"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates's Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ... (p.60) Connie succumbs to her "trashy dreams" in the form of the evil entity that has come to take her away. ... Evidently, his feet did not go all the way down." ... (p.72) The supernatural elements and themes presented in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ...

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"The time has come. ... After this massive flood was over and the land had dried back up, the people began to multiply. ... The Holy Spirit lives inside of us and it helps to guide us in the way we are to go. On the last day Jesus will come back to collect his followers that may come spend eternity with him and his father in heaven, which will be known as the perfect kingdom. ... It is like blueprints, it lays out how things are going to happen. ...

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Or even if it goes back farther than that, to the angels and Lucifer. ... This paradox goes back a long time before Augustine. It goes back a long time before man. ... However, the meaning, depth, and trueness of your love for them will be exemplified to them if you are shown many other people, some very tempting to be with in different ways, and you still come back to the one you've always know was there for you. ... The killing done by the Lord is just; good will come of it, but the taking of life is evil in itself. ...

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He decided to go home and beg his father for forgiveness. ... He knew that he had to go home and beg for forgiveness. ... The oldest son didn't understand why the father never throw a party for him but the father explained to him that because he knew he had done something wrong he could ask for forgiveness and be taken back in by his father, just as we can be taking back in by God. ... When we know what we did wrong, God will always be there for us and take us back in. ... Also, not to give up hope when things go bad because something good can come of them if you keep believing. ...

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He explained to them that no matter what his life in the living world would go on forever. ... Kathryn told him that he should go back in time and stand up to his antithesis. ... She told him I don't know how it will help you, but I feel that it will come in use. ... That night he left his strange future world and returned back to his home village. ... Today, the myth still goes on about how every night Kathryn and Gavin talk on their cell phones, as well as millions of other people who started using the same idea Gavin had come up with. ...

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God would not come and talk to Job and try to educate him on why this was done to him. ... That will have to prove that God does win the wager by giving Job everything back because Job did not curse God. If he had cursed God then of course Job wouldn't get everything back. ... One thing is for sure is that God knew Job would come through by being who he already is, a righteous man. ... The Lord was so confident in saying yes to the Satan because He knew that He was going to win. ...

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In the Old testament God did in fact come within the boundaries of our human experience. ... The story goes that David killed Goliath, the Philistine Giant, 2nd Samuel 21:19. ... The charity comes in through instructions of right and wrong and there is consequences for wrong decisions as well with right decisions we are blessed not cursed. ... How the influence of David when he was after Gods own heart, but a mere man who mess up but had a heart to get back on track. ... He is a man of educational back ground. ...

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"Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy" is another statement God makes in Deuteronomy 7 that does not go in accordance with what is advocated for in the bible, in Romans 9 "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. ... "Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down" shows or illustrates that God was not going to go back on his word to punish them and that any where they go or hid he will haunt them down. ... God punishes us t...

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A Journey Through My Life Take a journey with me if you will, back to a time in your life when you dreamed of being something great. Back to a time when you envisioned yourself becoming an astronaut, firefighter, doctor, teacher, or even a musician. ... Now, what were we going to do? ... Back to a time when you envisioned yourself becoming an astronaut, firefighter, doctor, teacher, or even a musician. ... Now, what were we going to do? ...

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One day, Moshe the Beadle, a Jew from Sighet, deported in 1942, with whom Elie had once studied the Cabbala, comes back and warns the town of the impending dangers of the German army. ... At Buna, Elie goes through the dehumanising process of the concentration camps. ... When Elie's turn comes, he runs as if his life depends on it and passes. ... Elie's father comes running and says that he too has been selected to be left behind. ... For water, they eat the snow accumulated on each other's backs. ...

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For it is said, that when that due time or appointed times comes, their foot shall slide. ... (Edwards 642) Then he goes on to say, "Men's hands cannot be strong when God rises up. ... " "There is an hour to come." ... The hour to come when all of us shall cast aside our veils is the hour of death. ... According to these two stories by Hawthorne backed up by History of Puritanism, I believe that this paints a clear picture of Puritanism. ...

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Abraham is a role model when it comes to having faith in God. ... Back in the days of the Bible, it was common for people to "sacrifice" lives in honor of a god or belief. ... The praise doesn't go to the fact that he was actually going to kill his son. ... This in fact makes him look like the loving and caring God that he wants to come across as. ... We must remember that the message did come from God for Abraham to kill his son, and God is not a murderer. ...

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The first part begins with verse 2 and goes through to 4. ... The second section of this psalm begins with verse 5 and goes until verse 11. ... The author continuously describes the gossip that goes on behind his back by his enemies waiting for his death. ... Very clearly here the two authors are extremely upset because people who they trusted and loved have turned their back against them. ... Psalm 41 is an incredible psalm to read when the feeling of distraught or despair comes over a person. ...

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It is this positive image that comes to my mind whenever someone asks about God. That exuberant feeling of comfort and joy that comes with the smile on the entire church's face. ... With free will comes accountability for your actions and this where responsibility comes in play. ... I was too young to know what was going on at the time, but to this day I still do not blame God for anything that happened to her. ... The members of that church gave to the mother of the child out of the goodness of their hearts and received back for generosity the joy of knowing they impacted that child&...

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He is going to church to see Jesus for the first time. ... His aunt had heard him and explained to his uncle, "the Holy Ghost had come into my life" (220). ... He sat there patiently waiting for Jesus to come to him. ... Everyone packed himself or herself in to get a seat instead of having to stand in the back. ... When his aunt tells him that he will see Jesus and he will come inside him, he takes that literally. ...

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For example trusting God to leave Ur to go to Canaan is a test that he passed, to trust God to take care of him in Canaan despite the famine he failed, trusting God for his finances he passed, patiently waiting for God to provide an heir he failed and giving his only son Isaac back to God he passed, to name but a few of the more obvious tests that will be looked at in this paper. ... He then brought back Lot, his family, all their goods, along with many other people who had been captured. ... He didn't want it to appear that his success or riches had come from anyone but God. ... Many yea...

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When she got mad at him she stuck back and tore pages out of her husband book. ... Although he disagreed with what was said by the wife of bath, he felt the importance to show the perspective of the women view back then. ... In his mother's world, talk consisted of Christ the Savior and about the mighty god who helps us especially to go to heaven. ... It must come before all other forms of love. ... Many young men stayed with a woman until the time came to marry them back then. ...

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We all have choices in life and the choice you make, you are going to have to live with it. ... On the second hand he enjoys going to school these because he has an excellent English 102 teacher who understands him and his trials and tribulations as a student. ... Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back... Page number 4 Looking back on this poem I think that this poem, we can see how the poem makes me feel like telling all my feelings out on paper. ... And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many sha...

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Here are some wonderful quotes about faith: "Faith makes things possible, not easy," "Prayer is taking our troubles to God, faith is leaving them there," "Sorrow looks back. ... Hebrews 11:6 says, "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him." ... By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith." (New International Version Teen Study Bible) Hebrews 11: 8-11, 17-19 says, "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would ...

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He leads them around endlessly from Ur to Canaan, to Egypt, then back to Canaan. ... For example, God asked Abraham, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. ... God told Abraham, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. ... These covenants set Abraham on his long journey from Ur, to Canaan, to Egypt, and back to Canaan. ... So now, go. ...

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This comes partly because she is royalty but none the less she is still respected. ... Comments like these just go to show that either the writers of these stories or people in the real scenarios back then had a reason to believe that their love was more important than a romance. ... Another example of the elevation of love to a spiritual level is also in the Inferno, when Virgil is telling the story of how word comes down that Dante should be saved. ... It seems that any common man willing to learn and had a little bit of courage back then could have become a knight, but for some reason th...

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In our world nowadays, you will hear almost everyone say, "what goes around comes around," but do they know what that really means? "What goes around comes around" is the basic fundamental of Karma. ... We are simply either reaping the benefit of our good karma or paying back our karmic debt of bad karma.... The Law of Karma is the causation of our own actions, which is why Karma has been simplified in today's society as "you get what you deserve" or "what comes around, goes around.... They did not even have to go to school to learn it. ...

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Leary wrote of what would be come his spiritual experience with psilocybin: "I began to feel strange. Like going under dental gas. ... After the 4-hour trip ended Leary and his fellow colleagues came back changed. ... Leary returned back to Harvard and decided to do research on these sacred drugs. ... But the dream of Leary's peaceful, spiritual world living with drugs would come crashing down. ...

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Spirituality and religion are very essential when it comes to dealing with a major illness. ... So in other words if you go to church once a week or more it will cut the death rate in half. ... They have the ability to enter parallel spiritual realities in order to bring back wisdom, power or help for those who need it. ... The thought of getting ill and suffering is a lot to handle, espically if you"re going through it alone. ... They feel that if they come to terms with their faith, that God will accept them into his eternal kingdom. ...

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- "I go to St. ... "Well it's about time those Catholics teach something that comes from the Bible,"" she said disgustedly under her breath, "Go ahead and play, tomorrow come over and I will save you, okay?... "She's going to save me tomorrow."" ... What comes next? ... The Church fought back by promoting the evils of women and witchcraft. ...

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