People who are wishy washy with contraceptives, saying that artificial birth control is totally wrong, but that natural family planning is okay, are not going along with Catholic teaching. ... This says that the Catholic Church deems it wrong just to think about cutting out procreation, which, the pull out method and natural family planning both do even without any birth control pills, condoms, diaphragms, vaginal rings, or other forms of artificial contraceptives. ... The debate over, "the use of contraceptives is not a new controversy," (Locke) says Journalist Laura Locke, this mea...

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If we are going to sell the new birth so cheaply than maybe we should start selling indulgences because that's exactly what we are doing. Our faith, repentance and works are NOT our gift to God to earn the New Birth. ... So why do we tell men what THEY can do to be born again when man cannot do anything to cause the New Birth? ...

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The Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical meeting, was the first in almost a century. With it came the introduction and implementation of changes that rocked every aspect of Church life. Lasting from 1962 to 1965 under the leadership of two of the most influential Popes to ever take up an office in the Vatican, the Second Vatican Council ensured that the Church would never be the same again. The Second Vatican Council, otherwise known as Vatican II, was a gathering of all the Bishops in the Catholic Church that was intended to "bring the Church up to date" (aggiornamento) as Pope J...

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These four periods are birth, growth, trial and completion (corresponding to childhood, adolescence, maturity and old age of human life). ... In the birth phase, a predecessor to Minjung Theology explored his Korean roots and Christian faith and tried to fuse the togeteher. ... Part 2 Birth- Indigenous Seeds Ham Seokheon, like Kil Seonju, participated in the March 1st 1919 Independence Movement although he was only 18 years old at the time. ...

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The start of Islam is actually derived form Christianity, history books indicates that one night in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings the news of Jesus' birth, Jesus of course is the founder of Christianity). ...

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Christianity is very practical. It is not a dead, dry, formal, human religion of rituals, outward form, and show, but a divine, living, vital, dynamic, liberating religion. The word Christian means, "Christ like", or "One follows Christ". Jesus Christ, who laid the foundation of Christian Church, w...

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However, it was taken and used by Jesus and New Testament writers in a special way regarding the birth, life, death, resurrection, glorification, and implication of Jesus Christ. ... Within the Septuagint it is used for the good tidings of victory (2 Sam. 31:9), the good tidings at the birth of a child (Jer. 20:15), and sometimes simply of tidings of any kind.# Its only noun usage in the Septuagint, positively, occurs in 2 Samuel 4:10 where it is used in its classical sense of "a reward given for good tidings." ...

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INTRODUCTION In his book "Love of Enemies" William Klassen examines the various interpretations of love of enemies in relation to war and peace in the Jewish and Christian faiths. Klassen has three distinct concerns that make an influence on his views on peace. First, Klassen feel...

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The Book of Revelation has been the source of controversy for many centuries. There have been several interpretations and different views on Revelation. Many have argued whether the Book is a symbolic or literal interpretation. While reading through Revelation the reader must consider these two inte...

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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 visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mor...

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The Book of Revelation has been the source of controversy for many centuries. There have been several interpretations and different views on Revelation. Many have argued whether the Book is a symbolic or literal interpretation. While reading through Revelation the reader must consider these two inte...

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Understanding the Christian Doctrines of Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, And Free Will for Counseling "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." (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." (John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise that person up on the last day." (...

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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...

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