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    The god of the underworld‚ known as Hades would later on become known as Pluto. The origin of Hades new name Pluto comes from its root meaning‚ “wealth”. This name is a mixture of the Greek Gods Hades and Eleusinian Icon Ploutos. Ploutos’s association with Hades would come later‚ before Pluto assumed this role of the roman culture. His dad Pater was also a god of the underworld like Hades. Hades had the power to control all riches and wealth. He owns all the precious metal found in the earth’s core

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    3.3 In God We Trust Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is life‚ the strength‚ the vitality‚ without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. – Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)‚ the Indian Spiritual leader of the Hindu religion (Vedanta). He was a disciple of the 19th century Indian mystic-saint Sri Ramakrishna. He was the founder of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks. Trust is independent. God said it – I believed

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    governments and people of power all throughout time. John Edward Emmerich Dalberg Acton was the first to do research on studying human nature and history‚ and he discovered great men are almost always faulty men (Soffer). In American Gods there is corruption throughout the rank of Gods‚ everyone wants to gain more power and be worshipped more. In The Da Vinci Code there is corruption in the Catholic church‚ keeping the secret of the Holy Grail and the bloodline of Jesus. History and literature examples demonstrates

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    Poseidon: The Greek God

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    did the same thing and created gods.these gods vary from small to large and even control different elements. Some more important than others . The first thing you always do is pray to the gods. The best one has to be Poseidon. God of the sea and earthquakes this god has a spectacular historical feature and life. Poseidon and his family were both loved and some hated. He had a brother named Zeus and Hades‚ Zeus was the god of the sky and hades that god of the underworld. His father was named cronus

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    Famous Roman Gods

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    Rome was a very interesting place. They had many famous warriors‚ like Caesar and Marius. They had fierce gods‚ like Diana and Mars. They also had beautiful buildings‚ such as the Colosseum and the Pantheon. “The Roman Colosseum was the most famous and largest Roman amphitheater(“Famous Buildings and Structures”). Three of the most interesting things about Rome are their heroes‚ their gods‚ and their buildings. First‚ Julius Caesar and Gaius Marius were two very famous Romans. Julius Caesar was

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    Anubis, God of the Dead.

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    ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic version is more accurately spelled Anpu (also Anupu‚ Anbu‚ Wip‚ Ienpw‚ Inepu‚ Yinepu‚ Inpu‚ or Inpw). He is also known as Sekhem Em Pet. Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed‚ the Unas text (line 70) associates him with the Eye of Horus. He serves as both a guide of the recently departed and a guardian of the dead. Originally‚ in the Ogdoad system‚ he was god of the underworld

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    September 2011 The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (Question 1) It is believed that Mary Rowlandson‚ a Puritan‚ was writing mainly to her beloved church of Puritan believers and to the Colony of Massachusetts. This conclusion can be made by examining Puritan beliefs and lifestyle. In this time‚ Puritan’s believed that God had already chosen His ‘elect’ or ‘saints’ at the beginning of creation. In order to be recognized as the ‘elect’ of God you must prove yourself worthy; this can only be

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    Essay “God sees the truth‚ but waits” Which kind of people can you never put all your trust on? Strangers. Why? Because‚ you don’t know their intensions. In “God sees the truth‚ but waits” by Leo Tolstoy; Aksyonof gets sent to jail‚ for a crime he didn’t commit. But‚ during this experience Aksyonof gets to know God‚ on his adventure to prison. In this story‚ the moral is that a stranger may have bad intensions that can harm you and the way he gets to know God through‚ loneliness and helplessness

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    Anselm‚ God is a being than which none greater can be imagined. He said that God exists as an idea in our mind but not in reality. In fact‚ a being that exists as an idea and also in reality is considered to be greater than a being that only exists only as an idea. In this case we can imagine someone who is greater than that idea in our mind. So‚ according to the superiority that being should be God but according to believes and ontology we cannot imagine someone greater than God because God is the

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    Not everyone are the children of God.  Just cause you were born does not mean you are Gods child.  There has to be a supernatural birth. I’ve heard many times that God loves all His children‚ referring to the world. And its true in one part ‚ that He loves the world ( ’..for God so loved the world...’) the problem with this thinking is that you assume everyone is a child of God. but not everyone Is! the world wants no part of Him‚ don’t want to be apart of Him.  Only the ones who humble themselves

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