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Truth About God
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in the Gulag Archipelago that it was in prison
where he learned that the line separating good and evil passes not through
states, not through classes, not through political parties, either, but right
through every human heart and through all human hearts.
When we give ourselves serious evaluation, we find things hiding in our
hearts that, if we could choose, we would remove. Our hearts have been
described as "a zoo of lust, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem
of fondled hatreds." Yet the Church, by its very nature, must be made up of the
li ...
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Confucianism And Christianity
Number of Words: 1102 / Number of Pages: 5
... to better themselves. All purposes
for betterment of man and society as one whole is known as Li. Li means ³the
rationalized social order² (Yutang). Confucius felt that love and respect for
authority was a key to a perfect society; this strict respect was practiced
through rituals and magic (Smith). The Confucius traditions have caused a
tradition to set within its institution and is extremely active. It has,
unfortunately, allowed the political institution to manipulate the Confucius
system. As with Christianity.
Christianity also preaches a divine, brotherly love. Modern
Christianity se ...
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Noah’s Arc, The Rip-Off
Number of Words: 1165 / Number of Pages: 5
... only way to destroy this violence was to drown everyone but the chosen few. These chosen few were hand-picked by God as good people to start a new, more wholesome and obedient civilization. Gilgamesh’s story says the reason for the flood was the volume the people created. The noise was intolerable and the gods insisted on ending the racket at once, (Duiker, 20).
The singular reason Gilgamesh was spared is that he was informed of the flood by Ea, the water god, through a dream. Ea was one of many gods in this time. He told him to build a boat of equal width and length. He was to tear down his ...
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Burial Rituals In Judaism
Number of Words: 1172 / Number of Pages: 5
... In Jewish law, the unborn are not yet
considered human, thus the mother's life is far more important.
Because life is so valuable, we are not permitted to do anything that
may hasten death, not even to prevent suffering. Euthanasia, suicide and
assisted suicide are strictly forbidden by Jewish law. Their laws are so
strict that you are not even allowed to move a dying person's arm or leg if
it would shorten their life. However, when death is imminent and certain
and the patient is suffering, Jewish law does permit one to take away
artificial life support.
After life comes death, an ...
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In The Beginning...
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... God of the Hebrews is responsible for the world's existence today. Overall,
Ovid is very detailed in explaining the formless mass, creation of the earth,
waters and land metaphorically. The Biblical account seems to be more plain,
simple, and organized; not spending time on intricate detail. There seems to be
no specific time frame for creation in Ovid's writing, whereas, the Bible states
that it takes God six days to complete His creation; resting on the seventh. In
Metamorphoses, the creation story is seven stanzas, a compilation of eighty
lines. It takes Moses thirty- one verses of Old Testa ...
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Taoism
Number of Words: 1182 / Number of Pages: 5
... future in the afterlife (Hume 143-145). The Yin Yang is one of the most important symbols in . The Yin Yang symbol looks like two tadpoles. The Yin stands for female, moist, night, cool, dark, and passive energy. The Yang stands for male, dry, day, warm, bright, and active energy. These two symbols represent the balance of the universe. The Yin and the Yang are always opposite of each other. If one side is either less or more than the other, the balance of the universe is corrupted and terrible things in the world will happen. These beliefs preach that an individual should always keep the bal ...
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Arianism
Number of Words: 4095 / Number of Pages: 15
... as God. But the question how the Son was
related to the Father (Himself acknowledged on all hands to be the one Supreme
Deity), gave rise, between the years A. D. 60 and 200, to number of Theosophic
systems, called generally Gnosticism, and having for their authors Basilides,
Valentinus, Tatian, and other Greek speculators. Though all of these visited
Rome, they had no following in the West, which remained free from controversies
of an abstract nature, and was faithful to the creed of its baptism.
Intellectual centers were chiefly Alexandria and Antioch, Egyptian or Syrian,
and speculation was carried ...
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The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ
Number of Words: 1496 / Number of Pages: 6
... the time in which the piece of literature was written and our earliest
copy. There are more than 5,300 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and
10,000 Latin vulgate manuscripts, not to mention the other various translations.
Totally there are around 24,000 total MSS for the New Testament. The next
closest document in respect to MSS is the "Illiad" by Homer, with 643
manuscripts(McDowell 43).
The textual reliability then continues with respect to the time interval
between the original and the first known manuscript. The shorter the interval,
the more reliable the text is. Homer's "Illi ...
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Heaven's Gate Cult
Number of Words: 971 / Number of Pages: 4
... on how to get to the "Kingdom of God." They carried on this belief, but in a different form. They said that a UFO would come and take them to the level of the "Kingdom of God." The ability to accomplish this was by leaving behind the body in which their soul live. To prepare themselves, each person gave up possessions, hid who they were, watched their diets, and accepted abstinence. Upon the coming of the Hale-Bopp comet, were they thought the UFO maintained, thirty-nine people killed themselves by a mixture of drugs, alcohol, and suffocation. In memory for all, each member left a testimonial explai ...
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Christianity, Islam, And Judaism
Number of Words: 237 / Number of Pages: 1
... was a slide of the Kabah. It represents the Islam religion.
The Kabah is found inside Mecca and is supposed to house a meteorite. The
third slide is for the Jewish religion, Judaism.
All of the religions are monotheistic which means they believe in
only one God, the God of Abraham. Although they have the worship the dame
God, they have a few differences between them. One of which is the choice
of the main prophets. Christianity believes that Jesus was God's son and
was the savior for all. Islam believes that Muhammad lead the ideal life
and everyone must base their lives on him.
In class we ...
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