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have been inseparable for eight years. The spaniel has skin disease-mange, I think-which makes almost all his hair fall out and leave it covered with brown sores and scabs.” along with “the people who had worked there told him that maybe he had been run over”. Then lastly Albert used the metaphor for when Meursault was taken to court and sentenced to life. “ ‘And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die and nothing remains?’ ‘Yes’ I said.“ Meursault didn’t care for the fact…

For example, one can look at Huckleberry Finn’s simplistic explanation of prayer and morality. “And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they? It warn’t no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn’t come. It was because my heart warn’t right; it was because I warn’t square; it was because I was playing double. I…

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philipians 2:5-8) Modern issues that we will be talking about is Kenosis. Kenosis is considered as a heresy because…

When people join together, they create society. When societies join together, they create history. It is the in efforts of the people that orchestrate the course of events that will eventually shape not only our modern world, but the course of human history. But why is that, throughout history, certain societies were able to dominate the historical stage, and other societies cannot help but go extinct? For example, Europe and China both had a “Golden Age”, but in the modern world, Europe becomes…

That humanity by creation uniquely bears the image of God is a fundamental biblical doctrine—as is also that this image is sullied by sin and that it is restored by divine salvation. Being made in the likeness of God does not mean humanity is an exact copy of God, we possess intellect, emotions, will and moral awareness as God has. The imago Dei is not a physical likeness for God is spirit and does not have physical features…

The Underworld is a place where the Greeks believed most souls of the dead live. The Odyssey and “Enkidu 's Dream” are two stories that describe how the underworld would be like when one encounters it. The Odyssey describes the underworld as a place filled with unhappiness and misery and that punishment will be served in the underworld to the sinners in life. While, “Enkidu 's Dream” describes the underworld as a very dark, unpleasant and scary place to be in, where no one looks forward to pass…

living life unnecessary. If all we have to do is have faith in God in order to reach salvation, then what is the point in living? If God’s only pleasure is in Christ’s death then why are we here and why did God create us? Luther claims that we only need faith, but he does not provide us with a purpose or higher calling during our life. I sympathize with Eck’s argument that Luther makes “God’s great salvation cheap by saying that people can just wave a magic wand of so-called faith and avoid…

Starting from the Garden of Eden, and continuing throughout our existence, God has repeatedly revealed to mankind His expectations, and the consequences of trespass against Him. He has clearly given rules to follow, and laws to abide by; First to Adam and Eve, then to every generation that has followed. He has also continually given us a clear and defined way out of sin, and back into a relationship with Him. In Leviticus, God “…established laws for proper covenant worship and for ritual…

Worldview Essay Romans Chapters 1-8 Introduction The book of Romans is a book written by the Apostle Paul to the believers in Rome. Paul wrote it to give them a solid theological foundation and to bring about faith in Jesus Christ and the obedience that comes from it. Even though many Jews and Gentiles in Rome identify and belief themselves to be Christian, they do not follow the required laws and are surrounded and submerged in sin. Paul believes it is necessary for him to go to Rome to “bring…

The Puritans were a group of very religious people. The term Puritan were applied to two groups of people who believed they should separate themselves from the corrupt Church of England. They also believed that God has selected a certain few for salvation, but unlike other christians they thought faith was just not enough. Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet about some of the puritans ways and beliefs. Bradstreet wrote a poem named “Upon The Burning of Our House.” Edwards wrote a sermon…