...On the Left Side Sins are inevitable. People make sins every day without them even knowing it. But when they do, they tell their sins to God and God will forgive them. That is not how life works to all people who believes in God. God may see past a sin but that is not the case for some people. Some people cannot see past a sin and that is what we see in this short story from 1991 On the Left Side. This short story deals with almost a whole town of hypocrites who has supported a project, which was to send someone to Burundi, some state in Central Africa, to set up and run a medical mission. The choice landed on Sister Philomena O’Halloran. After twenty years of work, she sent a young African back to the hometown, Conn, in Western Ireland, and the reception was shocking as they easily could see, from his looks, who the mother was. The narrator is a woman who has also sinned by getting a baby with a man outside a marriage, just as Sister Philomena O’Halloran. “The right side of the church is filled to bursting, while only ten people – myself and nine other sinners – sit on the left.” (p.1, l.2). After Father O’Rourke and as good as the rest of Conn had dropped their investments in Sister Philomena O’Halloran’s mission, the narrator were still managing to raise money, in a fond she had raised herself, and sent them to Sister Philomena O’Halloran, but it were not as much as it used to be. The narrator is mad on the way Father O’Rourke is keeping Friday outside and how Friday is...
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...was to determine right and wrong and he believed that God couldn’t be on both sides. Both sides had biblical evidence that one was right while the other was wrong, but it wasn’t possible for both sides to be correct. Eventually there would have to be a winner and there would have to be a loser. Lincoln did not want the nation to go to war though, and he certainly did not want the nation to divide. He tried to reason with both the north and the south through the Emancipation and he had wanted to find some sort of compromise as opposed to fighting and he knew that too many lives would be lost in such a war. But all was in vain; there was no compromise to be made and lives were to be lost....
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... | |Is God required as the basis for Ethical Justification | |Philosophy 116 | | | |Saadia Farhat | | | | | Saadia Farhat PHIL 116 Professor Miceli May 1, 2010 Is God required as the basis for Ethical Justification? As I started to outline this paper and trying to separate my feelings and thoughts on the subject, as I wanted to write an impartial paper, I discovered many interesting facts. I believed there were two sides: Side A believing in God and with the platform that faith is needed to guide humans and provide proper morality, and Side B believing that God is not needed in the equations as we are masters of our destiny. Sounds simple right the faithful versus the atheist, I found out I was wrong. It seems there were more sides than I had anticipated...
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...Antigone is probably one of the most prominent interpretations of a tragic drama. The two main characters of the play are Antigone and Creon. There is much conflict between Antigone and Creon throughout the play, both of them having their own ideas and opinions regarding divine law versus human law. The theme that I am going to analyze is the conflict of divine law vs. human law. The reason for this is because this theme seems to control the whole play. It is an issue of which law is the "right" law, and if Creon's and Antigone's acts were justifiable. The play Antigone can be summarized by the following: King Creon lets it be known that Polyneices the traitor is not to be buried, but his sister Antigone defies the order because of the values she holds. She is caught, and sentenced by Creon to be buried alive - even though she is to be married to his son Haemon. After the blind prophet Tiresias proves that the gods are on Antigone's side, Creon changes his mind - but too late. He goes first to bury Polyneices, but Antigone has already hanged herself. When Creon arrives at the tomb, Haemon attacks him and then kills himself. When the news of their death is reported, Creon's wife Eurydice takes her own life. Creon ends up being all alone due to the fact that his family members took their own lives. Creon blames himself for all of these tragedies occurring, mainly...
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...army up in a diagonal path. In the sky just below the suns and on the mountain there are cuneiform script printed that describes the victory. The cuneiform that is on inscribed on the mountain is just on the right side; the left side of the mountain is bare. The cuneiform inscribed confirms that this stele depicts a battle that was won at Zagaros Mountain. At the base of the main peak of the mountain there is an injured Lullubi with a spear in his neck. The Lullubi people are scattered throughout the stele in a very disorganized fashion predominantly on the right side of the stele. Their weapons are depicted as inferior to that of the Akkadian people’s, some are broken and some are smaller. Naram-Sin is depicted much larger than anyone else in the stele. The use of hieratic scale here amplifies artist’s decision to place Naram-Sin in the center of the composition. Naram-Sin is holding a sword, a bow and a spear as he tramples over his fallen foes. He is shown to possess well defined muscular features in addition to a horned helmet. The army that he commands is dressed in similar garments and is marching in unison together up the mountain. The Akkadian force makes up the majority of the left side of this composition. There is a tree depicted towards the lower right side of the stele. Great care has been given to engrave many details into this tree making it easily identifiable. There are several key features of this stele that...
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... Actions /_Life Expectations /_Vision_________ Attitudes /_Values 2. Definition of character. Character is habitually doing the right thing in the right way. 3. Character is result of your discipline. Where a spirituality results in inner power to do good, character results in your habits that make you do good. The believer needs both spirituality and character. One can have character without spirituality, but you can’t have spirituality without habitually doing the right thing in the right way. B. WHY WE MUST TEACH CHARACTER AND KNOW HOW IT IS FORMED 1. The public schools can no longer be trusted to do it. 2. Fewer models of character. 3. Influence of media and music. 4. Conflicting standards of secularization/humanization/etc. 5. Growing hostility of concept of Christian character and standards. 6. Growing lawlessness, divorce, emotional problems, etc. 7. Teaching character is biblical, it obeys God. C. THINKING/KNOWING When you change a person’s thinking / understanding, you influence their beliefs. 1. They must know they are sinners. Morality begins when you recognize the child is “Beauty and the Beast.” All have a dark side, yet great potential. 2. They must know there is a great conflict between good and evil in the world, and that is reflected in their inner life. 3. They must know the gospel and accept Christ as Savior. 4. They...
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...Inherit the Wind is a good play. It’s about a man named Brady who gets killed because he taught about evaluation. There were two different sides in the play, one side being the ones who believe in evaluation, and the other side being believers in Jesus Christ and that man was created by God. Brady is accused of leaving God because he had left the church. I believe you can still believe in God, even if you don’t go to church. The first reason I believe this is because people aren’t born into the church in America, they are born free, becoming church members only if they choose to be. Which meaning they can also choose to be Christians, but also not attend church. Everybody in this life was born to be whatever they choose to be and do. This...
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...1110 Q: Consider the role of the gods in the Iliad. Why are they given credit or blame for so much of what happens at Troy? Does Zeus have ultimate control over the fate of these mortals? To what extent do the mortal characters exercise free will in their choice of actions? Be sure to discuss at least three separate episodes from the text to support your argument. In Homer’s The Iliad, divine intervention is a recurrent theme in the epic. The epic portrays a world in which humans and Gods somewhat co-exist even though they are in very different worlds. We witness that heroes in The Iliad go through many troubles when “fate” and the Gods operate their lives. In Homer’s epic, the Gods intend to constantly change the lives of the people and manipulate events that take place on earth for their own self interest or any other reason. We see many recurrent patterns throughout the epic between the Gods, fate, and the heroes. For example, the Gods play a very important role in Troy. Certain gods are on each side of the war and they all have a reason, albeit petty, to help a side. Hera, the patron goddess of women, and Athena, goddess of war and wisdom, are opposed to the Trojans because a Trojan said that Aphrodite was more beautiful than them. Poseidon, the god of the sea, is also against the Trojans, because the king of Troy once enslaved him and made him build the city's walls and then refused to pay Poseidon. Although Apollo, god of poetry, archery, and healing...
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...What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is not holding a grudge or seeking revenge, but releasing the other from blame and trust in God to forgive the person who offended us. The bible states, “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins (Matthew 6:14-15). As believers, we are obligated to forgive those who hurt us and leave it to God for justice. Forgiveness may be hard, but it is one of the key elements in life to move on and pursue happiness. Although we may never forget the offense one has done to us, forgiveness allows us to not only be at peace with ourselves, but also live in the imagine and likeness of God. In the book Left to...
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..."Perfect Love" You are at home in my heart ‘Cause You loved me right from the start When I was refusing Your love kept pursuing Now that I’ve tasted Your love My heart just can’t get enough Jesus You have me You have me completely It’s Your love in my heart running over Everyday of my life I’ll draw closer Such a perfect love Oh You lift me higher Lighting up my way Everything is brighter With You everything is better With You I am right where I belong In this perfect love No matter what I go through I’ll keep my eyes fixed on You Jesus You’re faithful And You are able Every part of my heart is now open Make Your home in my heart You are welcome "Let's Go!" The shadows of my yesterday Clouded up my faith to pray But You blew it all away The voices tried to pull me down And bury me into the ground But you made the greater sound And now I hear You calling me The voice of a raging sea This is your destiny Let's go! Let the music play, it's time to celebrate 'Cause it's a brand new day Let's go! We are so alive and God is on our side With Your blood You sacrificed Giving all You paid the price You have opened paradise And now I hear You calling me The voice of a raging sea This is your destiny Let's go! Let the music play, it's time to celebrate 'Cause it's a brand new day Let's go! We are so alive and God is on our side You glory rises like the sun Radiating life to everyone Now death is over...
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...personalized by their society. This has led to condemnations of human cloning from the unique side as a human being for a different perspective in life. The culture of India refers to the customs, beliefs, traditions, languages, ceremonies, arts, values and their different life style. For example, when you are standing inside the subway counter like: There are communities of Christians, Muslims at my left hand side; and communities of Hindu, Jain, Sikh at my right hand side! But when I put them together in SUB, it becomes our delicious and beautiful "INDIA"! Indians by nature believes in faith and religion. I grew up in Indian culture as per my parents. So I am the only solid concern and can tell that this community has their own different believes. Being Hinduism, I believe in karma and all mighty. I strongly believe in this statement “God doesn’t give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you the person you were meant to be.” I have a faith in all mighty gods since I was little. There was a time that I feel and saw from my real eyes. One day, my mom was trying to cross to road and suddenly one car passed by her with rear wheel on her one feet. She realize after that car passed but her feet was absolutely fine and nothing happened. She was my biggest role model to inspire me to believing in god and I saw so many incidences in my life and no one can believe it. Another incident was...
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...In the book, “The Upside-Down Kingdom”, author Donald Kraybill delivers a message about the kingdom of God being upside down compared to the kingdom of this world. I love how he has a lot of scriptures instead of just his opinion. This book started out by describing the traits that make the kingdom of God upside down and about detours people have to make. According to Kraybill we make these detours to get around Jesus and his core message. The kingdom of God is not separate, but in the middle of the world. “God calls us to turn our backs to the kingdoms of this world and embrace an upside down world,” (Kraybill 32). In the next chapter Kraybill describes Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, which brings in three points, political, religious and economic. These are the sub points to Kraybills thesis. According to Kraybill there are five symbols related to the temptation which include: bread, devil, desert, mountain, and temple. “The temptation points to a right-side-up kingdom encompassing the three big social institutions of his day: political (mountain), religious (temple), and economic (bread).” (Kraybill 33). The political temptation goes with the historical context of...
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...Both plays, Richard II and King Lear, start by Richard and Lear believing that the gods are on their side and that God put them there for a reason (the divine right of kings). However throughout the plays their attitude towards divine assistance changes and they both realise they will have to pay for their mistakes. The divine right of kings in Richard II is present throughout the play. In Act 3, Scene 2 Richard says, ‘not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm off from an anointed king;’. Earlier in the play Richard refers to himself as ‘England’ and the common people as the ‘sea’. He thinks that ‘the rough rude sea’ (the common people) cannot get rid of him because he is an ‘anointed king’. This means that he believes that God chose him to be king over everyone else. Shakespeare makes Richard appear, to the reader, as a egoistic, selfish king that doesn’t spare a thought for the common people of England by labeling them as the ‘rough rude sea’. This suggest his relationship with them isn’t good. In Richard II there are many references to the bible. England is described as ‘this other Eden, demi-paradise’ because Richard is ruining England like Adam and Eve ruined the paradise which God created when they were tempted by the snake. He’s making a ‘demi-paradise’ by making the wrong decisions. In act 3, scene 4 the Queen says, ‘Thou, old Adam’s likeness, set to dress this garden, How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news? What Eve, what serpent...
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...wars with each other, they have run themselves out of breadth. Both sides perhaps are weary of the war, and willing to let it fall; expedients are found out for accommodation; martial princes are removed, and peace-makers set in their room; and then the bow is broken by consent, the spear cut asunder and turned into a pruning-hook, the sword beaten into a ploughshare, and the chariots of war are burned, there being no more occasion for them; or, rather, it may be meant of what he does, at other times, in favour of his own people. He makes those wars to cease that were waged against them and designed for their ruin. He breaks the enemies' bow that was drawn against them. No weapon formed against Zion shall prosper, Isa 54:17. The total destruction of Gog and Magog is prophetically described by the burning of their weapons of war (Ezek 39:9,10), which intimates likewise the church's perfect security and assurance of lasting peace, which made it needless to lay up those weapons of war for their own service. The bringing of a long war to a good issue is a work of the Lord, which we ought to behold with wonder and thankfulness. II. As King of saints, and as such we must own that great and marvellous are his works, Rev 15:3. He does and will do great things, 1. For his own glory (v. 10): Be still, and know that I am God. (1.) Let his enemies be still, and threaten no more, but know it, to their terror, that he is God, one infinitely above them, and that will certainly be too hard...
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...Arguments have been made for thousands of years whether god allowing free will is a positive or a negative. Many evil actions have taken place and people blame god for not stopping it. In contrast to that many good actions have occurred and people thank god. My thesis is God is all loving but does not interfere with any actions that occur he only provides us with free will. Is free will a gift or a curse? Free Will as a Negative Moral evil is from intent of person to person. In addition, moral evil can cause natural evil to occur, for example global warming. A corporation contributing to global warming might not care that they are hurting the environment. In result of hurting the environment a complete type of animal might be killed off....
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