Hebrews 11:3 also states that "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." ... In Gen. 1:1 when it states, "God created the heavens and the earth." it is not limited to simply those two things, but they are an expression that encompasses every existing thing. ... Still, Creationists do have varying ideas of the process that God used to create mankind, the world, and all the things in it. ... One source states that "Several different Greek philosophers subscribed to a concept of originati...

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The Power of God's Elect Puritan beliefs are very numerous and strong. One of their biggest beliefs was that they were of "God's elect." ... However, she justifies this act with scripture from Job, " The things that my Soul refused to touch, are as my sorrowful meat" (36). ... She shows that being God's elect takes much work and knowledge. ... It was God's will....

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Letting God Back In As long as there were test that I forgot to study for I was praying in high school. ... Many of her classmates said that "God is apart of our graduation because he has blessed us and given us the chance to make it this far." Unnfortunatly some people don't see things in that perspective. ... Most students that attend school in a small community may not know that this type of activity is illegal today, according to most school board policies. ... I can sit in a History class and talk about the rise and fall of Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan but if I speak of the wor...

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One states that God is the creator of all things making the world and universe as we know it in six days. ... Genesis 1-2 explains the creation all of things in the following summary. ... Most of the translations have the same stories but with small differences and wording. ... Where did things like sin come from? ... These things are not as conflicting as people like to make it. ...

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The Gods and Goddesses are depicted as having supper human powers, such as eternal life and the ability of cursing people and things. ... In the scriptures of Genesis and Job the divine power, Lord God, is set above all others and has super human powers. God was the one that created the earth and all living things. ... The commandments were a set of laws sent down by God in order for his people to live without sin and prosper in the future. ... Whether it is terrorist attacks on national embassies or hate crimes that occur in a small town. ...

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The Gods and Goddesses are depicted as having supper human powers, such as eternal life and the ability of cursing people and things. ... In the scriptures of Genesis and Job the divine power, Lord God, is set above all others and has super human powers. God was the one that created the earth and all living things. ... The commandments were a set of laws sent down by God in order for his people to live without sin and prosper in the future. ... Whether it is terrorist attacks on national embassies or hate crimes that occur in a small town. ...

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In science there are certain ways of doing things. ... God created mankind in his image. ... In the Ancient world God did it all. ... God was the one who gave blessing to the people and God was the one who could take everything away. ... In the video science and the book of genesis on of the men said that it was like only hearing a small piece of Beethoven's 5th symphony. ...

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God wants us to tell the truth for our own benefit, so we don't get hurt. ... Many times we try to tell ourselves that some things aren't true. ... When you lie, you go through life with a small part of your conscience feeling guilty. ... This small guilt grows and grows, causing misery which many people hide. ... The blessings of God. ...

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The Lord God just has a different idea in how things should settle. ... People of a small clan are intermarrying. ... Looking back all these intermarriage started with a small clan with the same name and origin. ... When we go one step back from that small clan, we possibly come to one couple. ... Divorced and singles are still creatures of God; a family in God. ...

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WALK-AWAY (State at beginning and conclusion of lesson) "God often uses the "ordinary" person to show the importance of obeying God, trusting Jesus in your heart, and standing up for God." TEACHER/SMALL GROUP LEADER: ICE BREAKER (10 minutes): Divide group into two groups on either side of the room or meeting space. ... God did not forget His people.) 4. ... What are some things that keep you from consistently obeying God? ... Small group ends here. ...

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Sadly, I've become so accustomed to the way things are that many of his examples didn't even phase me. I kept thinking, "Boy, if he could only see how things are now!" ... (Matthew 24:12) It's so easy to become complacent about the way things are today. ... When I watch a sitcom from my childhood, like "MASH", I think, "How innocent things were back then." ... But there are many smaller crimes...

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That's why it was a major change for me going from a small town in New York to Charleston, South Carolina. ... This includes saying prayers, and also accepting what is called the "Body of Christ", which is a small piece of bread, and the "Blood of Christ", which is red wine. The small piece of bread and wine are supposed to represent the acceptance of Jesus, and the remembrance of who he was. ... As previously stated, the Body is represented by a small piece of bread and the Blood is represented by red wine. ... It is said in the Bible in passage 1 John 4:16: "God is l...

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He is implying that if he actually saw Jesus with his very own eyes and if he had seen the things that Jesus has done, he would have been a believer and live a good life. ... Many do not believe in Jesus because they did not personally witness his life and see firsthand weather or not he did all those things that are told in the bible. ... God created everything that exists, including people. ... She is always talking about how things were so good back in the old days and how safe it was. ... God has been there since the very beginning of existence, the grandmother through her old age represen...

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Firstly, men and all living things have a natural purpose to assert life, second, suicide causes great social harm and finally suicide is like stealing from God, since human life is actually owned by God, not by people who are only trustees of it. ... Therefore, Suicide does not violate God's plan. ... Another potential criticism is that suicide interferes with the natural order of things, which have been ordained by God. Though when looked at again, this criticism fails because we as humans interfere with the natural order of things all the time? ... Hume argues that there is no...

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Some of the other salvific truths that Edwards believes that you should take from the creation stories is, "The preexistence and transcendence of God over all creatures, the ongoing relationships of all things to God as creatures to their Creator, God's delight in creature, the divine proclamations of the goodness of creation, the blessing that makes creation fecund, the call of humans being to work with creation but also to take care of it as God would, the social nature of the human person,"" as well as many others (Edwards, 12). ... He says in these stories, "Religious meaning is not...

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When things are ready, as Christ says, he will come back for us, so that we can be with Him for eternity. ... There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need for the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them; and they will reign forever and ever." ... Romans 6:23 tell us that " The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Chri...

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Once he realizes that they are too afraid to laugh, he tries to make jokes about the others, even if the only response is a small chuckle. ... They do things for him, try to be like him, and repeat the things he teaches just as Jesus" disciples did. ... This is similar to the Bible because Jesus had twelve disciples himself and he would take them away from society to be able to better teach them things about his life and God. ... Playing with human lives- gambling with human lives- as if you thought yourself to be God" (Kesey 304). This quote blames McMurphy for Billy Bibbit's death a...

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I think explaining that God's holiness forces him to have wrath would be a good idea because you can incorporate a lot of God's loving nature into that discussion. ... His holiness is the most basic and most amazing attribute of God. ... It should be very important to us that our society is holy but the big change starts on a smaller scale: with ourselves. ... It just says that we need to be fair about everything, not just the things we buy and sell. ... So, I think God is a god who has rules, but mostly, he's a god of incredible love. ...

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The Word of God says what It means and means what It says. ... The Word urges, "Study to shew thyself approved unto God [. . .] ."" ... Many young people who have had some homosexual thoughts or experiences become very concerned that they are homosexual, but only a small portion of all people who have such experiences adopt adult gay identities. ... However, the best meaning can be derived from God: 4 Charity [from the Greek word agapē meaning love, affection, or benevolence] suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not beha...

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Like many things in life, something may initially appear quite simple but ultimately prove to be extremely complex. ... A small breeze certainly seems simplistic at first glance, but try to define it. ... Sin was most frequently described as, " breaking one of God's commandments, doing something that you know God would not like, and evil." ... Since there can be only holiness and justice within God, it must only be through separation from God that sinful actions are able to occur. ... Jesus" crucifixion provided the only perfect sacrifice to God and served as payment on our beha...

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In those seven days God created the earth and everything on it. ... On the seventh day God rested. ... The first fossils in the column are smaller animals followed by fish. ... "The second law of thermodynamics states that all things in the Universe are undergoing a continual process of decay. That process causes a decrease in the complexity of all things" (Leone 40). ...

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And God did not say anything specific about Iraq in the Bible. ... God keeps throwing images and thoughts at me. ... Every time I think I have reached a conclusion I see things differently and my opinion does not satisfy my anymore. ... I guess one would pay whatever price is needed to be free -- it is one of those things that are priceless. ... But there is one absolute truth, I believe, and that is the word of God. ...

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The philosophes did not accept the scientific revolutionary notion that the laws of Nature express the will of God. ... God may very likely not exist, there is in truth no need for Him. Lucretius demonstrated that all things and beings are but the combining, breakup, and recombining of atoms. ... Philosophes could displace God with Reason. ... The great manifesto of the philosophe movement was no small document; by the late 1740's, everyone understood that the sum total and the entire spirit of the movement was contained in the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot. ...

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If this had been the will of God, would you say that he could have not performed it? ... For I say to you that to God nothing is impossible. ... He declares: Would to God that everyone had as certain knowledge of his genealogy, from Noah's ark to the present Age! ... And then, "In this way Gargantua was tutored a course of things which, though it seemed difficult at first, became so sweet, easy, and pleasant as it went on that it was more like king's recreation than a student's plan of study" (Cohen, p. 93). On the subject of God, Rabelais says, "And so they prayed to Go...

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"Learning from things like Bible Study, Sunday school, and just church in general has greatly improved my interpretation skills, not only when reading the Bible, but just literature in general. Reading passages like parables make it easy to understand metaphor, and even though some things are still confusing, with time the Bible becomes easier and easier to understand " (Otto). ... I started participating in small groups and Bible studies, and had family devotions that really looked at Biblical text in depth. I was encouraged to do this because I finally started to understand what things like...

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