Conversion is when your life has changed by giving yourself to god. ... Religious experience can lead to or support to belief in god because it gives you physical knowledge that god does exist because no other thing can explain it. Some people think that prayer is a useless activity because you cannot contact the unknown using words, Prayer cannot give you the things you want only you do that, there is no god so praying is just a waste of time. I think that prayer is very useless it gives you a sense of faith in god, it also gives a sense of security because you only know tat it is between y...

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The word religion means to bind together, this is a key idea to members of the Christian community because the worshipers are very community driven and want to help others by giving back. ... Also the bible teaches that if you give to the community it is a part of living a Christian life and a way to achieve salvation. ... Even giving back to the community has become tradition in the church but not always in the best way. This happens when members of the community gives back in any way (food drives, helping shelters etc.) but not because they feel it is right and that's what they should b...

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Why would you have the devil give you anything you want, and end up serving him for eternity, that means you will be in the fiery pits of "HELL", forever. I can understand why someone would want to have a choice to choose anything they want, but what I can't understand is why someone would want it bad enough to where they would give the devil there soul. ... That is why people are so easy to give it up. ... I think that it is better to live your life than and go to heaven, rather than give my soul to the devil and get what I want. ...

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It's okay for a guru to have nice things even when their followers are expected to give up everything. ... The followers also do illegal things such as sell guns, drugs, and prostitutes in order to raise money to give to their guru. ... When they decide to follow their guru, they are giving up their own identities. ... It seems dangerous to give up everything to follow a money-hunger man who claims to be god just because he feels like being a god. ...

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Stoker gives him long sharp fangs, red fiery eyes and pointed ears. ... Christians deem that the consumption of God's body and blood (through communion) will give them everlasting life with God in heaven. ... This action not only illustrates the opposition of the two figures in purpose - one gives and one takes - but also shows that Dracula is bypassing God and going to humans for his restoration in life after death. ...

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This gives me comfort in knowing that a man who did have such sin was still able to find such favor in God's eyes. ... As we see, Abraham starts out as a man doubting God and his ability to give him a son, but as Abraham gets older his faith and trust in the Lord grow tremendously. ... Abraham' s story of Isaac " , '; gives me trust that I don't have to second guess or question God. ...

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I can see why people would turn to religion and why humans made a higher being to tell us how to live and to give us a sort of meaning in life. ... We end up creating countless forms of theories to both give ourselves a false sense of purpose and to serve as a distraction from the fact we have NO idea why we are here. ... Though he accepts death to be inevitable, he does not want to give up hope for life and freedom – yet. ... It doesn't necessarily give the criminal remorse it gives them a sense of assurance that his/her soul will last into the afterlife. ... He doesn't give...

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Generally, it needs a lot of courage to give up existing good things and seek for a mirage-like description, so Abraham's undoubtedly agreement shows how deep he trusted God. ... But Abraham believed that God would give him the best land just as he promised, so he allowed Lot to stay in Jordan. ... For a old man, the offspring is the precious extension of his life, but this man can give up his closest relative to God, just because he put God at the highest position of the heart, and so that he was rewarded. ... At this time Jacob's faith to God is not very strong, or he would just wa...

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Such words give striking imaginary and allows for imagination to run wild in a rather dark place. ... In the Scarlet Letter Hester mentions a Black man who gives her the scarlet letter on her chest. The passage leaves the impression that signing this book is like giving your soul to the Devil or doing a bad deed. ... Overall, Mather gives the damnation. ... This gives God the impression of being totally detached from humans, just as an emotionally detached person wouldn't care for the feelings of a spider being burned alive. ...

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Other than the author and directions to the worship leader, there is not much else in the psalm to give us locational or situational context. ... In His omnipotence, God is showing His extreme love and gives us our worth. ... He simply thanks God for putting him together and giving him a purpose in life. ... Then after we declare that, praise Him for being that way because that's what makes Him God and gives us value and worth. ... Thank you for giving me value and worth. ...

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Christian priests and reverends or Jewish Rabbis spend years and years in the seminaries and religious schools to get degrees in theology before they are ordained as ministers or what have you so that they are permitted to give a sermon in their congregations. ... But when they compare it with Islam, they only give a partial quotation from the Quran to say that in Islam, salvation depends on your deeds alone. The correct answer, however is that it is the Islamic Faith, righteous deeds of each individual and the Mercy of God which will give you paradise by the will of God. ... But give glad tid...

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We will all commit to be giving, and will be so with generous and willing hearts. ... I would further key in on my students" faith by discussing their enthusiasm about their Christian relationship with God, helping them build and foster a Christian community in and outside the classroom, giving them the tools necessary to nurture their private spiritual lives, and encouraging them to help others do the same. ... Instead, I am to give myself gladly to God, and to give up my selfish desires for a relationship with Him. ...

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All religions attempt to give answers to basic questions: From where did the world come from? ... People need to be calmed and by giving them a reason for their existence, it gives them something to grasp as a "foundation" of knowledge. ... Another way to describe religion is that it is "any system of thought, feeling and action, usually shared by a group, which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion, regarded as a matter of ultimate concern." ...

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Emerson is consistant in giving his views on God. He goes through his whole essay giving reasons why nature is the way to God and how to get to nature. Dickinson gives a much simpler approach, she says that the way to get to God is to die; she does this in at least two of her poems 338 and 1732. ... She gives evidence of negative feelings toward God and questions him. ...

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The Good Angel and Evil Angel appear before Faustus many times in this scene to give their individual spiels about repenting. ... "He loves thee not. " He makes this claim, seemingly in vain because he gives no effort to fight beyond the Evil Angel's logic' of gaining wealth instead over repentance. ... He is blindly led by anyone who speaks with him and follows the characters that give the most appealing options without applying any sort of reasoning of his own. ...

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Authors use several distinct literary elements in their works. Jonathan Edwards was the preacher of the great sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Patrick Henry was a powerful political figure and the author of the "Speech to the Virginia Convention." Both Edwards and Henry share si...

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Mary Rowlandson wrote a narrative about hardships she faced during her captivity, in a journal. Despite her suffering she thanked God for her life and his mercy. Rowlandson wrote during the colonial period and is an example of a puritan writer for many reasons. As a typical Puritan writer would, Row...

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His strengths include that he is encouraging and motivating; he never gives up on Hercules when it counts. ... He doesn't really have tons of faith in Hercules, and kind of gives up on him throughout the movie. ... Pegasus is one that never gives up on Hercules; even though Hercules can be a jerk toward him, he never gave up loving and caring for Hercules. ...

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The angel said that she would give birth to Jesus, even though she was a virgin. Elizabeth the women to whom Mary was to sing the song to, give birth to John the Baptist six months before Mary gave birth to Jesus. ... Mary is also a servant of God who is happy to serve and keep their child and give birth to it. ... When: The text does not give an exact date on when the song of Mary was sung. ... Why: I believe that the son was sang to God to give him the glory and praise that Mary felt that he so much deserved. ...

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This freedom allows each person the opportunity to make the decisions that govern their life, and makes our quality of life higher because it gives us the ability to pursue our dreams. ... Individual freedom gives individuals the freedom to express themselves in a way that makes that person feel good about themselves. ... Looking at freedom in our constitution of the United States, it gives the people four freedoms to govern themselves by: Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, and Speech. These four freedoms allow one to live their life to their own standards without giving up their belie...

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In the following assignment I will try to explain why I think the two websites in question are fact or fiction and also give my thoughts on the subject. ... This site gives the reader real researched information and there is nothing fictional about what is being said. ... I found out that the site www.geocities.com is a site where you can go and they will give you your own web space to create a site from your own home. ... I believe that people believe in what they do because it gives them a sense of security. ... I know they are both good websites and that they give you lots of informat...

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Both the potential for good or evil dwells within each of these characters; however, it is their choice whether or not to give into the anger which will cause the evil within to grow. ... Seeing the pain within Dimmesdale gives Chillingworth a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, fulling his evil fire. ... Hester's goodness is expressed through her willingness, "to give her little substance to every demand of poverty; even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or garments wrought for him by fingers that could h...

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The Holy Spirit gives us good habits (virtues), which are essentially gifts not based on our own merits and is possible through sanctifying grace (a gift from God that helps us and guides us) or just being humans with a soul. ... Only the LORD gives us things. ... We take the good things that God gives us. ... Job shows us that God isn't concerned with punishing evil but rather giving us his love and goodness; about goodness being triumphant. ... Suffering is a blessing, God does not just give one a light after darkness as he did for Job, but how you have grown as a person with faith af...

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It can affect you attitude with others by teaching you to respect others and gives you morals to live by. It also affects your decision making by giving you strict morals and codes of conduct to live by. ...

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This is an accurate statement because the Sacraments were instituted by Christ and were intended to give us grace. ... The sacraments serve as a sense of Gods loving presence and give us the opportunity to achieve this. ...

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