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    would not implicate the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause.” (Harvard Law Review).When the 8th amendment was appealed it inforce punishments of incarnation, prison. Before the 8th amendment however, incarnation was never really used as a main punishment. It was used more for keeping prisoners in until it was time for their actual punishment. Now incarnation is one of our most popular punishment methods.“Fines were a critical part of the old system of punishment. Unlike the system of physical…

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    “Christology for the New Millennium” First, “Christology is the theological study devoted to answering two main questions: Who is Jesus? (the question of his identify) also What is the nature and significance of what Jesus accomplished in the incarnation? (the question of his work). Now, the meaning of Millennium refers to the thousand-year reign, to anticipate that the new millennium will occur at some future time (Grenz 25, 79). With the meaning of both words in mind, Christology…

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    Buddha himself had said that women cannot become a fully awakened Buddha. Women must first achieve rebirth as a man in order to start on the path to become bodhisattva. When looking at the jataka stories (the stories of the Buddha’s previous incarnations) all of the stories are about males whether it is a human, animal, naga, or some other being in the Buddha’s previous lives he was never a woman. “As Rita Gross has said of this situation: ‘To see more affinity between male humans and male…

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    On completing the story, Damanaka asked, “O Karataka, tell me, What is the moral of this story ?” Karataka replied, “I know Homo sapiens. I have understood the moral of the story very well, and it is this – If, like Homo sapiens, anyone endangers the life of one’s own mother, then , that will be one’s own end too.” “Absolutely right”, said Damanaka, “Times have changed, the Era has changed, but, the moral of the story has remained unchanged; Because, the behavior of Homo Sapiens too has…

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    the division between the nature of humanity and that of God are clearly delineated. In Western thought, it is only by the action and grace of God by which humanity can enter into relationship with God. However, Eastern thought in theosis see the incarnation as the source for the participation or defecation of humanity to participate in the life of God. These lines are blurred in process theology, because as Tomas J. Oord writes, “As one who is essentially relational, God has always been…

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    Maurice Wiless Religion

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    Wiles states that the incarnation can be explained without breaking natural laws because it is not an act of God. Wiles says that it is “perfection of human response to God” and the full humanity to Jesus is central. Jesus fully responded totally to God’s grace and in doing so, incarnated God in the world and so Wiles is saying that Jesus was not actually God and the incarnation becomes nothing more than human example of following God rather than God…

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    cannot be divided, nor be diminished or "humanized" by incarnation in any created form because God alone is completely independent and totally…

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    What happens to us when we die? This has been a question commonly asked and ardently debated by many since the beginning of humanity. Reincarnation, a solution for some to this question, involves the rebirth of a soul into a new body after its death, thus beginning a new life for the same soul. It is one of the most fascinating, yet mysterious concepts that reveals itself in several of today’s major world religions. Literally meaning, “to take on the flesh again”, reincarnation is especially…

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    New penology is the ideology of the current parole making systems, with the beliefs that crime is just a part of life and we have to accept it and try to emphasizes the idea of managing people to prevent crime (Feeley, Simin, 1992 p.455). The new penology system accepts the notion crime is not something that can be removed from society, and tries to reinforce the idea of crime is just something that people need to be able to live with(Feeley, Simon, 1992. p.455). A big notion of the new penology…

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    psychic sense. Which is a wonderful representation of the psychic sense because it uses all of our other senses to manifest. It also represents the cycles of seasons and life (birth, initiation, love, repose, and death), tThis continual spiral of incarnation in which we exist. The God and Goddess are also represented in the in pentacle, the goddess and her three forms and the god in his two tied together by the circle creates an image of the divine, and their place in the…

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