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- 911: Jesus
- ... shall save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). Jesus said, "I am come in my Father's name," and, "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,...the Father will send in my name" (John 5:43; 14:26). Thus by baptizing in the name of Jesus, we honor the Godhead. "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 2:9). Luke 24:45-47 records ... carried out the Lord's commission. As Jesus said in prayer, "I have manifested thy name unto the men [the apostles] which thou gavest me out of the world...and they have kept thy word" (John 17:6). The Samaritans, who were not Jews, were also baptized in the name of Jesus. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.... But when they believed Philip ... the Lord Jesus" (Acts 8:5, 12, 16). Let us see how Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, baptized. He went to Ephesus many years after the Day of Pentecost and found some disciples of John the Baptist there. "He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. ...
- 912: The Church Is Foundation In Christ
- ... generated into Christ. The chain, beginning with Christ, is one we are all part of by virtue of us being generated into Christ by the "redemptive" chain furthered by the first witnesses: Mary, Peter, and John. Christ, as Incarnate, offers himself to all by virtue of his surrender on the Cross where he died so that our sins could be forgiven. Thus redemption is a service inherent in the powers bestowed ... by Christ and by means of partaking in the Sacraments we continue the tradition which has been carried on for nearly two thousand years. This tradition has remained "divinized" in: the "humanity of mary, Peter, John, and the other apostles and after their death, in the humanity of Those whose existence they had meanwhile drawn into the divine Contagion, 'generating them in Christ' as Paul puts it (1 Cor. 4:15 ... they are handed into our hands as gifts to be handed on. This is what we really mean by'tradition' (Figures of the Church p. 193). The eyes of the first witnesses, Mary, Peter, and John, are constantly returned to by Balthasar in order to understand the Incarnation. He describes their relationship with Christ as "paradigmatic" and "efficacious." Paradigmatic in the sense that their relations would be prototypical not only ...
- 913: Lessons To Be Learned From The
- ... to properly evaluate a situation for its reasonability and integrity prove to still be a valuable lesson for today. Martial betrayal forms a central basis for the relations between the main characters of Abigail, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor. John betrayed his wife by cheating with Abigail, and throughout the course of the play, he attempts to redeem himself. This brings up an interesting topic of whether cheating can ever be justified. Elizabeth feels partially ... will not simply just disappear from our society. Even prominent figures such as Bill Clinton have been accused of such actions and society still contains several such cases of adultery. By considering the mistakes of John Proctor, one will be prompted to take a look at the consequences before cheating on ones spouse. Honesty certainly plays an important role in the unfolding of events of The Crucible. The young ...
- 914: The Big Bang
- ... the universe began and how it will end. However, the Big Bang model is the most logical and reasonable theory to explain the universe in modern science. ENDNOTES 1. Dinah L. Mache, Astronomy, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1987. p. 128. 2. Ibid., p. 130. 3. Joseph Silk, The Big Bang, New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1989. p. 60. 4. Terry Holt, The Universe Next Door, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. p. 326. 5. Ibid., p. 327. 6. Charles J. Caes, Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe, USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. p. 72. 7. John Gribbin, In Search Of The Big Bang, New York: Bantam Books, 1986. p. 273. BIBLIOGRAPHY Boslough, John. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Caes, J. Charles. Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe. USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. Gribbin, John. In Search Of The Big ...
- 915: Insanity
- ... Also, in interviews on MTV, Eminem appears as if he is an everyday Joe, cracking jokes and making intelligent comments. In reality, Eminem is not insane, only when he gets a pen in his hand. John Lennon, the lead-singer of one the greatest bands ever, the Beatles, began to act in such a way that can only be described as insane. Early in his career, John appeared to be as normal as you or me. After years and years of making hit records, John Lennon started to get weirder and weirder. A lot of people believe his new found love, Yoko Ono, had a major role in his sudden change. As the band reached the peak of their ...
- 916: Donatello
- ... the sixteenth century on, the gigantic David of Michelangelo, which served the same purpose, eclipsed it. More of Donatello's early works which were still partly Gothic are the impressive seated marble figure of St. John the Evangelist for the cathedral and a wooden crucifix in the church of Sta. Croce. The full power of Donatello first appeared in two marble statues, "St. Mark" and "St. George" which were completed in ... early 1430's. The best of these were "The Ascension, with Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter," the " Feast of Herod" (1433-1435), the large stucco roundels with scenes from the life of St. John the Evangelist (1434-1437), and the dome of the old sacristy of S. Lorenzo shows the same technique but with color added. Donatello had also become a major sculptor in bronze. His earliest work of ... this was the more than life size statue of St. Louis (1423), which was replaced half a century later. Donatello in partnership with Michelozzo helped with fine bronze effigy on the tomb of the pope John XXIII in the baptistery, the "Assumption of the Virgin" on the Brancacci tomb and the dancing angels on the outdoor pulpit of the Prato Cathedral (1433-1438). His departure from the standards of Brunelleschi ...
- 917: Vegetarian Diet
- ... of torture and death, to a point where it becomes easier for us to contemplate and carry out the torture and killing of human beings. (20) This moral argument for vegetarianism is also noted by John Robbins who states that "the suffering these animals undergo has become so extreme that to partake of food from these creatures is to partake unknowingly of the abject misery that has been their lives"(14 ... eaten. Due to the increased demand for food, livestock farmers have had to keep up by devising new and more efficient ways to raise more animals, giving way to the industrialization of meat farming. As John Robbins accurately writes, "the raising of chickens in the United States today is not, however, a process which overflows with compassion for these animals" (52). Chickens, as we grew up believing, were farmyard animals that ... order to keep up with the demands of omnivores. This includes the use of growth hormones in the animals to produce more eggs and fatter animals, which are then passed on to their human consumers. John Robbins describes some of the products used in todays pork industry in his book Diet For A New America: ... will also be given products like the new feed additive from Shell Oil Company. Called ...
- 918: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... from alienation in a relationship. Or career. Las Vegas is not always what they imagined." I think of Allison, working her way out of town. She is not alone. As a young man, serial killer John Wayne Gacy worked his way out of Las Vegas by being a pallbearer at over seventy-five funerals at a local mortuary. In his last interview, Gacy remarked that being in prison was like "being ... The date under his heart, shy of a close-range bullet wound, was the day, month, and year their divorce became final. Sometimes they are criminals, attracted to the glamour of not going back. Judge John C. Fairbanks, 70, of New Hampshire, stole $1.8 million from his law clients, disappeared on December 28, 1989, the day after he was indicted, and hid out for years. On Thursday, March 24, 1994, Fairbanks checked into the mgm Grand under an assumed name. On Sunday, he was found dead. Judge John C. Fairbanks was not a casual man. He succeeded at everything he set out to do. His suicide note, written to his son, was taped to the mirror. This means Fairbanks got to take ...
- 919: James Rachels' Death and Dying
- ... evening while the youngster is taking a bath, Mike sneaks into the bathroom and drowns the child, and then arranges things so it will look like an accident. In the second case, a guy named John will gain a large inheritance and plans to drown his cousin, but as he enters the bathroom John sees the child slip and hit his head and fall face down in the water. John watches and does nothing. Now, Mike killed the child while John let the child die. Now did either man behave better, from a moral point of view? "If the difference between killing and letting ...
- 920: The Evolution Of A Disc Jockey
- ... greatly regarded as that of just a music player during the modernistic period. During the modern era, the world was changing from the traditional beliefs of more philosophical, social conscious, scientific ideas. This is when John Cage during the thirties came on to the phonographic scene displaying the manipulation of a song into abstract tunes exhibiting modernist thoughts. As the modern period came to a close, post-modernism followed in its ... do as they please by dissecting and recreating that which has already been created and recreated. During this period, which is still currently evolving, Pierre Schaeffer in the forties most likely gained influential ideas from John Cage in his attempts to redefine tunes and make them into segments and samples of unfamiliar notes. It was the seventies that proved to be the pivotal point of the disc jockeys evolution. No longer ... loops or grooves in the disc...and adjusting the volume and playing the sounds backwards" (Holmes 120). Also during this time another fellow musician of Schaeffer's that also contributed his thoughts on this subject. John Cage presented his ideas to the Seattle Arts Society in 1937 with the hope of getting some type of recognition for the turntable. "With a phonograph it is now possible to control any one ...
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