... entered our lives; we (humans) became imperfect and unable to achieve the perfection that we lost. The word perfect means; blameless, exact, holy, flawless and sinless says The Writers Digest Dictionary. Adam and Eve shared the most intimate relationship with God. They put an end to that intimacy, when they both took a bite out of the forbidden fruit and caused the ... feelings. "Shame is a situation or condition into which a person, city, or nation is brought, which involves a loss of respect and exposure to reproach" a definition taken out of The Writers Digest Dictionary. Another wor...

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... dogma of a religion: the Moslem faith. 6. A set of principles or beliefs. --idiom. in faith. Indeed; truly. [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman fed, from Latin fids. See bheidh- below.] - American Heritage Dictionary. Faith can be interpreted in various ways. One may rely on fate to help them succeed in life and to help them find true love. Yet one may have faith ... another "force of nature" - without the believer bringing his own volitional powers into play. This, we might imagine, incidentally, is the secret of the origin of the word "fanatic." Shipley's Dictionary of Word Origins rem...

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... due to the simple fact that there are different beliefs, and no one belief can be considered right or wrong because there is some level of faith involved. According to dictionary.com, faith is defined as "confidence or trust in a person or thing, belief that is not based on proof, and belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings ... ...

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... ' is to hold spiritual concepts that make things happen, rather than to induce religious experiences that stop people thinking. Even secular wordsmiths know what the word 'evangelical' means. Chambers English Dictionary, for example, defines it as: 'Of the school that insists especially on the total depravity of unregenerate human nature, the justification of the sinner by faith alone, the free offer ... ...

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What is religion? According to an Oxford dictionary, religion is the belief in the existence of a supernatural ruling power, the creator and the controller of the universe, who has given to man a spiritual nature, which continues to exist ... ...

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