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The Relationship Between Will Reason Belief Jenn Zhu

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modern world. The truth is that the original contents of the

Bible was written by the disciples when they just started the

Christianity according to their then understanding of what

preached by Jesus who is basically a divine person incarnated

in a human body, which is what all Christians have believed.

And it may be possible to modify those contents under the

guidance of the Spirit by those brilliant disciples who can

receive the revelation from the Spirit or God. And the similar

thing is with the Chinese belief in Heaven, and might in some

other spiritual beliefs. So it is the will of people that would

keep them on this course of tedious and continuing search for

truth to maintain their faith on their beliefs who will definitely

compensate them greatly in return.

As probably having been mentioned in other chapters, not

only human have will, animals would have will too. However,

since human’s will is empowered by their belief, so it could be

much more powerful than that of animals. The will would give

the power for human to make decision and initiate action, at

the same time, it tells their intention and plans to do things.

Thus, anything created by human or have received influence

from human will simultaneously come out the will of

themselves and go with own intentions, just as the Universe

created the human according to its own mechanism, which is

also indicated in Christianity that God created human

according to its own form, as well as in ancient Greek

mythology that Prometheus used the mud of earth to create

human since he knew that the mud contained the wisdom of

the god. So in this civilization, things created by humans

would possess their own will, and would go with their own

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