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Do you think it is a dance to express your joy or a dance that brings joy to other people?

what in the world are u talking about?
a little too much crack for u huh?

so priests are atheists?

Is it a lower level peace and joy that the Buddhists are actually experiencing? Or is it an illusion?

there are many ways to experience peace and joy……for awhile….the only lasting satisfaction is in Christ Jesus. Followers of Buddha haven’t come to term with their sinfulness from what i have seen.

Disregard the numbers but i need one of these, and my report is due in a month and i need a lot to work on for it so a shorter book would help! THANKS!

24 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
19 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
16 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
16 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
15 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
15 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
13 King Lear by William Shakespeare
12 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
12 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
11 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11 Billy Budd by Herman Melville
11 Light in August by William Faulkner
11 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
10 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
10 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
9 Antigone by Sophocles
9 Beloved by Toni Morrison
9 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
9 Native Son by Richard Wright
9 Othello by William Shakespeare
9 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
9 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
8 Candide by Voltaire
8 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
8 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
8 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
8 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
7 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
7 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
7 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
7 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
7 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
7 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
7 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
7 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
7 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
7 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
7 Sula by Toni Morrison
7 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
7 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
6 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
6 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
6 Equus by Peter Shaffer
6 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
6 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
6 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
6 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
6 Medea by Euripides
6 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
6 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
6 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
6 Obasan by Joy Kogawa
6 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
6 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
6 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
6 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
6 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
5 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
5 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
5 Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
5 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
5 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
5 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
5 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5 Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
BTW it can’t be a book that has been made into a play so no shakespear
BTW it can’t be a book that has been made into a play so no shakespear

Wow, you inputted all of these and you still can’t decide.
I don’t blame you. There are some great books there. Also some not so great, and I see your
teacher does not approve of Science Fiction for an education. Pity that, but that is how SHE was trained so that is how YOU will be trained.

I would go with Moby Dick. It is considered the first truly "American" novel. You can also find a lot of material on it on the web, which should make all that analysis stuff you have to do easier. It is also a good book and a good adventure story.

What is God’s Divine Nature?

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of The Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2Peter 1:4

Interestingly, the word for "Nature" is φύσις (phusis)
- growth (by germination or expansion), i.e. (by implication) natural production (lineal descent);
- by extension, a genus or sort;
- figuratively, native disposition, constitution or usage;

(( **Side Note**….this Greek word used for Nature, is also the name of what the greeks honored as the goddess of Nature….Phusis….and from which we get the word "Physis"…..also said to have no parents as He/She emerged at the beginning of time… )

This is NOT to mix greek mythology with the bible, but to show how the bible gives meaning and definition to everything else so we can clearly partake of the TRUE Divine "Phusis" of God ….Jerusalem Above "Mother of us all" ! *smiles* (Gal. 4:26)

~~~~~~Bonus Material =) Exceeding great and oprecious promises (= If you have time~~~~~~

The timing of the wording "Having Escaped" is a present tense action based on a past tense action (the CROSS(ing)….Is this why we ‘escape corruption’ in "real time" when we mix faith with His Everlasting Promises which result in Everlasting Joy ?

"Whom having not seen, YOU LOVE; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and FULL OF GLORY:" 1Peter 1:8

Are these also a few of the exceeding great and precious promises which the beloved Apostle Peter was referring to?

"And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall OBTAIN JOY AND GLADNESS, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
Isaiah 35:10

" Therefore the redeemed (past tense) of the LORD shall return (future tense), and come with singing (Present Tense: ) UNTO ZION; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away." Isaiah 51:11

Did the beloved writer of Hebrews mention this present tense action here also….

"But YOU ARE COME unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
AND TO JESUS the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaksh better things than that of Abel.
Hebrews 12:22

What are your thoughts dear ones, on how we ARE COME unto ZION ?

What does it mean to partake of His Divine Nature, and How glorious is it that we "Having Escaped"….we "ARE COME "(With Singing)" unto ZION"…. ?

Bonus Q: What are these wonderful Songs of Zion, which help us to return to our Chief Joy ?

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not JERUSALEM ABOVE my chief joy.
Psalms 137:3 - 6

"But JERUSALEM which is ABOVE is free, which is the MOTHER of us ALL." Galatians 4:26

Much Love be unto you ALL… and may we learn what it means to partake of these "Exceeding Great" and "Precious Promises"by the Grace of our Lord Jesus = (Yehova IS Salvation) ! *smiles*
(((Hasse_j))) Amen to that….He is the True Life of us all…and He is our sabbath rest ! : )
Lifesharer: Just so there is no mistake about it…. Divine in this conext is θει̑ος (theios)
- godlike (neuter as noun, divinity): - divine, godhead.;

and "Nature" is already expounded upon in the Q…. I sure hope you do not sell truth to buy a lie….it is not a fair exchange…. : )

Here is another description of this partaking : ) For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of HIS HOLINESS. Heb 12:10
One other thing to clarify…is that the first adam became a living soul….and the LAST ADAM (the New Creation Man) became a Quickening Spirit (for God is Spirit)
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made A QUICKENING SPIRIT." 1Corinthians 15:45

And yes we should watch for cults and groups that have a form of godliness, yet DENY the POWER thereof : )

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Timothy 3:5

If HE called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; John 10:35

Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blaspheme; because I said, I am the Son of God? Jn 10:36

Isn’t Jesus, the Son of God, awesome… and His Truth perfectly clear ?

Much love to you (Lifesharer…and thanks for sharing:) and to ALL : )
(((bwlobo:))) thank you for sharing dear one: )

God can see into the future of His firstborn Son to create everything through him. Adam was an image of Jesus. Something to grasp.