... opinions on Christianity. He talks about what he believes the true motivation behind the Christian belief is, and why people choose to believe in Christianity. I do not agree with what Nietzsche believes and interprets. I do not believe his thinking is true and accurate, and I have my own views against his. Nietzsche disagrees with what Thomas Aquinas says. Nietzsche is against everything that Aquinas ... searching for a meaning and we just want answers. Nietzsche disagrees with everything Thomas Aquinas says mostly when it in regards to religion and Aquainas' views on Christianity. Nie...

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... , that everyone was called to the Lord. Christianity broke the limits and bounds of race, gender, and social status. Author Wayne A. Meeks speaks about the powerful symbols for understanding evil. Christianity offered answers to open-ended questions of why? With the new Christian mind-set, one could go about his life feeling perfect, feeling that he was part of a bigger creation than what he knew. In ... this mind-set, people felt comfortable, more at ease with their surroundings and the behavior of others. Christianity gave ... a taste of the great mystery that countless felt in their ...

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... links them physically. Eventually ET gets sick and dies, but Elliot's love brings him back to life. The film is brought to a conclusion after a dramatic bicycle chase from the scientists who want to capture ET. After the escape, the spaceship returns for ET and they share a heart felt good bye. Although it doesn't seem like there are a lot of similarities between E.T. and the story of Christ, you would be ... Elliot first encounters ET, he wants to be his friend. Once the adults learn of his existence, they want to capture him for research. This shows us the contrast between the adult w...

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... a religious movie unlike any other. There is no hint of the English language, no clear moral to the story, and contains enough blood to paint a house red. Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", is a direct adaptation of the passion story as it appears in the bible. The passion story is the capture, enslavement; torture, crucifixion, death, and rise of Jesus. The movie does not contain any back-story, so anyone without ... knowledge of Christian scripture might have trouble understanding some of the subject matter. However, it is not hard to ... ...

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... example of this is seen in the wrinkles of the clothes and faces. The sculptor sculpted the very natural form of feeding a child, which is known by almost everybody in the world. Also, I believe the bible and all the books the sculptor read about Christianity helped him form the images of Jesus and the Virgin in his mind. I was expecting this sculpture to be bigger than it is. A bigger sculpture however wouldn't be more impressive ... than this one because the details on this ... ...

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... was a very powerful Biblical event, in which Jesus and his disciples gathered for one final dinner together. According to the Bible, important events took place during the Last Supper, including an announcement by Jesus that one of his disciples would betray him and the first communion. To artists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was necessary to give proper deference to such notable ... most famous art works "The Last Supper" took 5 years to complete. It is a fresco artwork created in 1498 and has been subject to a lot of restoration. While the Last Supper is a typical sub...

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... and Greek). Considering this fact, the unity of this book is staggering! (McDowell 16) There are more than twenty four thousand manuscript copies of portions of the New Testament in existence today. That's more than any other document of antiquity in history. The only book that even comes close to approaching such numbers is the "Iliad" by Homer with only 643 manuscripts in existence. (McDowell 39) "The ... B.C., predicts Cyrus (by name) as the king who will say to Jerusalem that their city will be built and the foundation of the temple will be laid. At the time of this prophecy, Jerusale...

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... be written, a view that goes back to the late second century A.D., and the esteem in which it was held by the church; no other was so frequently quoted in the literature of earliest Christianity. The Gospel According to Mathew presents the story of Jesus, the demands of Christian discipleship, and the breaking-in of the new and final age through the ministry but particularly through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Readers learn of actions ... is said in 5:48 " so be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." This commandment is primarily based on our heavenly Father and His...

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... Christ as merely a prophet, and therefore their view of The Last Supper and the crucifixion is a bitter and doleful event that needlessly ended the life of a great man. This is so wrong, in fact it can't be farther from the truth. The people of the church, however, look at the prophecy and look at the teachings of the Son of God, and rejoice in the forgiveness of sins bought with the Blood of Christ, even though ... it meant His great suffering and betrayal. To forget that He died for our shortcomings is the same as never having faith in Christ himself; the whole point is missed. Theref...

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... better educate His followers of what it takes to eventually be a part of God's kingdom. Such information would be seemingly too broad to understand within the confines of a book, however Luke masterfully combines all of these facts into one story with numerous lessons, leaving it as a difficult task for ... a story with a moral, to emphasize a certain point pertaining to God. As His popularity among the common person started to grow, so did the council's hatred for Him as they felt threatened by Jesus" powers. Jesus knew His capture was in His future, so He had planned a final feast with...

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... has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men" (The Knowledge of the Holy, vii). The thoughts which enter one's mind when contemplating God will determine whether or not that person is a true believer in Christ, a doubting Thomas, or an atheist. When I think about God I think of ... a mysterious object which reigns on high and knows the future but does not dictate to us what to do ... , we are free to make our own choices. Some may think God and not be able to see themselves approac...

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... with God. It is a Christ centered outlook that is biblically based. You understand that the bible is the living word of God, and that Jesus died to save you. John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." You understand that according to the Bible you can only be a Christian by confessing that Jesus is ... person on this planet. Jesus himself has commanded this of us when he gave the Great Commission. However, non-biblically, we do not really have a purpose other than to survive and to make ourselves happy. Although we ...

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... us enough to show us our error. The Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity. There is one God who is manifested in three persons, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is eternal (Heb 9:14) The Holy Spirit is omnipresent (Psalm 139:7-10) The Holy Spirit is omniscient (1 Cor 2:10-11) The Holy Spirit is omnipotent (Luke 1:35) The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sins ... , shows God's wrath to produce Godly fear, and shows us the way to God's salvation through Jesus Christ ... . And finally the Holy Spirit is the promise of Jesus Christ. (John 16:7; John 14:17; 1 Cor 2:12; 1...

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... to overcome. They are told to reach out, to pick up, to put down, to strive, to fight and to rejoice. They are told what to do, what not to do, what to believe and what to expect from Heaven, hell and the world. They are told who to trust, who not to trust, who to turn to, who to worship, who helps them ... it hath not works, is dead, being alone" "and by works was faith made perfect" "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." JAMES 2:14-26 GRACE is the path that leads to the door of salvation and ALL are welcome to travel it. (JOHN 3:16, ACTS 2:3...

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... that " I was left depressed, not only in response to the film's graphic portrayal of the death of Christ, but over two lost opportunities a real dialogue, and a chance to reflect not on the last twelve hours of death but on years before." (Martin). The National Review said that "any cinematic depiction of the Passion will fail to capture its full meaning." (National Review). Unfolding before our eyes we ... see a vivid illustration of the messiness involved when a Christian seeks to make an impact upon ... secular culture. No matter what anyone thinks of Mel Gibson or the movie, I belie...

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... the Bible. Noah, in the Bible was obviously a prophet who built the ark and brought the animals on two by two to save them from the massive flood that destroyed the earth. Tom was one of Christ's disciples, specifically being the one who denied him three times, hence the name "Doubting Thomas." There were many John's in the Bible. The most famous of the John's however would have to be John the Baptist the prophet and ... cousin of Christ who baptized people in the River Jordan and ... eventually got his head cut off. The Joad family on their journey ... ...

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... Thomas Anderson a.k.a Neo has lived a relatively ordinary life--in what he thinks is the year 1999--until the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world contacts him. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life--the "Matrix"--to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the ... AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "...

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... languages- Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The written material covers over fourteen hundred years and events in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The authors range from poor people to kings, from Hebrew fishermen to Greek doctors (Poole, 1998). The New Testament books were written before 100 A.D. but were not put together until 367 A.D. by Athanasius and the councils of Hippo (393 A.D.), (Poole, 1998). The Bible has manuscript support from ... ). Though some have fallen asleep (are deceased). Commentary in the NIV Study Bible on this passage notes that this was probably written to shore up the faith...

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... symbolic ceremony where we agree to be held accountable to these values. Instead, our most base traditions such as a big fat man in red representing the birth of the are savior are exploited and used for gain and get bigger and more commercial every year. Sending people into depression over what they may perceive as their "failure" to give their loved ones what they now have ... been told by our media is "required" for happiness. As well as creating debts in other people that they spend the remainder of the year trying to pay off. And ... for what, a tradition that originates from the ...

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How Does Acts Elevate Peter? Acts elevates Peter by describing miraculous things that he did. The first occurrence of these activities is in Acts 3. In this chapter Peter and John were walking into a temple where they came across a crippled man begging for money. Peter told him that he had nothing of monetary value to give to him, but what ... have he would give. At that moment Peter told the man that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to stand up and walk. After doing this Peter lifted the man up and he began to walk and jump around praising God. The next thing that happens is when pe...

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... are sufferers for a cause. They are usually interpreted like saints and being a saint is a high honor in a religion. The time between the recorded words of Christ in about 70-80 C.E. to the next Christian document, which was written in 1273, is quite great. Thomas Aquinas the leading Scholastic theologian takes another gospel from Matthew (vii. 12) and says "All things whoever so you would that men should ... do to you, do you also to them." Here the Christian document does not ... condemn trade yet rather emphasizes the importance of integrity. No one would want to buy a thing for ......

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... our image but rather to help prune and grow them into the image of Christ" (Parrott, 2009, p. 98). Jesus also took time to develop personal areas within the various inner members of His circle, working on their strengths and weaknesses. Jesus stated in reply to one of Thomas' inquiries for leadership in John 14:6-7 answering, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to ... the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my ... Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him" (2004). Along ... ...

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... Jesus only visited one wedding, people criticized her & said that she should have only married once. Instead of feeling shameful about her intense sex drive, the Wife simply argued that God told them "to increase and multiply" (Prologue ln. 28). She sees sex as a fun & healthy activity to participate in. She does not feel shamed by her actions but sees ... also claims that she wants a love that she cannot have. "Faced with coyness we bring out all our wares; a great crowd at the market wares expensive, and what is too cheap is held to be worth little" (Prologue ln. 521-523). No woman wa...

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... talks about Jesus and our salvation. However we would not have the New Testament without the Old Testament, and to truly understand the New Testament, one must understand the background that is presented in the Old Testament. The Old Testament contains the promises that become fulfilled in the New Testament. Christ often refers to the promises from the Old Testament and without knowing the Old Testament we only know half the story, and therefore cannot fully ... understand the Bible. Without understanding the Old Testament we ... ...

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... God rules over her life as the only creator and higher being, believing in another God would be a sin against the Ten Commandments that she believes and thus flaw her belief system. She also believes that the higher power is something outside of and bigger than herself. The only reason the object is valued is for it's visual beauty, and status brought by having it. The beliefs of Christians have been ... accepted for quite some time in history and it is not controversial to be ... a Christian. However being a Wiccan and believing in other things such as spells ... ...

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