Category: Bible
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Theological Allusions in William Golding’s Novel ‘Lord of the Flies’: Critical Essay
William Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best acknowledged for his novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, which turned out to become a huge success mainstreaming globally. Golding made it one of his main focuses to tackle many themes in his novel. One of those themes is Christian allegories, in which he puts emphasis…
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The Reliability Of The Bible
Reliability is the foundation of trust, therefore it is the base of friendship and relationships.When forming long lasting relationships, one searches for someone consistent and trustworthy. It is important to have those foundations when putting faith in someone or something. Similar to relationships, if the Bible is not reliable or accurate, how could one trust…
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The Understanding Of The Place Of Interpretation For Reading The Bible
To read the bible we have to understand the way it was constructed and what it contains. The bible is not a single book but a collection of books written by many different authors over time. (Fischer & Hart 2013, p. 33).The bible is human literature, written by historical individuals in a particular cultural context.…
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Buying As The Way To Find Happiness
Money can’t buy you happiness, or can it? In North America, everyone has the freedom to spend their hard-earned money as they deem fit. But unfortunately, more and more people are associating their happiness with the purchases that they make. Firstly, the concept of retail therapy, and the brain’s capacity to release dopamine, deceives people…
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Visions Of A Good Life: The Bible And The Analects
Humanity as a collective has long wrestled with innumerable fundamental questions, one being how exactly people should live out their single opportunity at life. To begin the quest in search of truth, one shall turn to the classics, which have withstood the test of time, and are still very relevant in the modern era. While…
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Boadt’s Method And Content Corresponds To The Church’s Teaching About Scholarship And The Bible
Growing up Catholic in a dominantly Catholic country, the Philippines, I always thought that I know my faith very well. As a child, I didn’t really know there was a difference between Catholics and Protestants or Iglesia ni Cristo, a Unitarian denomination in the Philippines. I might have been so sheltered within the walls of…
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The Role Of Bible in Christianity
The effort to rely on a few paragraphs to prove whether a person is reliable is itself unreliable. I think the same is true of a book, and the very mention of the word ‘bible’ is controversial to a man who already has an opinion. So it’s hard to prove that the bible is true.…
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Is The Bible True?
In a society full of varying people, opinions, and cultures, it is rare that there will be no disagreement over beliefs and experiences. A common topic of these disagreements happens to be the Bible itself. Many individuals argue as to whether or not the Bible is true. In Placher’s article, he says that the Bible…
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The Peculiarities Of Biblical Text
The son of God told, Jesus, told to his disciple a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him…
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Personal Narrative Essay on Patience
At the beginning of the bible in the book of Genesis, it is revealed in 1:26 that human beings were made in the image of God, “ And God said Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have domination over the fish of the sea …and over all the…