(Genesis 30:1) and, like Sarah, goes on to encourage Jacob to use her slave, Bilhah, to have children on Rachel's behalf. ... As Gabriel explains, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God'" (Luke 1:35). Thus, in the Hebrew Bible there are barren women who through God's grace give birth to sons of their husbands who come to inherit the Abrahamic covenant of land. ... The first time the well type scene appears is when Abraham sends a servant back to his own co...

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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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Morpheus says that he would like to meet and tells Neo to go to the Adams St. ... Somehow, this prediction comes true as Cypher betrays them all, killing three crewmembers in the process: Apok, Switch, and Dozer. Tank, finally, kills Cypher before he kills Neo and gets Trinity and Neo back. ... Trinity and Morpheus get back but before Neo can pick up the phone, an agent arrives. ... She then kisses Neo and he comes back to life, hearing her voice, telling him to "Get up." ...

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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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Malachi 3:1: "Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before Me: and the Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in: behold he shall come, saith the Lord of host."" ... He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."" ... People would come from all over to be baptized by John. ... When he came back to start preaching in the villages of Judaea, he was...

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I hope to show many of the individual beliefs that are held by the different denominations, and to go back to the Bible and show what it has to say concerning baptism. ... If we go back to the original Greek we find several words used for baptism, baptizing, and baptized. ... Here we have our requirements for baptism as laid out by the Bible: 1) You must repent of your sins 2) You must be immersed in water 3) You must come to be baptize...

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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 symbolism in these two works comes from traditional Catholic iconography (Wood 66), the understanding of which enables both readers and viewers to form a coherent narrative picture replete with imagistic representations that enhance the artists' message. ... She says, "We'll go to the country, and we'll wait there for the end of the war. ... Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns one back toward God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist and summon man to spiritual battle. ...

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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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Work Theological Reflections Paper "Work for the night is coming, Work thro" the morning hours; Work while the dew is sparkling, Work "mid springing flowers; Work, when the day grows brighter, Work in the glowing sun; Work for the night is coming, When man's work is done." The above words are from a poem written by Anna L. Coggill in 1860. There are two more verses, and Lowell Mason set the words to music in 1864. I remember singing this hymn as a young person in Sunday school. ...

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The Birth of Jesus According to Matthew The first Gospel presented in the New Testament of the Christian Bible is the Gospel of Matthew. Said to have been written in Syria during the last third of the first century, it is most likely the third of the four Gospels created (Brown: Messiah 45). Like...

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"(Guthrie 116) The author was with Paul when he was going to Rome and became involved in a shipwreck with him. ... It is so detailed that others have contended that he must have come to Christ with a background of being Jewish. ... Although Luke the evangelist was said to have come from Antioch, it doesn't give us any hint as to where the gospel was written. ... His intent is to show that following Christ does not come without a price and that each person must lay down their own desires to follow after him. ... Scholars have still not come up with a clear conclusion for who the auth...

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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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America is in a hurry to go nowhere, pushing everyone and everything that might attempt to block its path. ... Jesus decides that He needs to come to Little Rock, not the worst place in America, but a good place to start that definitely needs some help. ... It does not look like preaching kindness is going to be the job. ... He decides to go to the recycling center behind Harvest Foods. ... It is pulling our children back and forth and no one can decide on what is right for them, so they will just have to duke it out until they can come to a decision that neither side will be happy with...

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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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The Word says to always "Love your enemies", In comparison to the message the world sends, God is not considered when it comes to war and conflict. ... This is can be traced back in biblical history where it is seen that Jesus spent more of his time with his enemies than his friends. ... Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ...

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Linguistic Breakdown The English word "gospel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "god-spell" meaning "God story"# or "good story." ... In fact, Barclay says that "it is when we come to the New Testament that euangelion becomes a tremendous word... Or perhaps it comes from the connection between a teacher and his pay. ...

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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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After a while, many of them gather at the temple and go to drag Paul out. ... His plan was to bring back all of the writers of the letters that he might run into along the way, so that they may be punished for their beliefs. ... The Lord told Ananias to go to the house of Judas where Saul was staying. ... He then told them how he planned to go to Damascus to do just that, but then the Lord spoke to him along the way. ...

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I shall defend one particular interpretation of the theory-an interpretation advocated by very many of the church Fathers, especially second century Fathers, as well as by Augustine and Aquinas.It may help clarify matters if I first provide a brief map of where we will be going in this paper. ... Thus Irenaeus says: "Our survival forever comes from His gre atness, not from our nature." 2It would be interesting to discuss this option further, and especially to ask why so many recent and contemporary Christian theologians are drawn toward it, how they might distinguish " spiritual resurrection ...

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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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