However, experience has consistently taught me that when I get up, there is more in store for me than I could ever achieve while in bed. ... Christ, who is always the teacher, explains to this father that if he believes, there is no limit to the miracles that can take place. ... He allowed the father to state verbally his belief so that the father's faith could then be strengthened. ... Nephi declared that we must "follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent" (2 Nephi 31:13). ... "Some [seeds] fell upon...

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(John 3:16, NRSV) "But to all who did receive him, who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God." ... If there is any part of creation outside of God=s sovereign control, then God is simply not sovereign. If God is not sovereign, then God is not God" (p. 26). ... If this definition is accurate, then this is not only irrational, it is unbiblical. ... Where there is no inclination, no disposition, or no motive, then there can be no exercise of free choice. ...

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If He has someone equal in Authority, that is the second God, then both gods will no longer be unique and would not have the ultimate power. Hence, this cannot be associated with God, and there is simple logic in believing that there exists only one God. Arguing on Corporeity of God and that if God exists, then He should have a body and visibility, Tertullian briefs that, God do have a body but unlike that of humans. ... During this time, there were other groups opposing his concepts and considered Christ to be a human with no divine power. ... Marcoin's argument was based on the exoteri...

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Religion to an innocent girl back then meant that following what it preaches can make you a good and happy person. ... But even as a kid; homeless people, kids with no parents, wars on the news and even death made me ask "If there really is a God, why is suffering and pain present?... The Romans were highly superstitious. ... For example, if the consuls at that time were Julius Caeser and Pompey, then any reference to a year would be "of the year of Julius Caesar and Pompey". ... Because there was no bloodshed and God has stated in both the Old Testament and the New that without the shed...

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God did the impossible because he is to big and immense for us to comprehend, there is no way to believe in God and want to explain everything with logical terms, God asks that we have faith in him and that he will honor and recompense it. ... There is no reason for something to just occur out of mere chance, I mean what sense does that have? Why do we live then? ... In Genesis 2:7 the Bible says the following "Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. ... We were all created to love and praise God, and there is nothing more important in this life to be able to come to kno...

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If the stoicheon is not an element (water, air, fire, etc.) then it is a being that has the capacity to create, a being that creates from nothing. ... Augustine, Anselm and Clement of Alexandria were among those who taught philosophy and secular knowledge as handmaids of theology8. ... " Anselm says that we should seek first, then desire of what we seek, that we may be eager in finding the thing which we seek and desire. ... He thus refers to the Letter to the Hebrews: "By faith we understand that the worlds were formed by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made of thi...

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In the Victorian era, there was a huge conflict occurred especially because of Darwin's theory between science and religion. ... Science brought new inventions and these inventions, while doing good to humans, but also, were making them more mechanized. They were more interested in business than religion, were busy in working and making money. ... In the first four lines of the preface, there are three characters: the Son of God, Love and human being. ... In the stanza of the preface it is shown the important effect that time have on human being, that is to say, the death "They have t...

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Without digressing too much, the interests of various sentient beings can be considered equally, unless there is some condition or reason which denies equal moral consideration. ... As has been alluded to briefly, Singer's proposed bigotry inherent in speciesism is based solely on species, with no or very little consideration for the interests of the other sentient beings. ... All humans have basic moral rights as autonomous moral agents...whereas no non-human can warrant such status" . ... Singer even describes a chimpanzee community which demonstrates signs of "political" leadership, a ...

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Can it then be true that our religious beliefs are but a mere attempt to subconsciously justify ourselves? ... Yet we are promised that if we attempt to sanctify our lives then we shall be assisted from above. Supposing even greater uncertainty, Heschel posits a standard for judging religious insight: if it manifests oneness or love then it is most likely correct, if it generates pride, separation, or evil, then it is not in Her way. ... How is it then, that we begin to establish this relationship with our Creator? ... "It is as if God were unwilling to be alone, and She had chosen man t...

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When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with them their Yoruba religious traditions (Nunez: 3). ... They disguised their deities behind the images of Catholic saints so it would seem that they were praying to the saints, but were actually praying to their gods. ... Santeria followers believe that orishas were borne from smooth stones into which Olofi deposited his ashe. ... There are many orishas in Santeria (See Appendix), too numerous to be described in this paper, but there are major orishas worshipped. ... (Murphy 1993: 52-53) There is a hierarchy in the f...

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This statue was part of a fundamental government program and had no specific religious intentions and did not give any group special privileges. All schools were given the same reimbursement. Other government services are given to religious schools, like a sewer systems, so this reimbursement is no different other than it is more direct. ... The tax has no direct correlation to the children's safety through transportation and either way the parents are reimbursed. ... By giving the reimbursement, public money given by taxpayers is no longer public and combines church and states. ...

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There is every indication that he began his rule as a devout, orthodox Muslim. ... So did Timur, so that in his dominions and in the dominions of his successors, there was no persecution of Shias and even Christians and Heathens found place in his government and armed forces. ... However, all of them were above sectarian prejudices. ... Shaikh Abdun Nabi was appointed the sadr and according to Badauni no other sadr has ever been as powerful as Abdun Nabi was during this period. ... There were instances of Akbar going back on his tolerant and liberal attitude towards the Hindus. ...

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The traits of various activities during the forages period were carried on to the horticultural period, when crops were grown using bare hands, feet and sticks then on to agricultural period when animal domestication was common in assisting on the cultivation process. ... However, contact with religions such as the Mithraic cult, which was the state religion under Emperor Diocletian was unavoidable in any city because there were more than 100 places of assembly for the devotees of Mithra in Rome alone (Kofi Appiah-Kubi & Sergio Torres, 1979). ... Despite this antagonism, the F...

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This is where a lot of skeptics try to discredit religion as something false and made up since there is no proof to back its teachings up, and in a civilization where proof is the only way people will start to believe. ... Freud believes that if there was a great improvement in the way we handle human relations, civilization would be freed of its dissatisfactions. ... Freud points that the two biggest reasons that some degree of coercion is necessary is due to our nature of not being spontaneously fond of work, and due to that fact that arguments are of no purpose against our passions. ... ...

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The people of Japan are all members of several different traditions and each person may be more religious in one area at different times in there life. ... The book also explains that after her death the rumors were exposed as false and Yamato became a sort of kami herself (106). ... This being the warrior ruled time in Japan it's not hard to believe that during the Tokugawa period women were slipping through the cracks of a testosterone-fueled society. ... Women were immediately associated with taboos of menstruation and childbirth, which are both very common in animist societies. It...

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Is death to be feared as an extinction of life or is there a place of torment that drives this fear? ... "8 Indeed, if hell is not forever, then heaven cannot be either. ... This belief is driven within our culture by Atheism, Materialism, Existentialism and even secular humanism and holds that there is no after-life. ... McGrath sums it up by saying "In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors"17 J.I. ... We were saved by Christ, both historically and in actuality when we believed upon Christ's death, we are saved now and along with t...

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These families' circle of acquaintances consists mainly of persons from the church and it is not unheard of that the families send their children to Sunday school before the actual worship session, then send them to youth group on Wednesdays and the adults themselves go to bible studies on Monday evenings, often hosted by one of the church members. ... However, to say that the colonies were free from religious persecution is far from truth. ... In 1689, Great Britain had passed a religious Act of Toleration, but this meant little for American colonies.4 In his Notes on the State of V...

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The Bible tells us to be either hot or cold, but under no circumstance should we be lukewarm and settle for complacency. ... Fortunately, there is some positivity happening in China currently. There has been a recent growth in the house church movement, which is being credited to Bible distribution efforts. ... The modes of dress and dietary rules were maintained, but they were implemented into more of a Chinese framework. ... It does seem though that one possible reason may be the fact that Muslims tried to incorporate more Chinese culture into their daily lives and thus were able to show the...

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There are in deed, religious differences and a divide. ... The only difference is interpretation, and if were not for ignorance, there would be no different interpretations. ... Also, there is a central figure of worship, faith, and belief. ... Enlightenment is real no matter what the form. ... It can be argued either way that a Global Religion would beneficial or harmful, but the actuality is, that we cannot look toward a Global Religion until we allow ourselves to accept others and understand that there is no "great divide-. ...

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There are many examples in the fields of chemistry, physics, and industry in which the results of science are intended for the good of mankind, but ultimately become corrupted. ... The two cells were placed next to each other and a small jolt of electricity was given so they can merge and divide. ... This egg, with its new nucleus, is then "tricked" into believing it's been fertilized by a sperm, is re-implanted into the mother and begins to develop just as any other embryo would. ... There also has been a breakthrough with human stem cells. ... There are enough potential medical benefi...

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