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If God Did Not Exist, Would Morality Exist?

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

Examining Two Aspects of Islamic History

son or "the good shepherd" who leaves his flock in order to find a lost sheep (VanBuskirk). Paul pointed out this change in the co...

Jesus is God

He was the promised Messiah: The woman said to Him, "I know the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He wil...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Encountering God and Diane Eck's Unconvincing Argument

carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...

Biography and Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Gods: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

Miracles In The Gospel Of Mark

casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...

Jewish Calendar, Life Cycle And Meaning Of God Is One

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

Jesus And Moses In The Bible And The Koran

born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...

The Role of the Gods in "Medea"

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

Christian Leadership

be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...

Elijah's Message

them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...

Models Of The Church, Chapter 11 The Church And Revelation

about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...

Historical Jesus And Christ Of Faith

one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

God Vs. Evil

itself confirms those evils. Mark refers, of course, not only to the goodness of God but also the many evils which exist in our w...

Psalm 54 Exegesis

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

Nietzsche And Kierkegaard: Compare/Contrast

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

Jesus The Son Of God

age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...