Conceptions of God

Overtime, however, something has been lost. The power of the story of God and His people has been robbed of its promise and power. Brueggemann writes, “The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believer or to act,” he continues, “that enculturation is true not only of the institution of the church but also of us as person.”1 The restoration of the power of God 's story in contrast to this enculturation is central…

as a person so everyone also has different happiness in life. Thus, my peers would not spend their time similarly, including myself. I also believe that living in the world is not only how to enjoy yourself, but also to serve with God and other people. This is what God us wants to do: Love your neighbor, enemy and your Lord, and you will find internal happiness after life. My beliefs are influenced with the culture I grew up. If I have six months to live, I will use my time to improve my…

The unfortunate reality of evil being an element of humanity is a hard pill for some to swallow, and can be an even more difficult concept to comprehend and breakdown philosophically. In a pluralistic world with many competing religions and worldviews, the concept of what is morally wrong can definitely be distorted to fit one’s lifestyle, or the norms of a particular culture. The presence of wickedness introduces the proverbial monkey wrench scenario for atheists, pantheists, agnostics, and…

tornadoes being the finger of God. Piper presents God as a God that causes destruction because society refuses to believe him. Well there is evidence to point out that but C.S. Lewis puts it in a good way is that pain and destruction are God’s way of calling us to repent. These events were not cause directly by God but were not stopped neither to have society as a whole think about life and how we ought to live our lives. I think C.S. Lewis explains it the best is that God allows these…

God may have placed people here on this earth intending for them to live according to his will and his way, and to fulfill a purpose. However, it appears that many people today are failing to live a purpose driven life. Sadly, they’re not living their life with God in mind at all, possibly because they don’t know how, because they don’t believe in God or because they feel they have plenty of time for salvation. Thankfully, for those who have the desire to live a life that is pleasing to God,…

from sin. They believe that sin is a spiritual element, and one needs a mental approach to deal with issues in life as opposed to psychotherapy. The writers also think that there are two sources of ideas in the human realm. The two sources are God…

Although created to be fundamentally good creatures in a loving relationship with God and in unity with one another and God, mankind used the freedom granted by God for our own desires and turned away from God. As a result, man is in a fallen state, condemned to the reign of death and to a separation from God, where only God’s intervention through the Son can reunite us with God. To understand the fallen condition of man, it is first necessary to understand the importance of the Trinity and…

discussion? No. There are those [check Habel, Balentine, Newsom, others] who presume that Job could never draw the identity of his known Enemy, God, together with an Advocate, also God. That was logically irreconcilable and would tax his cognitive capacities in the…

Once On a Flight If there is no God, there is no meaning in life. When you look up into the sky what do you see? “Nothing” some might say. No, you see the different hues of blue and orange, pinks and a vivid range of colors; not artist can say he or she has painted it or created it. I ask yet another what do you see in the sky? Do you see birds? Birds of different colors and of different sizes? Eagles, hawks, and geese, robins and such? What else do you see? Trees of different colors,…

when I was about six. Even today there are parts of our understanding of God I do not understand such as the Trinity which from the talks we have had in class I don’t think I ever could truly wrap my mind around it, due to the complexity of the idea and my limited understanding. But when I was about six the stories I heard about Jesus began to sink in and with the help of my parents I came to understand more and more about God and Jesus. My brother was going through this understanding about the…