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Papers on Religion
Christ: VICTORY!!
Number of words: 617 | Number of pages: 3.... 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 crusifiction, in very short and brief detail.
The suffering in which Jesus took for us lasted all through the night, and then
in the morning the thrusted a sword into His side to see if he was alive. After
the water poored out of His side, you can say that it is officially over. In my
heart it is not completely over, just that of that era .....
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The Longest Day
Number of words: 658 | Number of pages: 3.... the same means, they have been able to
backtrack and determine these specific locations in the past. It was during one
such search that the extra day appeared.
From various accounts of the incident, it appears that something "did not
compute." The extra day was just there. There was no computer malfunction; there
was no explanation for the interruption of normal time patterns.
When this apparent error appeared and no explanation was forthcoming, one of the
scientists related that he had studied in Sunday School about time standing
still. A preposterous idea to scientists, but faced with no other explanation,
they asked him to s .....
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God Speaks Through The Mouths Of Poets
Number of words: 2022 | Number of pages: 8.... God. Why would Blake call us
a Lamb then? Aren't we stronger than any other animal upon this earth? I
think that God would tell us "No," for it is He who gives us life strength,
as Blake says in the next few linesà Gave thee life & bid thee feed, By
the stream & o're the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest
clothing wooly bright, What strength could man have without the gifts of
God: life, food, clothing. We would have none! And Jesus said to them, "I
am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who
believes in Me shall never thirst." John 6:33 William Blake saw that the
individual man was so .....
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Heaven's Gate Cult
Number of words: 971 | Number of pages: 4.... 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 explaining that they were joyous to be in a better place and excited to finall .....
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What Is Buddhism?
Number of words: 1037 | Number of pages: 4.... human being who, thought tremendous
efforts, transformed himself.
The state of Enlightenment which he reached has three main facets. It
is a state of wisdom, of insight into the true nature of things. It is also a
source or boundless compassion, manifesting itself in activity for the benefit
of all beings. and it the total liberation of all the energies of the mind and
the body so they are at the service of the fully conscious mind.
What Happened After the Buddha's Death?
Buddhism died out in India a thousand years ago, though it has recently
revived. In the last century Buddhism has emphatically arrived in the West and
up .....
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The Life Of Jesus
Number of words: 514 | Number of pages: 2.... his disciples at the table to share the bread and
wine. Jesus went to pray in Gethsemane with his disciples when Judas arrived
with an armed crowd sent by the chief priests. They arrested him. Jesus was
brought to Pilate and he sentenced him to death. Then he was crucified. When he
died, a man named Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus and he
replied yes. Joseph took the body down wrapped him in linen and placed him in a
tomb. He rolled a large stone across the entrance. Jesus's body still had to be
anointed, so the day after the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of
James came to dress him. When they ar .....
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Trito-Isaiah
Number of words: 916 | Number of pages: 4.... of promise, and condemnation to convey his messages. He used these forms of writing because he needed to shock the people into attention. ’s life and ministry comes to the central message that all human activity motivated by the fear of anything but God is contrary to faith and will almost always lead the faithful astray (Who’s who in the Bible 169). An outstanding characteristic of ’s message occurs in his repeated and deceptively simple concern: Do not fear! (Who’s who in the Bible 169) The prophet condemned all efforts to defend the kingdom through alliances with enemies, to compromise faith in the Lord, and to rely .....
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Religion: Jerusalem
Number of words: 1321 | Number of pages: 5.... because
it housed the Ark of the Covenant which Jews see as important to them
because it is a symbol of their freedom from slavery and the Covenant God
made with Moses, and allowed Jews to establish their promised land.
Jerusalem is considered by Jews as their holiest city. In 586 B.C.E., the
Babylonian, Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and
exiled the Jews to Babylonia. Fifty years later in 537 B.C.E., Cyrus the
Great of Persia conquered Babylonia and permitted the Jews to return to
Jerusalem and rebuild their Temple. ( Safdie, 1990, p.107)
Jerusalem is the holiest city for Jews because their Temple, the .....
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Taoism And Buddhism
Number of words: 2239 | Number of pages: 9.... Mother, or the source of all things. That source is not a god or a
supreme being, as Taoism is not monotheistic. The focus is not to worship one
god, but instead on coming into harmony with tao (Hartz, 8).
Tao is the essence of everything that is right, and complications exist
only because people choose to complicate their own lives. Desire, ambition,
fame, and selfishness are seen as hindrances to a harmonious life. It is only
when a person rids himself of all desires can tao be achieved. By shunning
every earthly distraction, the Taoist is able to concentrate on life itself. The
longer the person's life, the more sain .....
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Your Journey Toward Christ
Number of words: 395 | Number of pages: 2.... give up . He wants to influence you to doubt your ability to believe and serve God. Remember: he has absolutely no power or authority to keep you from steadily progressing in your walk toward Christ. And he can never again own you, because you have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and you are forever in Him (1 Peter 1:18, 19). But if he can get you to listen to the thoughts he plants in your mind, he can influence you. And if you allow him to influence you long enough through temptation, accusation and deception, he can control you.
If I could influence you to believe a lie, could I control your life? Yes. Let's fix our eyes on .....
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