Children of God

of the biblical story of Cain and Abel, one finds the first documented murder, which is also the breaking of the first commandment of thou shall not kill. Since God has ostracized the…

Week #13 Reading Response Question 1: What did I learn about the nature and activity of God? In Isaiah 1:18-20 God sees the sins of the people of Israel and they are scarlet colour, but He promises to make them white as snow I 'd the will only obey Him. He will even feed them. However God tells Israel if they don 't listen to Him, they will be devoured by their enemies. God was revealing the need for Israel to rely upon Him. He was demonstrating that they need to depend on Him or be vanquished…

opportunity to meet with the minister from Calvary Baptist Church in Sheldon. He was able to share more about his beliefs and how this project is not just about studying a new religion, it is an opportunity for us as believers to find the light that God has provided. The first question was, “What is the Baptist’s source of authority from which you receive your beliefs and your direction for living?” Pastor Marcus Moffitt replied to the question by saying: “Historically, Baptists have used the…

merry church on the weekend and a secondary school teacher in Saint John high school. He watched as the children got their plastic aprons on and started to paint actively. It’s not only small children who can draw pictures of God. Consider thousands of different people who’ve been doing just that since the beginning of time. Peoples have been visualize if god is, in the shape of animals, gods…

spirit lives in ruin. The Israelites had intermarried with the people from surrounding nations and had begun to follow their Gods instead of remaining faithful to the Lord. In his mind, Ezra considered intermarriage to be a sin, he sincerely expressed shame on it. Ezra feared the consequences that being married to a pagan would incline his people (the chosen people of God, the Holy seed) people to adopt pagan belief and practices. Ezra's desire was that the Godly people would come to their…

speaker tries to comfort a child who had lost hope. The speaker then describes an angelic dream the child had, and how the dream helped him gain hope once more. Blake uses language to help the reader understand the conditions and situation these children are in. For example, the speaker states "So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." which means that he cleans people's chimneys then he goes to sleep in all the…

between believer and God (312). Once thought to be “un-Jewish” until new knowledge of Judaism became possible, the Lord’s Prayer was rediscovered as a primitive Jewish prayer simply because in Judaism they also refer to God as “Father.” This is now understood to be a basic ethical text, a “guidance to the sublime life” according to Gregory of Nyssa, and a summary of the Christian message. The openness and ambiguity of the prayer’s petitions and wording…

catastrophe for Jewish people that they tried to make sense of how a loving God could allow 6 million of their people to be exterminated by the Nazis. Elie Wiesel a Jewish survivor of the Shoah who tried to make sense of the mystery of God by revaluating how God related to people in this world. He does so through his writings in which he questions God and tells us the answers or lack of answers that he receives. Wiesel thought of God before and during the Shoah as both the protector and…

1. What will it take to get parents to become the teachers of spiritual truths to their children? If parents would understand that God has mandated them to teach their children, Christian parents would be more likely to become the teachers of spiritual truths to their children. God has mandated it so much so that He expected the Israeli parents to follow His instruction of teaching their children during the everyday walk and events of life, through intentional and modeling means. Furthermore,…

of a god to sun. When the story is told, the order of the worlds is never really in order and not all of them are there all the time, but the main idea about it remains. In the beginning of the Aztec creation story, the dual god, Ometecuhtli/Omecihuatl, created itself. This god was considered good and bad, chaos and order, male and female. Being that it was also a female, it was able to have four children. The four children represent the four directions: north, east, south and west. The gods…