Through human formation, the ministers learn and develops an understanding of others and empathy for people. They also gain self-knowledge which helps when relating to God and people in need. Through human formation, lay ministers gain a mature sexuality, which develops an understanding and respect for boundaries and recognition of the serious consequences of inappropriate behavior. ... Ministers must also posses an empathy and an understanding of those who suffer. ... Intellectual formation helps lay ministers develop an understanding and love for the Word of God and the Catholic faith. ...

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To gain the knowledge that we need, we must continue in faithful Bible study. ... One reason some have trouble understanding the word of God is that they fail to make the proper distinction in Scripture. ... Understanding how God wants us to serve him, both during our worship service and our daily lives, is another benefit for the proper use of hermeneutics in a Bible study. ... A proper interpretation of the Bible will direct our prayer lives into the will of God as we gain an understanding of what is lacking in our personal lives. ... Another benefit of the proper use of hermeneutics in a ...

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Sonnet 29 After one has carefully comprehended Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 one gains a deeper understanding of what the poet was going through at the time and his positive affirmation towards the end of the poem. ... It is to my understanding that rather than being in a state of melancholy the author ended the sonnet with happiness and a relevant purpose. ...

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But occasionally, an individual decides to come out from under the sheltering protection of their religion to gain a better understanding of other beliefs. ... It will be the goal of this paper to allow the reader (and myself) an opportunity to get a better understanding of the diversity of the more prevalent religions in the United States, and abroad. ... They gain their knowledge through their distinct scriptures written during relatively different time periods. ...

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With every line in the Sermon on the Mount you become deeper in tune with the word of Jesus and have a firm understanding of what it is he asks of his disciples as well as his followers. ... Jesus with the Sermon had just given the disciples everything they needed to know to gain access in the kingdom of God and he wanted that passed on to the people by the disciples. With that sermon he gave us all what need to gain access in the kingdom of God (as well as the same thing with the commandments). ...

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But as they came to see Christ as Yahweh's extension in the world, and as his life and mission gained clarity, they began to assimilate him to the define . ... As faith seeking understanding, the Western tradition has focused on the comprehensible and the plausibility of the notion of an immanent Trinity. ... Further, it may be that the rational struggle involved in seeking to understand the immanent Trinity is part of the gain we make through revelation itself. ...

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He attempts to gain understanding for the unexplainable; he is trying to understand the mind of a God that is so complex that we cannot even begin to fathom the ideas and principles that it puts forth. ...

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In knowing that numbers are not finite we are able to gather an understanding that there is an infinite number, whatever that may be. ... In comparison to this, Pascal pits the potential minimal gain if one does not believe in God and he/she/it does not exist against the negligible loss one would have if one did believe. Because there is much to gain and little to lose by believing in God, and much to lose and little to gain, Pascal believes that is reason enough to have faith. He declares that "you must be renouncing reason if you hoard your life rather than risk it for an infinite gain," ...

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Gradually Luther came to a new understanding of the Christian doctrine and of the Pauline letters. ... As for a political conservative, Luther gained a backing from German princes, and many other high ranking state officials; because with the Church losing power, it allowed more power to be given back to the state. ...

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In chapters 1-7 in the book of Romans, Paul begins to lay down the solid framework for understanding the broad scope of the gospel in his letter to the Romans. ... He states that "those who believe in Jesus Christ receive forgiveness for sin and gain new life in the Holy Spirit." ...

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Using this conceit, what is termed as a zeitgeist (literally the spirit of the time) is perhaps one of the most effective methods available as to understanding a foreign culture, especially that of one from a bygone era. ... The code emphasizes the glory that is to be gained in one's lifetime through heroic deeds, while Christian doctrine stresses that this glory is to be had in the afterlife. ...

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Shylock sums up the basis for his hatred of Antonio in the line before the famous "hath not a Jew eyes": "He hath disgraced me, and hind'red me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies and what's his reason? ... The reader's understanding of this fact does not lessen the horror we feel at his cruelty towards Antonio, but we are able to remember that the passion for revenge is a common human failing and not the unique characteristics of a ferocious and inhuman monster as the Elizabethans believed (Lip...

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"The Prince" by Nicolo Machiavelli is a poltical view on how an individual might gain, maintain, and expand the power over the state or states in which a ruler has authority. ... This is done by breaking down their themes, understanding their eras, and examining their communities. ...

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This book is delightfully insightful in it is content. Lewis is the narrator of his story, which begins in Hell, a dreary town full of empty streets. Lewis uses a dream as the vehicle to carry his ideas. Lewis boards a bus for Heaven with other ghosts from the town. It is not until the last chapter ...

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Some were at first in awe of the Indians but later that turned in to not understanding there particular way of life and lead to viewing the Indians as barbaric people. ... The Spanish used the Indians, and also imported African slaves to help gain wealth by mining for gold and silver which at the time was plentiful. ...

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The salvific truths that he talks about are the knowledge that we should gain from the stories. ... He thinks that science offers a better understanding of these ideas, but this does not mean the Bible stories should be thrown out. ... This quest for an understanding of the truth that we were created out...

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When the plan for our salvation was presented to us, we came to the understanding that we would leave our heavenly home and we would not be living in the presence of our heavenly parents. ... All of us accepted the plan of salvation and, in turn, gained our physical bodies. ...

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Throughout Mary Rowlandson's narrative, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, we receive a glimpse of what captivity among the Indians is like. Rowlandson's personal account is from a Puritan's point of view about Native Americans beginning in February of 1675. While reading this narrative, one mu...

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In the beginning of Whitefield's time, he found it difficult to gain listeners or support, so he sought out to preach in various random towns, without direction he even preached in wooded areas. ...

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In turn the Church can gain by the same actions which would allow them to find their trustworthy in the public forum. ... Their strong opinions helped peace to gain acceptance in the first century. ... Klassen believes that the early scriptures in Babylonian and Egyptian literature can be rooted to further understanding of Jewish idea of loving ones enemy. ...

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As noted above, my aim here is rather to explore and defend a third way of understanding the traditional C hristian notion of resurrection, a theory virtually all (but not quite all) of the church Fathers who discussed resurrection held in one form or another.' ... The theory may also help resolve a similar tension that is sometimes said to exist in Pauline thought, with texts like I Corinthians 15 and I Thessalonians 4 pointing toward the idea of a future, eschatological, resurrection (with those who die beforeh and existing till then in a kind of bodiless sleep) and texts like 2 Corinth...

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