... ; 3:36, "anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life". This view takes eternal life as something that has already been given, not something that will be attained after death. Believers should not keep eternal life as a future hope, something that has not been given. It is an already opened gift to all who are truly apart ... undermining free will and choice. This argument mainly comes from one with an Arminian viewpoint; as a Calvinist has a different view on free will altogether. An Arminian could indeed hold this view without compromising there view on free w...

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... but mostly all are based on the same principle: there is something far greater than us and we must worship it. Being that this is such a widespread principle one would think that religions would have some kind of common ground especially when it comes to two of the oldest and most significant religions in existence today. ... Judaism and Christianity would reveal the root of their long-standing discord. According to the Bible, the origins of the Jewish people can be traced all the way back to Abraham, who is considered to be the father of Judaism. It is believed that Abraham circumcised ...

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... 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 that unbelievers have ... : mind, body, emotions, will, etc. As has been argued, the will is in bondage to the desires of the heart. And the heart is "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lo...

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... p185). To interpret is to appropriate here and now the intention of the text (Ricoeur, 1995, p185). Thus, the interpretation is complete when the reading releases something like an event, an event of discourse, an event of the present time. What happens in that event is that the interpreter obtains the possibility to see ... them. Division in the church, he said, is worse than war (Shelly, 1990, p25 ). At this council the dating of Easter was established. Rules were framed that defined the authority of bishops, thereby paving the way for a concentration of power in ecclesiastical hands....

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... to hope for their submission. He approved assassination when it could help him, and however barbarous or treacherous the means, the end justified the way in his eyes. On a couple occasions he not only approved of crimes, but also instigated them. Scholars concerning his moral character and sincerity ... those who do good deeds while punishing evil. He is a merciful God and is easily appeased by repentance. The punishment of the unrepentant wicked soul will be fearful, but the reward to the faithful will be great. All men will have to arise from the dead and submit to ... American Luthera...

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