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- 13041: Christmas History
- ... was found in the original gift giving of the Magi, and from figures such as St. Nicholas. By the middle ages gift giving was accepted. Before then it was more common to exchange gifts on New Year's Day or Twelfth Night. Santa Claus is known by British children as Father Christmas. Father Christmas, these days, is quite similar to the American Santa, but his direct ancestor is a certain pagan ... Christmas Eve. The menu for the meal varies according to regional culinary tradition. The traditional Christmas dinner is made of turkey with chestnuts puree, and the buche de Noel as desert. Oysters are eaten on New Year's Eve only because New Year's is more an adult celebration and usually children are not very fond of oysters. The tradition in Paris is to eat grilled chestnuts in the streets during the month of December and ...
- 13042: Bodily Resurrection and 1 Corinthians 15: 42-54
- ... William Wrede describes Paul's transformation of the body, "He says that they Œare dead' or Œare risen again' Œwith Christ'; or more specifically Œthey are dead to sin, to the Law,' Œcrucified to the world' ; Œthe body of sin is destroyed'; Œthey are no longer in the flesh'; or else he says simply that they are Œdead'" Paul, whether because he does not recognize the need for further elaboration, or equally as likely, as he does not know how to accurately elaborate further, does not offer any greater explanation as to the nature of the new imperishable body. Seemingly similar to changing one's clothes, Paul simply explains the transformation, in the capacity of the mortal body Œputting on' immortality. The nearly tautological backbone behind Paul's reasoning is that the ...
- 13043: A Non-Religious Contract in America
- A Non-Religious Contract in America The religious standards of Americans today have plummeted to a new low. Fewer people are going to church than earlier in the century. Many people are marrying without even going to a priest by getting a judge to marry them. Divorce is steadily on the rise ... to the point of not allowing it at all. This leads to the question, "What is today's basis for marriage?" Some propose that the sole purpose of marriage be to bring life into the world. If this were true, then it would be unacceptable for many in this country to ever be married. There are many women and men who simply do not want to have children. Should we condemn ...
- 13044: Abraham
- ... a group of his servants went to battle the captors. The army was able to successfully rescue Lot and several other prisoners. Abram was then blessed by priest Melchizedek, the king of Salem, for his brave heroic actions. By this point, Abram and Saraia still have no children. Saria tells Abram to go and wed their slave Hagar, and to have Children with her. Abram does so, and has a son ... at the biblical age of 175. Isaac and Ishmael buried their father in the Makhpelah Cave next to their mother, Sarah. In the end, God kept his promise with Abraham. Abraham was father to a new nation, that's how he got the title of Father to the Jewish people. The rest of the bible primarily tells about the children of Abraham. Abraham is therefore one of the most important early ...
- 13045: Who is God?
- ... well as evidence from assorted books, articles, poems and songs, Thompson shows the meaningful role the Altar had in self expression of the Africans. "The aim is to view black Atlantic art, especially in the New World, in terms of thoughtfully selected [altar] objects belonging to specific philosophic constellations which help to define the face of divinity." Through the oppression of the salve trade, the Yoruba Africans worked to keep there own ...
- 13046: Religion In Public Schools
- ... the moment of silence" this law said that "the teacher (was) to announce that the silent moment may be used for voluntary prayer." Although it would have to be si lent prayer. Even after this new law started the lawyers that were opposed to this were trying to say that students "do not have a right to pray in school" silently or otherwise because of growing impressions that affect their life ... January 18,1985) 55-57. FOOTNOTES Fransis Roberts, "The Uproar Over School Prayer,"\Parents,\(November, 1984), p.38. Roberts, p.39. Roberts, p.38 Beth Spring, "Can St ates Allow Prayer in Public Schools?"\News World,\(January 18, 1985), p.56. Spring, p.57 Roberts, p.38 Spring, p.57 Ted Gest, "What High Court Heard About School Prayer,"\U.S. News,\(December 17, 1984), p.71 . Haig Bosmajian, "To Pray ...
- 13047: Christ: VICTORY!!
- ... needed because Christ died for us, which took away the iniquities of our sin. He did this out of great love for us. This is exemplified in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotton son that who so ever belief in him shall have eternall life!". That verse is very important to us, or should be, because in a way, one could base ... bottom. The reason it had to have been God is that no one would be capable of tearing it from the top. This was to show the wrath of God that He had upon the world at this time. I am sure that He felt bad for His son for having to go through all of this. God loved the world so much that He did this for us though. We should all acknowledge the fact that is the reason for the crucifiction. This little message actually means a whole lot to me. I feel ...
- 13048: Christianity
- Christianity The Christian religion, like all other religions has its strengths and weaknesses in our modern society. Perhaps the strengths out weight the weaknesses as this is one of the largest religions in the world. Hundreds of people follow the Catholic/Christian religion yet still a greater number follow yet other religions. Perhaps this is because they see the weaknesses or perhaps it is simply because their parents have taught ... one thousand years after the day Christ died. To a non- believer, this is a major drawback. One very strong point about the Catholic/Christian religion is that they strongly believe in correcting our corrupted world. Many missionaries are sent yearly to third world countries where they help educate, feed and provide moral support for a people who have nothing. With such a practice in place, the Christian religion has put a smile on faces which normally would ...
- 13049: The Existence of God
- ... only the tip of the iceberg amongst the vast array of unanswered questions related to God. Though there are so many uncertainties as we have just mentioned, the existence of all other uncertainties in our world may explain why the existence of God is so real to many people. For the believers, God provides a convenient answer to all these questions except for the answers regarding God itself. The following are ... argument comes from the theory of design; there are orders in the universe which can't be occurring by mere chance. Secondly, the existence of God explains the arguments regarding the efficient causality; as the world exhibits orderly causal sequences, something had to start it all up. Thirdly but not the least, God provides an answer to the question of the origin of life and its destination after death. ( For the ... a supremely intelligent and supremely powerful being, who created everything that exists, can not and does not come from within him who is imperfect. Moreover, this perception did not originate from the experiences of the world, nor was this drawn from the senses. Rather, he believes that this perception of God is prior to his own perception, and it could only actually arise from a perfect being. Thus Descartes concludes ...
- 13050: Does God Exist?
- ... that reason was God's will. In the text Medieval Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas' article entitled Does God Exist? , Aquinas tries to show the different steps that can prove God does exist and that the world had to have been created by God. This article is comprised of five different ways in which Aquinas tries to prove that we can be sure that God exists. In the third way, Aquinas tries ... I is no longer doubt that God is infinite. Bibliography Aquinas, St. Thomas. "Does God Exist?" In Medieval Philosophy: From St. Augustine to Nicholas of Cusa, 335-38. John F. Wippel, Allan B. Wolter, ed. New York: The Free Press, 1969.
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