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The True Decalogue by Apolinario Mabini presents his ten commandments which focuses on God and on the country. The first decalogue orders everyone to love and honor God and honor above all things. On the second decalogue, Mabini encourages us to always worship God and to always do good in accordance with our own conscience. The third one says that everyone must use their special gifts from God in order to act in accordance with what is true. The fourth decalogue states that we must always love…

Written work on The Kite Runner Do both tasks 1. How important is religion in the book? What attitudes do the characters have to it? How do they compare to the popular Western idea of Islam? What does Hosseini want to communicate to us through his references to religion, through what his characters say or what they see or hear Importance of religion in the novel Religion is a vital part of the culture in which the story originally takes place. Afghanistan is highly characterized by its…

Man's Hypocrisy of Christianity One can call it by any name, spiritual traditions, Christianity, religion, or even religious morality, but Jesus called it hypocrisy. In The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he compares true Christianity to religious hypocrisy. A hypocrite is a person who tells others to live or do a certain thing, and then that same person lives or does the complete opposite of what he preaches. This type of behavior has existed from the time Adam took a bite of…

Albert Camus contributed to a kind of writing consisting of Absurdism. In the book, The stranger, he used characters to demonstrate the absurdness in multiple ways. Albert Camus demonstrated how people who live by the rules of Christianity feel threatened by Meursault, the main character, because he doesn’t conform, in other words, he’s awkward. Meursault excludes himself from emotion in multiple events in the book, while most of the people noticed that he had minimal to no emotion at all.…

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…

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is about a man named Christian and his journey to the Celestial City and later of his family's journey. “I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?” John Bunyan tells of Christian's journey to the Celestial City and then of family's journey. The story is about Christian's journey from the City of Destruction or “this…

DANIEL’S VISION We can see in the Bible about the stages of God descending to human level. Daniel was privileged to see this in a three-stage vision. Let us turn to Daniel 10: 5-9. In these verses, Daniel first sees a Glorious Vision of a Man. This was a vision of the Son of God (Theophany) with the Glory of God. In this context, you may recall the prayer of Jesus in John 17:5, “O Father, Glorify thou me with thine own self which I had with thee before the world was”. When…

“Evidence can be aligned to point in more than one direction” (Strobel 13). In The Case for Christ, Strobel investigates the Bible, and information included in the Bible, from the perspective of an open minded skeptic. By interviewing thirteen scholars about topics pertaining to their respective fields of study, he was able to compile an overwhelming amount of evidence that convinced him to convert. The first major topic Strobel investigates is the reliability of the gospels. He states that,…

-11- Soul-Renewal Learning to Quiet Your Soul “Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.” Isaac of Nineveh “He restoreth my soul . . .” Psalm 23:1 (KJV) The Twenty-third Psalm is a well quoted passage of Scripture at funerals. This passage of Scripture has brought comfort to millions of grieving souls grappling with losing a loved one. I suppose there is no other passage better known nor more comforting than the Twenty-third Psalm.…

Character Analysis of Major Characters Jairus: Father Figure and Representation of a Power of a Man The first major character introduced to the narrative is the religious ruler named Jairus. The accounts of Mark and Luke focus on the depiction of Jairus as a father figure. Both included the name of the father, Jairus. The name is not used again to describe another character. The Greek word for Jairus means “whom God enlightens” (blue letter bible). The author uses a name to describe this…