The True Believer

ISIS Indoctrination of Children ISIS, also known as IS or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is a large and powerful terrorist group that originated from Iraq and Syria. Members in ISIS are known as jihadists. Jihad means “holy war” and is not a violent concept, but in this context, the word Jihad stands for people who are severely against nonbelievers. ISIS was founded in 1999 and is currently lead by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Very little is known about the ISIS leader except that he was born…

role in the transcendentalist movement; it was also something Emerson wrote about in Self Reliance. In his work, he presses the idea that individual experience is greater than the knowledge gained from books: "To believe that what is true in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius." This quote means the person who relies on the opinion of others lacks the creativity needed for individualism. This is important because without individualism, everyone would be the same. Emerson…

Garia Marquez is a religious allegory that is represented with the author’s use of literary devices to express his feelings about the Christian religion. Marquez mocks the believers of God and their true lack of faith, which is represented with metaphoric allusions resembled in his story. He reveals the ignorance of believers, which repetitively happened since the Old Testament, the doubt that occurred towards prophets of God especially the Messiah. He exposes the criticism and the harsh…

neighbor prevents us from falling into unethical and negative situations. The importance of love is emphasized so many time in the Bible like in 1 Corinthians 13 where verse 13 states that “the greatest of these is love” and in 1 Peter 4:18 when believers are told to love each other deeply above all because it covers a multitude of sins, to name a couple verses. Summers and Summers (2012) also mention that even when a person starts off with the best intentions, he or she may fall prey to…

The last stage is Termination. From the literature this stage is explained as the stage in which a person has completed the process of behavior change. This is an interesting behavior stage because it is said not to be “typical”. For example, if your behavior change was to give up drinking alcohol excessively. Do you ever stop being a recovering alcoholic? If your behavior change was to make a lifestyle change, to lose some weight. Do you ever stop being aware of what and how much you are eating…

should not judge each other right? And really, his definition of wrong is different from mine—so how can he tell me anything??? It is not really all that bad, is it? Unfortunately, these statements are characteristic of the attitudes of so many “believers.” However, these statements present one of the reasons why churches and synagogues in the world today are…

5-step model that can be utilized in helping restore a Christian that has backslidden. The question presented here contains two sensitive subjects to discuss. Utilizing the method in the book, revival is clearly possible. God recognizes that the believer is weak and that failures do happen, but He also desired to see that person restored (Prov. 24:16). A clear path to restoration…

author believes that God is real and the creator of all. Also, she believes that humans are made with the capacity to relate to God in a personal way that has supported our respect for each person. However, not everybody believes there is only one true God. For those,…

The religion Confucianism was first discovered in the sixth century before the common era, or also known as B.C.E, and it was lead by its founder Confucius. This, religion, however did not really begin with Confucius discovering, but how he preserved his belief as a transmitter that could bring the old things in life and renovate it into something new. In the beginning, “ Confucius was born in 551 BCE in the small feudal state of Lu in what is now Shantung Province.” ( Religionfacts).…

They were also known to take a journey barefoot to a shrine. It was believed that if you were a true believer, you would willingly give up what your ‘flesh’ wanted and become like Jesus. This is done when one changes their inner self (or heart, as most refer to it) by “prayer and confession and disciplining the body- fasting, going on a pilgrimage, even…