... tithes, attending church and more are a few factors in keeping our spirit in healthy conditions. Our spirit can become compromised to rot if we lack or fall short within our faith. Another reason why Christians live like the rest of the world is lack of faith. "Faith without works is dead" ... according to the book of James 2:14-26 (NSRV). Ronald Sider mentions Romans 3:28 (NSRV) on page 37, "that a person is justified by faith apart from works." When someone claims to have faith, what they may have is intellectual assent-agreement with a set Christian teachings-and as such it would be ...

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... Groberg, anything is possible. I can say that anything is possible for God. He was definitely challenged with his mission. He didn't think the impossible things that would happen, instead he trusted his beliefs and still did his best just to let the people understand him. John Groberg is a young man ... no matter what happen, we can still be strong. For example, the natural calamities we are experiencing time by time. We cannot avoid these things because it's a natural occurrence. During natural calamities like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and the most common thing which is typhoon w...

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... apparent age"" (Flank 1), making the age of anything a purely arbitrary guess. The discovery of radioactivity in 1896 gave scientists an excellent way to date things according to its stage in radioactive decay. Radio-metrically, scientists can determine the age of the planet and the dates of specific rock formations (Miller 26 ... have tried to support their "young earth" theory through population calculation. By counting 2.46 offspring for each couple of 100 generations 40 years apart, the total estimates the earth to be about 4,000 years old. Scientists are skeptical about this approac...

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... college may have co-ed dorms, where girls and guys live in the same building; most Christian colleges strive to keep the men and women apart to lower the amount of temptation placed on the students who are striving to live in a godly environment. Keeping the men and women in separate ... college may go out and get high or drunk, or perhaps do something dangerous; students at a Christian college are less likely to do such things because they tend to be looked down upon. Although there are some students, even at Christian schools who participate in such activities, they are ... usually pun...

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... to the pre-Reformation Roman Catholic Church, it was believed that all human beings are born into a state of sin. Due to the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the result is inevitable that humans cannot avoid sin. Even infants were believed to have sin ... out of their duty to the land. Inspired by Luther, the peasants wrote a list of their demands titled the "12 Articles". Their demands included many things including a tax break and lesser work. In a series of battles, though, the peasants were defeated and eventually destroyed. Following Luther, a priest from ... defended lay...

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... at graduation is a violation of our rights as being atheist." Many of her classmates said that "God is apart of our graduation because he has blessed us and given us the chance to make it this far." Unnfortunatly some people don't see things in that perspective. The bible is found in nine out of ten American homes. Can or should biblical references ... my thoughts are on that the truth is my teacher could lose her job over those three little words. I can sit in a History class and talk about the rise and fall of Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan but if I speak of the word God I can be condem...

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... to Traditional Hebrew of Genesis 1-3. Here, on several instances, the groundwork is laid for the patriarchal cause of the Abrahamic faiths in the story of Adam and Eve and The Fall. Eve, tempted by the serpent, eats from the forbidden fruit and then gets Adam to taste as well. As a result, all humanity is forthright compromised and the entire folly of ... , not mentioned in Judaism or Christianity, is mentioned in the same passage in the Surah, stating for men fearful of disobedient wives to " admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them." (Surah, 4:14). Islamic women who are ...

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