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The Existence Of God
Words: 1077 / Pages: 4 .... a being having all of God's properties plus existence in reality is a being greater than God. He comes to this conclusion from the first two statements. Now he moves to the conclusion that a greater being than God can be conceived. This is evident from his third and fourth statements. By the definition of God no greater being can be conceived. Hence it is false that God exists in the understanding but not in reality. This is evident from all of the previous statements.
By granting the fool's statement as true he's setting up the fool to contradict himself. He then leads the fool to a statement that he cannot deny. He says that the existence .....
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The Holy Bible And Its History
Words: 4122 / Pages: 15 .... did not understand Hebrew. Many of the Jews in the time of Jesus used the Septuagint as their Bible. Many of the New Testament Apostles quoted it when they wrote the Gospels and Epistles in Greek.
Not one of the original writings, called "the Autographs" exist today. However, the Jewish scribes made very accurate copies of the originals over the many centuries.
Certain European Jewish scribes called the Masoretes carefully transmitted it from copy to copy preserving and handing down their writings. Several of those "Masoretes" manuscripts still exist. Some of the more important ones are listed below:
The Cairo Codex of the Prophets (AD 895) .....
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Who Is God?
Words: 746 / Pages: 3 .... objects belonging to specific philosophic constellations which help to
define the face of divinity."
Through the oppression of the salve trade, the Yoruba Africans worked to
keep there own conception of region intact. "Even under slavery, and under post
slavery persecution in the late nineteenth century, the Yoruba of Cuba and
Brazil managed to maintain sporadic but precious contact with Africa through
networks of friends and traders. They sought the sacred cowries, seeds, and
beads of Africa for their religion." This example of perseverance of their
native ritual and worship practices, shows the magnitude that region held for
many Yoru .....
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Back To Religion?
Words: 949 / Pages: 4 .... was and still is so strong in many parts of the country that many battles have been fought on the account of different theories and view points from one belief to the next. Land and lives taken only for the sake of disagreements between churches. The settlers exploring the New World were trying to leave all of the chaos of these churches. Not that they did not want to be religious but they wanted a choice.
Coming to the Americas in the time frame from fifteen hundred to 1770 was promising for settlers on a journey for new lives. Many people were looking for wealth and fortune but most of all freedom. Freedom was about all that was availab .....
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Book Of Job: Suffering
Words: 884 / Pages: 4 .... and possess it;
the children of his servants will inherit it; and those who love his name will
dwell there.” God does not intentionally inflict despair and heartache on his
believers for no reason at all. I think the despair we experience, and how we
deal with it, is a test to show our true selves.
The Lord does not make us suffer because of what we have done. Through
suffering, we become better people and grow as an individual. You find your
identity through terrible experiences. I have dealt with serious heartache and
do believe that I have grown from it. I have learned how to react to certain
situations and how to overcome them.
I loo .....
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Thomas Aquinas And The Existence Of God
Words: 876 / Pages: 4 .... not a pile of ashes it is actually a house. If you burned the house down then it would be actually a pile of ashes. Aquinas’s second step states, “Nothing can be reduced from potentiality to actuality, except by something in a state of actuality.” Aquinas means that the change of state requires something in the state of actuality to actualize the potential. For example, in order for a house (which is in the state of actuality), to potentially become a pile of ashes something in the actual state (like a flame), has to cause the house to move from being actually a house and potentially a pile of ashes to actually a pile or ashes. In his third .....
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Christ: VICTORY!!
Words: 617 / Pages: 3 .... repent. You
see this is not possible without Jesus dying for our sins. In Romans 5:6-8 it
says that Christ died for all of us. Even the bad ones, ALL. This is a sign of
the Victory that Christ had won a victory here. The reason is because of all of
the lifes that he saved and will later be saved. In Romans 5 it says that Jesus
died for All Sinners! We are all sinners so his death was for all.
When Jesus says that "It is finished", he can also be reffering to the older
predictions of Christs' life. There is one in particular that it might have been
talking about in Isaiah. That is the one in which Isaiah talks of the life of
Jesus and the crusifictio .....
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School Prayer Should Be Allowed
Words: 730 / Pages: 3 .... They
also recognized a space of freedom between the government and the people,
whereby the government could not force an individual or group to do something
they did not want to do. The government is not upholding their part of the
constitution. They are trying to tell people that saying prayer in public school
is unconstitutional.
In fact, prayer in public school is legal, so is prayer in church and
prayer in stores etc... . The area which is not legal is when students or
teachers pray when engaged in school activities or instruction. This means
students or teachers may pray in an informal setting, such as cafeterias and
hallways. The .....
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What Is Hinduism
Words: 3613 / Pages: 14 .... by the Greeks. A way of life that is all things to Hindus, the religion encompasses a vast, uncoordinated complex of sects, doctrines, beliefs and practices set in a social framework. It has the unique distinction of having no single founder, no centralized organized hierarchy and no fixed dogmas. It represents instead countless sages and the truths revealed to them over thousands of years in the Vedas. The sanctity of the four Vedas—Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda—is the ultimate authority for all Hindus.
While the Vedas is a very important aspect of Sanatan Dharma, the Bhagavad Gita is Hinduism’s most widely read lit .....
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Different Religions
Words: 1119 / Pages: 5 .... contact with other people and so the religion of these
early people was minimal. Then came the development of farming into this time
period. Farming brought the people together. Small cities began to develop
because the people didn't have to move around as much. With all this closeness,
the people developed moral views on what to think about thieves or murderers.
If certain civilizations didn't mind violence and killing, then they developed
into a Brutal civilization. Consequently, the religions of these civilizations
were evolved around sacrificial rituals and allegiance to brutal gods. The
Assyrian civilization worked around this principl .....
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