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Iranian/Shia willingness to sacrifice and seek martyrdom or vengeance for a greater good.
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Iranian/Shia willingness to sacrifice and seek martyrdom or vengeance for a greater good.
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The Divine Comedy requires heart, imagination, instinct, intuition, and faith because the truth of Inferno cannot be known by surface reading alone.
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Jiang summarizes The Divine Comedy as a journey into one's own heart and faith.
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Iran's three major advantages are Shia faith and martyrdom, mountainous fortress terrain, and deep Persian civilizational nationalism.
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Justification by sin means breaking rabbinic law can show true faith in God, the Messiah, and the self rather than mere permission to misbehave.
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Jiang says justification by sin proves faith by breaking the laws of conventional man rather than obeying social morality.
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Jiang contrasts Catholic justification by works and Lutheran justification by faith before asking how one can prove true belief.
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Zevi and Frank say sin proves true faith because being hated and shunned for transgression intensifies belief.
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Protestant direct access, egalitarianism, and justification by faith create new problems: confusion around the Trinity, sectarian chaos, and anxiety over whether one truly believes.
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"Okay? So I know who Dido is, I know what Virgil did, and I want to name her in order to resurrect her in..."
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"...comedy is a journey really into your own heart and your faith. All right? Any questions? Okay. All right. So we will continue this..."
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"...comedy is a journey really into your own heart and your faith. All right, any questions? Okay, all right, so we will continue this..."
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"...survive this war. All right? The first is the idea of faith. All right? So, remember that the Iranians are Shia. And as such,..."
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"...these are the three major advantages. That the Iranians have. Okay? Faith means that they're not afraid to die for what they believe in...."
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"Okay? Jihad. That's the first major advantage. The second major advantage is terrain. And all this means is that Iran is a mountainous country...."
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"So Sadat Zevi what he does is by converting he sacrifices himself just to just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to redeem..."
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"...And by breaking the laws what you're showing is your true faith in the Messiah your true faith in God your true faith in..."
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"the bull's head and the bull was in a much worse shape than he had It's no wonder he looked so serious and he..."
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"...okay what matters is your relationship with God you have true faith you can do whatever you want you can conquer the world and..."
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"...Frank and St. Zevi represent is a more powerful understanding of faith, okay? So remember, there are, there have been three different understandings of..."
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"...your community, by being hated by your community, that is true faith in God. And when you do this, when you sin, not only..."
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