...Guided Analysis: Suffering Worksheet Name: Address the following questions, responding to each one directly below the question. Your total word count (including all questions and your answers) should be between 750-1,000 words. Include a reference page. 1. Describe a time when you experienced a significant period of suffering. How did you deal with that experience? How did you find comfort in the midst of suffering? A time when I experienced suffering was when I was faced to deal with the deaths of both my mother and father in law in 2014-2015. Loosing someone close is never easy. My father in law was terribly ill. He was weighing 250 and ended up weighing barely 120 before death. He had 2 cancers in the body, the throat and bone. His body was changing before our very eyes. I took care of him on a daily basis because he has any daughters just sons and they were working hard to help their mother and own individual families. So that was my place to step right in a be a big help for them. He later passed in a course of 3 month period. Then my mother in law began to turn for the worse with her sickness of diabetes and kidney failure. She lasted about 8 months after the passing of her husband. Going through those rough times in my marriage brought about so many questions for God that I needed answers for. I had only been married for 3 years and only 27 years old. I did not know how to comfort or be there for my husband in the best way. But with seeking God, praying to him allowed...
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...Journal Entry 11.Chapter 5: The teacher and his teachings, Pages: 108-109. Monday 24, 2014 A New Kind of Teacher Socrates a different kind of teacher, he was not paid to be a teacher and his teaching method was different. He believed that people could not think clearly if they are not clear on what they are analyzing or talking about. Therefore, in his teaching sessions he would ask questions and answer them the best he could. So I wondered, how different would the education system be if we had follow Socrates way of teaching? Socrates is one of the most important people in western philosophy. I found it interesting that we have no writings from his own hand, from his two students Plato and Xenophon. I agreed with Socrates claim that appearance of the body is less important than how it functions and true beauty comes from spirit and character. I questioned if spirit and character is more important than the physical appearance, why do modern society judge an individual based on their physical appearance? Journal Entry 12. Chapter 6: the Theory of forms. Pages 144. Thursday, February 20, 2014. Knowledge Vs. Opinion Plato is one of the philosophers that interest me the most because of his search for knowledge outside his “comfort zone.” Plato left the Athens and wandered for twelve years and during that time he studied mathematics and mysticism. For me, as a math minor, it was interesting to see how mathematics influenced Plato’s philosophy and I wondered, does an individual’s...
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...believe, that is the stand I have to take in this paper one way or another, yes or no, black or white. At that point this became more than a final paper. Can I, comfortably write a paper stating that God does not exist? After thorough personal inflection, I had my answer, and with much of my upbringing weighing down on me. I will try making my case for the existence of God. ("God." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009. Merriam-Webster Online. 29 April 2009) What better place to start, than Simon Blackburn On Blackburn's projectivist view; after he sketched the outlines of his projectivist theory of moral discourse and some reasons to prefer it versus its rivals, Blackburn turns to an apparent dilemma facing the projectivist. The problem is that the projectivist appears to be committed to either declaring that moral discourse is subject to a pervasive error or abandoning projectivism and accepting a form of realism. ((Blackburn, Simon Spreading The Word, Oxford University Press,...
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...The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel made by Robert Louis Stevenson, which invokes a sense of urban terror and the problems that threaten a city in London. Terror is represented by Mr. Hyde, whom is the alter personality of Dr. Jekyll. Dr Jekyll is a respected doctor; Dr. Jekyll is well known, charitable and kind, however, since his youth. Dr Jekyll has secretly engaged in corrupt behavior, as well as dissolute. Jekyll becomes annoyed by this dark side he has, therefore he starts experimenting on himself. Through these experiments he brings his dark side Mr. Hyde into being. Mr. Hyde is the living manifestation of terror in the tale, his appearance emits an evil aura, Mr. Enfield states that Hyde is deformed, ugly, and inspires an immediate revulsion. Mr. Utterson suffers from a nightmare after seeing Mr. Hyde. In Utterson’s nightmare, Utterson is haunted by nightmares in which a faceless man runs down a small child and in which the same terrifying, faceless figure stands beside Jekyll’s bed and commands him to rise. Mr. Utterson is terrified by this and starts to...
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...SOCIO LEGAL STUDY OF MAHR AND DOWRY AND DOWRY PROHIBITION LAWS Subject: Family Law- II Submitted to: Dr. Vijender Kumar Professor of Law Head, Centre for Family Law Submitted by: Shivam Bhatt IInd Year, IIIrd Semester Roll No. : 2012-47 National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, University of Law, Hyderabad. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATION i TABLE OF CASES ii TABLE OF STATUTES ii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Dowry and Mahr…………………………………………………………………………..1 1.2 Research Plan 2 a.) Aims and Objectives 2 b.) Scope and Limitation 2 c.) Chapterisation 2 1.3 Research Methodology 2 CHAPTER II DOWRY AND MAHR AS A SOCIAL EVIL CHAPTER III DOWRY PROHIBITION AND DOWRY PROHIBITION LAWS 3.1 The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 9 3.2 Section 304B of IPC 11 3.3 Section 498A of IPC 12 CHAPTER IV MISSUSE OF DOWRY LAWS CHAPTER V CONCLUSION & SUGGESSTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY iii LIST OF ABBREVIATION AIR – All Indian Reporter Co. – Company Ed. – Edition Et. al. – Et alia e.g. – ‘Exempli gratia’ (for example) HSA – Hindu Succession Act P. – Page number SCC – Supreme Court Cases v. - versus TABLE OF CASES Dinesh Kumar Mor v Lalitya Mor. 9 Dukhi Ram v State of U.P. 12 Gantupalli Rama Subhatha v Guntu Palli Rajamma. 10 Gordhan Ram v State of Rajathan. 12 Lajpat Rai Sehgal v State. 11 ...
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...Liberty University THE BIBLE AMONG THE MYTHS A Book Summary Submitted to Dr. Daniel Warner in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Course OBST 510 Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary by Sunday September 20th, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Chapter1--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Chapter 2 3 Chapter 3 4 Chapter 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Chapter 5 7 Chapter 6 8 Chapter 7 10 Chapter 8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Chapter 9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Chapter 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 The Bible Among the Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature?. By John N. Oswalt. Grande Rapides, MI: Zondervan, 2009. Introduction Oswalt begins by discussing the origins of this book. How that at the close of the Second World War people had begun to re-evaluate some of their long held beliefs. As Oswalt would have said their paradigms began to shift. As this shift began people such as Albright and his students say a major difference between Jewish religion and the other religions of the ANE. As time passed this pendulum began to swing...
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...If ye love me, keep my Commandments (John 14:15) Blessed are they that do his Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city (Rev 22:14). The Law as a schoolmaster is no problem with faith and grace because there is a transfer directly into the New Covenant. But the Law as compulsory obligations of practice is wrong. The whole New Covenant is that which the Old Covenant was a type so we should see some similar characteristics. What so many want is for the Law to be the "true light" and it was only a shadow of that to come. Jesus is the true light on the rightoeusness of God. What this means is, it was the eternal purpose of God from before the foundation of the world that the New Covenant be the means of salvation for the world. The Law was not the eternal purpose of God. It was a temporary measure brought in because of transgressions that were going on without personal accountability. The highest law governing men is to love God and others as you love yourself. When men failed these two simple obligations God chose men to be Prophets to warn the people of their ungodly ways and ungodly spirits. It is men who rejected God and the messengers of God who have shoved the world to the brink of hell. It was from traditions received from the Patriarchs or from a person's own inner soul to be Godly or do that which was right. So, the Law became "Thus Saith The LORD" in a different manner. It was written down in stone...
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...Revelation, Chapter 13 This will begin by giving you the scripture from the King James Version of the Bible, then will go into our description of what the verses mean. You will be able to read various additional information contained in more specific files under "Research Materials". To skip the Introduction for Revelation chapter 13, Chapter 13 Scripture Begins Here Revelation chapter 13 begins with a beast (the Antichrist) raising up out of the sea which represents the nations of the world. The beast is the Antichrist or the false messiah. He will be the final world ruler, also known as the little horn in the book of Daniel, chapter 7, v.8. "I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Antichrist Things during the end times will be chaotic. A time of confusion and uncertainty will cause the people to desperately look for a strong leader that could bring hope and security in a time of fear and apprehension. People will desperately seek a strong, charismatic, authoritative leader who can pull the world back from the very brink of disaster. Those people will get their wish as a powerful, charismatic leader spouting peace and unity comes on the scene. But he will turn out to be much more than they bargained for. He will be a dictator whose cruelty will be more...
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...other writers are explained below. William Godwin had published his utopian work Enquiry concerning Political Justice in 1793, with later editions in 1796 and 1798. Also, Of Avarice and Profusion (1797). Malthus' remarks on Godwin's work spans chapters 10 through 15 (inclusive) out of nineteen. Godwin responded with Of Population (1820). The Marquis de Condorcet had published his utopian vision of social progress and the perfectibility of man Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de l'Espirit Humain (The Future Progress of the Human Mind) in 1794. Malthus' remarks on Condorcet's work spans chapters 8 and 9. Malthus' essay was in response to these utopian visions, as he argued: "This natural inequality of the two powers, of population, and of production of the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their effects equal, form the great difficulty that appears to me insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society." The "Other writers" included Robert Wallace, Adam Smith, Richard Price, and David Hume. Malthus himself claimed: "The only authors from whose writings I had deduced the principle, which formed the main argument of the Essay, were Hume, Wallace, Adam Smith, and Dr. Price ..." Chapters 1 and 2 outline Malthus' Principle of Population, and the unequal nature of food supply to population growth. The exponential nature of population growth is today known as the Malthusian growth model. This aspect of Malthus' Principle of Population...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Research Paper Submit ion for The fall of Satan: A Historical Approach Submitted to Cky John Carrigan, in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the completion of the course Theo 525 D02 (Summer 2014) Systematic Theology I By Matthew Dumler (26110162) August 15th, 2014 Contents Introduction 1 Gap Theory 1:1 and 1:2 2 Gap Theory Chapters 2 and 3 5 Before Creation 8 Conclusion 10 Introduction Before Genesis 1:1 God created the heaven of heavens (Nehemiah 9:6) with angels so numerous no one could count (Revelation 5:11). One of God’s most cherished creations, Lucifer, was placed in charge of guarding his royal thrown (Ezekiel 28:12-16). One day Lucifer took pride in his own beauty and his heart was filled with pride (Ezekiel 28:17). He began to think highly of himself and began to think wrongly of God. He began to take what rightfully belonged to God and began to put himself in God’s place. For the first time in all creation, one of his own had sinned against him. God judged him accordingly and placed him in the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41). The sacred scriptures tell us that after the fall, Lucifer was thereafter known as the Devil or the accuser. One question that remains to be answered is this: when did this event occur? Some theologians claim that Satan’s fall occurred before Genesis 1:1. Others contend that there was a gap that took place between...
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...crowded quarters 5. Commodity - an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service; something of use, advantage, or value. 6. Pavilion - a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits 7. Scintillating - animated; vivacious; effervescent; witty; brilliantly clever 8. Phalanx - (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping; a number of individuals, especially persons united for a common purpose. 9. Provender - dry food, as hay or oats, for livestock or other domestic animals; fodder; food 10. Waistcoat - a man's body garment, often quilted and embroidered and having sleeves, worn under the doublet in the 16th and 17th centuries. 11. Perfunctory - performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic 12. Spasm - a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm); any sudden, brief spell of great energy, activity, feeling, etc. 13. Ominous - portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious 14. Disquieting - causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing 15. Malice - desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on...
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...didn’t even get through the first chapter when the challenge started. My mind began to wander and my attention was definitely not held. The simplicity of the book, I found completely monotonous and repetitive. I had heard this message many times before from my own pastor during service. I knew the power of my words…. Or so I thought. I tried for months to read, becoming more and more frustrated, never getting beyond the first chapter. I became angry and tense at the thought of having to read it. I even contemplated throwing the book away and just walking away from the school aspect of developing my relationship with God, to let my understanding and knowledge come from sermons and reading “better, more exciting” books and articles. I prayed about why I couldn’t do this little thing. After all, I made it through nursing school and furthering of my career by reading and comprehending books far more intent than this skinny 10 chapter book. Talking about my frustrations with another student about my reading comprehension, it came to my understanding that my OWN WORDS were blocking my reading, holding me in bondage. Realizing this, my prayers took on a new more positive direction. I began to speak Gods Word over the situation. John 16:23 “Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” So simple. I had let evil distract me. No more. I prayed the answer and believed that God would make this happen, instead of praying the problem over and over. I was able to...
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...CIRCUMSPECTLY” A BIBLE EXPOSITION ON LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS 5:15 BY REVD CANON ADEBOLA OJOFEITIMI “WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY” A Bible Exposition on Epistle to the Ephesians Chapter 5:15 “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise...” KJV Our Theme Our theme “Walk circumspectly” coined from Ephesians 5:15 is a part of a long instructive writing of Apostle Paul to believers at Ephesus who Paul describes “...saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus” (Ephes. 1:1b). It is therefore an appropriate theme for a gathering like this. We are faithful in Christ Jesus and saints of God in the Diocese of Lagos. The two central words making up our theme are “walk” and “circumspect”, these words taking literally seem ordinary and convey little or no deep meaning but in strictest sense are loaded with cryptic message that must be unveiled. And that is my assignment in this segment of our retreat. I have absolute faith in the Holy Spirit whose brain child is the Holy Scripture that He will illuminate our hearts as we unfold the mystery of His word. Introduction Letter to the Ephesians is one of the 4 prison letters of Apostle Paul. It was written to encourage the personal faith of believers in Ephesus. It became necessary for Paul to do so because of the problems facing the church at that time. As gathered from records, Ephesus was a city on the western shore of now modern day Turkey. Like Lagos, it was famous for its trade, art and science, but...
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...the earth beneath or in the waters below. * You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. * Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. * Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. * You shall not murder. * You shall not commit adultery. * You shall not steal. * You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. b. How do the first four commandments differ from the last six? Commandments 1–4 teach love for God. Commandments 5–10 teach love for others. 2. Read the Beatitudes, the blessings of Jesus in the opening verses of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5:1-12. Which one is repeated and emphasized? “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who are...
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...CHAPTER 8 The Origin Of Sin--Part 1 We live in a world that is filled with evil and wrong. Are the daily newspapers filled only with nice stories about people loving and helping each other? Does the news on television show a world in which everything is happy and peaceful? We live in a world that has a very real need for policemen, soldiers, judges, and prisons. Every car is equipped with locks on the doors. Homes are built so that doors and windows can be locked. All the evidence points to the unmistakable fact that we live in a world that has been spoiled and polluted and defiled by SIN. Where and when did sin ORIGINATE (see Chapter 1 for the meaning of the words "origin" and "originate")? Where did sin first begin? When did sin first begin? When did sin first begin on planet earth? Who was the first sinner? Was there ever a time when there was no sin? Today God’s sinful creatures (men and angels) are at war with God. They rebel against God, disobey God, dishonor God, and turn aside from God’s ways. Was there ever a time when God’s creatures were in perfect HARMONY with God, and, enjoying perfect FELLOWSHIP with Him? How did sin first originate? Where did it all begin? Complete the following sentence by circling the correct answer: SIN FIRST BEGAN . . . a. With Eve who ate the forbidden fruit. b. With Adam who ate the forbidden fruit. c. With Satan who deceived Eve in the garden of Eden. d. With Cain, who murdered his brother Abel. The correct answer...
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