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    conception of the universe and its’ origin based on a person’s values that come from influences such as religious, societal, and perceptional factors. It can help ground a person and it serves as an explanation of reality and the nature of one’s existence. A person of Christian faith bases their worldview around the teachings of God and the Holy Bible. By studying the Christian worldview, one can learn about the way they perceive the world through God, humanity, Jesus, and restoration. Christians believe

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    second with 23 percent. Although some people think these two faiths are polar opposites, they have many similarities that people may not know. Islam and Christianity compare and contrast in areas such as foundation and origin, major beliefs and their holy book, and their sacred places located in the Middle East.

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    School Of Athens

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    Leonardo Da Vinci. He has a long hair and a long beard. This portrait has sketches, shadings, and many soft lines. He uses the color gray. B) One characteristics of Renaissance Art I see in this picture is that it is secular because Vinci doesn’t look holy or religious in anyway. Another characteristic is that it focuses on depicting Vinci’s face and beard realistically. This art piece also uses perspective because you can see Vinci’s beard, face, and head three-dimensionally. this portrait also glorifies

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    Holiness The word holy, holy, holy, shows up twice in the Old Testament Isaiah 6:3 and once in the New Testament Revelation 4: 8. These phrase in both time is spoken about a heavenly creatures and both times it shows up in a vision of a man was transported to God’s throne. Firstly by prophet Isaiah and secondly by apostle John. (The Bible says that God is holy, holy , holy. Not that He is merely holy or even holy, holy. Page 40, The Holiness Of God) The holiness of God is very difficult attribute

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    One of the main claims of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition is that human beings exist in relation to a Triune God. In the Catholic Tradition, Triune God is also called the Trinity which means one God and three holy persons; the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. They all are distinct but all equal God. There are many texts in the Catholic Tradition that shows that humans exist in relation to a Triune God, two of those texts are The Book of Genesis which is in the Bible, and Plato’s Allegory

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    cessation of the spiritual gifts, the meaning of which we will clarify in a moment, is a relatively modern one. Although we read about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the early church of the New Testament, history is more or less silent on this issue. It was not until the early

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    Euthyphro-Plato

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    is considered right or wrong, the truth or a lie, just or unjust, and holy or unholy, all are the basis of contentious debates difficult within society. Finding common ground within these oppositions can be challenging because of the diversity of cultural, religious, and moral values, and beliefs in society. Such is the situation with Socrates and Euthyphro. Plato’s Euthyphro is a

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    b. Peter’s vision Acts 10:9-16 c. Cornelius’s men met Peter Acts 10:17-23 d. Peter met Cornelius Acts 10:24-33 e. Good News to the Gentiles Acts 10:34-43 f. Gentiles received the Holy Spirit Acts 10:44-48 g. Peter came up to Jerusalem Acts 11:1-18 h. The Church at Antioch Acts 11:19-26 i. Prophets from Jerusalem Acts 11:27-30 2, 3. Category I a. We can

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    Halfway through his political statement, he says "we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow this ground." There is a parallel structure in this phrase when he repeats "we, we, we." In this manner, it would facilitate the task to achieve his purpose if he repeats it. With parallelism, Lincoln strictly emphasizes that they can not make this ground holy since the ones who fought there already did and no one else can make it sacred. By repeating the beginning of the phrase, then

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    Bible. The serpent is the basis for all sin in the Bible. Kafka puts all of the responsibilities of the family on Gregor. Early in the story, Gregor wakes up and sees his small vermin legs and gets up for work but realizes that he has to crawl on the ground with his stomach down. Adam and Eve eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, in which they are strictly told not to eat from. The two were persuaded to eat from the tree by the serpent who was then commanded to go about all of his days on

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