Act of God

their town which was sacred to the particular god that watched over it. Most of the Sumerian gods represented different things in nature like the sky, earth, moon, vegetation, and so on (10). The Sumerian holidays were revolved around the different seasons which makes sense because their gods were nature. These holidays were intended to ensure a successful harvest of crop. The priests governed the cities and the king served as a representative of the gods on earth (11). However, he was never…

powerful”, it would not allow such drastic instances to occur to completely innocent people. Multiple theodicies brought forth by religious individuals rebut this argument as they see the purpose of evil; therefor maintain a belief in some form of a God. A theodicy titled the “Augustinian Theodicy” brings forth a great point that there is a purpose to…

Gary Anderson’s book Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition sets out an argument that almsgiving is a religious offering to God throughout the Jewish and Christian traditions and texts. He makes the statement that early Christians and Jews focused on almsgiving as revealing the character of God and created world. Anderson sets up almsgiving as a sacrament, where giving to the poor becomes a way to access the kingdom of heaven. This action has such power because through showing…

the divine image in man. For God willed to leave man ‘in the power of his own counsel, so that he would seek his Creator of his own accord and would freely arrive at full and blessed perfection by cleaving to God.” God created and called us all to be perfect just as He is perfect. As the previous quote from the Catechism states, we arrive at perfection by freely seeking and cleaving to Him. The question, of course, becomes how? How does a human being strive to seek God and cleave to Him and…

In the book of Exodus, God is the essential worker. The nature and intent of that divine work set the agenda for Moses’ work and through him, the work of God’s people. God’s initial call to Moses included an explanation of God’s work. This drove Moses to speak in the name of the Lord to Pharaoh saying, “Let my people go” (Exod. 5:1). Pharaoh’s rebuttal was not merely verbal; he oppressed the Israelites more harshly than before. By the end of this episode, even the Israelites themselves had…

If God is the example for how Christians are to act, the nature of His example needs to be understood. As obvious as this sounds, the correlation is often ignored. Many Christians reject the non-trinitarian belief of God as a single person because of its numerous theological flaws; however, the observation from which this concept was derived is undervalued in modern Christian interpretations. Scripture exhibits a three-person God, unified in one being—but each person of the Trinity receives more…

associated gods with an assorted variety of animals as Horus was with a falcon and Wadjet with the snake. The idea of multiplicity of approaches was common as some deity’s had two animals representing them such as Thoth who can be seen as an Ibis and Baboon. Some god/goddesses had two forms to express aspects of their nature, angry Sekhmet turns into a lion but when mildly angry, turns into a cat. Osiris, the quintessential god of the dead was depicted as black because he was the god of the…

ambitious which is really impressive. To me Faustus represents the spirit of the Renaissance; in a God-centered universe Faustus embraces the human possibility, that a human can do anything without the help of God.…

together to question and argue how the world and human life originated. The Evolution theory supersedes the Creationism theory because you can’t hear, see, touch, taste, or smell your Creator, you weren’t there when anything happened, and the Bible says god created all living thing in seven day, the Bible says a lot of things. Your Creator, or known by some “the invisible man in the sky,” you can’t hear him, touch…

above us. What Durkheim’s implying is that nature has a soul that includes God within them. It’s possible because nature has a system that is followed by a mechanical law and is governed by itself. God and spirits are above this system is the religious idea. This view has people act a certain way towards things when they see things with spirits and God in objects, which they call them sacred. Also behaviors that go towards God are considered sacred as well, such as religious rituals and…