It is almost a certainty that America's founding fathers, with visions of free worship, ever imagined that this society would use its constitution to take God away from everyday lives. ... However, they may be able to hear or read prayers from a variety of religious traditions and inspiring statements from secular sources. ... Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2 to 1 to declare the Pledge unconstitutional because of the addition of the phrase stating, "The statement that the United States is a nation 'under God' is an endorsement of religion. ...

• Word Count: 1128
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: High School

 AN EXEGESIS OF 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7 There are perhaps few passages within the Pauline Corpus1 that have so much ambiguity involved as that of 2 Cor 12:7. Questions arise from Paul's metaphorical use of "skovkoloy th/: sarkiv." There are questions about the dative use of th/: sarkiv. Theories abound as to what the thorn is2. These vary from eyesight3 to malaria, from sexual temptation4 to human enemies5 or even a satanic enemy6. ...

• Word Count: 3123
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• Grade Level: High School

We have to understand the Old Testament before we can get clear vision of the New Testament, for both show how God saves and delivers. ... The author made a statement we really do not know who killed Goliath, because of the scriptures. ... His image seems to be an heart of unraveling the truth; his words are explanatory with facts to back up his statements, but the problem I see, is he puts his opinions in the book which if you did not know history you would not know the difference of facts or non-facts, for example his remark we do not know by scriptures who really killed Goliath the Palest...

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• Grade Level: High School

Borg also describes Him as a social prophet, which is characterized as a person that has conflicts with authority, that criticizes the elites of his time, and that promoted a different "social vision." ... He used extraordinary actions to make statements, like eating with social rejects and the diseased. ...

• Word Count: 903
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Borg also describes Him as a social prophet, which is characterized as a person that has conflicts with authority, that criticizes the elites of his time, and that promoted a different "social vision." ... He used extraordinary actions to make statements, like eating with social rejects and the diseased. ...

• Word Count: 922
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• Grade Level: High School

These few statements reveal that Mrs. ... By the time her vision is over, Harbour Winn notes, "Ruby ultimately accepts her spiritual lameness and converges rather than collides with the grace offered in her moment of epiphany" (23). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This statement affirms the idea that he is already developed about the historical significance of creation stories in the Bible. ... He sums up his ideas well in the statement, "There is ever reason for a Christian today to embrace both the theological teachings of Genesis and the theory of evolution- (Edwards, 13). ... God knows that we are limited in the amount of love that we can so him because are not able to see to total picture and it clouds our vision. ...

• Word Count: 1963
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

But their messages are very different: Christ told parables to teach His followers about the kind of life they would have to live to enter the Kingdom of God; Santiago tells stories of Joe DiMaggio to pass on to Manolin his vision, his fishing skills, and his memories. ... The description of what becomes of the marlin and the sharks foreshadows Santiago's suffering, much the way several of Jesus" statements in the New Testament foreshadow Christ's betrayal and crucifixion. ...

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Joseph Smith, then a fourteen-year-old boy, had a vision telling him that the true church was not in this world. ... Their third book is the doctrines and covenants, which are 135 revelations and statements that are restating in updated terms the first few chapters of the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 2529
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As we go about our lives in these days and times, we look and see a division between people. More than a month ago, terrorists attacked our nation, and now, more than ever, we need spiritual guidance. Instead, we have attacked each other as a people, and burned religious edifices. We have cast down ...

• Word Count: 2707
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• Grade Level: High School