Hope are two of the most powerful tools God has given Christians to renew their faith and receive Gods blessings. Prayer is the very act of a Christian reaching out to God for wisdom, help, renewal, forgiveness, and blessings. God requires prayer (1 Timothy 2:8 ESV), God rewards prayer (Luke 11:9 ESV), and God guides us in prayer (Matthew 6:9-13 ESV). The hope God provides is in the reward of everlasting life in heaven. (Core Christianity by Elmer Towns) God wants Christians to be hopeful and at peace
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Living on the Dash Will the life you’ve lived on your short “-“(dash) speak for itself when the sun sets? In John Donne’s Hymn to God, My God, In My Sickness, the poet speaks to both the Lord and the reader as he lies on his death bed. Donne has been fine tuning himself for the triumph in Heaven. He admits that he has had both good and bad in his life, but asks the Lord to seek the good in him and embrace his soul. There is a direct correlation with the life you live here on Earth and with the
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child. Rose is very holy and takes green Thursday very serious. A good way to make money during this time is to plow corn and sale it. It was a sin to plow corn on green Thursday and anybody who did would be strike dead by lighting or burnt in a fire. The village believe that God would kill or do something bad to whoever plow corn on this day. People who plow corn on this day got most of it because not many people were doing it on green Thursday. That left Killdee with a big decision to make, knowing
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attractive man, Connie notices something is not right and says, “But all these things did not come together”. In comparison, in the Bible from Genesis 3, Satan the serpent deceives a woman, Eve, into eating from the tree from the middle of the garden. God had commanded Eve and her husband, Adam, to not eat from this tree. Satan lures them in hopes of deceiving them into doubting God’s goodness. In Genesis 3:6, Eve falls for the deception for she, “saw the fruit of the tree was good for food and
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Pcantan2 Turabian Writing Style THEO 202-B17 Hamartiology: The Problem of Evil (Theodicy) You would have to ask yourself, why does a God who is all-loving and all-powerful, allow evil to exist in a world that was divinely created by Him? Because when you ponder the problem of evil, it is the most obvious and serious challenge to belief (Faith) in God and His existence, which is why religious scholars have dedicated so much effort towards resolving it. Elwell states, “The phrase ‘the problem
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Scholars shifted to view the Israelite religion as a result of evolutionary change where the religion developed from the effects of time and a similar worldview to the world around. The introduction brings up the discovery of such evidence as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the texts found at Ugarit. Oswald
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The thinkers guide to God caught my attention as I thought it could challenge me and the way I think about the world. This book also had very good reviews. Personally I didn’t believe in one religion, I believed each religion has very good views. And they aren’t all that much different. While reading the first chapter I enjoyed the detail they went into when analysing the paintings. I would never have look so deeply into the paints and opened my mind into the small feature with such a big point
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typically the next best choice would be religion, and the concept of a higher spiritual entity or "god". The article by Stephen Hawking unleashes a brilliant statement about how science is inherently progressive and religion is inherently conservative. Religion is relatively close minded and illogical, and is based on fundamental beliefs as opposed to empirical facts. Clearly we know that God or Gods is (are) not necessary to imagine the beginning of the universe, in our modern understanding science
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Salvation is made possible through Christ because He is God. 1. Christianity became known as the Way (Acts 9:2, 18:25, 19:9, 19:23, 22:4, 24:14, and 24:22). 2. Russell H. Dilday asserts that Jesus is to be recognized as not just Son of God, “but as the only begotten Son of God, not as a savior, but as the Savior, not as a lord, but as the Lord.” B. The Power of the name of Jesus. 3. The name Jesus, which comes from the original name Yoho-shua means God is Savior. The night Jesus was born, is carefully
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with such theories is that they can become static. One discusses what is a manifestation of Eros (the life instinct) and what is a manifestation of Thanatos (the death instinct). Eros = love, procreation, win/win situations, peace and cooperation, god. Thanatos = hate, murder, game playing, war, devil. This provides us with a static taxonomy of this
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