As we go about our lives in these days and times, we look and see a division between people. ... Instead, we have attacked each other as a people, and burned religious edifices. ... It is increasingly accepted that religion plays an important role in many conflicts throughout the world. ... One of the most talked about and most important issues in World History and all over the world, is religion: not just religion, but the unreal concept of a world religion. ... Most problems with this idea of a Global Religion, is that people will focus on creation, and forget about the creator, or focus on ...

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But more important was the one supreme Spirit, Hananim, the creator and beneficent ruler over creation. ... Springtime and harvest festivals were particularly important. ... At least in popular Buddhism (that taught to the laity), the promise of heavenly reward and the threat of hell's torments have been an important stimulus to ethical behavior. ... The world into which Christianity came was not just sunk in sin. ... However, in recent years several Christian scholars have begun to see the positive aspects of Korea's religious heritage. 2 If Graeco-Roman civilization was a preparat...

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After introducing the topic, I will discuss in turn what I take to be the three most important claims made by the ve rsion of the theory I wish to defend. Then I will consider one typical aspect of the traditional theory that has important philosophical as well as theological ramifications, vis., the notion that our resurrection bodies will consist of the same matter as do our present earthly bodies. 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 fi...

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