According to document 1, "Listen to the voices of your dear dead relatives and friends beseeching you receive complete forgiveness of all their sins Remember that you are able to release them, for as soon as the coin in the coffer rings the soul from purgatory springs" (Tetzel). ... Every day, mostly rich people, would run to the church to donate additional money so they could save themselves and their dead relatives from Hell. ...

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Christians believe in a living Christ, not a dead hero and items such as the crucifix and the cross have become important symbols of the suffering Savior and the risen Lord. ... Those who are Christians therefore believe that not only are they saved from their sins but also look forward to the day where Jesus will come again and judge all the living and the dead and those that have been faithful and good will ascend into heaven. ...

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Jesus is believed to have died through crucifixion and then resurrected from the dead by God to illustrate forgiveness of human sin, the conquering of death, and denial of Satan. This act of redemption would be visualized by those who have faith in God, who then would likewise be resurrected from the dead to ascend into heaven. ...

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In The Golden Ass of Apuleuis, Isis claims that she is "Nature, the universal Mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all thing spiritual, queen of the dead and queen of immortals"(524). ...

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The second case - the "death" of people gathered for the funeral of his father's apprentice, who, according to Jesus, was themselves dead. Why Jesus said the dead men whose bodies continue to move and live? ...

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Amer. Lit I Thomas Paine, Reasoning the Enlightenment In the first few lines of his argument against the church and state, Thomas Paine writes: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, Roman church, Greek church, Turkish church, Protestant church, nor by any church ...

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Yancey quotes several modern authors on Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper and first communion with his disciples, and Judas's betrayal of Jesus; Jesus' personal struggle in the garden of Gethsemane and the disciples' failure to support him; his questioning before Herod and Pontius Pilate; his crucifixion at Calvary; and finally his resurrection from the dead. ...

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Compare and Contrast essay: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism Introduction of Religions Christianity most widely distributed of the world religions, having substantial representation in all the populated continents of the globe. Its total membership may exceed 1.7 billion people. Islam, a major world...

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Reflection paper That I May Be His Own by Charles Arand Augustine And The Catechumenate by William Harmless "Reform" and "renewal" can be applied both to Luther's quest for the true confession of faith and to Augustine's endeavor to aid the Church out of dead ritualistic existence. ...

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In addition, Basser's primary sources include the Mishnah, the Babylonian Talmud, sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as many others that as a critical reviewer I should have read, but as a twenty-one year old college student with a moderate interest in Jewish and/or Christian historical texts, I have never even heard of, let alone read. ...

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