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    History of God

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    being of our time is God. God is known my several names including: Allah‚ Yahweh‚ The Holy Trinity‚ Jah‚ Maasai‚ Ishvara‚ Baquan‚ Kisaski‚ of course there are many other but these are the majority of names. “We find the idea of God equally in ancient Israelite folk religion‚ Christian theology‚ modern philosophy of religion‚ and in the recent debates about the “intelligent design” that the world supposedly manifests.” (Talkreason‚ 2007). In Western culture‚ the word God refers to one superlative

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    God and Man

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    happiness in‚ he only found that everything apart from God is meaningless and vain. When he accepted the fact that God has a plan that He is working it out in the author ’s life‚ and that all he needs to do is allow Him to work‚ it was only then that he was able to find true satisfaction and happiness. He then calls the readers to not walk in the same way of meaninglessness as he had‚ but rather to seek God first‚ and reap the benefits of faith in God. The writer of Ecclesiastes is known only as the

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    The myth was his father Cronus swallowed him as he had all of zeus’s siblings.Zeus had many affairs with other gods and goddess. Poseiden was the god of the sea‚earthquakes‚and tidal waves.The trident was the symbol for Poseiden.The myth was he was swallowed by his father and saved by his brother Zeus and other siblings.He was mad at Zeus because‚ Zeus had more power. Hades was the god of the underworld‚the dead‚and all riches under the Earth.Hades symbol was a helmet.The myth was that Hades abducted

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    God in Nature

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    God in Nature Cynthia Wiley Ohio Christian University PH3000 – Transformed Worldview Jerome Van Kuiken 12/21/10 Looking at two different definitions of the word nature‚ I gained a better understanding of what the phrase‚ “God in Nature”‚ means. The first said that it was‚ “the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized” (www.wordnetweb.princeton.edu)‚ and the other described it as‚ “The material world and its phenomena” (www.answers.com)

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    Ares “God of War” Ares is the Greek god of war. He is the Son of Zeus and Hera the king and queen of the gods. Hephaestus and Ares were the only 2 Olympians born from both Zeus and Hera. Ares has many children with many different women; one of his most famous affairs was with Aphrodite‚ Greek goddess of Love and Beauty. They had multiple children but only 3 showed Ares qualities; Deimos “God of dread”‚ Phobos “god of fear” and Adrestia “goddess of revenge and balance”. All three of these children

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    Oedipus and the Gods

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    In Ancient Greece the existence of gods and fate prevailed. In the Greek tragedy King Oedipus by the playwright Sophocles these topics are heavily involved. We receive a clear insight into their roles in the play such as they both control man ’s actions and that challenging their authority leads to a fall. The concepts of the gods and fate were created to explain things. In Ancient Greece there was a lot that was not understood; science was in its infancy and everything that happened could be

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    God and Nature

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    God and Nature Andrea Lara History of Religions Prof. Willis There is a sense in which every Christian is a "creationist‚" for every Christian believes that he or she lives in a universe that is a creation‚ and that the Source of creation is the God who is revealed in the Bible as "maker of heaven and earth." This is true‚ whether the Christian is a young-earth creationist‚ or an old earth creationist. While these various creationists may strongly disagree among themselves

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    the presence of God and the gods in their respective narratives. However‚ how their respective presences manifest themselves are markedly different. The singular God of Genesis plays a passive role in the development of His plan for the mortal realm‚ acting from a distance‚ while the plural gods of the Odyssey who walk amongst the mortals and play the role of outright‚ active manipulators in order to enact their own plans for the mortals. These differences cause God and the gods to be perceived in

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    God and the Atheist

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    God and the Atheist In the first chapter of this book‚ the author‚ Paul Ferguson decided to introduced this book by describing person experience with having to explain whether there is a God or not. He was able to say that not only did he have a hard time with his first argument‚ but also that he was able to learn from it. That particular argument made him realize how important it was to “be prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter

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    Army of God

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    September 4‚ 2013 The Army of God I have researched a number of different terrorist groups‚ and I find The Army of God (AOG) to be most appealing. What drew me in was the fact that this group is so concerned about abortions that they go to the extreme of blowing up clinics. They believe abortions are wrong‚ and they are also against the homosexuality. The Army of God is an example of a low level fundamentalist terrorist group; it is an underground network of terrorists in the United States that

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