Theological Perspective Is this a punishment? What wrong did I do? Sounds sad, what else do you think the reason may be other than a punishment for your mistake? Do you think God will punish us for every mistake we do? In the bible God allowed tough situations for good people also, Job was an uprigh...
Although the three are separate, they are all whole and complete as the same God figure. ... " (John 10:30) The verse from John shows how the three parts are separate and serve different purposes but work as one. ... Dostoevsky also notes Sonya as a dove when Marmelodov is talking again, "My little Dove" (28). ... Sonya brings peace and comfort to Raskolnikov just as the Holy Ghost is supposed to. ...
Charles Darwin was very set in his creationist ideas however and only became convinced of the opposite by his own notes. ... In this work he explains that there is a great quantity of every species so that the strongest and healthiest survive, leaving a better species behind that slowly adapts into whole separate species. ... These new inventions joined all different cultures together, but scientific findings were separating them because humans had no morality to each other anymore. ... They seemed like two separate worlds and if Christians accepted science then they had to give up all of thei...
Copious declarations about the sin include, "all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God," "your iniquities have separated between you and your God," "whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin.... Nevertheless, one must note that this most precious message has been built upon a foundation. ... It should, furthermore, be noted that Paul begins this chapter by saying, "Therefore, being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.... " It would probably be worthy to note that Culver's rejection of 1 John 3:4 as a d...
Every year he would put a written note into the Nile to make sure the waters flooded for harvest. ... The years starting the era of the Middle Kingdom was akin to the beginning of the Old Kingdom in many ways because peace had been restored, and people prospered. ...
God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...
