"The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. ... The human race at that time was evil and wicked. ... God wants us to learn something valuable from this narrative. ... The only way I can explain things such as that is there was catastrophic event that put things in places where they could not have been put without God using this event to do it. ... Through all the arguments for and against the flood it seems that this event is something that each person must come to grips with on t...

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In other words, Paul is telling the Romans that they are not being completely faithful to God and that something needs to be done about it. ... As a result, their lives became full of wickedness, greed, hate, murder, and envy. ... Paul tells his readers that we all can be saved in this way, no matter who we are or what we have done. ... Paul tells the Romans that they can now truly serve God, not in the old way by obeying in the letter of the law, but by a new way, through the Spirit. ... Paul's letter helps me without a doubt, challenging me to live in a way that will please...

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(John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. ... (John 6:44, NRSV) "And he said, For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." ... If something could come to pass apart from his sovereign permission, then that which came to pass would frustrate his sovereignty. If God refused to permit something to happen and it happened anyway, then whatever caused it to happen would have more authority and power than God himself. ... Those motives have a certain weight with me, and the motives for or against ...

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The first topic I will discuss is how Mormons think humans come into existence, and then how Roman Catholics believe humans come into existence. ... This will allow us to spirit children, which is the way God, the father, populated the earth (Smith, Joseph 46). ... According to the Mormons, there is punishment for the wicked people. ... Mormons have something similar to purgatory. ... When I was doing this paper, I read that historians have not discovered any profound evidence that the Book of Mormon is in no way connected the new world. ...

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They saw the afterlife as something only for the soul. ... Paul wrote this part of his letter to clear up this confusion about the resurrection. ... Christ is to be considered as opposite to Adam, that as from one man Adam, sin came over all, so from one man Christ, life comes to all. ... Only then, Paul says, will the end come, when Christ will have destroyed every other rule and authority and power; the last enemy to be destroyed will be death. ... The belief about after life is the assurance that the righteous will be vindicated and the wicked will be punished. ...

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Malachi 3:1: "Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before Me: and the Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in: behold he shall come, saith the Lord of host."" ... John's mission in life was to prepare the way for Jesus, Mary's son. ... Friends and relatives had fear written on their faces, for they knew that something special was about to happen. ... John quickly put them right, saying he had come only to prepare the way, and that he was not worthy to unloose the Master's sandals. ...

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One such argument comes to mind; eternal security. ... Those who ahold to this view, take this to mean once saved and apart of the body of Christ there is absolutely no way to lose their salvation. ... This view takes eternal life as something that has already been given, not something that will be attained after death. ... This argument mainly comes from one with an Arminian viewpoint; as a Calvinist has a different view on free will altogether. ... One way to look at this is, once you let Christ into your heart by choice, He chooses to stay and never leave. ...

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