Arrow of God

Doubt in Faith To my knowledge we all have something we believe in, whether our faith is in God, Buddha or some other religion, the choice is ours. It is also up to us to have complete trust in the idol, hence not having any doubt towards that idol. Shusaku Endo covers the topic about faith and betrayal in Silence. In the novel the Japanese officials test the faith of priests and want them to apostatize since they feel that Christianity is not suited for Japan. One priest in particular,…

Chapter Two FIRST CENTURY RELIGIOUS GROUPS At the time of Paul’s missionary Journeys there were a number of religious groups; perhaps as many as a dozen. Three of them are mentioned in the Bible: Pharisees, Sadducees and Zealots. THE PHARISEES The largest of these groups was the Pharisees which was organized about 140 B.C. and they taught strict adherence to the law. They were probably coming nearer to keeping the Law of Moses than any of the other groups. The Pharisees believed in a future…

will explain why the character of Weirob argues it is impossible for an omniscient, omnipotent, and totally good God to exist simultaneously with evil in the world and go into detail about how Weirob believes that if God has these traits, He should be able to eliminate all evils in the world before they occur. Then I will give Miller’s defense to this argument which includes how God and evil can both exist in the world. I will show how he ties in the concept of free will to back up his…

Topic C With all that is going on, today, concerning politics, the media, and the environment, how do we remain calm? Most people are committed to a religion or belief system that gives them faith in their time of anguish. What we are going through right now is not even comparable to what China went through during the Warring Sates Period. What did they have to look to in their time of anguish? For some time, they had nothing. Eventually, Confucianism and Daoism became their beacon of light. In…

Church Camp My favorite place in the whole world to go to is Bluff Springs Campgrounds in McDavid, Florida. I have been going to church camp there for over ten years now, and it will always hold a special place in my heart. No matter what is going on in my life at the time when I arrive at camp, all of my worries fade away. Bluff Springs Campgrounds is more than just a regular camp site, for it is a place where people of all kinds go to escape from the busy world we live in. I always know…

Attributes of God Discussion The two groups discussed in Packer’s Knowing God are the incommunicable and communicable groups of God’s attributes. In the incommunicable group is a short list of God’s attributes consisting of His immutability, His infinity, His omnipotence, His omniscient, His omnipresence, His sovereignty, His transcendence, His eternal and immanent attributes. According to Packer (1993), “The theologians called these qualities incommunicable because they are characteristic of…

Among the many topics Lewis discussed in his book Mere Christianity, one topic that was most prominent with this author is Lewis’ discussion on Moral Law or the Law of Human nature. According to Lewis (1952), Moral Law, or the Law of Human Nature tells human beings what they ought to do, and what they ought not to do, and is described as something that is above and beyond the auspices of actual facts and human behavior (p. 21). In other words, Moral Law is not something human beings invented,…

There are two opposing sides to the argument of faith and the existence of God, evidentialism and non-evidentialism. Evidentialism is believing that it immoral to either form a new belief without sufficient evidence, or to sustain an existing belief by deliberately ignoring doubts and avoiding honest investigation. Non-evidentialism allows for more personal evidence to justify one’s belief. When contrasting the two views my personally beliefs align more with non-evidentialism. British…

the Mutation of Fortune regarding her discussion between the role of god and the role of a character she introduces called Lady Nature. Moreover, this paper will discuss the distinction between God and Lady Nature. Although it is unclear what Christine’s relationship was like with her biological mother, it seems as if her creation of Lady Nature is Christine’s way of bringing a maternal figure into her life that works alongside God who Christine portrays as a paternal figure to her. Too,…

It is the crisis counselors job to walk them through the process and show them the way. The book tells us that the best way a counselor can help ones in crisis is to lead by example and show them the light of God. Dr. H. Norman Wright (2011) tells us that counselors are the hands of God doing His work. (pg 27.) As we all…