Sikhism: all people are made of the same god. Universal brotherness. Forbids exploitation of others, direct opposition of the caste system. No force unless no choice. The first Guru was Guru Nanak-founder/father of Sikhism. Came out of two prevalent religious forces of his time: Hinduism & Islam. The last Guru: Guru Gobind Singh: 10th guru bestowed the guruship forever to Sikh Holy Scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib. (11th guru: living text: Adi Granth)Guru: teachers/masters. Spiritual
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Asian Philosophies – Roundtable Discussion Goal: Conduct research in order to analyze 5 major belief systems in ancient China (and Greater Asia) Activity and Objectives: You will engage in a roundtable discussion with representatives from each of the five philosophies (Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism, Buddhism and Hinduism) to gain an understanding of how people of one country with different philosophical views respond to complex life situations. * You will gain foundational knowledge on
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the Chinese people of modern day just as much as they did then. People all over the globe have found many of the inventions to be quite useful, fulfilling several purposes and aiding a number of causes. Although Ancient China is credited for the creation of a large number of inventions, there are eight that are I feel are some of the most identifiable. The inventions are paper making, the woodblock printing technique, gun powder, the compass, porcelain, the spinning wheel, the mechanical clock,
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Chapter 10 : The Sun THE SUNS ATMOSPHERE * the sun is so hot that it neither has a liquid or solid matter anywhere inside of it * moving down into the sun there is denser and hotter masses Photosphere (“sphere of light”) * The photosphere is the innermost of layer of the three layers that comprise the suns atmosphere * A gas layer of the sun that has the most visible light * It is about 400 km thick * Density of the photosphere is low by the earth standards about
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Written by Anis Ahmed Quest for peace and justice is perhaps a core issue and a major shared aspiration in most of the world religions. However, a more realistic analysis will show that even for the Secularist thinkers peace has been a major concern, though, their basic assumptions and the motivating force behind it may be totally different. The post-capitalism mind set, with its deep commitment to economic development, individualism and ethical relativism, gradually developed a belief that war
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and Sola Fide (salvation through faith alone). Calvin argued that we can have two fold knowledge of God (Duplex cognition Domini). We know God as creator and the redeemer. We can know God as the creator through the sensus divinitatis, conscience, creation as mirror of God and scripture. The sensus divinitatis is having a sense of the divine; Calvin said that we all have a natural, inbuilt sense of God. ‘There is indeed within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity
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[7] The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens. It will [...] appear on your computer screen, [...] on your TV set [...] your car dashboard [...] your cell
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The homeless people in the St. Edwards cathedral had hope, even though they did not know where it was coming from. Evans mention of salvation says that it has a cosmic dimension of hope in their lives. So, they had hope even though they did not know from whence it was to come. In the question, for salvation we must ask what the Christian affirmation should be. “If salvation is not possible for the worst of us, can it be a certainty for any of us?” So, no matter how bad of a sinner you might be, God
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example that provides people with the knowledge. He is redeemer. Our awareness of Christ is through our self-consciousness, or intuition. “All Christ’s activity, then proceeds from the being of God in him. And we know no divine activity except that of creation, which included that of preservation, or, conversely, that of
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Name: Anas Awad “Sixth Sense” 1. What is sixth sense?Sixth sense, or subtle perception ability, is our ability to perceive the subtle dimension or the unseen world of angels, ghosts, heaven, etc. It also includes our ability to understand the subtle cause and effect relationship behind many events, which is beyond the understanding of the intellect. Extrasensory perception (ESP), clairvoyance, premonition, intuition are synonymous with sixth sense or subtle perception ability.2. How do we
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