Although many believers stop short of claiming an exclusive status for their tradition,. ... Religious experience may be expressed in visual symbols, dance and performance, elaborate philosophical systems, legendary and imaginative stories, formal ceremonies, meditative techniques, and detailed rules of ethical conduct and law. ... In this way, the religious reality whether conceived as a divine commandment, the will of God, Buddha nature, or the Taos acknowledged to be the true and proper basis of all life. ... Religions typically hold that human beings have a higher nature that exists in ten...

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In addition, he makes claim to the fact that the only witnesses to this supernatural reality are humans who were themselves representative of the Jewish priests working in collusion with the Roman church (which is entirely unsupported by any evidence of history) that supposedly put Christ to death. ... Paine continues to have a problem with the superstitious nature of the stories combined with the fact that the power of the so-called prophets is constantly being put in terms of evil. ... The specific story to which he refers is the story of loosing Satan upon the world giving him more power th...

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It does so by giving a story that is vague, short, and simple, making it easy for the reader to not just relate to one of the characters, but relate to them all with multiple and different lessons to be learned from each one. ... So there we have it, one sees that the third story is also related to the last two stories but it is different in that the first and second stories used common objects and in the last one uses people which makes it a lot easier to relate to personally. ... The younger brother in this story is the main character and it is a story about his journey and what became of h...

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He noticed a "principal of conduct whereby to measure in the years to come not only the sum of his own poetic achievement but the very nature of human integrity itself"(Miller, 1953, p.9). ... Browning meditates "on the ability of God to restore his worn out youth - or, in other words, to extend the capacity of his human nature..." ... In 1845, Robert Browning wrote " The Confessional", a short poem berating the Catholic Church. ... In this story, Browning criticizes the fact that Christianity is too ideal for humanity; he does not address whether God exists but whether Christian living can tr...

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So if we are to view in proper perspective the spiritual and religious conflicts of our age, as they are reflected in drama and fiction, then we must look at the outset to understand the nature of the relationship between literature and belief. ... "From the everyday believers have testimonies and stories of "healed bodies and minds, ships coming in, prospering businesses, saved marriages--in short, a life where the shadows flee away," as defined by Leonard I. ... The pulpit or the congrigation follow the preacher and when the preacher messes up they realize that he is only human and may not b...

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Finally, Once the version I Irish to defend envisions a period of existence in a disembodied state, I will defend the theory against some of the arguments of those contemporary philosophers who find the very notion of disem bodied existence incoherent.There are several wars in which the basic concept of resurrection sketched in the opening paragraph can be fleshed out, One option is to understand the nature of the human person, and hence the nature of resurrection , in a basically materialist or physicalist way. Perhaps human beings are essentially material objects; perhaps some version of ide...

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There is no easy way out of the human predicament. ... Throughout Korea one can see huge monoliths carved with human heads called Miryucks. ... And jen (human-heartedness) was exalted as the highest moral ideal. ... According to this view, a man is truly human when he faithfully carries out his obligations to his fellowmen. ...

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