Since the beginning of time, man has been struggling to answer the question, how did we get here? ... It seemed natural to conclude that there must have been a higher power that created the reality known by man. ... In the First Way, Aquinas established that everything that is finite undergoes change, and by following these successive changes, finite man is eventually led to God. ... But they also believed that all nature was full of other invisible powers; fairies, goblins, elves, sprights; beings, stronger and mightier than men, but much inferior to the celestial natures, who surround the th...

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Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another man's sins; keep yourself pure.... First, prayer of the ordination starts by laying grounds for the rest of the prayer, "Lord God almighty, creator of all, deliverer, savior, redeemer and renewer of mankind, who by your infinite beneficence distribute visible and invisible gifts to your Holy Church." Here we are reminding ourselves that God is the one who gives gifts, and as we know from the scriptures, Ordination is both a visible and invisible gift from God. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What is it that Christian faith requires man to sacrifice? ... Why must a man suffer through "solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence"? ... What of this God has man actually seen? ... I would be hard-pressed to believe that, in reality, any mortal man really can. ... God is nothing more than an invisible police force. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Faith Faith, according to Hebrews 11:1, is being sure of what we hope for and what we do not see. (New International Version Teen Study Bible) In modern times, faith has been weakened in meaning so that some people use it to mean self-confidence. But in the Bible, true faith is confidence in Go...

• Word Count: 1367
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Flannery O'Connor uses characters to challenge the opinion that man is unable to draw near to God and that God is reluctant to dispatch grace. ... Throughout his entire life, O.E. had been a dissatisfied man. ... Slattery describes "Parker's Back" "as a story that "explores how an individual learns to focus his moral vision on the visible creation in order to apprehend, if even for an instant, the invisible presence of the Creator by means of grace."" How a person accepts God is not directly reflected as the way God accepts man. Sarah Ruth lived her life ridiculing man for everyday i...

• Word Count: 1910
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• Grade Level: High School

Colossians 1:16 tells us "For by him all things were created both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through him and for him." ... In addition, they must have existed before the fall of man in Genesis 3, or where did Satan come from? ... This sounds like a contradiction: man lower-but eventually higher through redemption." ... They have directed men, as God wants man to act. ... Angels were viewed as mediators between God and man. ...

• Word Count: 1998
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This shows that underneath all of the resentment and anger that Prospero has, there is still a sound and forgiving man who is willing to do the right thing in order to provide the best life and example for his daughter. ... Ariel, who is a spirit with the ability to at times be invisible, is the one [who actually performs the magical acts instead of Prospero]. ... This shows that Prospero is actually a very smart and conniving man who realizes when he has an opportunity to gain something and takes full advantage of that opportunity even if it means exploiting others. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The scriptures do go on to state how God "after" He created the earth, brought the sphere to life by adding, light, dry land, seas, the trees of the field, grass and fruit trees, animals and finally man. It is significant that God left man till last, making the world perfect for his entry, or perhaps he was left till the end so he could not mess things up. ... Immediate creation or instantaneous creation, is where God freely immediately and instantaneously brought into being the whole visible and that yet undiscovered or invisible universe. ... The forming of the Sun and the moon to give lig...

• Word Count: 1960
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• Grade Level: High School