Arrow of God

Jesus Christ is God. As most of modern society knows, this statement is fundamental to the teachings of Christianity. Christians believe that the many prophecies of the Old Testament, such as, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel,” are all fulfilled with the coming of Jesus, giving them evidence that Jesus is God (Isaiah 7:14). For Muslims though, putting Jesus on equal standing with God is considered…

atonement by reconstructing the notion of the triune God through the incarnation. As we have seen above, Barth conceives of God’s being in terms of act, not in terms of substance. Understanding God’s being in terms of substance often gives us complications to understand how the triune God works in eternity and in time without changing his substance. When it comes to the incarnation, this identity problem seems to become more obvious. How could divine God become human without changing his…

I knew that I would not get away with stealing because I thought that God saw everything, and I did not want to commit a sin. Those reasons made me immensely careful with my actions. Even though young Gary from the short story, “The Pie,” knew that stealing was sinning, he stole a pie despite those reasons because he thought that it would make him happy. He later discovered that he was wrong. Through symbolized versions of God and Gary’s different emotions shown through parallel episodes,…

While the vision of the good life inherent in the Christian narration of reality involves sharing in a rightly-ordered love with God, the vision of the good life in modernity differs depending on what each person constitutes as self-fulfillment. Thus, consumerism and American nationalism both demonstrate a straining to find purpose and fulfillment on earth through economic prosperity…

Louise Erdrich’s novel, Love Medicine is a fusion of Catholicism and Ojibwe beliefs. Both played a central role in the life of the author. The status of Catholicism is apparent, nevertheless, she possesses first-hand knowledge of Ojibwe culture as a recognized member of the tribe. As a product of an interracial partnership, Erdrich embraces and respects both cultures, accordingly, this can also be said about many of the main characters. Having done some research on the author’s background, I…

account starts off with stating that God created the world. This automatically brings in the sacred reality part of myth. Then it goes into paragraphs that contain everything God commanded and it all happened. "Out of original chaos, God created an orderly world, assigning a preeminent place to human beings" (Genesis 1.1 2:3). This directly correlates the sacred reality and its relationship with humanity because it is saying that God created humans. "Then God said, let us make humankind in our…

Kultur versus Natur While German anthropologists rejected the theory of evolution, there was still an interest in understanding the relationship between Kultur and Natur. They rejected evolutionism because it “placed steric categories of human nature into a fluid continuum…” (Zimmerman, 2001, p. 69). Nature, to German anthropologists before the 20th century was perceived to be a “static system of categories that allowed them, in their study of natural peoples, to grasp an unchanging essence of…

seeks to prove that it is more rational to believe in God rather than to not believe because you gain more by believing. In this paper, I will provide support to this wager in showing that you acquire a greater reward by believing in God. I will primarily outline Pascal’s Wager, then respond to one criticism raised that attempts to refute premise two (the expected results of belief and disbelief). This criticism states that there are many other gods that the wager does not account for and…

Bel and the Dragon begins with an idol that the Babylonians worshiped named Bel. Daniel, however, did not worship the idol and the king confronted him about it one day. Daniel replied that he did not worship the idol because he worshiped the living God who created the earth and not idols created by humans. The king asked if he meant he did not believe that Bel was living even though he eats and drinks the food every day. Daniel confidently told the king that the bronze idol was only filled with…

lives to be where it is now, and that being is known as god. When we were a child, we did not have a choice whether we truly believed in the existence of God. We were told what to believe and never questioned it that belief. In this essay, I will analyze the existence of god between “Does God Exist?” by Ernest Nagel and “Why God Allows Evil” by Richard Swinburne. Although Nagel rejects the existence of God, he establishes two causes for why God exists. The first argument is the cosmological…