We have often wondered: what is evil? ... This type of evil directed against an innocent being forces people to confront the reality that evil lies within them. ... Despite the realization that evil can come from within, many people perceive evil as coming from outside. ... It can also lead to the personification of evil. Beliefs in demons and the Devil represent this personification of evil forces perceived as external to our conscious control. ...

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I feel Antonio's fear of the llano represents his dependence on his family. ... Antonio's confrontation with ideas of good and evil are shown in his use of religion to try to understand the world. ... Antonio's open mind allows him to realize that both religions represent different ways of making sense of the same issues of life, death, good, and evil. ... Antonio's friends represent the collective social voice, as many people in the community feel that Ultima's cure is witchcraft. ... Ernie's mean-spirited teasing is Antonio's first real taste of this pheno...

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For example, some supernatural beings can represent simple themes of temptation or vice. ... Evil." Good and Evil and are such relative terms, but, they represent the most popular theme when it comes to the supernatural. Quite frankly, some would believe that the supernatural world and "good vs. evil" go largely hand in hand with one another. Good is often portrayed by a baseline mortal while evil is depicted as the strange, otherworldly creature with sinister motives. ...

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He brings up the question of evil's existence, to quote "The Tyger," from Songs of Experience: "Did he who make the lamb make thee"". ... Powell, "The author notes that the perfect, beautiful, symmetrical, work of art (the tyger) is such a destructive animal: here Blake is identifying the idea that there, in fact, is evil in such a beautiful world but he cannot understand why". ... The poem raises an innovative question that if God is responsible for creating both the good things in life (the lamb) and the evil things (the tyger), how can God be good and moral? ... "The L...

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As with most institutions, a leader is necessary within the religious belief system to represent and spread the spoken Word of God, as well as to ensure that these doctrines continue to be fulfilled by its followers. ... With these sacrifices, God promised to "Never again damn the earth because of mankind, for the human heart is bent to evil from the start.... God then asked Noah to build the Ark by stating, " build the Ark under our eye and after our revelation: and plead not with me for the evil doers, for they are to be drowned....

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This passage notes that "The Lord planted a garden in the east, toward Eden" (Gen. 2:8) and "Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:9)." God placed man in the garden with the command to tend and cultivate the garden with the admonition not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ... The tree of life stands next to the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the center or midst of the garden. ... Both the tower...

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These gods are in charge of evening out the defects of evils in civilization, with Fate as god above all the other gods. ... The idea of religion is to protect a man from the dangers of nature and Fate, and from the evil brought on by the civilization itself. ... In the end all good is rewarded and all evil punished, in the form of life, or life after death. ...

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Faith, however, when used to represent a psychological force, or as a reference to powers focused during the disciplines of Yoga, is quite a different matter. ... Concentration is not upon the "evil" resident in the personality, as was the case with theology, but upon the nature of beneficial changes in personality which can be worked. ...

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To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in his works, represent the powerful old patriarchs who rule over the minds if not always the wills of their families, reflected by Ephraim Cabot in Desire, Abraham Mannon in Mourning, and James Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey, while the mothers are used by their men like their lands. At the same time, the mother represents the whole world for her sons and "the magic fountain which incarnates mirror-like the child‟s desire for maternal reunion....

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After the waters receded, Noah built an altar to offer a sacrifice to God, while He made a covenant with His faithful servant, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.. ... According to Motyer, "The Tabernacle represents the completion and climax of God's redemption of His people. ...

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Reply to Lodahl's Response to my Critique: Michael Lodahl (Professor of Theology at Point Loma University) replies to my published critique of his notion that God is the "body of the world"1 in the same edition of the Wesleyan Theological Journal. His reply is called "A Response to Rodney Enderby" (hereafter RRE)2. I make the following comments in reply: Evidence for God as the "Body of Creation" Lodahl contends that my critique of his thinking, particularly as expressed in his book, God of Nature and of Grace (hereafter GNG) suffers from the serious f...

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Hume "I was from the beginning scandalised, I must own, with this resemblance between the Deity and human creatures." --Philo David Hume wrote much about the subject of religion, much of it negative. In this paper we shall attempt to follow Hume's arguments against Deism as Someone knowable from the...

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