... for the counselee) Why we get upset with God is because we want him to use power the way we want. God is God, we are not. We can only live the mystery. In situation like these Theology cannot give answers, but spirituality can. We emphasize theology more and try to give theological answers ... , going beyond the boundaries trying to respond parental and involve in problematic actions like lending money to the clients, and trying to solve problems for them. Relationships should not become over personal with loss of objectivity that is necessary in a professional relationship. Considering t...

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... to believe in God because being wrong in believing has far less negative consequences than not believing and being wrong. This argument has a very sound level of security of if wrong in believing in God, no harm done. Many people could find solace in thinking that what they are doing will have ... one explain something without actually explaining any logical or detailed accounts? It basically sums to if you believe in it, it makes complete sense and answers just about any question, and if you don't believe in it, it seems farfetched that everything can be answered in such a simple way. ....

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... New Testament the witness of people who knew Jesus or were closely associated with events in the early church." (46) The Bible is the guide book for the Christian. Because they believe it is the perfect word of God and it states that Jesus is the son of God, Christians believe their religion ... in monotheism; that there is only one true God. However, Islam takes the belief to a deeper level, ruling out Jesus as the Son of God. "They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily .....

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... to speak God's words equally to Jews or Gentiles, which was a "word only meaningful to in relation to Israel and the Jews for the rest of mankind". The Book Jonah is said to be foreshadowing of Jesus death and resurrection one of the reasons why many people feel this way is because the ... word Jonah itself means, "dove". Also the fact that Jesus makes a reference to the "sign of Jonah," which is also enough for people to see the Book of Jonah as historicity. However, if the author wanted to declare it as history rather than a parable he would have given dates and names. ... repetition ...

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... . Ruth, whose identity is alien to Israel, nevertheless undergoes hardship and loss in the service of an Israelite, and she is eventually rewarded for that. The book of Ruth has loyalty, economic survival, accepting foreigners, and loyalty to one woman to another highlighted throughout the story. Ruth, throughout these four ... major themes is shown blessings through God. In the Bible, the book of Ruth is located in between Judges and 1 Samuel. Ruth was is suggested to be written sometime during the reign of the judges. Which means Ruth ... Even though God has taken Judah out of famine...

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... Daniel, the majority of scholars share similar interpretation. This is because interpretations of dream or vision are included in the book. As for the book of Revelation, it contains various symbolic things and beings but there is not much interpretation for dreams or visions included in it. That is why there are several approaches to interpret Revelation in Christian community. Because of several approaches ... . If they were to be understood literally, then their interpretation would be problematic. For example, the book of Revelation mentions the Almighty God who is going to destroy a...

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... or faced him, he would not curse the name of the Lord. In chapter two, Satan again tried to test Job saying, "Skin for skin! A man will give all he has for his own life, but stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face." Satan proceeded ... happen to good people? Those who do not understand Christianity see Job as a story about a good man who faces terrible torments. The reason that the book of Job is often viewed in this manner is because the readers do not choose to believe that the same God that Job loved and worshiped would allow ....

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... bet God that his humble servant would curse him if he would take everything away from him and also take his health. Through all that, Job knew to never curse God. Especially in the part of the book where Job's wife tells him to curse God and Job says no. He then told his wife that you need to take the ... angry at Job, God is angry at the comforters. The Lord had to educate Job because no one else was educating him right and speaking right of the Lord. For the last argument if God wouldn't have won then why did God give everything back to Job twice as much as he had before. That will hav...

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... and followed the instruction of false prophets. Furthermore, book of Kings tells us that Ahab and his wife Jezebel were the most evil king among all king of Israel who brought worship of Baal to new height of Israel and also built the altar for Asherah pole (1 Kings 16:31-33). According to ... 21-24). An unnamed prophet announced the destiny of Jeroboam's altar (13:1-10). Unnamed prophet rebuked Ahab for allowing BenHadad to escape (20:35-43). Micaiah foretold Israel's scattering (22:8-28). Author of book of Kings records valuable ministry of Prophet Elijah and Elisha more than any other ...

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... " (20:18). Some of the Ten Commandments, like keeping the Sabbath day, are also talked about in Deuteronomy about social injustice, which is good for the whole community. "He declared to you his covenant, which he charged you to observe, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them on ... and stop him from destroying his people. Then Moses goes down the mountain and finds chaos, he goes and asks for everyone who is on Lord's side? The sons of Levi all came and Moses instructed them to kill everyone else. This is another contradiction since Moses is holding in his hands the ... provi...

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... (Genesis 3.21). God had stated that he would punish them if they went against his word, but in the end he felt sympathy for them and in a sense rewarded them for their wrongdoings because God had regretted his original decision to chastise them. In the simplest sense, God was unsure of his actions. God did ... stated that, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die," (Genesis 2.16, 2.17). Adam and Eve had ignored this warning however and had eaten ... will no longer yiel...

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... , also called Levi, who was a tax collector-(The complete Jesus p221) Matthew's gospel is his recollection of Jesus" sermons and teaching as remembered some 75years later (75 AD) "Almost all of Mark's book is to be found reproduced, sometimes verbatim, by Matthew (approximately 600 verses out of 661f)"(Messages of the Bible p71) The following sermon out of Matthew 6:5-33 discusses worry ... and Jesus" feelings toward it. It should additionally be said that "for Matthew, like all of the gospel writers, was much less interested in reporting events than presenting theology-(who wrote the .....

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... . His mature theology stressed the sovereignty of God's will over creation and the necessity of humankind's conformity to it." (Kagan 282) In Truth for All Time, Calvin implies that that the "good life" is a complete and total following of God's predetermined Plan. Calvin repeatedly claims that only ... already chosen will be able to fit into the criteria needed for those to obtain the good life. The Truth for All Time is, in the author's own words, a brief outline of the Christian Faith. This work is supposed to be a hand book on how the Calvinist Christian should perform his daily life'...

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... start by asking this question: Why are humans aware of God? When you look at every culture throughout history, what is their one common denominator? All of them searched for a higher being (and we still do). If there is no such thing as God, if God is a big mistake, then the idea should ... have existed; at least it should have been eliminated by evolution long ago. There is no rational explanation for this; but there is a rational explanation if there is a God. According to "God," we are all aware of Him because He made humans in His image and likeness by giving us a spiritual nature. ....

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... , literature starts not to include the deep thoughts about God and blatantly saying how he is supreme and eternal salvation. In the Canterbury Tales the characters are especially interesting because all of them represent the class they are in whether it be monks, nuns, or knights. The Parson is a devout religious person and he is a true Christian giving the money he ... ...

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... asked by believers when they are enduring hard trials and suffering. Is God unfair? Is God silent? Is God hidden? We all struggle from time to time with these questions. In this book Yancey tries to answer these questions through a biblical standpoint. One of the central aspects of the three questions is the aspect ... from us. You can ignore him or try to suppress your feelings, but this won't do. One response that seems to be predominant in the book of Job is to express your feelings to God. Suppressing them will just create more frustration. I had never thought of what doubters want t...

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... , like the cold without heat or darkness without light." The professor had nothing to say.. (1) What is evil? Is it the lack of good? The Oxford Dictionary of Current English defines evil as an adjective, "morally bad, wicked; harmful, tending to harm; disagreeable." Or as a verb, "evil thing; wickedness ... to him and decides to belong to the other side, or the evil side. He states, ". I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop." (p.53) Are society's views about what's good ... caring environment,...

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... making, or make decisions for us. In Robert Mulholland's book, Invitation to a Journey, he challenges us to do exactly the opposite of this. He proposes to us to the challenge of creating and following a path that is unique to us, and causes us to look inside ourselves for answers. He develops a very ... is a great start to his definition, because it right off the bat introduces to us that we will not get instant gratification, or the "all of the sudden" realization that many of us believe should happen when trying to find Christ. The next part of the definition is being conformed. ......

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... our own questions then who needs GOD? Paradoxically it is Hawking who speaks of GOD and His existence, but it is his goal to find all the answers, perhaps to know the mind of GOD; and Sagan who speaks of the absence of GOD, and considers the possibility that we cannot know everything ... maybe can be. Where our minds can work ceaselessly and endlessly to find more answers. I our minds are constantly working to break down and understand it leaves little work for our souls. They can begin to atrophy and wither, rendering all things subject to the mind, to be studied rather than appreciated...

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... there is some kind of God. Most people say that believing in a certain religion is good for the body and soul and is also a good way for one to communicate with God on a personal level. Douglass does observe the injustices and discrepancies that were common during slavery. He then tries to ... God does exist and has given him the strength and willingness to fight off his opposition. Likewise, there have been other second sources on Frederick Douglass's book "The Narrative" that concurs with Douglass's stand on his religious beliefs during the times of slavery. One author in particular, Na...

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... India 2,500 years ago. An Indian Prince, Siddhartha Gautama, saw that there was suffering in the world,"(www.stjames-hamptonhill.org.uk) he found answers by meditation and is known as the Buddha. The aim of Buddhists is to feel joy and freedom, which they call "Nirvana." They believe that ... from a lot of scriptures. The most important is the Tripitaka, which contains teachings of Buddha. They have three baskets, the first one containing rules for monks, the second has Buddha's teachings and the third has more teachings. They do not believe in a God. Hinduism: Hinduism started in India ...

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... in the Dark) Throughout the centuries, there has been a conflict to whether if science and religion can actually work together. If it was possible for science to be without religion, and religion to ever be without science. From the theory of evolution versus creation, which is the division of scientists ... In a way, I interpret it as religion has a way of creating life and the world around us, but science interprets it and actually defines it for us to learn and understand. Isaac Newton stated that, "Gravity explains the motion of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planet...

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... the idea that God was in their journey through life. In chapter seven of his book he writes, "we might humble ourselves before our God, and seek of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all substance pouring out our prayers to the Lord with great fervency" (McMichael and ... a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, thus his curses light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him" (McMichael and Leonard 53). Pilgrims actually believed that the disease was sent ... from God, inste...

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In the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans, there was a growing unsettlement with traditional religion. People were becoming less accepting, taking less for granted, and wanting more; more knowledge and more answers. A new age of questioning was surfacing. Searching for alternative answers and truths, new groups began to develop in order to deal with the discontentment and hoping, ultimately, to end it. Thus we ... the afterlife. By following the rituals and observances of your cult, you were given the secret instructions on how to become immortalized in this way, how to reach the highest ...

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... made the worlds. The Christian in faith takes these scriptures literally, and believes in God's capability, efficiency and potency in bringing into being by His Word, all that we see and more in the universe. What some scholars believe. Dr McFarland states in the workbook, that most biblical scholars now think that Genesis ... Jet Propulsion laboratory in America. However many there really are, the bible tells us, He knows the number of the stars, "and wait for it", He calls them all by name. Psalm 147:4. Isaiah 40:26. Who else, but an almighty God, could create this abundance of rollin...

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