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    The Poisonwood Bible

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    Congo. These countries may have not been aware of their influence at the time‚ but the outcome nonetheless was drastic. Cultural misunderstandings were the ultimate catalyst for the Congo’s destruction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible published in 1998 she exposes how cultural ignorance creates problems. With her chosen syntax‚ point of view‚ and time gap of each narrator Kingsolver exposes how close mindedness creates unfulfilled results because individuals can not adapt to cultural

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    Bible and Its Influence

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    and Muslims also consider the Bible to be a sacred text. If you think of how there are 2 billion Christians‚ 14 million Jews and 1.3 billion Muslims‚ that means that more than half of the world’s population consider the Bible to be a major influence on their faith. Bible widely used in American society The Bible is especially influential in American society. In the 2012 State of the Bible report released by the American Bible Society‚ commissioned by the American Bible Society and conducted by Barna

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    Inerrancy In The Bible

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    scriptures as written in the Holy Bible to be authentic‚ factual and entirely absent of any errors. For centuries the biblical stories of the Creation‚ Adam and Eve‚ Noah and The Flood‚ Tower of Babel along with others were believed by Hebrews and Christians to be factual history. Beginning in later 1800 to 1900AD‚ these stories began to be thought as legends instead of credible history. This change of believe from non-fiction to fiction questioned the authenticity of the bible along with organized

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    Bible Verses

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    12 Bible Verses About Freedom Jedley Manimtim‚ Yahoo! Contributor Network Aug 7‚ 2010 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here." * ------------------------------------------------- MORE: * ------------------------------------------------- Bible Verses FlagPost a comment We live in a country and culture where freedom is highly valued‚ and for good reason. The difficulty‚ however‚ arises in our definitions of freedom - what means and what it should look like. One may view freedom

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    Goodness Bible

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    Throughout the bible the goodness of God is shown in many ways‚ the bible presents God as being morally perfect‚ and everything that he is or will ever be is also presented as morally perfect; The Bible presents God as benevolent‚ an all loving figure. It displays this in a number of ways throughout the Bible‚ the first and possible the most important way is in the first book of the Bible‚ Genesis. Genesis states that everything that God creates is “Very good”; When God created the world in the

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    Bible Mysteries

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    REFLECTION ABOUT BIBLE MYSTERIES-DISCIPLES The Disciples is an episode part of the Bible Mysteries is very interesting and informative video clips that I have been watched. It showed how Jesus influenced others through his thoughts and being a good leader to his followers. Through his good quality‚ the people of the Galilee believed to his teaching and valuable effort and faith that attracted by the disciples to Jesus Another value that attract them to Jesus is that He can heal anything but for

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    “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff‚ shows how essential the cold and frigid weather is to the actions of the characters and the situations that they are involved in. Towards the beginning of the story‚ it seems that Frank and Kenny have established a vigorous relationship leaving Tub out of the relationship. On the day of their hunt‚ Kenny and Frank left out their companion Tub forcing him to struggle in the heavy snow. The two men utilized the heavy snow to leave behind their friend. As the story

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    The Christian Bible is not a reliable source of information whether historic or religious. The New Testament‚ written by “inspired” men‚ is no more than a highly exaggerated account of Jesus’s ravings. The falsity of the Bible’s teachings are shown in the many contradictions found in the Bible and in promises that are not kept. As for these “prophecies” that have “come true‚” they have been deliberately used as a guide‚ or blueprint in the creation of this “Savior”. The Bible has many contradictions

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    Ethnicity In The Bible

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    Ethnicity The two creation stories in the Bible have caused a lot of questions. I never looked at the Bible and realized these mythical stories of the creation of the world. The creation stories (Genesis 1-2.4a and Genesis 2.4b-25) have been the same to me‚ and I believed like many other people the two stories emphasize what God created. In Permission Granted: Take the Bible Into Your Own Hands by Jenifer Bird it is well explained the differences of when and why humankind were created in these creation

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    Athens In The Bible

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    Moses‚ a prophet and leader that appears in the Holy Bible‚ is a very prominent epic hero to God’s people‚ the Israelites. In Exodus‚ Moses was sent by the Lord to lead the Israelites to the land that God had promised to Abraham as well as Isaac and Jacob after having spent four decades enslaved to the Egyptians. Despite having proof that he spoke with God and had possessed powers such as turning his staff into a snake and being able to give his hand leprous and be able to make it healthy again‚

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