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    Luis Borges uses dreams‚ imagination and fantasy to establish ambiguity in his stories. With the use of juxtaposition and symbols‚ Borges blends a realm of dreams and imagination into the individual’s everyday worldly experiences. Through these devices‚ Borges commonly blurs the line between aspects of reality for his characters versus the constructs of his or her mind. By combining the real with the fictitious‚ Borges incorporates ambiguity into his stories and introduces his readers to new perspectives

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    Clothing and how girls/women are to dress is definitely not a grey area in the Bible. In I Timothy 2:9 and10 we are told what to adorn ourselves with. “I also want women to dress modestly‚ with decency and propriety‚ not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes but with good works‚ appropriate for women who profess to worship God.” What a beautiful sight it is to see a lady with great modesty! Not just on the inside but also in what she wears! I have a few such special women of God

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    Bible Dictionary Project

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    References: Towns‚ E. H. (1996). Illustrated Bible Survey. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group.

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    bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease‚ is because it was first identified in 1874 by a Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen. Leprosy appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In the bible Leprosy was not the disease that is recognized now‚ but as various physical conditions that were nothing like the disease. A punishment from God was what these conditions were considered to be. The victim was said to be in a state of defilement.

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    and lastly some of the animals are given the gift of speech. A few incongruence exist‚ however. The children‚ the cabby‚ and the witch all exist before the beginning of Aslan’s world. They are there in the nothingness. Man was created last in the bible‚ and created in God’s image. Man in Narnia is not created in the image of Aslan. The most vitally different part of the Narnia creation story is Lewis’s removal of some of the unpleasantness of the story of Eden. The original sin never actually

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    dholloway3@liberty.edu Douglas Holloway Due by Monday at Midnight of the end of Module / Week #8 Name: Best Email Address: BIBL 350 – Inductive Bible Study Assignments for Submission #4 Assignment 19-4: Deuteronomy 22:8 “When you build a new house‚ make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.” (1) Study the text and make as many observations as you can. List the observations in the space

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    What do you long to have‚ in your life? Well‚ it’s a profound question that’s not so easily answered. In fact the answer could change by the week‚ day‚ hour‚ minute‚ it can change‚ and does change all the time. The Bible uses more poetic terms… Anyone know what the bible calls it when we really want something? hunger and thirst SO what do we hunger and thirst for? What do we long for? What do you all hunger and thirst for? Food‚ money‚ new clothes‚ cars‚ full tank of gas. Boyfriend

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    Themes Doubt and Ambiguity One of this story’s difficult aspects is the sense of uncertainty it creates by leaving important facts unresolved and seeming to offer several possible interpretations for its events. The reader is never allowed to doubt that the old man and his strange wings are as “real” as anything else in the story; yet the reader can never be sure just what he is — a heavenly angel‚ a sad human who happens to have wings‚ or perhaps some other‚ unexplained possibility. This deliberate

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    In the Cain and Abel narrative in the Hebrew bible a word enters and radically changes the narrative‚ and that word is חַטָּאָת which means sin. The result of this sin entering the story means that humans are cursed to work on the ground. The book of Genesis is an etymology for the formation of humankind‚ so the beginning of this relationship between humans and the ground is still relevant to readers today. Humans were originally given the earth as responsibility‚ rather than a punishment. The

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    The two examples that I choose where: I was thrown from my truck as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by a flock of wild turkeys.  Next Sunday a collection will be taken to help with the cost of the new altar. Anyone wanting to help to do something on the new altar can step forward and let the committee know. When coming up with what was vague in the first excerpt‚ I came up with that anyone wanting to help to do something. This is vague because it is not revealing what they

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