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» Religion Essays and Papers
The Longest Day
<view this essay>.... scientists in
the space program and mathematicians - one a former professor at Yale University
- have discovered that a whole day has been unaccountably added in time.
The positions of the moon, sun, and planets have to be calculated precisely for
all space shots to avoid problems in establishing the satellite's orbit. The
orbit has to be calculated for the life of the satellite to avoid its running
into something else in space.
Using computers, scientists can tell the exact location of the planets and their
moons for years into the future. By the same means, they have been able to
backtrack and determine these specific locations in the past. It was during on .....
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The Existence Of God
<view this essay>.... church and our society. This paper examines the many rational arguments for and against . It is based on the views of some of the great philosophers and scientists of our world. I will show that there is no sufficient proof or comprehensive arguments for .
God generally refers to one supreme, holy, personal being, The divine unity of ultimate good-ness and of ultimate reality. St. Anselm of Canterbury developed what we have learned to be the ontological argument. He began his argument by saying that even a fool can grasp or understand the concept of “a being than of which nothing greater can be conceived.” He continues to state that a fool would say that the .....
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The Holy Bible And Its History
<view this essay>.... Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew)
Written in the third century B.C. by Jewish scribes versed in Hebrew and Greek. Most Jews then did not understand Hebrew. Many of the Jews in the time of Jesus used the Septuagint as their Bible. Many of the New Testament Apostles quoted it when they wrote the Gospels and Epistles in Greek.
Not one of the original writings, called "the Autographs" exist today. However, the Jewish scribes made very accurate copies of the originals over the many centuries.
Certain European Jewish scribes called the Masoretes carefully transmitted it from copy to copy pre .....
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Hinduism
<view this essay>.... religion of Vedism. has religious, social,
economic, literacy, and artistic aspects.
The Hindu people rely on the ancient texts, called Vedas, for religious
support. Three important Hindu gods are Isuara, Siva, and Vishnu. A
component of Hinduism is Saivism, the worship of the god, Siva. Another
important component of Hinduism is Vaishism, the worship of Vishou.
Vanishism worships Vishnu in one or all of his ten Vishou incarnations.
Vanishism includes many different sects. Two important sects are the
Srivaisnavas, and the Devaitis of South India.
Vanishism focuses on a personal relationship with a loving, caring, and
gracious god. Saivism incorporate .....
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Who Is God?
<view this essay>.... and songs, Thompson shows the meaningful role
the Altar had in self expression of the Africans. "The aim is to view black
Atlantic art, especially in the New World, in terms of thoughtfully selected
[altar] objects belonging to specific philosophic constellations which help to
define the face of divinity."
Through the oppression of the salve trade, the Yoruba Africans worked to
keep there own conception of region intact. "Even under slavery, and under post
slavery persecution in the late nineteenth century, the Yoruba of Cuba and
Brazil managed to maintain sporadic but precious contact with Africa through
networks of friends and traders. They sought the .....
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Existence Of God
<view this essay>.... that faith is not
imortality or heaven or hell but our faith in ourselves and faith in our fellow
man.
What scares me so bad is the fact that many people hide in this world of
god. God is what created us what made us it is what we must ultitmley answer to.
We answer as not flesh and blood but as a spirit we choose long before our
mortal body goes where we go. We leave behind our bodys and enter into a realm
to which we cannot comphrend. Our minds well never allow us to comprhend
immortality but our souls can that is faith.
This faith belongs to no clan of self righteous humn being that think
that becuse there rules that they follow our better then another. Se .....
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A Non-Religious Contract In America
<view this essay>.... in getting
married. The United States has always had the idea of separation of church and
state, and marriage is one issue that must maintain that idealogy in the eyes of
the government. The key to separating church and state in the debate over
marriage is taking the definition of marriage that best applies to society today.
To do that we must look at marriage's state in the 1990's.
Religion is losing its dominance in the issue of marriage. We cannot
argue the fact that there are more divorces in the country today that there were
20 years ago. This points to America's increasing acceptance of divorce.
Therefore, we can conclude that religion has become .....
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God And A Divine Plan?
<view this essay>.... by God, others said that God gives us all a free will and we decide what happens in our lives, but God is very much involved with our lives. I didn’t know exactly what I believed at this point, all of these people are Christians, yet they had different belief’s on how their lives are laid out.
My family is Christian, my father was raised as a Catholic and my mother was raised as Baptist. My family doesn’t go to church every week, but when we do go we go to a Baptist church. We have also attended Lutheran and Protestant churches with friends. I feel that I have a close relationship with God even though I do not attend church on a regular basis. I was .....
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