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Jarena Lee Jarena Lee felt imbued with a religious mission in life, and because of this, she bravely defied the conservative sex biases of the church to become, as she contended, the “first female preacher of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church”. As an evangelist, Mrs. Lee sometimes traveled on foot to spread her religious…

INTRODUCTION Why is heaven silent when good men suffer? Will one ever understand the hows and whys of evil? Is it possible to resolve to trust God only when going through the toughest of times? The Book of Job, one of the Wisdom Literature books in the Bible, boldly makes such inquiries and casts a…

Woody Allen The Problem of Evil From the viewpoint of theodicy, the problem of evil lies in its origin: Does evil come from God? In spite of God? Using theodicy to define evil is basically an attempt to affirm Gods omnipotence and his/her love for humans, with the existence of evil and without contradiction. Depending…

It looks both ways: to radical voluntarism, yet to utter submission; to absolute authority, yet to limited authority, defined as duties more than powers and constrained by mutual obligation from God on down; to God the father, yet to God the mother; to the Word as strict law, yet to the Word as spiritual milk;…

Judaism was a parent of Christianity, and we probably know more about it than any other religion, excluding our own, right off the top of our heads. The ancestors of the Jews, called the Israelites, established a kingdom in Canaan-the land of Milk and Honey. The Israelites first began to see themselves in a special…

As I entered the upper Egyptian gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology I noticed a women giving a lecture to a small group concerning some of the monuments in the gallery. Lucky enough, I got a chance to catch the end of her lecture, and coincidentally it was about this…

Pagels says that rather than viewing Christ’s death as a sacrificial offering to atone for guilt and sin, the Gospel of Truth sees the crucifixion as the occasion for discovering the divine self within. In the Gospel of Mary, physical suffering has no reality because physicality has no reality (G. of Mary). Christ’s crucifixion has…

Ever since Cain killed his brother Abel, death and murder have been a part of human society. The man always killed the other man, physically or mentally, to gain something for himself, something that may be a tangible things such as food or money, or intangible things such as power or pride. Throughout the British…

Luke Gospel Table Of Contents Introduction 2 Body Of Presentation 3 Author 3 Date 3 Intended Audience 4 Purpose 5 Outline Of Contents 6 Theme Verse 7 Relevance 8 Bibliography 10 Introduction Luke was not a Jew, but a gentile. He was a physician who loved people. The nature of Lukes Gospel is indicated by…

Our God has come through to many sick, hungry, homeless, and diseased people. He has brought to them a whole new life, or at least a new perspective of how to look at life. With Gods powers, He can conquer anything and everything. No one or no one thing can overpower what God has made…