His main thesis is that spiritual growth is cultivated by God's desire to have an intimate union with us through the work of the His word and the Holy Spirit in order to glorify God. ... According to Ingram true spirituality is defined by a divine connection with God cultivated by the Holy Spirit. ... Ingram states that God's forgiveness, redemption, and indwelling of the Holy Spirit gives God's follower's new identity, new security, and eternal significance. ... What can be so painful to start can be vanquished by the power of the Holy Spirit and God's healing love. ...

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As civilization has expanded and improved it has gone through many different religions. Some of the most interesting and different have been the Mesopotamian religion, the religion of the Greeks and finally Christianity. These three religions were practiced in different areas and different time periods and therefore they will be excellent for a comparison. Religion is a key part of every society and civilization. No matter how it is organized or what type of God they worship, a society would be nothing without some kind of deity to organize it. ...

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In "Mother Catherine" and "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" are similar in there beliefs of childbirth whether it's before or out of a marriage. ... They lived together six months as a holy man and women before the call of the flesh made him elope with one of her followers." ... The differences between "Mother Catherine" and "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" is that "Mother Catherine" has more of a religious message to the reader. And "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" is more of the beauty within not so much the physical but the intellectual. ... For these qu...

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Then when tongues is applied as a gift of the Holy Spirit, it is the ability to speak a foreign language one had never learned before. ... Many of the charismatic groups say that tongues are a sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. ... "Speaking in tongues thus fulfilled the purpose of confirming the oral message of the New Covenant as it was being proclaimed under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and was described as one of the "signs" given for such a purpose."...

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"She was suggesting that the holy spirit' was absent in the preaching of some ministers- (D, p. 92). ... The colony leaders were feeling jeopardized by the beliefs that Anne Hutchinson was teaching ""the inner Holy Spirit released them from obligation to moral law- (rootsweb.com). ...

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The concept of the invisible thread as a guide is akin to the Holy Spirit, which remains unseen to the physical eye but believers rely on through their faith for guidance. ... In Irene's case, it was her obedience and trust in her grandmother that led to truly believing the Holy Spirit would not fail her that saved both she and Curdie. ...

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Another central theme of the Christian religion is the principle known as the Holy Trinity. This is the idea that Jesus was a single divine entity with three equal parts, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ... These "holy wars" involved the external struggle against the disbelief of other religious people. ...

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For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.... But here, it says not only are you destroying the fetus, but you are destroying the spirit of god that dwindles within the life and very being of the future child. Each and every one of us, regardless of our religious views, has the spirit of the lord within us. ... But when we are in the womb, the spirit of god is inside us, and we are pure. ... They argue that the spirit of god doesn't enter you and your life does not begin until your first breath is taken. ...

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(Hallowell 2010: 85) in which tribal members gather to offer communal prayer and sacrifice to the 'Great Spirit'. ... Some of the pledgers are given visions that imparts special knowledge to them during the ceremony, the power of these visions is said to come from the Great Spirit to be shared with the tribes. According to Wambli Sina Win, granddaughter of John Fire, Chief Lame Deer Tahca Uste, a well known Lakota Holy Man from the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, "Sundancing involves, suffering, pain and sacrifice and was never meant to be comfortable or easy. ......

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The life of Jesus Christ is extraordinary and pinnacle in humankind's existence. Not only in a historical aspect, but more importantly in a religious significance. In his life, being both fully human and divine and through his teachings and its messages, it has spurned a religion and its faith tha...

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Ps 68:5 says A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.. ... The children also feel secure if the marriage is secure Eph 5:25-33: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.(28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. ... If we can keep our marriages hol...

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In a view of Christianity, people are not only recipients of gospel but also missionaries that preach the gospel through God's faith and spirit. ... God's salvation applies to all nations just as it is said in the Bible, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.... Christian simply forgets that God is the one who does the work through His spirit, not only through the efforts he made. ...

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The sons of Bail stomp on the land and the people that associate themselves with them will no longer be welcomed in your Holy place. You Lord will turn the tempest into a gentle breeze of wind and Holy spirit on me. ...

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At five years of age, she doesn't fully understand the bible, or the messages conveyed within it, but God is clearly present in her free-willed spirit that allows her purity to bless those around her. As she plays her childish games, it is as if the Congolese can feel her altruistic spirit therefore they choose to accompany her, when they wouldn't give any other whites a chance to prove themselves. ... Within her earlier years she practiced her religion in many of her father's ways, however, as she realizes her fathers true spirit she wanders from this path and chooses to practi...

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Those theologians who treat faith simply as a transcendental experience of God, taking place in the inwardness of the human spirit, then to minimize the historical element in the Christian religion and to overlook the crucial role of mediation, through the living community of faith. ... In short, we may say that the chief criterion for a viable religious faith is its ability, or apparent ability, to satisfy those hungers for the human spirit which cannot be satisfied apart from faith. ...

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ATR followers see God as somebody who is good, merciful, holy, powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent, a spirit, unchangeable, and unknowable (Adedeji, 2012). ... This includes natural phenomena-hills, certain rivers, trees and the earth believed inhabited by the spirit..."...

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The tale states that there were three deities in the beginning: The Master of Heaven, the Producing Spirit, and the Producing Ancestor. ... Despite sharing the exact same God, and even using the same Holy Text (The Old Testament), Judaism and Christianity are divided by the fact that one group does not accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God. ... Shinto sees the world around them as split in two, between the visible world and the spirit world. ...

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Christianity is the world's largest religion with more than two billion followers. With a large number of followers comes large diversity in the way people follow the religion because different people have their own way of understanding religion. Christians, on the basis of their view about faith, c...

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As a man who was born into an atheist family, I've never frequented any place of worship before. The closest I've ever come to any religion was walking past the local Roman Catholic Church on my way home from school (I lived in New York, not South Carolina). The only personal religious experience I've had was going to my best friend's First Communion in this same Roman Catholic Church. At the time, I didn't understand what the true purpose of it was, only that we were going to get to party afterward. Despite having a Church in the middle of town, religion wasn't...

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Barbour states this need for humility in both theoretical science and religion: "There is a 'holy insecurity,' as Buber calls it, in our lack of certainty about the finality of our formulations" (1974:180). ... By wedding itself to the scientific "spirit" of the times, religion set itself up for its own fall. ...

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IS RELIGION AN INVENTION OF MAN? If man were to "create" a religion, it would stand to reason that such a religion would please the necessary nature of man. If a religion existed that was entirely opposing man's essential nature, it would also stand to reason that such a religion would not be th...

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That he is holy and asks that he allows his kingdom to come and God's will will be done on earth just like it is in heaven. ... The passage from Eagle Man, believes that we must respect Mother Earth in order to survive and they do not believe that only one religion controls the way to the spirit world. ...

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Thus there was a sort of negative karma, a spirit of death that became part of the library due to it being the site of a tragic death, as "The house was boarded up, and held its breath". ... Thus, Quick becomes part of a spiritual occurrence that both symbolises Holy Communion as well as the miracle where Jesus feeds many people with a few loaves and fishes. ...

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The status, or "place," of women in society has been a well-debated issue that is as old as the earliest civilizations. The inequalities between men and women can be observed throughout society in varying areas such as income level, job opportunity, sexual double standards, and rights to hold office...

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Yet, as a whole, the Pilgrimage of Grace cannot be regarded as a devout crusade to save the rights of Holy Church, to re- edify the monasteries and to restore England to a papal Christendom. ... However, Madeleine Hope Dodds and Ruth Dodds inclined towards the view that the rebellion was a popular movement, and was an aspect of the conflict between the free spirit of the English people and forms of tyranny: the Pilgrims were engaged in a struggle between liberty and despotism6. ...

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