Conceptions of God

Within the Catholic faith, there are many myths and beliefs. Many of these myths are located in the Bible and consist of a greater being, also known as God, and his son, Jesus Christ. One myth that is well known among people within the Catholic Community is the creation of the 10 Commandments. Moses, a prophet of God, made the climb up Mount Sinai and God bestowed upon him two stone slabs with 10 Commandments that entailed how God’s people should live out each day. One of these commandments…

The olden Egyptians believed in a cosmos order and assumed that the entire natural existing had once been established when the world was created by Ptah/ God. And so god rested after all creations had been made with all divine words. There is an Egyptian scholar, John Wilson has rephrase the word divine by stated Ptah had made a system into which all elements should be in appropriate order while being created. [1]Page 7-8. The association of divine powers with animals was understandable for the…

characteristics of God. To Calvin, like Luther before him, humankind is bonded to sin and whose works, without reverence to God, are completely…

Descartes introduced metaphysical considerations: the immutability of the lawgiver God, whose action is always constant because otherwise would be imperfect, and imperfection is unthinkable in relation to divinity (Henry, 2004, p. 100). In other words, laws of nature are causal because they derive from God’s immutable character. This God, however, differed from the voluntarist God of Ockham’s tradition. In fact, when Descartes founded his laws of nature upon God’s immutability, guaranteed that…

Many modern day conceptions of religion involve the idea that, in order to be religious, one must attend a religious service weekly or pray to a higher power before meals. Also, one must agree with and follow a certain set of beliefs laid out for them by their religious tradition of choice. However, some believe that religion is not a set of beliefs or required actions, but rather an experience, or collection of experiences, that changes the way one sees and feels about the world. Two such…

dimensions of religious influence on human thought. In this paper I shall be discussing Nietzsche’s reasoning on the reversal of human morality which has been propagated by Christianity. My thesis shall be in defense of the view that Nietzsche’s conception of Christianity and its reversal on morality falls short in fully comprehending the…

to the Garden of Eden and the first sin, which leads to the fall of man. From there we go from Adam to Noah, the wrath of God over the wickedness of man, the flood, which leads to the covenant of the rainbow, the Tower of Babel and the genealogy of Abram’s family. These first chapters are the basis of the rest of the Christian worldview, in other words, our conception of the world, and understanding of how things were intended to be before sin and provide the context and setting for…

This world was created by God, the Father-Mother and Great I AM, since time immemorial. The Christian Scientist conception of God is a bit more nebulous than that of traditional Christianity. God isn 't seen necessarily as a distinct being. Rather, according to Mary Baker Eddy, “All is [the] infinite Mind [of God] and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all” (Christian Science, “What is Christian Science?”). Christian Science doctrine stresses the infiniteness of God, who is the…

vastly throughout time, even within the same religion. While the earliest conceptions envision a God who embodies general human behavior, St. Augustine, one of the most influential thinkers throughout the history of Christianity, posits a much different view in his self-described letter to God Confessions. Prior to his days of devout piety, St. Augustine had subscribed to the faith of the Manichees, preventing him from viewing God as an immaterial force. Although Augustine uses strict…

concerning Christian doctrine, while stemming from teachings of Plato, making himself a pivotal philosopher. He had a yearn for happiness and introspection, which is evidence to how powerful his mind truly is. With contribution entirely to the grace of God, Augustine created the mold that other great minds will use throughout the next hundred centuries after him. Augustine’s greatest influence was his Christian mother, Monica, who believed that her son would be saved. However, his father was…