Yet the same Bible that informs us of the above power of choice and decision-making also emphatically indicates that God is completely and utterly sovereign over all people, places, and things. ... That human beings possess freedom is not a greatly contested fact. ... In fact, the foundation of clinical practice is that people have the capacity to make changes in their lives (e.g., thinking, feeling, and behaving). ... The primary role of reason is to determine what Scripture actually says; the student of the Bible uses his mind to interpret and apply biblical truth. ... He further defines...

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• Grade Level: High School

Darwin showed that scientific observations collect facts and through these facts we can learn things about how the past was, and therefore learn more about what is to come. ... All of this directly contrasting the Bible, but Darwin did not want to cause disagreement. ... He saw some principles of evolution much before Darwin published his facts. ... By doubting the creation that God has within the book of Genesis in the Bible, anything else within the Bible is up for question. ... Within Tennyson's last sections he accepts that the Bible may not be correct but that accepting Nature as cru...

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• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

I feel that it is fair that "If he has broken the limb of a patrician, his limb shall be broken" It's like in the Bible "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." ... I like the fact that Confucius' ideas are still just as relevant today as they were in ancient China. ... This God was creator of the world (In Christianity, it's documented in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth), and He would one day judge mankind (This is also true in Christianity: "The Lord will judge his people." ... The intent was not to...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 10695
• Approx Pages: 43
• Grade Level: High School