Equiano was a very religious man eventually becoming a Methodist, religion was a huge part of his life and even his identity. ... "I began to raise my fear from man to him alone, and to call daily on his holy name with fear and reverence: and I trust he heard my supplications, and graciously condescended to answer me according to his holy word, and to implant the seeds of piety in me, even one of the meanest of his creatures" (Equiano, 88). ... Piety and faith are two of Equianos strongest character traits, they are apparent through the way he talks about God "I was sensible o...

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As a "stripling Cherub," Satan asks Uriel, an archangel, for directions to paradise in order to adore man and to praise God. Uriel does not see Satan's hypocrisy, "the only evil that walks / Invisible." ... Either man must die, or justice must. ... Finally, the Son of God is most heroic when He offers to become the voluntary ransom for man. ... Satan comes to earth as an animal; the Son comes to earth as a man. ...

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She speaks about how the language in the Torah can seem degrading to women because God is always assumed to be a man and it is offensive God is never referred to as a woman. She goes on to speak on how the world has deterred from the original revelation and is more male dominant while the women became invisible. ... The reason she is a centrist is because she still believes in the traditional roles such as the man being responsible for the wife if he is making the money or a man should serve his wife. ...

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In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to the underworld realm of Mictlan. ... This invisible, God-given doctrine protected them, although not always entirely, from usurpers and those who wished to challenge their rule. ... Greek tradition was simila...

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What is it that Christian faith requires man to sacrifice? ... Why must a man suffer through "solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence"? ... What of this God has man actually seen? ... I would be hard-pressed to believe that, in reality, any mortal man really can. ... God is nothing more than an invisible police force. ...

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"Television," Billy Graham writes, "is the most powerful tool of communication ever devised by man. ... By making religion entertaining, man can destroy its sacredness and purity. ... "Capitalism has a deity: the "invisible hand" that keeps the world moving in accordance with the inviolate rules of the sacred "market". ... Man has completely given in to notion of Capitalism, as if it was the forbidden fruit. ...

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The Council of Trent defines a sacrament as the symbol of something sacred, a visible form of invisible grace, having the power of sanctifying. ... Man is given the power of choice. ... The recipient of the one is God, who receives the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son; of the other, man, who receives the sacrament for his own good. ... In the Old Testament God said to Adam: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh." In the rite of marriage a man and woman declare their intentions in f...

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, a sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace. ... A real confession being made with Christ as the basis is thought to be in such way "that the whole man submits himself to Truth, in the judgment of his understanding, in the submission of his will and in the consecration of his whole power of love . . . To do this, poor-spirited man is only able when he has been confirmed by God's grace" ("Sacrament of Confirmation"). ...

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 AN EXEGESIS OF 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7 There are perhaps few passages within the Pauline Corpus1 that have so much ambiguity involved as that of 2 Cor 12:7. Questions arise from Paul's metaphorical use of "skovkoloy th/: sarkiv." There are questions about the dative use of th/: sarkiv. Theories...

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Christianity is very practical. It is not a dead, dry, formal, human religion of rituals, outward form, and show, but a divine, living, vital, dynamic, liberating religion. The word Christian means, "Christ like", or "One follows Christ". Jesus Christ, who laid the foundation of Christian Church, was born in BC 4 in Judea. He is the foundation of the Church (1 Cori. 3:10,11). ...

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