All I need to do is follow my Bible and do the best I can following God's rules and follow the person of Jesus in this life in order to be able to someday have a good chance of being saved and living with God for all of eternity. ... He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person." ... Nobody not one of us is more important to God than the person we have next to anybody or us. ... Through my praise, worshipping, singing, reading the Bible God communicates with me and he reveals the person of Jesus to our lives. ... The only way to follow Je...

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Faith gives a person the ability to look at life with a different lens. ... Faith does not only dwell in the realm of religion, but in all aspects of a person's life. ... In that moment, I could believe that those current feelings are all I need in my life and roll over again and never get up. ... In this address, it was evident that a person's faith is dependent on a lifetime of choices that have been made. ... The father is beseeching the Lord to heal his son from this affliction that has overtaken their family's life. ...

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"A persons conscience enables them to accept responsibility for their actions" (pg. 19). ... Abortion is legal in many countries; in NZ it is legal under certain conditions, which will preserve the health of the person. ... Catholic Social Teaching states that each and every person has value and are worthy of great respect and must be free from slavery, manipulation and exploitation.... One of the Catholic Church's teachings is that "A just society can become a reality only when it is based on the respect of the transcendent dignity of the human person" (CSDC 132). ......

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Trinitarian Theology Trinity defines the core concept of substance and person, illuminating that that there are three divine persons, not one, and one substance not three. The three persons are The God, The Spirit of God and Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God. ... Hence, for all three persons of Trinity, there exists a substantial relation and they cannot exist in individuality (Osborn). 2. ... Hence, not bishops but spiritual persons are the one which sustain the divinity of the church (Morrison). ... The bishop would be a person having highest authority in th...

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"What if the cloning person you produce someone with two heads and two arms, are you simply going to euthanize and dispose of that person?... Cloning will change the way people value life. People respect life because everyone gets only one chance. ... In this way, a carbon copy of a person can be "reproduced,"" if we want them to bring back to life. If we can get a chance to come back to life, as many times as wanted, we would not respect life as much as we do now. ...

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Understanding the Christian Doctrines of Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, And Free Will for Counseling "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." ... And I will raise that person up on the last day." ... It is abundantly clear from Holy Writ that, as a race of created persons (Hoekema, 1986), we have the ability to make choices and decisions, and that we are responsible for these choices and decisions. ... Gertsner (1982) states, "My choices, as rational person, are always based on various cons...

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The people of Japan are all members of several different traditions and each person may be more religious in one area at different times in there life. ... Shinto is also mainly seen in the country as something anyone, even a person who is not from Japan, can understand and participate in. ... And ultimately it is part of what life is about, rooting yourself in society but more importantly your family. The Shinto tradition is basically glue that binds the women to their new families for life. After a look at the Shinto tradition a person may assume that they can fully understand the gender...

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Ashe is the sustenance of life. ... The cat was his companion until new life inhabited the earth. ... They affect and encompass every facet of life (Flores-Pena and Evanchuk: 8-9). ... Each person has a particular orisha ruling over his or her life that he or she receives in birth. ... As a group, they control every aspect of human life. ...

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The rebellions are usually about people not being able to deal with certain measures of coercion, which raises the question of how far the prohibition of certain things can take a person. ... The extent to which coercion has become internalized shows the moral level of a person. ... Eventually God turned into a single person, and one to where the man could relate to it as his father. ... This life after death is the perfection that we have missed in life. In the end all good is rewarded and all evil punished, in the form of life, or life after death. ...

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This standpoint is relevant to all persons to seek to find God in their daily lives. ... To modern persons the Bible serves as a foreshadowing of our ultimate destiny "to be a partner of God" engaged in discourse, understanding, and companionship. ... The bible teaches us that life without commitment is not worthy; that thinking without roots will bear no fruit. ... The religious or spiritual person is thus bound to seek out the magnificence of life and the world - to stand in awe of God's creation and power. ... The spiritual person's feeling of awe precedes the acquisition of f...

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Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, an idea, or a thing. 2. ... Loyalty to a person or thing; allegiance: keeping faith with one's supporters. 4. ... One may rely on fate to help them succeed in life and to help them find true love. Yet one may have faith in God and let that faith bring them success in life. ... Shipley's Dictionary of Word Origins remarks that "around a temple (fane) one is likely to find persons whose religious impulses make them seem over-wrought. ...

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They do not desecrate any person, place or thing, nor do they practice "black arts" or magic. ... To the believers of this group, life is but a game. Satan is the opponent in this "game of life". ... They look at the joy instead of the pain in life. They are people from all walks of life, such as a businessman, to a UFO investigator. ...

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God is life, truth, and light. ... The indirect influence of Christianity has been to quicken Hinduism into life (Attenborough 69). ... Hinduism teaches to stay away from temptation through various exercises that test one's ability to perform a difficult task; this devitalizes a person and causes him to act on a non-violent level. ... But, he believed that one should denounce the rewards and simply devote one's life to acting on the behalf of others and that life should be lived near the soil, away from the influence of machines (Dalton 55). Also, Gandhi strongly believed in uphold...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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Religion to an innocent girl back then meant that following what it preaches can make you a good and happy person. It seemed promising and like "a guide to living a perfect life.... Augustine will open minds that God is and should be the way, the truth and the life. ... This preserved the Roman way of life and thinking, which was largely embedded in their faith. The Romans, you could say, had a different way of looking at life. ...

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I left my familiar fold and began exploring a (severely) religious life. ... These families' circle of acquaintances consists mainly of persons from the church and it is not unheard of that the families send their children to Sunday school before the actual worship session, then send them to youth group on Wednesdays and the adults themselves go to bible studies on Monday evenings, often hosted by one of the church members. ... Like any person through the course of their life, Jefferson's personal opinions on religion changed as he aged, but "through all the changes in the evolu...

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The narrative of Christianity presented a story of salvation accomplished through the life of a Savior who was both human and divine, but individuals had to embrace this salvation by going through a ritual process where they are led through the darkness of evil demons to gain soteria or salvation (Haase, 1978). ... In East Africa, for example, where the practice of age-sets ensured generational succession and the reproduction of society, moving from one age group to another was always through passage rites that fashion and refashion persons according to the socio-religious credo and ethos of ...

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When the word bigotry is uttered, various scenarios enter one's mind. Ideas of slavery in ancient cultures, the attempted wiping out of a particular ethnic group, slave plantations in Pre-Civil War America, and the women's suffrage movements in various parts of the world over the last century are just a few which come to mind. Yet bigotry can exist in very slight-of-hand ways, from "dumb-blonde" jokes, to dishonest hiring practices concerning racial minorities. Perhaps the most notable forms of bigotry are sexism and racism, particulary since their struggles and overcoming of which i...

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Body and soul is an example of ingredients of the human person; a flour for bread; and a lens for camera. ... God would seem to be an accessory, a color or a flavor to man's life that is only remembered when wanted. ...

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Religion is the practice of belief, in most cases identifying to the existence of a divine, transcendent being or beings. The proposals of Plato selected to be discussed will adhere to a general definition that religion is "a strong belief in a supernatural power that control human destiny".1 This w...

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The people in the colonies all were enticed to hear the details of his career, the way he lived his scandalous life, and about his death. ... According to Hoffman, in colonial American life, family was the most important part of the social institution. ...

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