The Faith was planted by the Spanish friars and watered with their blood was not dead; it awaited only the toil of the husbandman" (Cather 32). ... Cather repeatedly uses pieces of the land to represent the faith of Father Vaillant and Father Latour. ... Christ used the rock to compare to the land and the people. ... Cather uses this description to start using land to represent how the people will be in the Americas. ... Cather used many details in her representation of the land to come up with beautiful tale....

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No works is a sign of dead faith! ... And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead." ... By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ... Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death." ... Here is one of my favorite poems: We are children of a faithful God, guided by His loving hand; children of a loving Father, on our way to the Promised Land. ...

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Mesopotamia, also known as, the land between the two rivers, a hostile environment so to speak, was where each city observed the formal recognition of a specific patron god. ... The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. ... Backman writes, " At Shechem, which was roughly in the center of Canaan, the Lord actually appeared to Abram and promised to give all the surrounding land to his offspring,"(69-70) illustrating the beginning to ethical monotheism. ... Osiris was the God of Egypt but when Osiri...

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The people of iniveh were dead in sin. ... The real story was God's compassion for His people who were dead in sin, and the lengths that He went to give them a message of salvation. ... As his fruit increased, he built more altars; as his land prospered he adorned his sacred stones. ... If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword,' For the mouth of the LORD has spoken." - Isa 1:18-20 Jotham, king of Judah, "did what was right in the eyes of the LORD..." ...

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The ending is basically a self-fulfilling prophecy that Connie herself wishes for in the beginning of the story: "Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over." ... The last line of the story hints that Arnold is taking her someplace otherworldly: " the vast sunlit reaches of land behind him on all sides of him - so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it." ...

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At the end of one's life, after living the commandments and the Torah, modern Judaism allows that one will have a deliverance to the promised land, or what would be conceived as the ultimate holy. ... Jesus is believed to have died through crucifixion and then resurrected from the dead by God to illustrate forgiveness of human sin, the conquering of death, and denial of Satan. This act of redemption would be visualized by those who have faith in God, who then would likewise be resurrected from the dead to ascend into heaven. ...

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The land on both sides of the Nile was very fertile, due to annual flooding. ... Large pyramids were built to house the dead bodies of the pharaohs. ... The land was not very fertile and so they became nomadic people similar to the Sumerians. ...

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And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. ... But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. ... It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for ...

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Though the land often lacked water and no one knew if enough rain would fall from one year to the next or if locusts or field mice would spoil their crops, facing adversity only made the people of Galilee stronger and more supportive of each other. ... As God's chosen people, descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jews believed this land was theirs, given to their ancestors whom Moses led out of Egypt. ... On the third day Mary saw Jesus rise from the dead. ...

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In the opening of "Oedipus Rex," as king of his land, Oedipus accepts the challenge of saving the people of his country from a plague. ... We had a leader, once, over this land, Called Laius- The man is dead; and now we are clearly bidden to bring to account certain his murders." (pg 4) Oedipus proceeds to chastise the citizens of the land for letting this crime go so long without investigating it. ...

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After He died, his disciples spread his teachings over the land. ... The contrast between Jews and Buddhist is that Jews believe that when you die the judgment is left to God, whereas Buddhist keep trying to help the person once they are dead by given gifts to their gods/leaders. ...

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When the boys first land on the island, they all have good intentions. ... When the dead parachutist lands on the island, they mistake him for the beast, and set out on a massive hunt to kill the animal. ...

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The Word of God The Word of God is not something that originated all by itself or from the dictionary. It is not even truly the whole set of words collected in the Bible Rather, the word of God is the patterns of experience that move us to praise and worship our co-creator. The Bible is here on...

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