a movie that won countless awards and is 21st in the list of top rated movies. City of God‚ is an unforgettable movie about the survival of two boys who take different path in live while growing up in brutal favelas of Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. The movie is based on a novel of same name by Paulo Lins‚ who grew up there‚ left it and spends eight years writing the book. Cidade de Deus translated as City of God is favela where poor people. A favela is defined from Portuguese as slum established on
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are brainwashed into believing that there is a god. This god judges us every day and decides whether or not you get to go to heaven or hell. Well‚ I think that this is all bull s*** and lies. I don’t blame the people who raised me to believe in god‚ because they believe in this fictional character. All of this poses a question‚ is god real? Well of course not ‚but I’ll tell you why in the next paragraph. A rational person rejects all human gods equally‚ because all of them are equally imaginary
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The Kingdom of God is a hidden‚ but important theme in the New Testament of the Bible. It isn’t a place‚ but rather a state of being. Jesus spends most of his life living as an example of the Kingdom of God. Through Jesus’ teachings‚ people begin to understand what it truly means to live in the Kingdom. This theme is mainly introduced in the gospel of Mark and progresses further in depth throughout the New Testament. The meaning of the Kingdom of God is found in the words of Jesus Christ. He provides
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‘God is not real’: A philosophical question is a question that has no right or wrong answer‚ a philosophical question makes you think more deeply to come up with an answer. People will have different answers depending on what they believe. ‘God is not real’ is a philosophical question because this question doesn’t immediately make you think of a particular physical object. This question has no right or wrong answer. Different people might have different responses to philosophical questions because
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“It is pointless to deny the logical necessity of the existence of God.” First of all‚ we must ask: is the existence of God an analytic statement‚ or is it synthetic. An analytic statement is one which is impossible to think of as false. For example‚ a triangle having three internal angles which total 180 degrees is an analytic statement because it it impossible to think of a triangle in any other way. This therefore means that the proposition is logically necessary and it would be incoherent
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Brazil‚ 1960’s‚ City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970’s: Li’l Zé has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bené is the only one to keep him on the good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years‚ and he wants no part of it. Yet he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980’s: Things are
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Who is God? A startling question that most people will answer yes to is: Does God exist? Websters Dictionary (Webster’s p. 412) defines God as the supreme being‚ seen as the omnipotent creator and ruler of the universe. Whereas a theologist describes him as God is the infinite and perfect spirit in whom all things have their source‚ support‚ and end. (Thiessen p. 55) Whatever the case the statistics from Multipoll CGI on the internet show that 86 percent believe that God exists. Probably
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Images of God When you say the word God different images will enter each person’s mind. We know that we cannot totally understand who God is and explain him with our feeble human language‚ but the “desire for God is written in the human heart” which calls us to continue to try (CCC 27). We as Christians see God as a mystery not to be solved but to be beheld. God is not to be figured out but we are to sit “face to face with the Incomprehensible” and to construct our belief in based on faith (Rahner
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The Trinity: The Oneness of God Before I try to explain an infinite God with my finite brain‚ I will bring this verse to mind: Proverbs 3:5-7 states‚ ’’Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him‚ and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil." So‚ with this in mind‚ I will attempt to explain the Trinity. The best way to explain the Trinity is not with a statement‚ but with a
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Knowing God How do babies know how to eat? It is by pure instinct alone that we learn how to eat; it comes naturally to us. We can almost say that eating comes through general revelation. One can call general revelation natural revelation‚ not because it comes naturally to us but because it takes place within the realm of nature. General revelation comes through natural means‚ observation of the physical universe‚ reasoning and human conscience. Christians have used this term to describe the knowledge
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