Amos quotes, "I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. ... For the people that survive this day the Lord speaks of "The new heavens and the new earth which I will make remain before me"(Isaiah 66: 22). ... Commonly, people who believe in social justice want everyone to have a good life and an equal chance at making it. ... He says, " I will not revoke the punishment; because they steel the righteous silver, and the needy and pair of shoes- they trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted" Amos 2:6-7. ...

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Scientists, however, have their own idea of how Earth was created. ... Others, however, believe that He exists in money and say that if people donate money the "Good Lord" will heal you and love you, but you have to donate some money first before he can do anything. ... Through them, they claimed, God performed his miracles and spread the good news. ...

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Here are samples of passages that I have found that possibly address this subject: Genesis 2:7 God made Adam's body out of the dust of the earth. ... Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 If a man begats 100 children...and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say that an untimely birth [a miscarriage] is better than he. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Mayans had a tradition more similar to the Abrahamic religions; those deemed good would go to a realm similar to Heaven, whereas the guilty and evil would suffer eternally in the Mayan underworld, Xibalba. ... Popes believed themselves to be the closest person/messenger of God, on Earth, and the pharaohs were thought of as being semi-divine. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poem opens with a genealogy of the ruling Danes beginning with Shield, moving to his son Beow, then to Beow's son Halfdane, and on to Halfdane's three son's --- Heorogar, Hrothgar, and the good Halga. ... "Grendel was the name of this grim demon/ haunting the marches, marauding round the heath/ and the desolate fens; he had dwelt for a long time/ in misery among the banished monsters/ Cain's clan, whom the creator had outlawed/ and condemned as outcasts/ Cain got no good from committing that murder/" (35.102-109). ... Yet, after Grendel is slain, the poem muses that "a...

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• Grade Level: High School

Take the flood of Noah, where God destroyed all life on Earth, except for the survivors of the Ark. ... If capital punishment is even a little deterrent that is a good enough reason to implement it. ...

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Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" centers around the conversation of two waiters in a comfortable, homey Spanish cafe. They are discussing one of the regulars, a quiet, dignified old man who comes into the cafe every evening and drinks brandy which he is careful to pay before leaving for the ...

• Word Count: 1027
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• Grade Level: High School