Dogma is subsequently buttressed with more dogma, attention is not focussed on testing applications of the original affirmation. ... In other words, without the knowledge that full faith must be a self-directed psychological force, concentrated by one's own independent affirmation of truth and one's own efforts to test it in action, religions must appeal chiefly to the psychic aspect of man's nature. ...

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Faith gives a person the ability to look at life with a different lens. Faith is seeing situations as they truly are and, based on experience or a spiritual witness, expanding that view to know that there are possibilities beyond the scope of the current situation. Faith does not only dwell in the realm of religion, but in all aspects of a person's life. For example, when lying on my bed after a good night's rest, I feel comfort, security, warmth and satisfaction. In that moment, I could believe that those current feelings are all I need in my life and roll over again and never get u...

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• Grade Level: High School

Bless Me, Ultima At the beginning of the Book, The author associates Antonio's concern about the changes in his life to his culture. I think Ultima's entry into Antonio's life will start a stressful time Antonio. The author shows Antonio's feelings about change by depicting his nervousness about beginning school, separating from his mother, and his future. Because the difference in parents' heritage, Antonio is caught between two different cultures. The vaquero lifestyle (showed by his father) expresses the values of independence, freedom, and mobility, all...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Faith is not just a word. It is so complicated that it took an entire chapter to describe it and still even now the word is used so flippantly. According to God, faith is the "assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." A good illustration for faith is a flashback to "Adventures in Odyssey." There is a house burning down and the little boy is trapped on the second floor. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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." (John 3:16, NRSV) "But to all who did receive him, who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise that person up on the last day." (...

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• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School