If you want to know the truth, he is afraid to go home. He should not have been afraid, but he was afraid to go home. ... Many would say that this young boy was a sinner, and is going to be saved. ... He finally realized what it was that he was doing, what it was that he had come from and what he had sunk to. ... Because you see a son of the father will never be happy or fulfilled until he is brought back into fellowship with him. ...

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Someone who is really saved will go on and prove to others he is a true believer of God and we should live our lives like the "good soil" and tell other people about the word of God and live our life according to the bible. ... The next person to come by is The "Good Samaritan " who helped the man. ... He then puts the man on his animal and takes him to an inn and pays the innkeeper with his own money and tells the innkeeper to take good care of the man, and he would pay for any extra expenses on his way back. ... But before he could get home his father was already looking for him, before the ...

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It is when we suffer that we most need belief in a loving God to keep ourselves going. ... In the case of the man, his love for his son motivates him to keep going. His problem is that his desire to keep going appears to lack a rational foundation. ... They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you wont face it. ... Rather, the desire comes first: because he wants to keep going, he believes "or tries to believe "that he is on a divine mission. ...

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The energy had to come from somewhere though, hence, The Locus Mundi. The Locus Mundi is the center of all life, where all the energy of all things comes from, and where it will go when it dies. ... However, to a caveman, if you said that you were going to cast a spell for a good hunt, and then the hunters came back with a bison, you had special power. ... Myth, ritual, and religion go hand in hand. ... Osiris also sits on the tribunal that judges where you go after you die. ...

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" Good and Evil and are such relative terms, but, they represent the most popular theme when it comes to the supernatural. Quite frankly, some would believe that the supernatural world and "good vs. evil" go largely hand in hand with one another. ... Their eagerly anticipated journey turns into their worst nightmare come to life. ... He loosed a hideous roar, the rock walls echoed round and we scuttled back in terror. ... You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns- Hermes the giant-killer, god of the golden wand, he always said you'd come (245). ...

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If it had not been so, thou wouldst not have come to the place where thou art at this time" (D&C 6:14). ... The gospel that Christ taught is not of jubilation for a time and then simply going back to our original selves, but it is one of being reborn of Christ time and time again so that we can become just as He is. ...

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The story of Noah is said to have come about around 3000 B.C., when severe flooding around the known cultures took place.5 By writing the story, it gave the people a way to understand the natural occurrence that had wiped out a large portion of the Earths inhabitants. ... First was a Raven for it was to come back only after the water had dried. ... "16 He then called Noah ignorant, for Noah was weak and made a snap judgment asking for God to smite all non believers without considering what may come of it. ... Returning him back to his mother to be nursed until he reached an older age, he...

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The section dealing with the six Saktis (I, 292-3) indicates that the occultist distinguishes between each of these forces, and comes to know the laws of each, so that his acts will not be "blind." ... Turning back to H.P.B.'... Our knowledge comes from those teachings. ...

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Fortunately, he had his talent back and started writing Anna Karenina and took seven years of time to complete it. ... But Ivan laughs as if he does not care and goes on the fair. ... While staying in the inn, they drink tea together then go for sleeping separately. ... The officer comes and asks his wife to leave, and Ivan says good-bye to them for the last time. ... Then One day, a fresh gang of convicts come to the prison. ...

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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. ... 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. ... "She1 cries, "A thousand types are gone:/ I care for nothing, all shall go." ... If you are good then before people thought they would go to heaven. ... (Tennyson section 106.32) Tennyson theorizes that faith may be one strength that humans have to survive ...

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The phrase is defined as a messenger or angel of Satan.18 The connotation of this phrase brings us back into ambiguity. ... He continues to boast by comparing himself to them and saying each time he is more, yet again he goes back to talking about how he was weak, which is one of the ve...

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A peasant woman goes to see Father Zosima because she has lost her son. ... Thou didst give us life, oh Lord, they say, and scarcely had we looked upon it when thou didst take it back again. ... The boy tells him to leave him alone, so Alyosha tells him that he wasn't teasing him and walks away, and as soon as he does this he gets hit in the back with a rock. ... Ivan cannot except this, he cannot except that harmony that will either come at death or the lords return. ... Ivan states that maybe the oppressor to the child will go to hell and then the suffering would...

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For one thing, during the seventy years in Babylon most of the exiles had come to consider it their home (cf. ... The timing of this message is also significant because Zerubbabel, governor of Judah and Joshua, the high priest, remained idle and did not give priority to the building of the Lord's temple which was in ruin. 1.2 The Excuse of the People (1:2-4) The miserable excuse of the people was that the time had not yet come to proceed with the rebuilding of the temple. ... Focusing solely on rebuilding what they had lost in the exile made the people selfish and ultimately flung them...

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(John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. ... (John 6:44, NRSV) "And he said, For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." ... The second assumption goes hand-in-hand with the first: if Scripture is our only standard for all that we believe and do, finite human reason is not, and cannot be, the final arbiter of revealed truth. ... According to Sproul (1986), "To say that God foreordains all that comes to pass is simply to say that God is sovereign over his entire creation. If something co...

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In this essay I will try to look at one of his poems, The Lamb which a consider to be of great significance from different aspects: firstly I will try to place it in the context of innocence based on the collection of songs, then try to explore the religious hints in the poem and finally, since the poems in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience come in pairs, I cannot avoid bringing the two poems in comparison. ... Another time, after the resurrection His description goes like: "His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow." ... and seeks to tell...

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This is where a lot of skeptics try to discredit religion as something false and made up since there is no proof to back its teachings up, and in a civilization where proof is the only way people will start to believe. ... Freud goes into explaining that as our civilization consists on solely in wealth itself, and it is threatened by rebellions of the people in the civilization. ... Some prohibitions from the past used to be part of a civilization, but are prohibited now; and some ordinary daily activities from today might be prohibited in the years to come. ... Freud then goes into the way...

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Whatever he was doing, the Lord appeared to him and told Abraham that he was going to have a great nation, many descendants, and protection throughout the years-as long as he packed up all of his belongings and go to a foreign land. ... This is the part where faith comes in. This is the part where Abram has to decide who he is going to serve-his father's gods or the One true God. ... The only problem was their plan was going against God's. ... If gets you somewhere, you won't be going for very long. ...

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What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives ...

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One such argument comes to mind; eternal security. ... In Jeremiah, the Lord makes this clear as he states, "I will make an everlasting covenant with (my people), never to draw back from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" (Jer. 32:40). ... This argument mainly comes from one with an Arminian viewpoint; as a Calvinist has a different view on free will altogether. ...

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Atheists deny that life will continue for any.6 Even many holding more orthodox views back away from an acceptance of an eternity of punishment.7 Berkhof speaks to this very issue of eternality when he states that the "eternity of the future punishment deserves more special consideration, however, because it is frequently denied. ... "13 Pinnock takes the position that suffering will finally come to an end.14 This view of Annihilationism is held more strongly within liberal Christianity, while evangelical Christians argue for a more biblical defense of the doctrine of hell. ...

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Finding her in the darkness, he called to her and asked her to come back to the land of the living with him. She promised him that she would go ask the gods of the underworld, but she begged him to not look at her as she did so. ... This story comes from the Kono people of Guinea. ...

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One does not have to read for very long to find some modern intellectual involved in the analysis of some part of Nature come to the "Aha!" ... Causes are to be known from effects alone; to ascribe to it any superfluous qualities goes beyond the bounds of strict logical reasoning. ... It is an exercise in uselessness: "[B]ecause our knowledge of this cause being derived entirely from the course of nature, we can never, according to the rules of just reasoning, return back from the cause with any new inference, or making additions to the common and experienced course of nature, establish any ne...

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" Although he actually doesn't think Anselm ontological argument works, Aquinas goes on in question 2, article 3, entitled: "Whether God Exists", to give five ways proving that God exists. ... He goes on to say that "This cannot go back to infinity. ...

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The Ten Commandments and the World in 2002 Here we are 2000 years since the time of Christ and it is evident why Jesus warned us not to be like the world. Through Paul we are commanded "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prov...

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