaps science believes in GOD but doesn't know it yet. ... Creation, nature, things we spoke at length about. ...

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He was the god of life, an ancestor to all Hawaiians. ... He was the ruler of the dead and linked to things like poison. ... Lano was the god of the harvest, clouds and rain. ... They also introduced diseases such as small pox, measles, syphilis, tuberculoses, and whooping couch. ... The first Christians to arrive were a small bunch from New England led by Hiram Bingham. ...

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He is implying that if he actually saw Jesus with his very own eyes and if he had seen the things that Jesus has done, he would have been a believer and live a good life. ... Many do not believe in Jesus because they did not personally witness his life and see firsthand weather or not he did all those things that are told in the bible. ... God created everything that exists, including people. ... She is always talking about how things were so good back in the old days and how safe it was. ... God has been there since the very beginning of existence, the grandmother through her old age represen...

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He was obedient to the will of God when he converted the Ethiopian eunuch under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. ... In the places he evangelised he did not change people's culture; he became "all things to all men", adopting his message to suit different audiences. ... This shows his trust in God, the same as Paul's trust. ... Paul appeared to concentrate on main cities and towns for his preaching and believed that the message would spread from there, however, Aiden of Lindisfarne, on his mission spoke to everyone and formed small churches to consolidate the faith. ... Peter...

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If it was not for Owen believing in God and the things that God had shown him, it is quite possible that the rescue of innocent children or numerous other events in his life would not have taken place. ... In Sunday school Owen would always be harassed for being too small and was often thrown around and abused by the children. ... Owen Meany was always small and abnormal; his looks were something that most people would normally make fun of. ... As a small person, Owen could talk and act like he meant business but it all depended on how people reacted to him and accepted him. ... The part ...

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Firstly, men and all living things have a natural purpose to assert life, second, suicide causes great social harm and finally suicide is like stealing from God, since human life is actually owned by God, not by people who are only trustees of it. ... Therefore, Suicide does not violate God's plan. ... Another potential criticism is that suicide interferes with the natural order of things, which have been ordained by God. Though when looked at again, this criticism fails because we as humans interfere with the natural order of things all the time? ... Hume argues that there is no...

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He believes strongly in the word of God and practices all of the duties set forth by God for man on Earth to follow to gain his favor. ... Shall we accept good from God and not trouble." ... Candide's crime is small so he only receives another flogging, but the Spanish Inquisition had found Pangloss guilty of heresy. ... The Lord asks Job to repent his sins, and he does by answering, "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. ... Surely I spoke of things that I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know." ...

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She lived as they did, in a small family house of stone and mud-brick. ... And In the village, as small as it was, there were always little children to care for. ... The holy one to be born will be the Son of God. ... As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart" (Luke 2:1-20). ... If Mary is the mother of Jesus, and if Jesus is God, then Mary is the Mother of God. ...

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