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reprobate heart. The question shouldn't be how far can I go and get away with it; the question is how can I be sanctified, separated from sin and remain holy unto God? How can I conduct my physical relationships so that I will remain holy, which means being separated from sin? And as you begin to tinker with the conscious emotions that God has designed in your spirit man, you begin to allow your mind to move in to the area of thinking about righteousness. You see, you tend to be constantly in…

Closeness to God is heavily emphasized in the Catholic Church. In John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt, this relationship is mentioned in Sister Aloysius’ comment to Sister James: “In the pursuit of wrongdoing, one steps away from God. Of course, there’s a price” (58). Often when one strives to prevent misbehavior, they undermine their own morality in the process, leading to deep repercussions. Still, the question remains, is it worth it? All of the characters step away from God as they march…

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” Jonathan Edwards stated this quote in his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. On July 8th, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, Edwards expressed his beliefs to his audience: people who were not saved by God will go to Hell; these “people” were also known as “Unconverted Men”. Edwards was known for the uprising theology of the Great Awakening. Henceforth upon…

the lover is doing him wrong by lying. In a secular point of view, confessions entail humility and honesty, and an acceptance that the confessor is below the higher being. Through a literary perspective, however, there is an obvious irony: although God in the bible is willing to pardon…

word of god says if you had heeded my commands, then you peace would flow like a river. He also states happy are ye that keep my commands. The essence of these words are simply foolishness to the unconverted heart. For those however; who have tasted and seen that god is good it is life unto them. There was a time in my life when i bought into the lies of the enemy. I saw god as being restrictive, his laws too rigid, and his entire government as a fun buster. I thought maybe that god needed…

hands of an angry god” by Jonathon Edwards where he illustrated that the moral of the story is “if sinners repent, they won’t face the wrath of god” Edward using an convincing tone and wanted to have an impact on his audience by appealing to their fears, pity and Varity. Edward had an impact on his puritan’s audience because of convincing tone, clear imagery and clear figurative language. Foremost Edward is trying to show his audience to be cautionary of after life and that god can easily…

The God Apollo was sent down to earth in the after math of the Titan War because Zeus the King of the Gods (also Apollo's father) had to blame another God other than himself. Apollo was sent down in the body of Lester Papadopoulos who had acne and was not handsome. Apollo was devastated by both characteristics. After all, he is the God of vanity. In the first book, Apollo meets a little girl who turns out to be a demigod named Megan McCarthy . In order to get back to Olympus, Apollo has to carry…

There are two opposing sides to the argument of faith and the existence of God, evidentialism and non-evidentialism. Evidentialism is believing that it immoral to either form a new belief without sufficient evidence, or to sustain an existing belief by deliberately ignoring doubts and avoiding honest investigation. Non-evidentialism allows for more personal evidence to justify one’s belief. When contrasting the two views my personally beliefs align more with non-evidentialism. British…

Meditation two, Descartes focus again on certainty, thru ontology and metaphysical tools. By means of these branches, he rationalizes the idea of certainty and existence. Nonetheless, he knows that God is deceiving, for he might not even inhabit space, furthermore he can’t trust the senses since the senses are also deceiving him for he doesn’t have any of the physical attributes to sense. Yet he is aware of his existence, although he is not sure of his entity. He is not sure of where does he…

Throughout this book, Huston Smith puts an emphasis on the nature of God and the different ways that God is seen through the eyes of the various religions of the world. In some cases, such as Buddhism, God doesn’t exist. In other religious such as Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, the idea of “God” is very similar. The people of these religions believe that God is the creator of man and the creator of the universe. God is portrayed by some of these people as someone who loves but also as someone…