Death is a fact of life that is the basis of much religious meaning. ... The normal life span must be attained of 120 years in Genesis 6:3 or 70 years in Ps. 90:10. ... There is no fact that supports the statement that the "soul" is separated from the body at death. ... In Genesis 2 - 3, God attempts to explain the relation of sin to death. ... In the New Testament the word "death" has a meaning that goes beyond the biological fact of death. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The second book of the Christian Bible is the New Testament. ... Unlike the Koran, the stories of the Bible are ordered chronologically. ... And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done- (Genesis 1: 1-2). ... The story of "Noah and the Great Flood" is told in the Bible in the Old Testament book Genesis and in the Koran in the seventy-first surah. Both the Koran and the Bible promise an afterlife. ...

• Word Count: 1866
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Many examples of sexism are also found in the bible. ... Eve is later tempted by Satan and eats the fruit, and shares it with Adam (Bible, Genesis). ... In spite of this, you will still have desire for you husband, yet you will be subject to him,"" (Bible, Genesis 3:16). Another example of sexism is that God is always referred to as a masculine figure: " and he said-, " and he clothed them- (Bible, Genesis 3:16-20). ... In fact, most pagan religions don't even have an entity equivalent to the Christian Satan (Drew 7). ...

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The Bible is telling stories about 40,000 B.C.E. The Bible starts its story of Genesis, which can be defined as "in the beginning of everything". ... Christians who only read the Bible would be very surprised about the fact that the characters are similar to those in the Koran. Muslims who read the Bible would be also really surprised about the fact the stories about characters are similar. ... The main idea of the Bible and the Koran is the fact that if you believe you will get forgiveness for your sins. ...

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I believe that abortion is never justified because I agree with the fact that life begins at the moment of conception and that life is sacred. ... Several times in the Bible it is implied that God values human life greatly. For example, we are told in Genesis that God created us in His own image, in Luke's Gospel that God has even counted the number of hairs on our head, and in Corinthians that our bodies are the temple of God. ... I believe that life is sacred and the body is made in the image of God therefore abortion is immoral according to the Bible. There are even references in th...

• Word Count: 614
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth", according to Genesis 1:1, the first verse of the first chapter in the Bible (pg #1). That is one of the most single important verses as to whether evolution (time) created human existence or if in fact God was at work with a miracle. ... Exodus is the second chapter in the Bible. ... I sometimes don't want to believe in the whole religion thing and the fact that God loves me because a lot of bad things have happened to me. ... Am I to believe that the Bible is true and that God created everything? ...

• Word Count: 1075
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• Grade Level: High School

Truth an Attribute of God The definition of truth according to Webster's is conformity to fact or actuality, reality, actuality. ... Those of us who proclaim the Bible and God as wholly undeniable truth must always use proper exegesis when preaching sermons or quoting from the Bible. ... The phrase, "God is Truth" is found in the Bible 23 times. ... The Bible tells of God's truth beginning in Genesis 1:1 and ending in Revelation 22: 21. ... Truth is a system; it is not just a compilation of random facts. ...

• Word Count: 995
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A Biblical worldview means that you filter everything through the Bible. ... You understand that the bible is the living word of God, and that Jesus died to save you. ... " On the other hand a non-biblical worldview might look at the simple fact that you go to church and do good things and because of that it makes you a Christian. ... The bible states in the book of Genesis that God spoke everything into being. Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth....

• Word Count: 792
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Genesis 6:2 Introduction: The problem with this text is the identity of the "sons of GOD-. ... Nowhere else in the Bible is "sons of GOD- used for Kings (royalty) C. ... The Bible never states Angels as being sexual creatures. 2. ... (Arguments are the same as those for Angels due to the fact that these are angels. ... The Bible never states Angels as being sexual creatures. 2. ...

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Both religions believe in the teachings of the first five books of the Bible. The five books of Moses are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The Jews call this collection the Torah or Hebrew Bible. ... The Christian Holy Bible consists of two parts, the Old and New Testaments. ... Despite the fact that Islam and Christianity share a mutual God, Muslims do not believe that Jesus was his son; instead they identify Jesus as a prophet. ...

• Word Count: 924
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• Grade Level: High School

FAITH Genesis is also known as the seed plot for the bible. Every major biblical theme finds its origin right back in Genesis. ... Because Abraham knew the faith foundations he chose to believe the promise the Lord gave him ("I will return to you this time next year and your wife Sarah will have a son-, Genesis 18:14), rather than the over whelming facts of their situation. ... Faith that will not give up just because the promise does not come to pass during our expected time frame but, believing the promises of God over the facts of life. ...

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By looking at Bible readings, church traditions and the actions of certain organizations the question of women's ordination can be discussed. The aim of the essay is to so prove that denying a women's ordination is unjust and discriminative of the church An individual's interpretation of the Bible may be that it was women's fault that sin was brought in to the world due to the fact of Eve eating from the tree of knowledge. ... Since Jesus was male, a priest of matching gender more directly affects the fact that it is Christ who is present." ... In terms of ordination...

• Word Count: 1519
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Yet the same Bible that informs us of the above power of choice and decision-making also emphatically indicates that God is completely and utterly sovereign over all people, places, and things. ... That human beings possess freedom is not a greatly contested fact. ... In fact, the foundation of clinical practice is that people have the capacity to make changes in their lives (e.g., thinking, feeling, and behaving). ... The primary role of reason is to determine what Scripture actually says; the student of the Bible uses his mind to interpret and apply biblical truth. ... He further defines...

• Word Count: 5514
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Darwin showed that scientific observations collect facts and through these facts we can learn things about how the past was, and therefore learn more about what is to come. ... All of this directly contrasting the Bible, but Darwin did not want to cause disagreement. ... He saw some principles of evolution much before Darwin published his facts. ... By doubting the creation that God has within the book of Genesis in the Bible, anything else within the Bible is up for question. ... Within Tennyson's last sections he accepts that the Bible may not be correct but that accepting Nature as cru...

• Word Count: 2549
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• Grade Level: High School

This teaching is base upon three passages in the Bible which prohibit the consuming of blood. Genesis 9:4: " but flesh with . . . blood . . . ye shall not eat," Leviticus 17:12- 14: "... no soul of you shall eat blood . . . whosoever eateth it shall be cut off," and lastly Acts 15:29: " That ye abstain . . . from blood . . . " Most all other Christian groups believe that these passages refer only to dietary laws, not medical laws. ... The government holds to the fact that adults are free to choose martyrdom, while children cannot have that thrust upon them. ...

• Word Count: 1090
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(Genesis 49:10). ... For today's Christian, the Origin of Christmas is, and should be, the birth of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Bible, nothing more, nothing less. ... In fact, most of the customs and traditions of Christmas actually pre-date the birth of Jesus, and many of them are downright deceptive in their meaning and origin. ...

• Word Count: 2240
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I feel that it is fair that "If he has broken the limb of a patrician, his limb shall be broken" It's like in the Bible "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." ... I like the fact that Confucius' ideas are still just as relevant today as they were in ancient China. ... This God was creator of the world (In Christianity, it's documented in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth), and He would one day judge mankind (This is also true in Christianity: "The Lord will judge his people." ... The intent was not to...

• Word Count: 2846
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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 10695
• Approx Pages: 43
• Grade Level: High School