RLGN FINAL All Religions Flashcards

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Hindu View on suffering

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  • Suffering is equilibrium; balances samsara-karma. Solution is good karma, merit in Hinduism.
    Samsara: all suffering, earthquake, disease, poverty, etc.
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Karma

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eternal, universal, principle, operation, payday some/today/

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Dharma Varna Sharma

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your (social caste/religious allotment/duty) is to virtuously live out your ashram good/bad position

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Personal Tragedy in Hindu is

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fate. part of cosmic cycle so divinely sanctioned

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a seemingly innocent victim in Hindu with ‘bad circumstances’ needs to

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eradicate bad karma from past

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Hope in hindu from suffering

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reincarnation, oppurtunity to good in next/better life?

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Hindu APOL question

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“if suffering and evil are not real, why do I feel pain and guilt?”

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Buddhism suffering

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associative with existence, is MAYA! –temporary illusion, as we live in agnana/ignorance.

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Buddhism existence

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noble truths 1-2 teach that life is painfully unsatisfactory. If living, you will suffer

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Expectations In Buddhism

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selfish desires to attachment cause greed, hatred, pain.

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Enlightenment

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mental process enables overcome craving/grasping

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Escapism

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nirvana goal via 9-fold path rids karmic causes here and now

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“By oneself evil is done and it is oneself that suffers;

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by oneself evil is not done and by oneself one become sure-Dhammapada

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Buddhism Question

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isn’t the desire to get rid of all selfish desire also another desire?

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Judaism Suffering

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suffering is a mystery, a result of human depravity. Human responsibility: free wills potential to fail; frailty> transgression.

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Divine Sovereignty in Judaism

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holy/pure; no evil, righteous-just, merciful good

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Meaningful Judaism

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yet mysterious, God in charge/control; retribution theorie

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Purposeful Judaism

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punitive, instructive, purgative, corrective…. redemptive

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Eternal king

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judge will vindicate, so we must exercise faith+works

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Tikkum Olam

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olam repairing/renewing of Gods fallen earth, no suffering in new heaven; so don’t let it rob you of faith in YHWH- the Talmud

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Judaism Question

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“If it’s okay to ask WHY? Can I also find our when and how this problem of suffering is to be solved.”

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Islam Suffering

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  • Suffering is Imsha Allah- Gods (PRE) determined Will
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Islam Human Rebellion

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: whatever the cause, opportunity to submit to Allah
“That’s why you need to remember to remember to prau 5 times a day etc. to avoid suffering by submitting.

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Allah

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unknowable, unquestionable cause; mover of all causes of pain

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Cause of Pain/suffering Islam

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The Satan/Ibis or jinn’s attack/afflict but permitted by Allah to test faith
Logical since from God infinite; leads to repentant prayer, good works

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Muhammed ended forgiveness so he cant forgive sins but

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Isa can

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Islam question

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“if the finger of the almighty did it, How can his hand save?”

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Christianity suffering

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grace/Charis that endures, love that overflows and power that overcomes
God that suffers with us but also for us

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christianity suffering is not

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merely pain, shows something is wrong, unnatural, immoral

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Christianity Sovereignty

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God not evils source or stain; in command/control and cares

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Christianity affliction

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part of our abandoned life, disrupted dehumanized relations

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Christianity alienation

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3 evils sin and God sickness and creation, separation etc.

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Genesis 18;25

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ar be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

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2 Peter 3:9

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Gods will, he is not willing that any should perish but that all should perish that come to repentant faith. God did not create Hell for us, we choose to go to Hell, He has done everything to keep us out of it.

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3 C’s in regards to children

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  1. Character of God
  2. compassion of Christ
  3. Choices or Consequences
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judgement is proportion to

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amount of light you reject not sins you commit

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2 Sam 12:22-23

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While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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Matthew 18:3-5

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39
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Ephesians 1:7-8

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40
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Revelation 20:11-13

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41
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Which is the story of absolute submission to divine will

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Islam

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Realizing one’s true self and tapping into ultimate potential

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humanism

43
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Singular truth and militant spiritualism that builds community

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Sikhism

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proper well-ordered ethic

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confucianism

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devotion to God many paths

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Hinduism

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Islam priest/mediator

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caliphs- guided or political leader

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Shinto priest

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Mikos- female priests

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Sikhims priest

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Kaur- female ordained ministers

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Hajj

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Islam-pilgirimage to Mecca

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Amrit

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baptism by sweet water- Sikhism

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Dragon Boat festival

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Confucianist holiday commemorating famous scholar. wards off evil spirits

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Peach and blossom festival

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Shinto

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Daoism way of salvation

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eternal way of path and power

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Confucianism Salvation

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respectable person of honor

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ISlam Salvation

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total submission, discipline action

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Hindu Priest

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Brahmans and Gurus

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Buddhism Salvation

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state of oblivion

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Salvation in Judaism

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tradition sacrifice, prayers, good works

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Confucianism Salvation

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good person of. honor and respectable

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Hindu Salvation

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find part that liberates you from wheel of disfortune

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Daoism Founder

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Lao Tzu

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Hindu Founder

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none

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Zoroastrianism founder

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Zarathustra

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Judaism founder

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Abraham/Moses

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Shinto founder

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none/amaterasu

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Buddhism founder

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Gautama Buddha; Siddhartha Gautama

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Confucianism Founder

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Confucius

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Islam Founder

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Muhammed

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Sikhism founder

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Guru Nanak

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Islam Sacred text

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Quran and Hadith

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Buddhism Sacred text

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Trippitakas- 3 baskets

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Confucianism Sacred Text

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Analects

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Charismatic Muslims

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Sufis

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Hindnu Sacred text

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Bhagavadgita and Vedas

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daoism sacred text

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dao-de-ching and the three caverns

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Islam Festivals

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Eid al-Fitr (fast breaking feast at the end of Ramadan), Eid al-Adha (feast at the end of the Haji), Mawlid (Muhammad’s birthday)

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5 pillars of Islam

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Confession of Faith (Shahadah)
Prayer (Salat)
Fasting (Sawm)
Almsgiving (Zakat)
Pilgrimage (Haji)

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Rosh Hashannah

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Jewish New Year, believed to be the month in which God created the world, celebrated 10 months before Yom Kippur

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Yom Kippur

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The Day of Atonement, a period
of repentance following Rosh Hashanah, Sabbath of Sabbaths

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Sukkot (Jew)

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Held every fall to commemorate the sheltering of the Israelites in the wilderness

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Hannukah

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Festival of Lights

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Purim

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Festival that commemorates the saving of the Jews from Haman, who sought to eliminate them

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Pesach

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Passover Festival, commemorates exodus from Egypt

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Shauvot

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originally a harvest festival, celebrates the giving of the Torah

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Main modern subgroups of Judaism

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Reformed
Conservative
Orthodox
Reconstructionist

86
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2 words to describe our contemporary culture

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Post-modernity

87
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loss of three A’s

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Absolutes, authority, accountability

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Syncretism

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salvation is in a mixture of different tolerant beliefs

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Exclusivism

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Salvation ONLY by conscious repentant faith in Christ

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Inclusivism

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salvation experienced without responding to God

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Pluralism

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salvation is found in various other religions traditions

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Universalism

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all humankind will be saved

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entry point to ministry

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from creation to tomb to cross

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truth is suppressed, because of this we are slated for

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judgement

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God reveals himself through

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self revelation