Matthew tends to see Jesus as "pouring out" (class notes) and focuses on Jesus" teachings to the disciples and is generally more of a compassionate gospel. ... If they had no family to care for them they were literally on their own (class notes). ... Purity is to be free from taint or pollution. ... Simply put, this means that when one meets Jesus and truly realizes what has been done for them they will be blessed in a sense that these persecutions will not bother them because they are so engrossed with the God that none of the other stuff will bother them (class notes). ... The gospel of Lu...

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Here please note that unlike the other major world religions, Hindus also see the Supreme as Mother, including as Sri Meenakshi, as Visalakshi, as Kamakshi and as many other names of Sakthi. ... (No such thing as a free lunch.) -- Hindus strive to follow Karma Yoga which is Doing one's own duty without expectation of any rewards for it. 15. ... A goal of Hindus is to achieve Moksha, to be freed from the cycle of birth and death (when the "good" and the "bad" karmas balance.) or reach Swarga, the abode of the Divine Soul or Paramatma [God] to serve at His feet. ...

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Introduction to Ethics Reasons, Emotions, Blood "Never has there been a good war or a bad peace." "Benjamin Franklin Should I support the war? Or should I protest for piece? Even a year before I started asking myself these questions the Persian Gulf became a second home for a lot of west...

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Questioning Martyrdom A Historical and Personal Analysis of the Martyr Emotionally charged rhetoric has been used effectively over the centuries to evoke within us powerful sentiments about right and wrong, good and evil. In the religious world, of course, one term employed in this manner is ...

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The point of differentiating between what only God can do and what human beings are called to do is not to minimize the importance of the latter but to free us from ultimately stultifying presumption. ...

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It is through this period of sleep that Raskolnikov is transformed and rebirthed as an individual who is free from his past sins. ... Dostoevsky also notes Sonya as a dove when Marmelodov is talking again, "My little Dove" (28). ...

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