... to church my whole life. The definition of Christianity in the dictionary says; the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Christians. A lot of people use the term Christian very loosely these days. Some people think it just means simply a person who attempts to live a good life. But what is the good life? Leo Tolstoy ... this own life." Tolstoy viewed religion as the way to happiness and the good life. Living a good life could mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Having money or possessions like cars and hous...

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... lives of quiet sacrifice for others. Yancey has synthesized a personal response to the theological difficulties of the sermon from the Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevski, whose lives and novels represent respectively the struggle for perfection and hope for redemption. Yancey surveys the Gospel accounts of ... and compares his own childhood view of miracles (magical signs proving Jesus' deity, promising personal safety, and calling him to greater faith) with his adult view (miracles can be naturally explained, believers often come to harm, and miracles rarely build faith)...

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... presence whilst praying and the relationship that seems to grow between the individual and the Divine through prayer. • Conversion - This involves changing from one set of beliefs to another. Leo Tolstoy, for example had explained his conversion to Christianity when he was in a state of long-term depression when he thought there was no point in living. • Vocation - is a term ... are people who maintain direct intercourse with the divine spirit and have knowledge of phenomena's that can't be explained. • Visions and voices - • Corporate Religious experience - this experience resu...

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... not done. Her girlfriend comes over, gasps, and kisses the artist. The art is finished. Leo Tolstoy said, art is the flowing of emotion from artist, through artwork, to audience. He was right. Art is the artist communicating with the audience. Art is the meeting of the emotions of the artist and audience. Art is beauty ... who will hold us and tell us we, and life, still have meaning. We want to communicate. We want to talk. In our one-way dialogue with God, we look for substitutes. God is creator. Artist is creator. God created the world. Artist created the art. God will not answer. May...

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