The devil came to him, he said, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread". But he answered and said, "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God". Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and sat him on a pinnacle of the temple, And said, "If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone". ... The devil then took him up into a high moun...

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The preacher as well as the rest of the society regard the old man as a "fake" because he gives no reason for his coming and because ho does not represent the stereotypical image of an angel and as a result is diminished to the treatment that of a circus animal, treating him by throwing rocks and tossing him bread crumbs. ... The preacher goes up to the old man to communicate with it and finds out that he is not an angel for he refuses to give a reason for his presence and more importantly he does not speak the language of God, Latin, thus claiming the angel to be a "fake" or rather a devil. ...

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" I believe these parables give a little insight of how people follow the belief of God to grow a closer relationship with him and how society incorporates the teachings of God into their lives. ... " He uses this to his advantage to prove his power of nature and to satisfy his hunger after not eating for forty days by turning stones into bread. ... In order to defeat this temptation, he answers back referring to something that was already stated by God, "It is written, 'One does not live by bread alone.'...

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If I ask him for one more piece of bread he says "no, papa, I weighed out the ata myself and I can't allow you to have more than two hundred grammes of cereal a day. He weighs the food he gives me That is what this has come to" (Desai, 81) The father has no rule anymore instead every thing he does is his sons desire and against his own will. ... As a result, the father is unsatisfied with his treatment and finally gives up his life willingly to another being. ... If God decides to let the life continue, no one will dictate this mans life anylonger, he refuses ...

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Following this he began to realize that his father's house was a house of many mansions, that every servant had bread to eat and place to sleep. ... One day he went to his father and told the Lawd to give him his share of the goods, so that he could go forth. ...

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Only the LORD gives us things. ... We take the good things that God gives us. ... Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. ... Job shows us that God isn't concerned with punishing evil but rather giving us his love and goodness; about goodness being triumphant. ... Suffering is a blessing, God does not just give one a light after darkness as he did for Job, but how you have grown as a person with faith after the darkness and suffering. ...

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In the story, Jesus has compassion on the common-people and feeds thousands of people with only five loaves of bread and five fish, similar to Simon, who helps the littluns by giving them the fruit they needed from the high branches of the tree-all done without a word of complaint. ...

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