... . Ho! wever, he is finally persuaded that Hell is the only merciful solution for the lost souls. Passing by many sad spectacles of people from Hell, Lewis begins to understand, with the help of MacDonald, that these people must throw away everything and commit their lives to Christ. Whether a warning to or a ... would cling to them even with heaven in front of them as a real and tangible thing. He didn't make the difficulty of such a choice plausible. Lewis" strengths in this book are his use of illustrative fiction to put his point across. He catches the imagination and addresses many d...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Joe came to the door and told me Mr. wasn't home. I went in anyway and watched television with Joe and John. Then we got too talking about college and our futures. I ended up asking John what he wanted to do when he got out of college. He said, "I want to be a missionary and spread ... " miracles are one way he separates himself as the true king. The fact that he was not bound by the physical world should be inspiring. As John reads: "Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, ... by believin...

• Word Count: 1873
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• Grade Level: High School

... has given them to me, is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hands. I and my father are one." (John 10:29-30) This also shows that Jesus was claiming to be divine. I don't believe that Jesus was God in fact, I think it is crazy that he ... of people, (Matthew 8:28-32; 15:22-28) Jesus healing diseased people, (Matthew 4:23,24; 8:3) Jesus raising the dead (John 11:43-44) and restoring the sight of blind people spiritually and physically. (John 11:43-44) Again I don't think these stories should be taken literally at all, because to me these stories are abso...

• Word Count: 1464
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... as it is limits our understanding into the nature of the holy. However some people claim creative expressions don't enrich our understanding into the nature of the holy. For instance John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace", claimed the song lacked the message of God. He asked his congregations not to show up to the performances of the song and ... said that 'true Christians' would achieve more by reading the bible than listening to the song. In the song ''Glory'' by John Legend & Common the song is about everyone being considered as equal, with the first lines being ''One day when t...

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... Africa, where he sailed as a young man of about Manolin's age. Regarded as kings of the animal world, lions symbolize qualities such as courage, strength, grace and dignity. Christian theologian C.S. Lewis also uses this symbol to inspire religious faith. In his allegorical series, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion represents Christ; when the main characters trust in him, their adventures go ... attract and nourish hungry sharks. Jesus was nailed to a wooden cross, like Santiago nailed the great marlin to the side of his wooden boat. But first, according to Gospel of John, Jesus carrie...

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• Grade Level: High School

... looked. The only description that can be accounted for is the prediction by Abraham. Which depicts Jesus as a man that you would not recognize as the Son of God. Even john the baptist said that "if not for his sermons he would not recognize him as the Son of God". The book also goes on to show that Jesus did not ... a few. A man of broad knowledge and wide reading, Yancey introduces us to ideas about Jesus from writers such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Augustine and Luther, Barth and Kierkegaard, Chesterton and Lewis. I can relate to Yancey and how he admits his own tendency to doubt, his...

• Word Count: 1525
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• Grade Level: High School