(Reiter, 2001) Connecting more intensely with the sacred during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, adherents of Judaism and Christianity can experience a transformation such that on their return home their relationship with God and their experience of faith has more meaning in their everyday and ordinary lives. ... The Jewish belief of being together and feeling part of a global community with a close bond with Jewish people all over the world is reinforced through using WE and OUR in group prayer. ... (The Tabernacle Place, 2004) Jewish sources write that pilgirms sense the presence not only of the...

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To fundamentalist Christians, it is a place where people will be intensely tortured without any hope of relief. ... It is pictured as either a place of annihilation, where people simply cease to exist, or of eternal punishment. ... However, they do believe in Heaven, and believe that most people will go to Heaven, regardless of their religious beliefs. ... Surely a God who would do such a thing is more nearly like Satan than like God, at least by any ordinary moral standards, and by the gospel itself." Roman Catholicism teaches consistently though-out history that those who do live by the...

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Durkheim associates the sacred with the clan or society and the profane to individual; however Eliade "define the sacred as the sphere not of society, but of the supernatural – the realm beyond earthly life, full of changeless perfection, order, power, and beauty [and] the profane, by contrast, is not just the personal, but the entire changeable, chaotic, often dreary realm of ordinary human earthly life, stained by struggle and suffering and bordered by death" (272). ... A fundamental aspect of Weber's approach is therefore the importance he gives to religion as an influ...

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The Jews were strong people. ... 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. ... The people of Nazareth had a strong Jewish faith. 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. ... Mary as a believer is a model for every ordinary Christian. ...

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"He spoke in ordinary language and conveyed the sense of Gods presence and caring by his own human presence and caring for others and by his own human way of living his life, establishing values and priorities, praying and relating to others." ... Once again, Jesus" life being exemplary for people and in the same instance the duty of his divine message. ... Jesus tells the people to love God "with all of your heart mind, soul, and with your entire being." ... "In him in what he was, in the way he lived and in what he said and did for them, people tended to find new life, hope, challenge, ...

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In the book, Holiness for Ordinary People. ... As human, its very typical and easy for us to love people who love us. ... Could that possibly be the reason why many people defines holiness as just loving God. ...

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Many people define their commitment to their religion by the fact that they participate in these sacraments. ... Many people have stated that penance was a way for the church to have power over its members or that it was a cruel, hard and alien to the spirit of Christianity. Other people believe it shows the compassion that God has for his followers that anything can be forgiven if it is confessed with a pure and contrite heart. ...

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" To ordinary human beings, finally- the vast majority who exist for service and the general advantage, and who may exist only for that - religion gives an inestimable contentment with their situation and type." ... "God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow" (Kaufman 108). ...

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