Meyer contributed 20 books including scripture biographies, sermons, and devotionals. ... Meyer's books; the Library of Congress list more than sixty-five books yet the biographical sketch credits Mr. Meyer with only twenty books prior to his death. ... The author brings to life the characters in the story by relating the details of the everyday life of the Israelites; including their joys, their sorrows, their faith, and their transgressions. ... As Christians, our spirits all need rekindling from time to time; this book accomplishes that goal. ...

• Word Count: 1340
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her faith has definitely become the focus of her life. ... So this opened up my appetite for reading other books too " (Rienzi). ... As she kept reading more stories in the bible, she also started becoming more interested in other books and stories. ... In my time, my father would tell me stories that made believe that being a Christian was like being a witch. ... And they also explain how these events shaped their life at that time. ...

• Word Count: 1535
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• Grade Level: High School

As he claims, the entirety of these ideas cannot fit into the new rationality which has exposed the scientific basis behind conception and the circulatory system, the system that carries within it the air and nutrients of life. ... He claims that the first four books by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John don't even provide a history of Christ, but only detached anecdotes of him. It appears from these books, that the whole time of his being a preacher was not more than eighteen months; and it was only during this short time that those men became acquainted with him. ... In an interesting twist ...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Bible is seen as authoritative; it is believed to give a consistent vision throughout of life after death. ... The earliest books of the Bible described Sheol : an underground cavern where all people, good and bad, spent eternity after death, leading a thirsty, shadowy, energy-less existence isolated from God. ... They view the concept of an eternal punishment for a single oversight, error, thought crime or sin during life is unjust. ... Basing their beliefs on the some main biblical passages in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (Old and New Testaments) and the 14 books of the Apocryp...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The way in which these two books begin is creation. ... This shows carelessness and rashness in contrast to Genesis where God spent time creating humans. ... Gilgamesh is searching for everlasting life, and the everlasting life is within a flower. ... God had a plan to give life back to man. ... In conclusion, these two books are so much alike yet, so different. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Hammurabi and Moses were both born in the time before the birth of Christ. ... The estimated time of his reign is 1792 - 1750 B.C. ... "God told Moses how the people of Israel should live, and Moses recorded these commands in the first 5 books of the Old Testament (the Pentateuch) of the Old Testament. ... The laws of the Bible placed greater value on human life, valued the life of a woman as much as a man and the life of a child as much as an adult. ... Moses" law was based on the Bible; all laws were decided by society based on the books of the Bible with the penalties carried ...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

John's first love was books, he loved to read. In high school John spent most of his time in the library. ... Little did he know this decision would lead to his name and his town into the history books. ... Within a few days the prosecution had its big time lawyer, William Jennings Bryan. ... He got their sentence reduced to life in prison from the death penalty. ...

• Word Count: 1778
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gay and lesbian couples don't have that choice unless they can drop everything and afford to fly to California today, take time off work to stand in the ridiculously long lines and have enough money to spend the night and even possibly two nights away from home. ... Therefore making all of their marriages null and void and telling the gay community that their time and hard earned money isn't worth it because of what some deem as "un normal" or "not natural". Imagine living with someone for years, having a committed relationship between you and the other person, building a life toge...

• Word Count: 1414
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Because we are looking at an issue that is affected by religion, the Bible is quoted as well as the Koran, as they are the books of laws in each religion. ... Islam is divided into two main groups: Sunni Islam is a more traditional path of Islamic life (Ellwood and McGraw, 2002). ... Despite this, it is documented that when Islam was founded, it improved women's status at that time. ... If, for some reason, she is unable to pray all five times, she does not have to make the prayer up at a later time. ... As a result, because of the different positions that the holy books hold, it can neve...

• Word Count: 1446
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was the only man in my life. ... In those situations, he is always the life of the party. ... Then he gave me books on different religions and cultures. ... I unfortunately shouted strong words at him one time. ... Twice life cursed back. ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Both Aristotle and the Catholic Church approved of this truth, and at the time, it was extremely blasphemous to question either voice. ... Moreover, what was it about Galileo that made him the number one target of the church, and what was it about him that made him seem more dangerous than anyone else at the time? ... First of all, Catholics of the time were expected to accept anything and everything that the Church considered true without question. ... For example, if one element of the Bible had been proven wrong, it seemed like it could only be a matter of time before someone else had t...

• Word Count: 1974
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the time, I didn't understand what the true purpose of it was, only that we were going to get to party afterward. ... The Book of Common Prayer is comprised of various prayer books, which (as I understand it) give structure to the sermon. ... While we still had time before the service started, I asked him about the ideal religious experience and the doctrine of Judaism. ... Fink, the Tanakh was simply rearranged to form the 39 books of the Old Testament [3]. ... However, it was encouraged to get married because the common belief is that a life without marriage is not a complete lif...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It states that even a poor quality of life should be valued as sacred. ... This first is the oldest, the Bible, and its five books of Moses. ... "Human life has infinite value; aging, illness and death are a natural part of life; and improvement of the patient's quality of life is a constant commitment (Bioethics for clinicians: Jewish bioethics)." ... Jewish law is clear that a life can not be taken unless it is reasonably clear that life isn't taken before its time and that one is not to slow down or hold back on death once the process has begun. ... This family plays a signifi...

• Word Count: 1648
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Especially upon continued reading, where Lewis is stated to have written another piece of fan mail that the whole series is fitted into allegorical categories in the fact that: The Magician's Nephew tells the Creation and how evil entered Narnia, The Lion, [the Witch and the Wardrobe] - the Crucifixion and Resurrection, Prince Caspian - restoration of the true religion after a corruption, The Horse and His Boy - the calling and conversion of the heathen, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - the spiritual life...The Silver Chair - the continuing war against the powers of darkness, [and]...

• Word Count: 1593
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many people throughout the Old Testament books made the prophecies in astonishing detail. ... Add to that the 250 other prophecies and it becomes impossible for any other person except Jesus to ever fit that particular sequence of time and events. ... To top that off, Jesus was tempted by Satan during this time. ... Jesus had many struggles in his life. ... Jesus demonstrated in his earthly life many admirable attributes in his personality. ...

• Word Count: 1644
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• Grade Level: High School

Both scientist published their books about the proven theory, but were banned and put to punishment. So around this time, religion and science were not able to be put together, and if you did then that meant that you went against God's Word. ... The Bible around that time was taken to the literal meaning, and everyone just kept their trust in it. ... But there comes a time where a headache pops up and the pain gets worse because you won't pop a pill, or as instance someone is pregnant and won't go to see the doctor on regular basis because they want to be like the Virgin Mary an...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The Five Books of Moses in the Tankah begins with the Creation of the World and ends with the death of Moses. ... In the early Egyptian Era, they took religion and life after death very seriously. ... They introduced the concept of the after life, the belief that every human being has a soul or KA (the part of the body that lives forever). ... The Egyptian story of the beginning of time was quite interesting. ... A long time passed again before Abram heard from the Lord. ...

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Most books about Witchcraft focus on coven Witchcraft and it is very hard to find a book on anything else. ... I choose to concentrate on the Solitary Wiccan for many reasons, it is the most basic form of the Craft because it has no history, there is no strict rules like most other forms and the books and articles about it are straight forward. ... "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me" (John 14:6). ... It is known that the Pagan religions, including Wicca, may have at one time performed sacrifices but so did the Christians and Jews. ...

• Word Count: 1958
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout a time of two hundred years the First Amendment has been referred to many other names. ... It was the first time in eighty year history that not a single graduation prayer was said. ... The same status isnot held by other religious literature including the Quran and other holy books. ... I don't believe that the founding fathers wanted religion to be taken away from the day to day educational life but to clearly show that they respected each and every religion. ... Is it wrong to bless the graduates as they make their adventure in life? ...

• Word Count: 1458
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• Grade Level: High School

using King David was a good focus point of how God moves through a person life with victor or defeat. ... Life experience does at time produce suffering, and suffering produces patients and patients produces the promises of God. ... Author corresponds to the themes discussed with the Bible, and has used cites from other books. ... The book was worth my time, and effort for the author use wisdom and structure of insight. The time the book was written in 1964, there was more people who was interested in the facts of Christianity, and the author was trying to inform and prove a point that t...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

We all want to have a life full of success. ... Too many people spend too much time every day thinking of past hurts. ... External motivators including incentives, books, bonuses, meetings, etc. have little power until you yourself want to change your life for the better. ... Most of us have daydreams of a better life-style, whether that means a better paying job, a bigger house, a business of our own, more time to spend with our families or on our favorite pastimes. ... Goals save you time. ...

• Word Count: 1935
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With this time that has been allotted to me, I have chosen to discuss religion, and severe crimes that have been and are being committed in its name. ... I personally don't judge books by their covers; in fact I like the diversity of the world and America in modern times? ... What catches my attention is that the church announces itself as being pro-life and often contradicts itself. Being pro-life means that you appreciate life and want to sustain it in all its glory. ... I"m pro-life myself, but I also believe that it's the expecting mother's choic...

• Word Count: 2047
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Around this time Spinoza was expanding a philosophy deeply marked by natural science, which was incompatible with a literal belief in the Bible. ... Locke argued in detail, mainly in writings associated with the Revolution of 1688 that certain rights self-evidently pertain to individuals as human beings, because they existed in the state of nature' before humankind entered civil society; that chief among them are the rights to life, liberty, freedom from arbitrary rule, and property; that, upon entering civil society human kind surrendered to the state only the rights to enforce these na...

• Word Count: 2122
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Based off of Muhammad the Koran is telling stories about the beginning of time. ... There are two main principles: That you will succeed and live in heaven as a reward for living truthful life and those who do not believe only in one God will be punished or even killed. ... " Moses´s story appears in both books and the stories are very similar. ... The Bible preaches the same way of life as the Koran but the Bible has a different approach to convince non-believers to believe in the one god. ...

• Word Count: 1951
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

They have been the subject of numerous popular music songs, movies, tabloid news stories, books and even their own television program. ... In Genesis 3:24 God placed the cherubim at the end of the garden guarding the way to the tree of life, preventing man from gaining immortality in a sinful state. ... At the time he wrote, the people at Colossae were steeped in the cult of angel worship. ...

• Word Count: 1998
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School