...Ashly Elias EGL375 29 September 2014 How God Evolved with Humans Throughout the Five Books of Moses, God has chosen certain individuals for duties and missions in his name. The interpersonal relationships God has with these select few affects one’s understanding of who he is. Also, his persona wavers from person to person, revealing parts of himself through his actions and emotions. At first God is as an all-powerful creator, an artist designing the world. However, he has a different, fatherly side to him when he creates Adam and Eve. He is happy, content and even hurt and betrayed. God also goes through period of wrath and anger as he copes with the disobedience of man. He slowly changes, and begins to transform with other characters as he starts to have empathy and understand them. Most importantly, he begins to evolve with humans as the timeline progresses. Before learning about God through his relationships with humans, it is necessary understand who he was before humans existed. The bible begins by saying, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The immensity of these ten words pulls one into the abrupt beginning of life, and who it is that created it. The very first characteristic stated about him in Genesis is that he is a creator. He has formed the heavens and the earth for mankind to flourish upon. Much can be learned about him through his process of creation. First, God is a god of order. He created life in a matter of six days with specific...
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...Melissa English 100 October 21, 2013 Argument Essay Who are we to say there is no God? Werner Heisenberg once said "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you." Even a man whose life focus was science and explaining how things worked believed in a Power greater than himself. Heisenberg was a genius and his theories couldn't explain away God. Although some say that the wonders of mother nature can be explained by scientific facts I believe the presence of God is all around us. Atheists argue that suffering and war come from religion but God is loving and all-inclusive; it is people in the religions that cause the suffering not God. Even though Austin Cline believes there are too many religions and different God's to go with them all (page 71) ; I believe the other gods are pleasing to mans desire. A true God would be contrary to flesh and be on a much holier level thus proving man made to please themselves. These man made gods are made of wood stone and iron made by mans hands. God has never had a graven image or a name like they do. "There Is No God" by Sam Harris gives the example of hurricane Katrina as proof there is no God (page 72). Harris uses the point that if there is a God "what was he doing while a hurricane wasted their city?" For one thing, such events shake our confidence in this life and force us to think about eternity. Churches are usually filled after disasters...
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...d) Descartes pointed out the objector’s mistake by simply reestablishing the connection principle in his reply. Hobbes immediately disclaims that we cannot have any idea of God, however that is precisely what he does to even begin his objection. One has to consider the idea to be true before disproving it, and this is overseen by the objector but corrected by the originator. The simple statement to conclude his reply, “...this is completely self-evident,” is an excellent way that Descartes credits his proof of God; Hobbes must realize that he did, in fact, consider the idea of God. Descartes wants to convince his audience that there is an all omniscient being, without using total evidence to prove that there is this being; he wants the idea of God to be accepted without excessive evidence. He probes his audience to use their senses and their ideas to develop a belief in God , rather than just present “hard” evidence using the sensory argument. This is to provoke people, mainly skeptics, to consider this idea for themselves and truly work to understand and believe in it....
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...expect their wives are to be compliant to their needs without question. By writing this article she is trying to show the way she believes men think about wives and mothers. She describes a situation with a male friend which then generates her ideas, “As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly occurred to me that I, too, would like to have a wife.” (Brady 1993, para. 2) She uses specific language throughout the essay to describe what she wants from her wife. By using specific language, she can take the main topic of her paragraphs and further enhance them through each of her supporting items. Ms. Brady has used this pattern well to flow from one point to the next throughout her narrative. In her essay the quote, “My God, who wouldn't want a wife?” (Brady 1993 para. 10) stands out the most to me. Not only because it’s at the end, but because it summarizes the whole concept she is trying to convey within the essay. The way she laid out the reasons behind why she wanted a wife and what she wants from a wife would cause any person to ask this question. This method of using descriptive writing would not necessarily be my first choice in my own writing, but I can see how it might become helpful when breaking down a topic and trying to support it with further details of the main idea. References Brady, Judy (1993). Why I Want A Wife. Literature for Compostion, Third...
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...greetings or farewells, however, throughout each section John talks about love of God and to the brethren. John uses the word “love” 47 times. This table will show the pattern used by John moving back and forth between love towards God and love towards others. Chapter | Love in connection to God | Love in connections to others | 2 | 5 But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him 15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you | 7b to love one another10 Anyone who loves another brother or sister15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, | 3 | 1 See how very much our Father loves us16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us 17b how can God’s love be in that person | 10b Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers 11b We should love one another14 If we love our Christian brothers and sisters… But a person who has no love is still dead. 18 let’s not merely say that we love each other 21 love one another, just as he commanded us | 4 | 7b for love comes from God… Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and...
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...Introduction – What is God? God is considered as someone who created the entire universe and the one with the highest level of power. The idea of God is perceived differently in various religions. Starting from the name to the identity and attributes, everything is distinct and separate according to the basic rules of every religion and cultural norms. Primarily people assume that God doesn’t have any particular shape or cannot be depicted in any kind of visual form, but still in some religion people use the male gender to represent God. God has created every single living creatures and he is the one who knows everything and has full authority on what happens in the world and in everyone’s lives. He is someone who is worshipped by his devotees and the way he is worshipped or the way people believe in his existence is subject to the particular religion that one follows. Over the years, many philosophers have tried to contribute their ideas to come up with the most appropriate definition of God and to justify the relation between God and this world. In this report, those conceptions are going to be discussed and finally comments and arguments will be made regarding one specific conception, which will be deemed better or most agreeable compared to the other provided conceptions or arguments. Religious Conceptions of God In order to classify people based on their belief, religions have been divided into 2 major groups. * Theistic * Atheistic Theistic group of people...
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...Tawhid: Belief in One God Apologetic Paper (Joseph Smith) - May 1995 Contents Introduction The Muslim View The Christian Response What the Scriptures say The history of the word 'Trinity' 'Trinity' defined Common misconceptions Can 1+1+1=1? Is Jesus not merely human? The ignobility of God's humanity Was Jesus begotten? Where was God when Jesus was on Earth? Is Mary God? Is the concept of the Trinity not borrowed from a pagan source? Conclusion A: Introduction A few years ago I received a letter from a colleague in India who had been approached by two Muslim teachers, in Bihar, with the request for: "A statement of Christian faith which would compare with the five principles of Muslim teaching." This list concerns The Beliefs of Iman, a group of five to six beliefs which all Muslims must adhere to, and which has, consequently become a sort of 'Statement of Faith' for the Muslim religion. The list includes the: belief in One God (Allah) belief in the Prophets belief in the Holy Books belief in Angels belief in the Day of Judgment belief in the Decrees or the Predestination of God (Allah). I decided to write a Christian response to the six beliefs. This is the first response, concerned with the belief in one God (Tawhid). Because this paper is initially written for Muslims, it must be made understandable to them. For that reason I have left out many Christian religious terms which they would not be familiar with, and have kept the parameters of...
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...television or at Church on a Sunday. Theology is something we all can do. What is Theology? Some people would define theology as the study of God but they are wrong. God is a spiritual being who knows all about us, what we are doing and what we are thinking. In my opinion, it is very difficult to study something that you can’t see. The wind blows but you can’t see it but you can see the trees swaying and the sea crashing against the rocks. This is the action of the wind even though it is invisible. God is like this. Even though God cannot be seen, God is portrayed in the beauty of God’s creation. Theology means to talk about God. It comes from the Greek Theos meaning God and Logos meaning word or talk. It doesn’t just mean theologians talking about God or ministers and priests talking about God or God talking about God; it means that every individual can talk about God. Indirectly, everyone has their own experience of God. Everyone has an understanding about theology and their different experiences of God and may have something to offer within their communities. Doing one’s own theology is far better than learning it. Many questions are asked when talking about God, what does God look like? No-one has ever seen God. Moses asked God if He would reveal himself but God said, “ I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom...
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...can be used as well. Many people believe that the God of the Old Testament is different from the God of the New Testament, but that is a false belief. The God of the Holy Bible is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. He is eternal and he is unchanging. The gospel can be taught through the name of God that are found in the Old Testament. One of the most known names of God is Adonai. Adonai means the Lord. Its application to the Bible is that God has total authority and is the master. “‘I went by you again and looked at you. You were old enough to make love to. So I spread my robe over you, and covered your naked body. I promised to love you, and I exchanged marriage vows with you. You became mine, declares Adonay Yahweh” (Ezekiel 16:8) In this verse God is telling Israel that they are His people and He promises to love them. He is exerting his total authority over His people....
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...THE KINGDOM OF GOD The book of Matthew every time is describing the Kingdom its speaks of the kingdom of Heaven, but in the rest of the gospel its talk about the kingdom of God they are all the same the kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are all the same, the reason Matthew and Jude could not raise the kingdom of God was that, judge were very careful when they call the name of God, but the gentles were free to speak about the name of God, and it was not an offence to God, this morning I want to share with you fresh mandate to advance the Kingdom of God, when ever God calls a people to any particular task he also affanishes he also make available the things that will make that person succeed and this morning am here to inform somebody that for every task, for everything the Lord has call you to do, he has also sufficient power, he has also sufficient gifting to enable you and to give it to you for you to succeed and so am here to declare to somebody that for the marriage that God has call you into because it is the callings of God upon your life for this moment God has made provision in all provision for you to succeed for the business that God has call you into, God has made certain provision that will enable you t succeed for the task in that office for that task in that nation, for that task in that community, for that task whichever it takes and whatever it takes, that God has call you into am here to inform you do not give up do not despair for he who has call you, he...
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...List of Greek Gods and Goddesses - A • Achelois - One of the moon goddesses. • Achelous - The patron god of the Achelous river. • Aeolus - (a.k.a. Aeolos, Aiolos, Aiolus, Eolus) God of air and the winds. • Aether - (a.k.a. Aither, Akmon, Ether) God of light and the atmosphere. • Alastor - God of family feuds. • Alcyone - One of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. • Alectrona - Early Greek goddess of the sun. • Amphitrite - (a.k.a. Salacia) The wife of Poseidon and a Nereid. • Antheia - Goddess of gardens, flowers, swamps, and marshes. • Aphaea - (a.k.a. Aphaia) A Greek goddess who was worshipped exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. • Aphrodite - (a.k.a. Anadyomene, Turan, Venus) Goddess of love and beauty. • Apollo - (a.k.a. Apollon, Apulu, Phoebus) God of the sun, music, healing, and herding. • Ares - (a.k.a. Enyalius, Mars, Aries) God of chaotic war. • Aristaeus - (a.k.a. Aristaios) Patron god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping, and fruit trees. • Artemis - (a.k.a. Agrotora, Amarynthia, Cynthia, Kourotrophos, Locheia, Orthia, Phoebe, Potnia Theron) Goddess of the moon, hunting, and nursing. • Asclepius - (a.k.a. Aesculapius, Asklepios) God of health and medicine. • Astraea - The Star Maiden - a goddess of justice, included in Virgo and Libra mythologies. • Até - Goddess of mischief. • Athena - (a.k.a. Asana, Athene, Minerva, Menerva) Goddess of wisdom, poetry...
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...Who is God? A question that has pervaded mankind since the search for a higher power began. To many different people, the definition of God varies. He was presented to humans long ago, “Early people did not have science to help them find answers. So they had to invent answers for themselves. And they passed their ideas on to their children and grandchildren in the form of stories and legends” (Moskin 22). People have always attempted to translate and interpret who God is. Yet the Bible clearly establishes the relationship between man and God, “Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’…So God created man in His own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he Created them” (Genesis 1:26-27). Man is the creation of God, and with those words declared from the Gospel, man has tasked themselves with interpreting exactly who God is and who he should be to the people on Earth. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver uses Nathan Price to represent man’s inaccurate portrayal of God which drives people away from religion and she uses Brother Fowles to refute all men inaccurately portraying God. The search for God and who he is is built through these two men, and the impact of them on others....
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... Grudem discusses his theory of the Doctrine of God with discussing the character of God. Grudem begins by stating that there are several methods of categorizing the attributes of God. However, the most common attributes are better known as incommunicable and communicable attributes. The incommunicable attributes of God are "those attributes that God does not communicate to others", and the communicable attributes of God are "those attributes that God does communicate or share with others" (Grudem p. 186). An incommunicable attribute of God would be His unchangeableness; whereas, a communicable attribute of God would be love, knowledge and mercy. In Scripture, God is often known and discovered by His character....
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...Bible (Old Testament). It describes how God chose the Jews to be an example to the world, and how God and his chosen people worked out their relationship. It was a stormy relationship much of the time, and one of the fascinating things about Jewish history is to watch God changing and developing alongside his people. The Bronze Age Jewish history begins during the Bronze age in the Middle East. The birth of the Jewish people and the start of Judaism is told in the first 5 books of the Bible. God chose Abraham to be the father of a people who would be special to God, and who would be an example of good behaviour and holiness to the rest of the world. God guided the Jewish people through many troubles, and at the time of Moses he gave them a set of rules by which they should live, including the Ten Commandments. The birth of Judaism This was the beginning of Judaism as a structured religion The Jews, under God’s guidance became a powerful people with kings such as Saul, David, and Solomon, who built the first great temple. From then on Jewish worship was focussed on the Temple, as it contained the Ark of the Covenant, and was the only place where certain rites could be carried out. Rebuilding a Jewish kingdom The Jews grew in strength throughout the next 300 years BCE, despite their lands being ruled by foreign powers. At the same time they became more able to practice their faith freely, led by scribes and teachers who explained and interpreted the Bible. In...
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...Aurea C. Florindo-Soares VTTH 203 E Fr. Donohue 1/22/2015 Is God Dead? In religious experience, people usually think that life is surrounded by ordinary and extraordinary things, especially in the stories of Moses and Elijah. As these stories in the bible go along, many times, some people are questioning the existence of God. To prove God’s existence, one should have a strong belief in their religion. As religion teaches, one believes that God dies physically for us on the cross because He sacrifices himself by giving His full love to us. After God arises from the dead three days later, His soul remains alive. That soul exists in order for us to have a better and deeper relationship with God. One believes that God does exist in nature, in the human person, in the church, and everywhere else. What about a person who does not believe in those things? What about a person who has no religious background and believes that God is dead? Each person has a different perspective, understanding, and belief about the existence of God. Whether one realizes or not, this is his or her choice to believe God’s existence. One will use their experiences to believe in God’s presence in their own lives. They can interpret their experiences as happy or sad, depending on who they trust. If this is in a happy way, one will believe God’s existence by saying God is dead physically, but His soul is not dead. He remains within us everywhere and all the time in this world. He helps us when we need...
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