Second Assignment - Pols 201 Dear Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis‚ Your last letter has arrived just two days ago‚ since then I have been thinking about your words. I am aware of the importance of your works on the Christian theology and I do respect you by my heart. Yet I write you this letter‚ because I have some doubts about your statements concerning your doctrine of two cities‚ namely civitas dei and civitas terrena. As far as I understand civitas dei is the eternal‚ immutable and transcendental
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Poseidon is a god of many names. He is most famous as the god of the sea. The son of Cronus and Rhea‚ Poseidon is one of six siblings who eventually divided the power of the world. His brothers and sisters include‚ Hestia‚ Demeter‚ Hera‚ Hades‚ and Zeus. The division of the universe involved him and his brothers‚ Zeus and Hades. Poseidon became ruler of the sea‚ Zeus ruled the sky‚ and Hades got the underworld. The other powers attributed to Poseidon involve the god of earthquakes and the god of horses
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In the Iliad‚ the gods play an important role in the Trojan War. The Homeric gods know they are better than the mortals that serve them and do not care much when they fight and have quarrels. The gods can always withdraw from the battle and never have to worry about dying or suffering that the humans live with every day during the war. This is where we see the motivations of the gods‚ their relationships with mortals‚ relationships with each other and the power and authority of Zeus. The motivations
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on faith alone to believe in such things. Some of those people may ask this question often. Although we may have a strong faith and believe firmly that God exists‚ we should still look to strengthen our knowledge and understanding of our faith. Our faith is all supported and based on God. That is why it would make sense to start by examining God‚ and proof He exists. There are many theories to prove God’s existence‚ one of the most famous by St. Thomas Aquinas and his five proofs. These proofs are
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ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic version is more accurately spelled Anpu (also Anupu‚ Anbu‚ Wip‚ Ienpw‚ Inepu‚ Yinepu‚ Inpu‚ or Inpw). He is also known as Sekhem Em Pet. Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed‚ the Unas text (line 70) associates him with the Eye of Horus. He serves as both a guide of the recently departed and a guardian of the dead. Originally‚ in the Ogdoad system‚ he was god of the underworld
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Trisha Anne R. Zamudio Philo 1 - WFY As a Roman Catholic‚ I believe that God is our Creator and Father. I believe that He is One with Jesus Christ‚ His Son and the Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity. I believe that He is a merciful and loving God who is the only one who knows what will happen to us in our future. I believe that He is merciful because He is always there to forgive us whenever we sincerely ask for it. Despite our sins‚ He accepts us and ensures that everything that happens to us is
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Whitefield: Evangelist for God In the study of evangelism‚ there can be no greater blessing than to study the lives of those who have been used of God in the area of sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. George Whitefield is definitely one of those mighty blessed of God individuals who dedicated their lives to itinerant evangelism. His childhood was normal‚ his youth somewhat dangerous. He lived on the edge of God’s calling on his life inching closer to the purpose of God in his life. He swaggered
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There was god called apollo and he is the god of many things especially medicine. There once was a simple and kind town person his name was john. But in mountain Olympus‚ the gods were fighting because Ares want to give a plague to a town because they didn’t worship him like the other gods. “I think it should go here‚” said Ares “You just want it to go there bc they don’t worship you munch‚” said Apollo “He has point Ares‚” said Zeus “Who says we don’t plague this town say I‚ Olympic‚” said‚ Zeus
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The God Stealer: Filipino Identity in Fiction The story God Stealer‚ like F. Sionil Jose’s other novels concentrates on the debilitating effect of the colonial rule in the Filipino identity formation. The story begins with two officemates Philip Latak (an Ifugao from the Mountain Province now working in Manila) and Sam Cristie‚ an American on the bus to Baguio. Philip (Ip-pig) now lives in Manila against the wishes of his immediate family‚ particularly his grandfather who intended to bequeth
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Anselm‚ God is a being than which none greater can be imagined. He said that God exists as an idea in our mind but not in reality. In fact‚ a being that exists as an idea and also in reality is considered to be greater than a being that only exists only as an idea. In this case we can imagine someone who is greater than that idea in our mind. So‚ according to the superiority that being should be God but according to believes and ontology we cannot imagine someone greater than God because God is the
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