Jonah

Jeff Adams was a big man standing seven foot three inches and weighing one hundred and thirty kilos in he was Australian born but lived in Hong Kong a city filled to the brim with people and Jeff was easily the biggest man in the whole city. Jeff had only one passion in life and that was rugby he played as much as he could as often as he could but when he wasn’t playing rugby he was at university studying a bachelor of law so that he could have a good life after his days of rugby were finished.

*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* I slowly opened my eyes and looked at my alarm clock. It reads “6:20.” The first thought to enter my mind as I awoke was, “Sonuvabitch. Another day to see phonies at Triton High School.” I hopped out of my bed and took a shower. The water was cold like it has been for the past week. It almost turned me into a human icicle. I brushed my teeth, ate breakfast, did all the morning requirements. Every day is a loop; I follow the same daily schedule: wake up, go to school, come

random. Upon studying the symbols, for some it points to something sinister and occult: The Illuminati. The Illuminati is a secret organization with the main goal being to establish a ‘one world government’ (History of the Illuminati). Journalist Jonah Wiener states, “The world of pop-music trutherism, a bustling,

There comes a point in everyone’s life that this question or subject is brought up - “Are you dating anyone?” “When are you guys getting married?” When these questions are asked from family and friends, it pressures people into finding that special one. Even though, people do experience those desires and questions for themselves; does it make it right to feel that need? What is marriage? Is marriage a contract or love? What if marriage is not what people perceive it to be? What if marriage is not

When is it okay to lie? From youth to adulthood people are taught that lying is awful and those who use deception are dishonest people, but what if the fib were to save a life or several lives. In the film Never Forget to Lie (2013) is about the last survivors of the Holocaust, the children that are now dying, coming together to document their lives so that the story lives on. They recall parents and children lied to save themselves and others. Furthermore, certain people such as Catholics, Christians

When discussing monotheism as a type of religion, we are talking about religion as the act of worship by man, not the origin of God. The former is something that could theoretically be proven based on anthropology and other earth sciences; the latter can only be revealed through God himself or the supernatural world. Because of my bias as a devout Christian, I believe that in the beginning there was one true God who created all. However, as Winfried Corduan pointed out in his book, Neighboring Faiths

Beyond fiction, Into the Depths of Cappella Chigi There isn't a specific year in history that could be pinpointed and said, “This is when the Renaissance started.” The period of rebirth of the classic ideas is what we, more fondly and famously identify as the period of Renaissance today. The European countries have been the central station for this massively celebrated time of revival of knowledge either lost or forgotten. Italy hosted the birth of the personalities, the present knows as the Renaissance

According to Augustine God not only divinely elects those who will have faith in Jesus but also choose to grant those elected faith to believe in Jesus Christ. In essence he means that God chose to give His Grace to those who he foreknew based on an individual’s faith. He argued that God elected people to salvation and in time they will come to Him who calls them. Augustine however, was the first theologian who started this theory with a number of his believers followed suite even after he had been

The Purpose in Life The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death” (Rajneesh, n.d.). This short story narrates about a woman named Martha Bes that apparently died. The main character is debating whether or not she is alive or dead. Also she goes about asking what God wanted her to do. “The book of Martha” written by Octavia Butler uses literary elements to present the overall message what is God’s purpose in life. One such literary

And countless times they failed to respond to the prophetic words that had been sent their way. In this pericope, the narrator of the book of Jonah reveals to us what should be our right response when we have sinned against God. The Ninevites were a people who had a history of being brutal and committing all sorts of atrocities. When faced with the threat of destruction, first the people of Nineveh