The Old Testament is also read to discover what ideas are quoted within the work, that others have used to justify malice towards one's enemies. ... Klassen shows that in this story Cain is given the protection of God. ... Within the ranks of the Patriarchs (Jacob and Esau) the stories of blood feuds continued. The stories extended to the confrontations between David and Saul. ... A similar message is also quoted within the Amen-Em-Opet. ...

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One quote that shows this is "Let the sole sorry of your parents be that you might become ill." ... That quote shows a man's responsibility for himself and his family. ... The Koran, using sources in the older Scriptures and later traditions, relates the stories of Abraham, Joseph, Moses and Aaron, David, Solomon, Jesus, and others, all of whom are declared to have been true prophets whose messages were largely ignored: "We sent forth Noah and Abraham, and bestowed on their offspring prophethood an...

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The debate on contraceptives is filled with moral and theological sand pits. There are so many strongly held beliefs for, and against, for reasons unclear to most. None of the answers are simple to these hot button topics; for the most part they are complex and hover in a grey area of morality, tradition, and history. Sex and love are obviously two things that interests humans, and animals to an extent. People write songs, books, and poetry about both topics. ...

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No parable of Jesus has been used or quoted more than that of "The Prodigal Son-. The impact and the effect that this story has had on the lives of people who have heard it are tremendous. ... In this story that our Lord told there was never any question as to whether the boy was a son or not. ...

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THE BIBLE"S WORD: "GOSPEL" INTRODUCTION There are few words that harness such spiritual magnitude as the word "gospel." In fact, the gospel of Christ "is the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1:16).# In essence, it is God's dynamite# which is used to clear away the rubble of sin so that we ...

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The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern Orthodoxy cannot be understood apart from Christian Hellenism, and Roman Catholicism is a product of Latin civilization, so the Unification Church greatly profited from the religious development of its homeland. Korea's indigenous religion, like that of most early cultures, was a form of...

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One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...

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