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- 2521: What is a Witch?
- ... by Wiccans: Religious (ritual) magic, and non- religious (folk) magic. When casting folk magic spells, Wiccans combine the energies within crystals, herbs, stones, and candles with their own personal energies to bring about a desired effect. After the ingredients are gathered, the energies are united and sent out to do their work. This sending out of energy is accomplished through intense visualization that can take a few short minutes or a ...
- 2522: An Essay for Humanities Courses: The Bible
- ... hand, he somehow had to make a 'story' from basically Hearsay! Mark groups different parables and sayings of Jesus by topic; making a false impression that these things happened in order. This may have little effect on changing the meaning of the lesson, however it illustrates the fact that Mark was trying to author a "readable" story for people, rather than a book of facts. The best example would be in ...
- 2523: The Rise and Down Fall of Major Beliefs
- ... do not believe in providence. They also denounce the church. Thomas Paine believed that the mind is the church. Deists also believed that the bible was hearsay. Thomas Paine thought that a revelation could only effect the person that it was directed to because after that the people that listen to the revelation have the right not to believe it because it can not be proven. The Deists also believe that ...
- 2524: Eve and the Apple
- ... fruit? Why should such intellectual food be reserved for beasts? But her main reason for eating their fruit is to acquire greater power, to become a "goddess". She tells Adam that "it was a divine effect which will open our eyes and makes us Gods." She tells Adam that the snake ate the fruit and nothing bad happened to it. Adam in return eats the fruit because he doesn't believe ...
- 2525: The History of Anti-Semitism Starting From the Bible to the Holocaust
- ... profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."(Rom 3) also could ...
- 2526: Buddha
- ... within other religions, it is evident that they were in some ways influenced by him. Ideas, such as the Middle Path, are clearly communicated in many values of today. Buddhism has even had a major effect on politics in Asia. Tibet used to be controlled a system of theocracy ruled by a Buddhist Priest, or the Dalai Lama. In China and Japan, Zen Buddhism has been used in the practices of ...
- 2527: "Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years"
- ... has carried on their armies irresistibly to victory".This is why even after the Byzantine empire has literally slaughtered and totally destroyed numerous and powerful armies of Turks, the struggle was never ending. The final effect was the loss not only of its Asian territories but by the time of the siege of Constantinople in 1453, the city was standing alone as the only remained territory of the Empire. Another significant ...
- 2528: God Speaks Through The Mouths Of Poets
- ... sight of a beautiful painting or the sound of a beautiful song is godly, as if He, Himself, is painting through the hands of the artist, or speaking through the mouth of the singer. The effect is breathtaking! The poet is the most gifted, for the poet can deliver us the message of God in a beautiful way, that we may want to read it again and again. Followers of the ...
- 2529: The Holy Trinity of Masaccio
- ... The figure is "real"; it is a good example of a human body. The rest of the figures, who are clothed, are wearing ro bes. The drapery contains heavy folds and creases, which increases the effect of shadows. The human form in its entirety is not seen under the drapery; only a vague representation of it is seen. It is not at all like the 'wet-drapery' of Classica l antiquity ...
- 2530: Jesus Christ's Life
- ... ove for us that he even gives us life. He could just let us Christians live our own life but, He helps us out with His great grace. Grace is part of the wh ole effect of God's love. Basically what grace is, is way that God deals with u s. It has nothing to do with what we deserve or basis of merit, but it is givin g out ...
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