| Scriptures: | Vedas‚ Upanishad‚ Puranas‚ Gita. | The Quran and the Hadith. | Means of salvation: | Reaching enlightenment by the Path of Knowledge‚ the Path of devotion‚ or the Path of Good Deeds. | Correct belief‚ Good deeds‚ Prayer‚ Dua‚ Repentance‚ Fasting‚ Jihad An-nafs (Struggling against your own desires)‚ Pilgrimage (Hajj)‚ Charity‚ Dhikr (remembrance of God)‚ Recitation/Memorization of Quran | Practices: | Meditation‚ Yoga‚ contemplation‚ yagna (communal worship)‚ offerings in the
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sins and unworthiness.’ By showing a sense of sorrow and repentance for their sins‚ they realize their sin is not only against themselves but against someone more important‚ God Almighty‚ the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Allison points out that this Beatitude also blesses those who mourn ‘over the evil in the world and the evil prospering on earth.’ This Beatitude is morally significant as it teaches us that Godly sorrow brings repentance that
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Deceitfulness We tend to form the first impression of a person by their physical appearance. We look at them and analyze what they wear‚ as we try to read their personalities. We analyze their body type‚ as we pre-judge them as lazy or as good stewards of their body. After knowing them a little more‚ we start paying attention about their behaviors and practices‚ and creating an image about the person with our own concepts. We tend to impose on ourselves what is right and wrong‚ and we follow this
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discipline training. The first step is to teach. Teaching is informing people to submit to the word of God which gives the truth. Then there is conviction‚ which is the laws and for people to acknowledge sin. Correction then leads the person into repentance of sin. People can then follow biblical principles to rethink their actions. The last step is discipline training is when people put away old thoughts and actions and began thinking Christ like. As a result‚ people are changed. After following these
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The book of Judges is part of a collection of books that the Jewish tradition labels as Former Prophets‚ whereas the Christian tradition labels them as Historical books. This book narrates the conquest efforts of the people of ancient Israel‚ who struggled to maintain their fidelity and devotion to the one true God. The book recounts the tale of twelve “judges‚” who were truly military leaders. Six are considered “minor judges” because of their negligible role. The other six were “major judges” because
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER The Moral of the Poem: It is usually thought that great art suffers‚ if its didactic purpose is over-emphasized. Everyone recognizes that didacticism has something very impressive and effective about it‚ but no one likes a moral to be offensively obtruded in a work of art. Some go even to the extent of thinking that art and literature should be content to give pleasure and should never set out to teach a truth or preach a moral. There are those who believe
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doesn’t discriminate against people even if they have sinned. And he cures all those who have sinned even if they aren’t Jews. One of Jesus’ disciples is a tax collector named Levi. Levi has sinned greatly but Jesus doesn’t care as long as he shows repentance. Jesus is there to heal people and as the “Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (Luke 5:24). Jesus is an advocate for the poor‚ people shouldn’t have possession because “for everyone who asks receives” (Luke 11:10). People don’t need
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All About Lent Q: What is Lent? A:Historically‚ Lent is the forty day period before Easter‚ excluding Sundays‚ it began on Ash Wednesday and ended on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday). In recent years‚ this has been modified so that it now ends with evening Mass on Holy Thursday‚ to prepare the way for Triduum. Q: Why are Sundays excluded from the reckoning of the forty days? A: Because Sunday is the day on which Christ arose‚ making it an inappropriate day to fast and mourn our sins
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therefore‚ not to attempt unchaining the tiger‚ but to burn this piece before it is seen by any other person; whereby you will save yourself a great deal of mortification by the enemies it may raise against you‚ and perhaps a good deal of regret and repentance. TO THOMAS PAINE. [Date uncertain.] DEAR SIR‚ I have read your manuscript with some attention. By the argument it contains against a particular Providence‚ though you allow a general Providence‚ you strike at the foundations of all religion
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first impressions of this text? * Forgiveness‚ repentance‚ and diligence * In the Prodigal of the Lost Son the farmer celebrates the return of his son from a life of sin. Son’s sins are not what is celebrated rather his acknowledgement of his own sins and his repentance to his father. His father (the farmer) with a celebration forgives the son. * Both the Parable of the Lost Sheep and the Parable of the Lost Coin reflect repentance‚ diligence and a form of forgiveness. In the Lost
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