Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. ... There are hints of divine activity, but they are never more than hints. ... In the Old Testament, a dove carrying an olive leaf signals to Noah that the waters of the flood are receding (Genesis 8:11). ... This is best illustrated by the flashback in which his wife explains her decision to commit suicide: "Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us ... ... Because it is in the nature of human be...

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(John 6:65, ESV) "We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. ... Nor do they determine what is important. ... Erickson (1986) says the sovereignty of God is "[His] rule and authority over all things" (p. 157). ... However, the ability to carry out those plans is based on certain contingencies, such as accrued vacation time, money, physical health, airline and hotel availability, etc. ... So is our freedom or liberty concerning the things of God. ...

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To the south was Muspell, a region of heat and brightness guarded by Surt, a giant who carried a flaming sword. ... Sol drives the chariot that carries the sun across the skies, and she drives so fast across the skies of the northland because she is chased by a giant wolf each day. ... This story is from the Kojiki, the Japanese "Record of Ancient Things". ... They pulled out the spear, and the brine that dripped of it formed an island to which they descended. ... They procreated and gave birth to a leech-child, which they put in a basket and let float away. ...

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Religion in his mind also is nothing more than our way of dealing with the feelings of helplessness, which carry on from childhood into adulthood. ... The possibility of such cultural regulations depends on the leaders, not to mention the great amount of coercion that is inevitable in carrying this plan out. ... While there are many people who would turn away from murder, they do not deny themselves the satisfaction it would bring, and if they could get away without being punished for it, they would most likely take that offer. ... To people life would be intolerable if they did not attach ...

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Alyosha meets these boys, who all seem to be carrying rocks, on a bridge. ... Children are the same way, they start off clean and with time they develop the same character flaws and imperfections that men carry around, so as to mask there childhood and eventually taint their adulthood. ... Ivan doesn't understand why God allows bad things to happen to children. He understands that men themselves are to blame, because they were given paradise and they traded it away... It's beyond all comprehension why they should suffer, and why they should pay for the...

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"Outlining his initial version of the cosmological argument, Plato points out in Laws that things in the universe move or change.... Beauty for example is transferable because things may resemble beauty in different ways. ... With correspondence to the religion at the time, Socrates acknowledged that moral goodness cannot be the command of the gods as they squabbled, disputed, and stole wives from each other. ... 'The Forms could never be encountered in this world, since they are permanent and unchangeable concepts- justice, truth, beauty and goodness- of which Plato believed we have...

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This verse already begins to state the glorious home with the father, before things began to take a turn for the worst. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ...

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The less they hung on trees, the more they used their arms to carry things, and they began to develop the use of their hands. 2 million years ago the hands were used as tools which is the first characteristic that is recognizably human. ... The primitive tools saved them from using their teeth for a lot of things. 2 million years ago people turned carnivore from vegetarian because they were able to use tools to help catch their food. ... His wicked brother Seth stood for all of the bad things in life including the desert, nighttime, the foreigner, disorder, and warfare. ... During the Old...

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Later on, in 1837, Tolstoy's father died and they were brought up by their aunt. ... The story is a clear reflection of Tolstoy's religious concepts which he carried in that period and latter on.5 In addition, the story is centered about forgiveness justice and injustice. 3. ... They start to search among Ivan's things and they find a blood-stained knife in his bag. ... She tells Ivan they must petition to Czar, and they try but it was not accepted by Czar. ... The old prisoners gather around the new comers and ask them of which cities they come from and what they were sentence...

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They seem to have been waiting for some signs from God that they should resume building. ... They are asked to consider why what they have attempted to accomplish has not resulted in full measure. They eat but are not full. They sow but do not reap a full harvest. They wear clothes but are not warm enough. ...

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His intention for believers is that they would continue to grow in grace until they are sanctified in all aspects of there being (p.184). ... One's "continual salvation is rooted in who He is not in who they are" (p. 186). ... These words make it clear that God will carry us no matter what happens. ... In 2 Peter 2:20 Peter fears for those who have begun once again to sin after getting out of it, for they will be in a worse state then they were prior. ... Thirdly, just because verses speak of such things as "falling from grace" or "being in a worse state then prio...

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The whole atmosphere is evoked by nursery rhyme and melodious songs in consequence of which the poems may seem a little bit simple but in fact they carry a heavy meaning and idea of the poet's concept of religion and innocence. ... They were His constant companions. ... In other place Jesus says: "All things have been committed to me by my Father." ...

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Essentially, the only people benefiting from a prince's free-spending on monuments were the architects, engineers, and the artists whereas the common people carried the increasing financial burden of the ruler's frivolous spending. ... He goes on to explain that a little cruelty for those deserving of punishment, for example criminals and malcontents, they suffer alone. Through their suffering, they are also made as an example to display the potential cruelty of the prince so that it instills fear among the subjects. ... In his book Victorious Christianity, Martyn Lloyd-Jones writ...

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This conclusion is further supported in Lodahl's discussion of omnipresence ("God being fully and 'intimately present - - - in every place' ") and omniscience ("God knowing thoroughly and intimately all things and events in utter clarity and unimaginable thoroughness" (GNG, 122)). ... As God has created worlds distinct from the divine essence, this means that God is not the totality of everything, that there are created things which are other than God. ...

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Isaiah consistently uses the metaphor of vines and a vineyard to explain how God tends to the needs of the people of Israel as long as they remain faithful to their covenant with Him. ... "Many pastors have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot" (Jer. 12:10). ... They were essentially the firstripe harvest in the original garden that the Lord had prepared in Eden. ...

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The knowledge of the cause being derived solely from the effect, they must be exactly adjusted to each other; and the one can never refer to anything further or be the foundation of any new inference and conclusion." ... Philo begins the engagement of the problem of natural religion: [W]hen we look beyond human affairs and the properties of the surrounding bodies: When we carry our speculations into the two eternities, before and after the present state of things; into the creation and formation of the universe; the existence and properties of spirits; the powers and operations of one universa...

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The term „institution‟ is used in nominalist sense, to mean a group of persons organized according to cultural principles to carry on activities which fulfill their basic individual and social needs as human beings.4 Similarly, Arthur W. ... Specifically, Stephanie Coontz, in "The Way We Never Were" (1992), refers to a „family drama‟ as "a staged play that contains any group of two or more persons who engage in ongoing intimacy and obligation, whether they do so because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice.... They wait until the problems work themselves out, following predictab...

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