will contrast the God of Epictetus‚ and the God of Augustine‚ and in the end‚ my stand will be clear. Epictetus and Augustine both identify God on basic level. Epictetus says‚ "Where the essence of God is‚ there too is the essence of good. What is the essence of God?......Right Reason? Certainly. Here then‚ without more ado‚ seek the essence of good." He says strive for goodness‚ live in conformity with it‚ and you will find God. God is the vital force
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Why Did God Allow a Good Man to Suffer? Jezewski‚ Haley 4/21/2014 The Book of Job‚ the eighteenth book of the Bible‚ follows a man by the name of Job from the land of Uz. It was written between the tenth and sixth century‚ B.C.‚ and documents the story of the many sufferings that fell upon Job. According to this Book‚ Job was "upright and feared God" (Job 1:1‚ NIV)‚ but somehow‚ he suffered so severely and lost so much. This leads nearly everyone to wonder why God would let such a good man
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belief in the creation stories of the bible; it teaches that everything in the universes ultimate cause is God. Although it is important to note that there is not just one type of creationist and not just one single belief that is creationism. There are many varieties including progressive creationists‚ who make a link with bible accounts and the big bang theory‚ and day age creationists who believe in the Genesis account of creation however state that each of the 6 days of creation in the bible was actually
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1. A researcher strongly believes that physicians tend to show female nurses less attention and respect than they show male nurses. she sets up an experimental study involving observations of health clinics in different conditions. In explaining the study to the physicians and nurses who will participate‚ what steps should the researcher take to eliminate experimental bias based on both experimenter expectations and participant expectations.? The first step should be to consider that using an experiment
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Plautus‚ A Haunted House In the play‚ “Plautus‚ A Haunted House” starts off with a young man‚ Philolaches‚ whose his father has been away from town‚ has been partying and has been wasting his family fortune on his mistress. While the son is in no condition to talk to his father due to being intoxicated‚ his slave‚ Tranio comes up with a scheme to deceive the old man from catching his son from partying. Tranio‚ redefined his role as a trickster in the play and along with all his charisma made
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p.1026 #3‚ 5 p.1027 #1‚ 2‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7 3. (a) Why does Orwell think that the elephant need not be killed? He thinks that the elephant need not to be killed because it is a working elephant‚ thus it is valuable. He did not want to elephant because it was harmless; therefore‚ it was unnecessary to kill this valuable elephant against his conscience. There is also a parallelism between the elephant and the imperialism of the British Empire. He did not want to conduct the act because it was too
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Why does tommo believe he lives in Charlies glow? Over the past month I have been reading and studying the book private peaceful by Michael morpurgo. It’s a story about a young boy called Tommo who has an older brother Charlie a friend big Joe and their mother. Tommo looks up to Charlie‚ they always look out for each other. Tommo found a best friend at school called molly and both Charlie and Tommo soon fell in love with her. Later on in the book molly gives birth to a baby girl whose father is
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Why Does God allow suffering? This question is probably as old as religion itself. It is a stumbling block for some of us‚ and for many more at given moments of tragedy. There are as many answers to this question as there are people who care to engage in theological dialogue. One understanding is that yes‚ God allows "bad" things to happen; God does not cause them to happen. Most "bad" things which happen do so because God gives a radical freedom to God’s people; we are free people‚ not puppets
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‘God is responsible for everything that happens in the universe’ Discuss. God is known as the creator of the universe as he can be seen to have created the world through intelligent design. Therefore it can be elucidated that he should be responsible for everything that happens in the universe. Some people would say that he is responsible for everything in the universe such as‚ Christians because they believe he created the world through ‘creatio ex nihilo’‚ this means created the world out
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God is Alive! Most people in the world these days believe that there is a higher being out there. Whether‚ they call him God or just an entity. It’s almost impossible not to believe in something higher than yourself. If you are an atheist‚ I still consider that a religion‚ but its different in that you refuse to believe in God. I do believe that there is a God‚ and he is out there waiting for you to come to him and have a relationship with him. I came to this realization just quicker than most
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