June 21, 2012 Why we believe that the Bible is inspired of God “Romeo Romeo where at thou o Romeo”. We all will agree that Shakespeare wrote those words. More we learn about an author and his writing the more aquatinted we become with it and eventually we are readily able to attach one to the other. Can the same be said about the Bible and its author? Why do we believe that the Bible is inspired by God? Let us use the Bible to answer this question. Open your Bible and read with me
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Mark Kaefor In the beginning, it was written that the gods walked among the Earth. The gods were so rich with life and vitality, that they were spread all across the world, reaching 6 billion in number. The society of the gods seemed to be a controlled chaos with many claiming power on all ends of the world. It has been said that the first of the gods were Adam and Eve. They built a magnificent garden which was full of life and knowledge. Later they grew tired of the garden and decided that they
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of God and His role in the creation process. Some atheists would have you believe that God does not exist, that the Bible is a book of myths, and that the universe and all life is the product of random, undirected events. Who is God to me? I view God as the Creator of the universe and all things on earth; my Heavenly Father. The Bible states: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1, King James Version). To me no other explanation matters; we exist because of God. God
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As Akiba Drumer suffers a loss of his faith, he openly expresses it in terms of questions regarding the existence of God. A being of pure melancholy, Akiba Drumer eventually fails the selection and requests that Elie and others say Kaddish, the Jewish ritual prayer for the dead, for him. Elie writes, “There followed terrible days. We received more blows than food. The work was crushing. And three days after he left, we forgot to say Kaddish” (77)
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very way in which you live your life. The last category is extremely rare, and I have hardly found across a couple of movies which have moved me to this extent. Foremost among those would be the 2003 Tamil masterpiece Anbe Sivam (translated to Love is God). Anbe Sivam was released about 8 years ago and is widely acknowledged as the most profound and deepest of Kamal Haasan’s films till date; Kamal also co-wrote the dialogues with Madan, apart from playing one of the protagonists. The other protagonist
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REL/134 02/10/2011 David Quak Religious Traditions Introduction: According to the text (2010), religion is a system of belief that involves worship of God or Gods, ritual, and moral code. There are numerous different religions, several have resemblances, and others do not. Many of these religions are passed from century to century, carrying ancient traditions, and ceremonies. Relationship: Regardless
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has a council of gods who sends the flood while one God sends a flood in Genesis. The name of the man in the “Epic of Gilgamesh” was Utnapishtim and the man in Genesis was Noah. Ea told Utnapishtim to build a boat while God told Noah to build the ark. The size of the ark/boat in both stories were different. The boat in the “Epic of Gilgamesh” was a square while the ark in Genesis was a rectangle. In the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, the gods gave loaves of bread and wheat to the man while God told Noah to collect
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do what she wants, and her faith in God is fake. In A Good Man is Hard to Find, there are two misfits in the story, which are The Misfit and the grandmother. Not surprisingly, the main character, The Misfit, does not blend in with society. The Misfit portrays himself as someone that has been mistreated by society through his time in prison. He has examined his faith and doubts God. His views that he does not need God or that Jesus should not have raised the dead differs from a largely Christian southern
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New Testament agree with this doctrine by stating that God will have mercy for those who are conscious of their sins. In Book ten of St Augustine’s Confessions, Augustine says, “…there is something of man that the very spirit of man that is in him does not know.” Augustine wants to confess everything about him, what he knows about himself and what he “does not” or is not aware of. He has “hunger and thirst” for understanding the mercy of God. He finally became convinced that Christianity was the
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Secondly, I explain that the manufacturer created this ball to be resilient. The ball’s purpose is to bounce back. Likewise each one of us were created by God to bounce back from situations and circumstances that can knock us down. The truth I desire to have engraved upon your heart after today is how to live the resilient life that God has designed for you. A gentleman by the name of Louis Zamperini is someone we are going to hear from today.
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