Act of God

on moral matters. Euthyphro defines piety as being that which the gods love. Socrates argues that this definition brings about a dilemma (named the Euthyphro dilemma) that Socrates believes has only two options, both of which challenge the common role that god and religion play in relation to morality. I will argue that perhaps these two options do not require that one completely reject the possibility that morality comes from god. One has the possibility of accepting his first option, although…

over to the left of me and I notice my bible laying on my bed, and before I doze off take my well needed nap, I open my bible and and I stumble across this bible verse- Galations 5 19-21 Galatians 5:19-21New International Version (NIV) 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did…

goodness of God through the sins we committed. Augustine believes, as human beings, we are always in a search for a divine power. He claims as human beings we just want to be like God. He believes we do evil acts because of people’s desire to be a divine power or find a divine power. He emphasizes how we misuse all the emotions and desires that God has given…

angel (Acts 6:15) or hearing his prayer, “Lord lay not this sin to their charge.” (Acts 7:60) And the Lord may have been thinking about that when He said to Saul, “It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks (goads).” (Acts 9:5) The name Stephen means “crown” and Stephen won his crown in less time than any of the apostles. Anyhow, Saul was pleased at Stephen’s death (Acts 8:1), but after his experience on the King’s Highway near Damascus, he became a Christian three days later (Acts 22:16)…

their lives as they gave themselves up continually to prayer and to the ministry of God. As a result, they were full of faith and full of the Holy Spirit, and led people to Jesus every day. According to the book of Acts of Apostles, “And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.” (King James Bible, Acts. 4. 7) Similarly, the Anabaptist obedience to Jesus’s calling to discipleship can…

disprove the Divine Command Theory (DCT) when accepting either: (a) is an action morally right simply because God commands it, or (b) is God commanding these actions because he recognizes that they are right (Peterson Class Slides). If Socrates’s argument is sound, it would prove that DCT— the idea of being morally right is being commanded by God and being morally wrong is being forbidden by God— is false. This is significant because several philosophers accept DCT. The theory is a way of…

that both religions enforce. In Christianity, God does not interact with humans directly like the Gods in Greek mythology do, therefore the outlook on piracy changes. Also, the way God treats his believers in the Christian tradition is much different than the way the Greek Gods treated humans. Lastly, the final pursuit of the believers of these religions are very different, therefore leading to different views on piracy. In the Christian tradition, God does not typically interact with regular…

Christianity, starts out with only the population of Jews, expand into Romans, Muslims, and other culture groups in the past twenty centuries. With Paul spreading Jesus’s words to the gentiles, the Roman has killed thousands of Christian because they see Christians as rebels and want the Roman Empire to fall, which leads to the great persecution in 303. After Constantine take over, he later legalizes Christianity as Romans accept Christianity, which resulted in the Edict of Milan in 313 (Cohen…

Worship is God’s initiative to self-disclose to humanity through God’s redemptive acts of love, that amaze us, and invite us to respond in awe, humility, and gratitude while ascribing honor and worth to the one and true God that engages us in a covenantal relationship of love and obedience and gives us the hope of recreation. Worship is the product of experiencing God’s numinous, because God’s love, grace, and mercy are revealed to us. At that precise moment, our eyes are opened, and a…

The book I chose for this book review was, Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, by Ara Norenzayan. Norenzayan is a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia. Other works by Norenzayan have been featured in New York Times Magazine and on CNN. The main topics of this book is to show how human behavior relates to religion and how religion is what holds large civilizations together. Norenzayan’s main purpose for writing this book was to see how big religions…