Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). ... Cesira, in accepting the capitalist way of life, is spiritually dead, as regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social justice, since "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market- (CA 34). ... When Cesira and Rosetta encounter French officers after leaving the church, Cesira screams, "Do you know what they've done . . . in a church, under the eyes of the...

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He basically says, "Give me now the part of the estate I will get anyway when you are dead, and let me get out of this."" ... After everything has pointed to him being dead, he still has hope that one day his son will return. ...

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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. ...

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Introduction John the Baptist, was the forerunner of Jesus Christ. His mission was foretold in Isaiah 40:3vs: "The voice of him that Crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Malachi 3:1: "Behold I will send my messenger and he ...

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The Birth of Jesus According to Matthew The first Gospel presented in the New Testament of the Christian Bible is the Gospel of Matthew. Said to have been written in Syria during the last third of the first century, it is most likely the third of the four Gospels created (Brown: Messiah 45). Like that of Luke's, Matthew's Gospel draws its content from the Gospel of Mark, the elusive "Q" source, and from stories and other preexisting information from Pagan, Jewish and Christian sources (Wilkinson: 165). In Matthew's description of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, th...

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The "Christ- in "Christabel- The last decade of the Eighteenth Century was during the time of a great emotional movement in Europe. Several revolutions were taking place from culture to science. Another important revolution was in British literature, known as Romanticism where importance, style, a...

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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." (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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The doctrine of sin unequivocally permeates the Holy Scriptures. Copious declarations about the sin include, "all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God," "your iniquities have separated between you and your God," "whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin." (Romans 3:23, Isaiah 59:2, 1 John 3:9 KJV) However, probably the most notorious of passages in the New Testament must be Romans 5:12 "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Romans 5:12 has bee...

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Mormon Religion, What it is and why it's a cult? Religion has become a point of persecution for many people. To others it is a test of strength and faith. Nevertheless, among this persecution from people with no faith, some religions are persecuted by others in the Christian community. One of t...

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An Insight Into Revelation The book of Revelation is the last profound book in the New Testament. It conveys the significant purpose of Christianity by describing God's plan for the world and his final judgement of the people by reinforcing the importance of faith and the concept of Christiani...

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From Saul to Paul: A Religious Conversion This paper is my account of the three different versions of Paul's conversion. To get my point across, I will cover the comparisons between the three stories, in relevance to the narrative setting, characters, intent/rhetoric, and plot. Then I will explain why the three are different. To understand why this paper is such an important topic, I need to briefly explain who Paul was and his ways. Paul is often considered one of the most successful early Christian missionaries. ...

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The Matrix *** Table of Contents Table of Contents Page 2 Introduction Page 3 Summary Page 3 Neo and Jesus: A Comparison Page 6 Nebuchadnezzar: Who was he? Page 13 Type of History Page 14 Conclusion Page 16 Bibliography Page 19 *** Introduction The Matrix is a sci-fi movie that makes you think. Its main plot is that the world we live in is a virtual world and in the REAL world we, the humans, are used as batteries for the machines (our enemies). The special effects are astonishing and the writers made most of the movie, a hi-t...

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INTRODUCTION In his book "Love of Enemies" William Klassen examines the various interpretations of love of enemies in relation to war and peace in the Jewish and Christian faiths. Klassen has three distinct concerns that make an influence on his views on peace. First, Klassen feels he has a responsibility, as a student of the bible, to listen to the word of the bible. He feels that most of the Anglo-Saxon scholars have not done a good job of actually listening to the word and what it really means. Klassen believes that the use of references to the biblical word a...

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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 might "have access by one Spirit unto the Father" (Eph. 2:18). Such an important concept demands careful attention, study, and application. However, the concept of the gospel has been grossly abused and misunderstood throughout the ages. Within this study, the effort is put forth to consider th...

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