Essays 1021 - 1050
no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...
throughout most of Western history, Christianity has practiced active and persistent racism against Jews, as European pogroms agai...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...
both generations; their lives by having to virtually give up themselves and their interests, passions or aspirations just to have ...
to merge . This would seem to be a level in ones spiritual development, in fact, it would be the final level on earth since Nirvan...
the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...
as a necessity of life as food, water, and comfort. The people who make no effort to know God cannot understand the world in whic...
The main contention resides with the fine line that separates harmless yet effective swats with an open palm and heavy-handed stri...
complex or larger than many families. In this basic setting one can see how the family is affected by the power of the nation an...
finance, for example, God and business are mutually exclusive. How could God be working through business, people might ask. Take a...
long prayer of confession.6 It may be because of Ezras knowledge and profound faith that God called him to serve in a different wa...
The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...
Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...
who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who ca...
only in extremes. Right versus left; rich versus poor; conservative versus liberal: all these factions are at each others throats ...
observation as well noting that this prohibition is a substantive one just as was women being kept out of certain occupations in o...
of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...
This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...
as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is a vital piece of literature that explores what it takes to be ones own self. A seminal novel, Zo...
Law of Christ. The Israelites believed that the Spirit of God lived in the Tabernacle, which is why it was guarded so carefully. I...
Human nature is to invent explanations for events and occurrences that are intuitively appealing. Example...
these characteristics he is able to become a wealthy landowner and politician in the town of Eatonville. In fact, Hurston indicate...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...
on having sex with every bride on her wedding night. It was an imperative belief in the ancient world that for society to exist, t...
it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...
This essay offers an overview of the views of theologian Paul Tillich in regards to agape love and the role it plays in defining i...
This essay offers an overview of the history and the ordination for the ministry processes that pertain to the Church of God in Ch...
This essay discusses American Gods by Neil Gaiman in light of the archetypes described by psychologist Carl Jung. Six pages in len...
This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...