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    1. Rhetoric: The study of the effective use of language 2. Cupidity: Inordinate desire 3. Good Will: A will by which we desire to live upright and honorable lives to attain the highest wisdom 4. “There is no single cause of evil; rather‚ everyone who does evil is the cause of his own evildoing” 5. “A mind that is in control (one that possesses virtue) cannot be made a slave to inordinate desire by anything equal or superior to it‚ because such a thing would be just‚ or by anything inferior to

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    Outline The Problem Of Evil

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    PROBLEM OF EVIL "God is the omnipotent and wholly good creator of all things" "There is evil in the world" a) EXPLAIN THESE TWO STATEMENTS AND SHOW WHY THEY ARE SAID TO BE CONTRADICTORY (20) The problem of evil is usually seen as the problem of how the existence of God can be reconciled with the existence of evil in the world. It’s regarded as a logical problem‚ because it is based on the apparent contradiction involved in holding onto three incompatible beliefs. This being that God is omnipotent

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    God and Patience

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    Heavenly Father again and again‚ we might grow tired of waiting. It might begins to feel like our prayers are falling on deaf ears. Tired of waiting for His replies to our prayers‚ tired of waiting for Jesus our Savior to return. These tiredness are for God to test our patience. Patience reveals our faith in God’s timing‚ omnipotence‚ and love. The course of life is not easy. We have to face a lot of struggles in our lives. We have to suffer mental torment and physical agony. As things go the

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    Introduction In my essay I will discuss the differences between national cinema and Hollywood cinema by using Rio de Janeiro¡¯s famous film City of God. There will be three parts in my following main body‚ the first part is a simple review of the film City of God‚ I will try to use the review to show the film structure and some different new points from this‚ show the how did the ¡®Shocking‚ frightening‚ thrilling and funny¡¯ (Nev Pierce) work in the film. The second part is my discussion parts;

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    All Knowing Evil

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    An all-knowing being would know evil exists. An all-loving being would want to prevent evil. An all-powerful being could prevent evil from existing‚ but yet evil still exist. Therefore it can be concluded an all-knowing being‚ an all-loving and all powerful being doesn’t exist. Philosopher Alvin Carl Plantinga put a proposition that is logically possible for a God to create a world that does contain evil. Further support for this claim comes from it as a world containing humans who are “significantly

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    According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ the definition of evil is “morally bad.” However‚ after reading the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel‚ one begins to question the depths of the superficial dictionary definition. In Elie’s memoir‚ he is able to show the capability of evil within mankind by describing his experiences through one of the most horrific events in history. The three strongest cases which show what evil is capable of‚ occurs in the early and final chapters. In the earlier chapters

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    Jesus the God

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    Post-Axial Thought The Historical Jesus Pages12 [pic] Painting of Mary and Child Jesus‚ La vierge aux raisins by Pierre Mignard‚ 1640. “If one wishes to understand the historical Jesus and early Christianity one must understand first century Judaism. During this historic era the Roman occupiers of the land were particularly oppressive and there was much opposition to them particularly in the Galilee.” (Rabbi Moshe Reiss‚ PhD.) Not much is known about the historical

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    Christianity and God

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    Forgiven! You’re starting fresh! The first thing God did when you made Jesus Christ your Savior was wipe the slate clean. What was wiped away? Sin -- your disobedience to God which would have separated you from him forever. Everything you have ever done to offend God has been erased! Your failures have been forgiven! How can this be? Because when Jesus died on the cross‚ he paid the penalty for all your sins -- past and future. Of course‚ God doesn’t want you to sin anymore. He has put his

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    Homosexuality and God

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    INTRODUCTION LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to the lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ and transgender community. In use since the 1990s‚ the term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB"‚ which itself started replacing the phrase gay community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s‚ which many within the community in question felt did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred. The initialism has become mainstream as a self-designation and has been adopted by the majority "sexuality

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    between a loving God and the reality of evil is usually referred to as a theodicy. A theodicy attempts to solve the apparent tensions in what is often termed the problem of evil. But the problem of evil is really a series of problems. Like many large problems‚ sometimes it is helpful to break them down into their components. Evil‚ you see‚ actually extends not only to the moral world but also to the natural world. When human beings do bad things to one another‚ this is a moral evil. But so-called natural

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