We have to understand the Old Testament before we can get clear vision of the New Testament, for both show how God saves and delivers. ... David first born dies and this corresponds with the action of sin that produce the child. ... But it does not end there, David first born dies and then we see God is showing justice and charity. ... How David could influence our lives if we will open our eyes to see David as a person like us who is thriving to know God and all His power. ... Our past experience does give us an idea of who God is when we see how he saves us and delivers through experien...

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If we fast forward to present day it seems very little has changed. ... ("Islamic Beliefs" 1) Though the religions disagree on whether Jesus is God they do agree on how to talk to God. ... Not only must we communicate with Gob but actions are required to show our devotion. ... (Qur"an, 51:19) It is clear that we must take care of those less fortunate but how do the religions instruct us to treat others in general? ... However, we are only looking are current events. ...

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He teaches us how to be patient, how to be generous, how to be selfless, how to be loyal, how to be forgiving, how to be responsible, and how to persevere. ... He asked her, "Who died?" She replied, "God died. ... Should not we be doing His work with it? ... We can't offer the excuse that we were led into doing wrong. ...

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"Why are we Catholic and not Christian?... "Mom, how come you don't save my friends?... These religious fanatics that believe anyone who differs in belief should be killed, are to die, or will die with no hope of salvation. ... Millions have suffered and died and continue to daily. ... But I wonder how tolerant the innocent victims of September 11th and our soldiers dying from terrorist acts everyday overseas would be. ...

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"Young couple on honeymoon dies in plane crash...16 year old boy hit and killed by a drunk driver...family dog mauls child president of high school commits suicide". ... Why would a God with supreme power not do something about my grandmother and my grandfathers and my uncle dying? ... I grew angry and I just could not comprehend how something like this could happen. ... I sat in the freezing cold and waited, just thinking about how bad of a day I had. ... I tried but could not understand how we could possibly do without evil and still have goodness. ...

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We cover this emptiness with a thin superficial shield. ... We care so much about image and we always treat people according to who they are and what they look like. ... When she dies, she takes his whole childhood away. ... It is when he dies and is taken to hell when he realizes what he has done and recognizes his sins. ... We expect so much of people that we sometimes change to meet others" or even our own expectations. ...

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That what you believe in ultimately plays a role in how happy you are. ... Trusting in God's goodness and despite the fact that we cannot judge whether we will be saved, we are obligated to seek God and to live according to his commandments.... If we didn't have these commandments to follow where would we be as human beings? ... The cyclic existence means that we live and then we die and are reincarnated into something or someone else, but if God is the creator of all beings and he built everyone good and with a purpose, than how can we die and comeback as something else when our sou...

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We are all going to die at some point in our lives. When we die God make a decision about where our soul will go. ... God put all his hard work into to building this earth for us to live on and this s how we repay him. ... God is just letting us stay here for a while until we die. ... This might seen as a disappointment to you but this is how it happens. ...

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And how much of a significant does it really give? Handel's "Messiah" is a great example of how knowledge and the nature of God/the holy can be conveyed through the use of music. ... The song is split into 3 parts, the first part of the song is the prophecy of the coming Messiah, the second part of the song shows the life of Jesus, his suffering and how died. ... We will relish in the ''glory'' that our long-time-coming achievement sheds and we will celebrate it with emphasis and joy. ... Aslan also sacrifices himself to save everyone, the same way Jesus did; Jesus d...

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How could we perverse a good without having that perverseness, evil, in us already? ... How could anyone enjoy such sin if it wasn't already in him or her? ... If we didn't, then we wouldn't sin. ... How would we be able to perverse good if the ability to do it isn't in us? ... Therefore, when some dies at the hands of God it is good. ...

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We are completely sinful. We are not as sinful as we could be, but we are completely affected by sin. ... Since Christ did not die for everyone, but only for the elect, his atonement is wholly successful.... " John 6:28-29 "Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?... Jesus died for all peoples' sins, who have ever lived and ever will live, not just the Christians. ...

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Livingstone as a good person, we get to experience with Mr. Livingstone how the trials of this world transform people. ... He pledges to murder his wife: "Dora, it is by my will that you die! ... Die "Adulteress die" (119). ... It is beneficial to see these opposing sides of these characters so that when we view those around us, we take into account that their past could have a huge effect on their personalities...

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And How should we live in light of this doctrine? ... How common is the scene in a cartoon of the bumbling cat that dies chasing the mouse only to rise up to the heavens with wings and a harp as an angel. ... When men die, do they become angels? ... Jesus himself laid out a model of how we are to pray and it does not say that we are to pray to anyone but the Father. ... How should we live in light of this doctrine? ...

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Later, when Neo's heart stops beating and Trinity helps to revive him, the scene can be viewed as Jesus" dying on the cross and rising again three days later. ... After he died, the Oracle prophesied his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war, and bring freedom to our people" ("Matrix"). ... It is how we learn, how we cope and how we grow in our understanding of whom we are and where we belong. Throughout Neo's search we learn that he does not fully accept the world as he sees it, limited by physical boundaries. Neo is searching for the ...

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John Edward's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, shows you how much power the Puritans believed God has and how easily he it would be for him to seek retribution. They believed that God controlled their every moves and if he was unsatisfied with them, they would die and go to hell. ... "By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every person. ... But mentally, it is a visual representation of the wall we put between our sins and society. ... " "How Strange," said a lady, "that a simple bl...

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Christ came so that we may have life, and if you take away a life that Jesus Christ died for, it's like slapping god himself in the face. ... And if that is how a pro abortionist feels, then may god have mercy on that's mans soul. ... We as humans all do. ... But when we are in the womb, the spirit of god is inside us, and we are pure. ... " That being said, how would you feel if someone killed a child of yours because that child may not make their life easy at all times. ...

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We were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance; if we had been, God would have found out a way for the English to have passed this River, as well for the Indians with their Squaws and Children, and all their Luggage. (22) This quote shows that this whole capture is part of God's master plan for making her a better Christian as one of the "chosen." ... The mistress" Papoos (child) was sick and later that night died. ... At this point she is very weak and thought she might die there. ... She shows how she believed every harsh act bestowed upon her is an act by God ...

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Limited Atonement means that Jesus died for the chosen only, he did not die for everyone (1). ... Further, as God has not shown favor for one people over another and has given us all that we need, that we should follow God's example and give to others as we can" (qtd. as by Robinson 2). ... Edwards was born in 1703 and he died in 1758. ... He died of Smallpox on March 22, 1758. ... It teaches that we are all sinners. ...

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It is human nature not to believe in something that we did not see or something that cannot be proved with hard evidence. ... My daddy died in nineteen ought nineteen of the epidemic flu- (130). ... This is very much so like the story of Jesus and how he was killed by the very people he was trying to save. ... The grandmother then called him one of her children right before she died. ... She is always talking about how things were so good back in the old days and how safe it was. ...

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Before we place me in Hell, we need to look at exactly why people go to Hell. ... For example in the sixteenth century heretics were burned at the stake in the name of God, but their souls would have already had a place in Hell after they died. ... If we still had the restriction of the norm of society believing in sin then the advancement of our culture and technology would have been so hindered that we would not have achieved our present state. ... Just look at our past President as an example of how prominent a place lying has in our society; then after he comes out and admits his guilt ar...

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In Humanities last year we studied Existentialism. ... We all know that someday we will 'physically' die,(unlike Camus I don't think this is so bleak) Yet, we continuously deny the forces working inside ourselves which want to search out the true outcome of what may or may not come after death. ... Fortunately, there are some of us who tend to question the why's and how's that come before us. ... To go further, for example, in nature, scientists, time after time have tried to predict tornadoes, their next movement and how they will affect the area they hit. ... Kant sa...

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Their role resembles how a country uses defensive rings to protect the everyday life of a community within its borders. ... The laws of nature that operate on our brains determine our sense that we can decide what to do is an illusion since what we will to do. ... The final theory that sets out comprehensive laws will explain how the universe began fit in the current and predicts all the future observations. ... One might think, for instance, that the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross gives individuals the responsibility of gratitude to honor the principle for which he died. ... William argues t...

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Sometimes we get so tired we want to just give up and let the storm take us where it will d But we learn that the battle is not ours it is the Lord's. ... The Lord has to begin to teach a godly man how to love and discipline his children b. ... Traditionally, a lot of us were disciplined with a belt or other things until we could not breath 1 God does not want us to be like that 2. not a proper role model 1 Thess 2:11-12: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 3. ... If we can keep our marriages hol...

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Even the battle over water baptism on how to baptize and when to baptize and who can be baptized when. ... Other matters that differ in religion, is how to receive the in filling of the Spirit. ... Her main character Hazel Motes blinds himself in the end as sort of his last resort to see if God is real either by or a miracle or to give him peace with his inner self in the end, but since Hazel dies we will never know if salvation was meant for him or not. ... We have come to time now that we are poised for another great season of awakening and a mighty move of the spirit. This is the man tha...

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He still holds the stories of the Bibles on high regard, but he recognizes how modern science affects them. ... He thinks that as a modern Christian one should look to science to explain the how the physical world cam in existence. ... IF we look back to the creation stories we were created with free will. ... When Jesus was crucified God could have easily stepped in and done something to prevent his son from dying, but he did not, because of the free will that he gave us. ... We were created with this internal drive to discover as much as we can. ...

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