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The person I decided to interview was my father. The conversation was who Jesus was to him, but many questions branched off of this root question. We have a very strong relationship and I have heard his beliefs about Jesus and religion many times, but this conversation was a little bit different, and was one of the most interesting conversations I have ever been a part of. The first questions I asked was who is Jesus to you. He said that Jesus is the Son of God and his savior. He lived a perfect life on earth and created an example for us. He gave us a script to follow in a way. He also said that he created the perfect sacrifice for our sins. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice for our sins because he was perfect, unlike the animals …show more content…

This answer was very interesting to me because he said that he does not know if the other religions are talking about the same God. They are all so tightly related that they may be the same God. He believe the Christian God because he believes the Bible is true and the Bible says that Jesus is God. Jesus said that you cannot get to God except through me, and he is either a crazy, a liar, or he is telling the truth. He chooses to believe that he is telling the truth because of all the evidence of how he is telling the truth and all of the different miracles that he performed that actually have been reported to be …show more content…

The interesting part about this answer was that he changed his mind about Hell. He said that he believes that Hell does exist right now and people who do not believe in Jesus go to Hell. He does not believe that this is the final destination because when Jesus died, he went to Hell and came back. This means that people have another shot. Hell is a place for people who did not know Jesus or do not believe him, but he will come and talk to you. Jesus talks about going to paradise when he is on the cross. He then talked about how people may go to either Paradise or Hell and at the end, Hell goes into the lake of fire and Paradise goes to the earth. The fact that he changed his believe about Hell during this interview speaks to the fact that we both grew in our faith just in this hour of

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We still have some believers that there is a higher power that exists. Muslim, Judaists, and Christians believe in the existence of one God also called Monotheism believe that is only a single God who created the heavens and the earth and all the things on it. On the other hand, Polytheism believes in many Gods, and we have the naysayers that are referred to as Atheists they believe in no God (evolution). To explain this aspect to the reader Youngblood quoted Isaiah 45:22 a book in the Old Testament which states; “I am God, and there is no other” Youngblood also refers to the New Testament in book of John 14, sharing that if Christians know God the Son they also know God the Father, showing that they are the same. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me (John

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James Madison's assertion, "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition," was a crucial development in the making of the American government. This quote shows that Madison knew that Americans had a strong ambition, which meant that these Americans' citizenship would be powerful. These men lived in America when the U.S. Constitution had an instructable will to be involved with the government based on their freedom from Great Britain, so these men would have a large percentage in popular participation and would take advantage of their citizenship. Therefore in this idea, Madison knew that with these men being ambitious, the government also had to be ambitious. After this idea, he knew that not just one person could run the government but

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Ryan Lipncik Mr.Spears/Mrs.Crocker English 3 May 1 2023 Their Eyes Were Watching God Analysis Essay Change is one of the most difficult things in life. Many people have conflicting options on change and it has been a staple of history even being a huge part of the value of rebirth in the Harlem renaissance. Author Zora Neale Hurston offers a very insightful analysis of this value and other values in the Harlem renaissance.

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