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Justice

     Ok, this one is amusing, I wish I could start college over again and work harder on some papers. Although I have only given you papers from my freshman/sophomore year..... It has some good ideas, but I did not write it very well (also it was 8 pages, so feel free to read in multiple sessions). You be the judge..... ;) 04/29/2005                                                                     Justice Paper          Throughout the Bible we are commanded and entrusted by God with many things. With these things He hopes that we would do our best to be righteous in our actions and to give him the Glory. These things that we are to do are spread throughout the Bible and are sometimes hard to determine what we are actually to do. This is especially true in the writings of the Old Testament. For the purposes of this paper we will be dealing with the book of Isaiah and God’s wish for us to use Justice, not only in the times of Isaiah but also today.           When we hear the word ju

The Restoration of Creation

    I find it very interesting now that I go back and read some of my old writings. Reading them and posting them on here may give you insight as to how my thinking, my worldview, and understanding of theology has evolved throughout the past decade or so. Here is the second post from the past.......(I really could have done a much better job writing these papers, what an  intellectual/ slacker I was all at the same time, haha!) 04/14/2005      The Bible portrays redemption in some way as the restoration of creation. This conflicts with the belief that somehow redemption has taken humans out of creation. Many “Christians” believe that the sacred and secular are separate because of redemption, yet all throughout the Bible it is quite the opposite. If we would only take the time to read and study the word of God, we would learn so much about what God has planned for us and what he has always had planned for us.      When the fall of our kind came, back when Adam and Eve first sinned, it