... the same time. "Mysteriously, our love for God is linguistically and psychologically inextricable from our lust" (Kerrigan 362). These words appropriately summarize the most frequently discussed couplet which ends Holy Sonnet XIV. "For I / Except you enthrall mee, never shall be free, / Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee" (12-14). Seen as a divine rape, a lover's wish, or a sadomasochist's fantasy, these ... "The paradoxes which close the religious poems assert his communion with God, for these paradoxes are, most of them, the central truths of Christianity" (Cathcart 163). By makin...

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... . The Greek Bible solves the narrative problem of the Hebrew Bible by redefining the promise of land so that it is no longer about earthly land. In the Hebrew Bible, motifs of barren women and betrothal act to reveal the Hebrew Bible's focus on land and the continuation of the family as a means of insuring inheritance of the land. Similarly, God ... Promised Land further reveals the emphasis on the physical world over the metaphysical. However, in the Greek Bible the metaphysical is placed over the physical in the recasting of these motifs so that the Kingdom of God comes to replace the ...

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... who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: ˜What are you asking God to do?' ... To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does " (130). Everlasting, inescapable loneliness: that is hell. Moral Motivation in a Godless Universe A brief paragraph late in the novel raises doubts about the man's struggles: "Do you think that your fathers are ... ...

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... of God among Black Africans, at least among the Bantu we have been able to study "seems one of the purest ever encountered in the course of history. (pg.130) Thus among the most of the African peoples the supreme deity was present in their pantheon before the advent of Islam and Christianity, since their advent and because of their ... ...

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... the Fall, man lost his original desire for God. When he lost that desire something happened to his freedom. He lost the moral ability to choose Christ (Sproul, 1996, pp. 130-131). This moral inability does not come about through external coercion, but, as the above Scriptures indicate, it comes about from an internal hatred towards God. The Bible emphatically asserts ... ...

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