Act of God

The book of Acts has always been a favourite to read. It gives a detailed picture of the origin of the early church, the spread of the gospel into the world which in turn was the beginning of the Christian faith. The authorship of the book of Acts has always been debated and tested, but it is generally agreed that the author of Acts is the same person who wrote the third gospel. It is commonly known that Acts is a sequel to the third gospel, referred to as the ‘first book’. The author is…

To begin, the twenty dollar bill represents the Indian Removal Act because of the flag above the White House and the words “In God We Trust”. These things represent Manifest Destiny because the flag represents nationalism and the phrase represents religion. Manifest Destiny is the belief that God gave the land (that was occupied by indigenous tribes) specifically to the settlers. It is also the belief that their nation is superior than all other nations (nationalism). Both of these things lead…

beliefs are that there is only one true God. His name is Yahweh, and he is all knowing, all powerful. They believe that you are to have a personal relationship with Him. Jews also believe that God reveals himself to them through prophets and special events. Jews abide by the ten commandments which were given to Moses by God on the top of Mount Sinai. Moses and Abraham were the main founders of Judaism. Moses and Abraham were both men of God and did great things. God used Moses as a vessel to…

man’s objective of happiness, and how a human’s good action contributes to partaking in God. The Aquinas’ main argument is simply that what actions make it good or bad. In first article begins with the question regarding if our actions we as humans are good. The answer that Aquinas provides is a yes due to that every act of a man does is good and evil does not come from the virtue of good. In conclusion, no act of a man does is evil. Also the per se effect supports that no action is evil. Then…

existence of the one true God who created the whole entire Universe. The two protagonists are places into a hellish setting with not many survivors who turn into cannibals or act like animals. However, the father and son act with morality in the midst of the chaos they are placed into. The novel makes the reader question what the author really intended to create writing this novel. What is this post-apocalyptic novel truly about? Do the main characters…

said in the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book, to what Martin Luther unravels in the lines of the bible, the Christian holy book. In the text by Cragg, God commands Moses to make the people of Egypt, including the pharaohs, believers, and to repent. Moses urges the people of Egypt to believe in only one God, and to believe in the teachings and signs that God has sent…

world: 1, God is omnipotent 2, God is wholly good and 3, evil exists. J.L. Mackie takes a logical approach to why there is evil in this world and concludes that if God is what He is defined as – omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good – evil should not exist for either God is not omnipotent, meaning all powerful, or He is not wholly good. Mackie claims that at least one characteristic of the divine must be untrue because it is clear that bad things do happen. Wouldn’t an all-powerful God choose…

Gods played an important role in ancient society. Whenever, humans could not understand something, they claimed it as God's work. From the Sun rising to Medicine to Love, the Greeks and Romans had Gods for everything. The works of the Odyssey by Homer, Oedipus both show the Gods as not only helping individuals and societies but also as destroying and hating humans. Both novels shows heroes who try to outwit Gods after they send destruction upon them. In Oedipus, the Gods attack and berate one…

The structure and rhyme-scheme in ‘The Last Judgement’ is changed according to which character is speaking, suggesting that the plays intends to make the audience identify and side with Jesus, God and the Good Souls against the Devils or Bad Souls, therefore ensuring that the audience are led to salvation. If we also visually analyse the two aforementioned verses, the Devil’s verse is far more visually unstable compared to Jesus’s structurally…

to earth, the question put forth was did he see God up in space or as the book said the heavens. However, do you know went to the heavens and came back to tell everyone about? One theologian says God is dead presently him speaking for the secular world that believes they no longer need God. Can you imagine the world feeling like they can answer and solve their problems on their own? Kar Marx said religion was an opiate for the people. He believed God was an excuse for the rich, comfortable, and…