meaning may not be at all obvious to us now Features: It is a treasure chest of wisdom and inspiration that guided generations it contains some of the most profound insights into the meaning of life it is the single most important source of western culture it has the most profound influence on modern religious thoughts it is the most complete history of the ancient past that we possess The Bible “The Bible is God’s Word” which means that by reading the Bible‚ we can come to know
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Revisiting the Legacy of the Early Filipino Baptists in collaboration with the First American Missionaries in Western Visayas‚ Philippines 13 Mar 2012 posted at http://yercyasnot.wordpress.com/ During the beginning of the Baptist Mission in the Philippines‚ Western Visayas was strategically divided in three ‘mission stations’ in Jaro‚ Iloilo‚ and Capiz in Panay Island‚ and Bacolod in Negros.[1] Significant efforts were made that kept the Christian faith alive even up to this day. Likewise‚ it
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n Erich Maria Remarques’ Novel All Quiet On the Western Front even though soldiers escaped the war‚ they were still mentally and physically destroyed by what they witnessed and experienced. Destroyed in this sense means that they were ruined by war‚ they will never be themselves again. WW1 and any war for that matter was and are brutal on the soldiers bodies and souls. Many soldiers say that even after returning home they have a strange feeling of “strangeness”. “It will try simply to tell of a
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At age nineteen‚ Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army of World War I. His elders constantly pushed him to sign up for war‚ as serving his nation was seen as the greatest honor of all. People like his old schoolmaster convinced him and his classmates that war was an honor and constantly romanticized the idea of fighting for your country. Since all these ideas of defending the German pride were indoctrinated into his head‚ Paul absent mindedly followed along without questioning
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Japan and China had many contrasting responses to western penetration in the nineteenth century‚ including economic interaction - economically China suffered and Japan prospered‚ Japanese agricultural productivity increased while China’s did not‚ and China only accepted a small amount of goods while Japan accepted a wide range of goods- and political interaction - China went to war but Japan did not‚ Japan adopted western learning styles but China did not‚ and Japan heavily increased taxes on their
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War is good and bad‚ beneficial and pointless‚ but above all other things‚ immensely inhumane. Man created war‚ and with our controversial human nature egged it on. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel that shows the war experience and how war changes people. During the time spent at the front and at rest the soldier is turned from human to inhumane. They are taken away from the normal human emotion and placed into a state of being more animalistic and superhuman
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The Foundation of Orthodoxy and the Canon For years‚ the dispute about what is fact and what is opinion has been present in the church. This debate is seen‚ in modern day‚ through the different denominations that are under the Christianity banner. Under the banner of Christianity there are Catholic‚ Baptist‚ Presbyterian‚ Apostolic‚ Methodist‚ Seventh-Day Adventist‚ Church of God in Christ (C.O.G.I.C)‚ and Lutheran. Now‚ even though each of these denominations call themselves Christians
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group of people. The word canon is derived from the word rod (measure) in the Greek language. The books were chosen by resolving which ones met the given standard (Stotesberg). The canonization of the Old Testament took place over a period of many years. Overall‚ the books of the Old Testament were written from 1000-1050 BC. The first translation of the Bible was the Septuagint or the LXX which in the end consists of forty-six books (“Development of the Difficult Canon”). At this time‚ only the
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War‚ what is it good for. What seems to be just a catchy song from the late 60’s‚ actually has an accurate depiction of the gruesome wars this world has gone through. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ WWI soldiers learn the cold hard facts about how nothing good comes out of wars. Not everyone is born a fighter‚ some are peer pressured into volunteering not knowing the treacherous path ahead of them. Throughout the book Remarque uses symbolism to express the gruesome effects
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All Quiet on the Western Front vs. Postmodernism There are many novels that recollect various periods throughout the decades. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front is one of these. The Author Erich Maria Remarque uses a fictional character named Paul Baumer to install feeling‚ thoughts‚ and actions that the German soldiers went through during World War I specifically battling on the Western front. This novel gives a historical outlook on how the war affected these soldiers during and after the
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