...Paul’s conviction of the law and learning how to live a sanctified life where he claims that the law is not evil but it is present to show sins existence in our life. Outline: I. Introduction II. Context: A. Historical cultural context of Paul B. Literary context of Romans 7:7-25 II. Content: A. Is the law sin? 7-12 B. Is the law the cause of death? 13-14 C. How to deal with the inner struggle? 14-24 D. Who will set me free? 24-25 I. Application: A. Our understanding of the Law B. What the law then tells us about our lives today C. How to deal with the inner struggle of the law D. A life of sanctification INTRODUCTION: As we look at the passage in Romans 7:7-25 we see a mix of emotions and a struggle that comes within all people who choose to reject sin and choose holiness. In this exegetical paper we will break down this passage into many parts and talk about the historical context of the passage as well as the literary context. After we explain the style of authorship we will talk about the context of the writing and how Paul was feeling when he wrote this text as well as the audience and setting of this passage. We see that Paul is talking about the Law and how it works with holiness. We see that the law is attacked in this passage and so Paul is standing firm on the fact that the Law is as relevant today as it was when it was originally written. We also see that the law is not evil and that it is...
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...because I got so busy with school activities but right now I think I am lucky that I am a part who knows The Secret and I am thankful to know it. To begin with, The Secret is a life changing, it makes you financially independent, it let your mind powerful and lastly, it will make you successful. The Secret is kept hidden from thousands of people and they let their ignorance spread to people; it was buried, coveted, suppressed and it was never revealed to the public. According to Bob Proctor, a philosopher, the secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth. He also said that “we become what we think”, which means whatever we think it predict our future. The law of Attraction is The Secret; what we see, hold, or even our thoughts are equivalent to what we need, want or even demand and it attracts to you. Like what I watched and jotted down, an optimistic thought is a thousand’s more powerful than pessimistic thought. The more you think, the more it will happen because the universe is reacting to what you want; which means that it attracts what you think. Also, mind shaping what it being perceive it is always your choice at the end. Let go of the bad habits, the old routine focus on new choices or what you want even more rather than doing the same old boring and unhappy ways. The law of attraction is like Aladdin’s Genie it grants our every command. There are three steps in creating what you want by the...
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...the view that Paul finds it important to put in place the law of Christ as an external norm because the apostle does not expect his addressees to depend exclusively on the inward motivation provided by the Spirit. Dunn insists that the law of Christ is none other than the Torah, the Jewish law. “It is the law as interpreted by the love command in the light of the Jesus tradition and the Christ-event.” In Paul’s thought, Dunn argues, the law is retained and reinterpreted through Christ as a norm for ethical behavior and relationships among Christians, not losing sight though of the fact that it is only the Spirit that can make the law a dynamic motivating power. In the New Perspective on Paul he argues that it is “misleading to take the apostle’s negative comments on the law in any given context to imply a complete and wholesale rejection of the...
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...crimes, such broad statistics conceal that racial disparities pervade each stage of the U.S. judicial system, from arrest to trial and sentencing. The first stage of the judicial system is the arrest made by an officer. Police are given an incredible amount of discretion to use that leads to bias and racial profiling. According to Paul Bou-Habib in his article “Racial Profiling and Background Injustice”, he states, “The main reason in favor of using racial profiling in the context of criminal investigation is that I can increase the chance of catching criminals” (para. 2). A key factor in the imbalance of the arrests on minorities in comparison to whites is that they commit more crimes at higher rates. In the article, “The Correlates of Law Enforcement Officers’ Automatic and Controlled-Race Based Responses to Criminal Suspects” by B. Michelle Peruche & E. Ashby Plant (2006) suggests that: Such responses may be influenced by stereotypic expectations. For example, it is possible that Black men are more likely to be violent and hostile may create expectations that Black people, particularly Black men, are more likely to be violent criminals than White people. (para. 1) Violent crimes consist of murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault. According to the...
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...Good Life Essay Almost everyone in the society has social an obligation of being a citizen, a familial obligation of being a family member, or a personal obligation of being a property owner, and there are always conflicts between the obligations and one’s inner sense of truth, or wisdom. So how should we handle those conflicts? Lived in difference times and cultures, Siddhartha and Antigone took steps to do what they believed was right even though they failed some expectations by doing so; in other words, they followed their inner sense of truth instead of fulfilling the obligations. Their journeys to their ideal good lives share both similarities and differences. Both Siddhartha and Antigone sacrificed and advanced, but they experienced difference consequences. Both Siddhartha and Antigone achieved...
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...of any business on its social and ecological environment is so complete that the very existence, survival and growth of any enterprise depends upon its acceptance by society and environment (who provide all inputs of resources). If it outlives its utility to the Society and environment it has no place and reason to exist. Today, we insist on the social responsiveness and awareness, the ability to relate the plans, policies and programmes to the social environment in such a way that these are mutually beneficial to the organization, society and ecology. The current trend is an organizations’ involvement in social actions. The mission and vision of any organization must express deep involvement in social actions to improve the quality of life in the society and quality of the environment. SELF CONTROL Controlling is an important function in management. But to perform this effectively, one should be self-controlled. This implies that one must have control over desires, which arise, at the mental level. A person having self-control is detached form the sense objects, free of desire and anger and remains engrossed in the bliss of the self. He who thus remains absorbed in the self may be...
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...Simmel’s Reading For this week’s reading, I am assigned to chapter 22 and 24.In chapter 22, Simmel talked about relations and the form of inner needs; that relation is a constantly developing life-process, and inner needs are life itself. In chapter 24, as the title suggested, he talked about the conflict in modern culture. A lot of the time I did not know how to react to his writing. In chapter 22, he mentioned that these forms (inner life, relation etc.) are life itself. What does that mean? That our life is the exact form of social relations that we have? And since the forms “do not express or shape an ideal, a contrast with life’s reality,”(p. 352) there should not have been any conflict within one’s identity, one’s inner thoughts, and...
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...The last federal law passed on racial discrimination was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Bennett). Fifty-three years later a person could figure that racial problems would be solved or at least extremely minimal, especially in the younger generations. This is sadly not the case; in the essays “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” by Beverly Daniel Tatum and Jonathan Kozol, respectively, the authors show how the United States educational system is still flawed when it comes to racial equity. After many years of laws against discrimination, it is still present in schools and everyday life with no signs of stopping. Beverly Tatum showed an abundance of examples of why discrimination is still present in the US school systems. Tatum also gave reasons for those discriminatory encounters. The essay starts off describing an image of a typical high school cafeteria with all the kids of different races sitting together at different tables. But, the only thing people really notice is “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” The...
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...universe is controlled by some higher being or set of laws. While these two belief systems are so strikingly different, both are equally prevalent in today’s society, and both are needed to keep the world and its inhabitants in balance. More or less, naturalism is the yin to transcendentalism’s yang, and vice versa. Neither view provides a comprehensive set of answers to the world’s most pressing issues, and without equal representation of naturalism’s nor transcendentalism’s traits, the world would lose its sense of levelheadedness and...
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...Religion and Peace 1) 2) 3) The understanding of peace in religious traditions Peace expressed through the sacred texts- principle teachings on peace Contributions to peace (Individual and World) Islam and Christianity The understanding of peace Christianity Concept of peace The New Testament understanding of the word ‘peace’ is living in an idyllic condition and communicating regularly with God, as epitomized by the Garden of Eden. Perfect peace was lost when Adam and Eve sinned (Genesis 3) but the coming of Christ restored the potential for peace. Therefore belief in Jesus enables humans inner peace in their lives and the looking forward to the day when Jesus will reign supreme on Earth. As Jesus states in John 16:33 peace is found in him. This is multifaceted. 1) His death was for human sin and allows humans and God to become one again. 2) His ministry is full of Jesus providing peace to those he came into contact with. Matthew 11:28-30, he offers peace to those that are troubled, in Mark 1:21-2:12 he casts out demons and forgives sins and in Hebrews 12:14 followers are encouraged to copy Jesus by making ‘every effort t live in peace with all men. 3) When Jesus returns will bring everlasting physical and spiritual peace on Earth for those who believe. The central theme of Jesus’ teachings is the Kingdom of Heaven. The kingdom of God is characterized by peace- there will be no hardships or grief or pain (Revelation). The righteous and faithful will be redeemed and will...
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...the ability to do anything and not have any repercussions. The world of 1984 has neither security nor freedom, only control through power and gives an illusion of both. Freedom can be found in every living class in 1984 including the Inner Party, Outer Party, and to The Proles. Freedom being the subject at hand begins in the Inner Party. The Inner Party conveys the stronger form of freedom in various ways, two of which are the freedom to give anyone suffrage and to have sexual relations with whomever. O’Brien, asks the question, “how does one man assert his power over another” giving him an...
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...but what these restrictions boil down to are simply two aspects: the outgrowth of career, and personal choices of the twenties. This conflict always leads to great change, turmoil, and often, crisis. The choice of career and personal lives may have been perfectly suited to age of twenties, but now things are different. On the one hand, some inner aspect that was left out is striving to be taken into account; on the other hand, things we pursue during the age of twenties may seem ridiculous and are gradually transformed into more realistic ones. The common response to this sharp conflict between inner change and social reality is the tearing up of the life we spent most of our twenties putting together, and striking out on a secondary road toward a new version. Travelling around the world is no longer the dream for most people, the childless couple reconsiders children, and the dream of running for president is replaced by more realistic substitutes. Let’s see the example of a 29-year-old associate with a Wall Street law firm. The associate is also confronted with the restriction of professional career and personal life. In his professional career, the thought of being stuck in a monotonous job before retirement has driven him crazy. Whenever he gets a thorny case, he would have the immediate reaction that he is wasting his time. He is trying to find some way to make a social contribution, or a position in city government. He believes firmly that there...
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...was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labor camp" (9). Orwell uses irony in this passage to emphasize the power of manipulation the Inner Party has. This passage is ironic because if there are no laws, there should be no punishments for doing anything wrong. However, one is still punished for doing unstated, "wrong" things. Not only that, but the punishment for such a small crime is tremendously large. If there are no laws in society, people will be convinced that it is due to Big Brother's goodwill that they have "freedom" to do whatever they want. The Party is a formidable force because they have the ability to influence...
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...codes are instilled within the United States Bill of Rights, recognize how these principles show within the criminal justice system and security organizations of present, and lastly define independence in regards to personal rights and proper principles, and commitments. “A social contract is a voluntary agreement in which mutual benefit occurs between and for individuals, groups, government or a community as a whole. According to Locke, the State of Nature, the natural condition of mankind, is a state of perfect and complete liberty to conduct one's life as one best sees fit, free from the interference of others (Kelly, Martin. (2012)).” This doesn’t mean that it is a state of authorization: a citizen isn’t free to do whatever they wish, even if you feel it’s in your best interest. The State of Nature, while a state where there isn’t any civil power or regime to penalize individuals for indiscretions against any types of law, is not any type of state with any morals. The State of Nature is viewed as civilization prior to politics but not pre-moral. “Persons are assumed to be equal to one another...
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...meanings and application. This does not mean that there is no connection – morals, ethics and the law all exist because we are different and are responsible for words, actions and sometimes consequences. Morals are our own personal guidelines and behaviors that dictate actions in situations. Ethics are a set of rules or guidelines that we must follow in the different facets of our lives. The law is comprised of rules we are required to follow regardless of our morals or ethics and the violation of these rules can have consequences. Society has dictated certain parameter of conduct that has resulted in the need for law. These rules of conduct are in turn enforced by consequences and must be done in an ethical manner. The requirement for ethics in the application and enforcement of the law is essential to maintain good order and faith in the system. Its’ a Matter of Ethics As social beings, humans have been able to establish morals as guidelines for behavior, conduct with others and interaction in everyday life. Being able to apply values and beliefs to our behavior sets a standard for what we believe is wright and wrong. The choices we make are labeled as either right or wrong. But what about the gray area in between. When you know something is wrong, but knowingly making the choice to act against your better judgement. This would constitute a moral dilemma that our inner self struggles with creating a conflict of interest and most certainly self-doubt. Personal...
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