YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Essays 541 - 570
inflicts diseases on the Pharaoh and his household How God is manifested: * God comes to Abimelech in a dream * God condemns Abi...
because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...
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 ...
want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...
instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...
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...
they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...
one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the ...
does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...
Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...
be incorporated into our actions. The Book of Acts shows that the Apostles and the disciples followed through on this type of le...
them safe (1 Kings 18). Elijah once again confronts Ahab about the trouble he and his family have brought down on Israel (1 Kings ...
about Revelation. Catholics are expected to obey the Church and her officers who are divinely appointed. Dulles points out that ...
it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...
for them, allowing them to live in a state of perfection. But, in so doing Adam and Eve would not have had free will. They would h...
and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...
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...
nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...
God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...
warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...
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...
to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...
afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...
the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...
age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...
- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...
in the earliest forms of the Roman Creed but it was not until 360 that the word Catholic was added to the Creed in the West (Thurs...
idea of a virtuous republican citizen similar to how one might consider a citizen today. To give power and authority to the indivi...