When his best friend Arthur Hallam died Tennyson was extremely depressed. ... Tennyson loves to write poetically about nature and goes back and forth on the idea that nature has a rebirth every spring and that the universe is slowly dying. ... In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). ... When she died, he became successful but still kept most of his ...

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It gives us the idea that God is our father and we are his loved children, also that he desires a relationship with us. ... "But when he came to himself he said, How many of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!...

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This essay is concerned with Martin Luther (1483-1546), and his concept of Christianity. Luther began his ecclesiastical career as an Augustinian Monk in the Roman Catholic Church. Consequently, Luther was initially loyal to the papacy, and even after many theological conflicts, he attempted to brin...

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God's covenants with man perfectly illustrate man's innate need for a sovereign Lord , and God's desire to provide the means to that end. ... "But God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die"" (Genesis 3:3). ... The lamb was the substitute for the one who would have died...

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Abstract Benjamin Franklin stated "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."1 If death is certain, why do so many fear it? Is it our uncertainty of what lies beyond the grave? Is death to be feared as an extinction of life or is there a place of torment that drives th...

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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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I call the theory temporary disembodiment because it envisions the following scenario: We human beings are born, live for a time as psycho-physical beings, and then die; after death we exist in an incomplete state as immaterial souls; and some time later in the eschaton God miraculously raises our bodies from the ground, transforms them into "glorified bodies," and reunites them with our souls, thus making us complete and whole again.Now temporary disembodiment has several theological and philosophical assets. ... What the body does is provide the soul with a vehicle for action in the world an...

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According to Gautama's four-fold truth, every man suffers because of his insatiable desires. ... An individual must curb his sensuous desires and master his body. ... Using the ancient Chinese concept of yin-yang, Confucians stressed the fact that individuals achieve happiness as they subject their personal desires to the greater good of the whole. ...

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THE BIBLE"S WORD: "GOSPEL" INTRODUCTION There are few words that harness such spiritual magnitude as the word "gospel." In fact, the gospel of Christ "is the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1:16).# In essence, it is God's dynamite# which is used to clear away the rubble of sin so that we might "have access by one Spirit unto the Father" (Eph. 2:18). Such an important concept demands careful attention, study, and application. However, the concept of the gospel has been grossly abused and misunderstood throughout the ages. Within this study, the effort is put forth to consider th...

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