Essays on Religion Page 84

In the book Fascinating Bible Facts by David M. Howard Jr. , Ph. D. and Gary M. Burge, Ph. D. Jesus is described and seen by the authors in many ways. However I find the most prominent to be Jesus as a Human or a Brother. The authors attempt to show Jesus as a Human…

Melville uses many biblical allusions throughout the novella to relate Billy Budd to Jesus. Billy is symbolic of a Christ-like figure because of his destruction by evil and betrayal, fate and. Similar to Jesus, Billy was a fatalist who believed that life was planned out and all events were destined to occur. Lieutenant Ratcliffe was…

The Four Spiritual Laws, an intellectual method of evangelism developed by Dr. Bill Bright in 1952, presents four spiritual laws governing one’s relationship with God. According to CampusCrusade.com, these laws are: (1) God loves you and has a remarkable plan for your life. (2) Sin causes humanity to be separated from God and unable to…

Warfare entails physical activity, force and quite a bit of intelligence. Moreover, the use of force is futile if there is no proper evaluation of the terrain, battle conditions and the enemy. The army that emerges victorious in a battle is one that consists of well-trained and adequately armed soldiers whose leaders are competent and…

In Tony Hoagland’s poem “Adam and Eve,” power is portrayed as the ability to control oneself or others. Rather than fostering a loving relationship, the man and woman in the poem engage in a mental competition to assert power over each other. Instead of nurturing their bond, they automatically oppose and manipulate each other at…

Introduction My father was a man who lived his life with ideal love in his heart; love of god and spirituality was a great part of that; Hafiz had a great deal of influence on him because Hafiz poems always speaks of love and love of god. Even when my father was in the hospital…

Alexander Pope, an eighteenth-century writer, endured a life of suffering due to a rare form of tuberculosis that caused chronic pain. This illness also stunted his growth, leaving him at a height of approximately four and a half feet. Additionally, Pope frequently experienced migraines (Greenblatt 2714). Despite these obstacles, Pope was able to compose Essay…

ABSTRACT—Despite the commonsense belief that people do not confess to crimes they did not commit, 20 to 25% of all DNA exonerations involve innocent prisoners who confessed. After distinguishing between voluntary, compliant, and internalized false confessions, this article suggests that a sequence of three processes is responsible for false confessions and their adverse consequences. First,…

My life in Western society contrasts greatly with the values and beliefs of Lao Tzu’s philosophy, which emerged around 600 B.C. as a contrasting viewpoint to Confucianism. The Tao Te Ching, written by Lao Tzu, promotes a solitary life centered on simplicity, peace, and inaction to understand the elusive Tao. Embracing these principles would profoundly…

In the book “Talking Heads”, Alan Bennett introduces his characters as ‘artless’, implying that they are unaware of the significance of their words and unaware that they are sharing a story whose meaning they do not fully comprehend. “This is true of most of the monologues that he wrote, except for ‘A Cream Cracker under…