Conceptions of God

Throughout the book, Armstrong provides a vast amount of information that deals historically with how men and women have perceived God. She provides a chapter, and sometimes more than one chapter, dealing with how each one of Judaism, Christianity and Islam perceived God throughout history. Each historical chapter of the book is rich with information concerning how and why each religion has certain beliefs. However, a flaw of being so rich in information is the lack of simplicity and clarity. It…

the introduction to her story, she had been recently widowed. Her mother-in-law, Naomi, was also a widow. When Naomi decides to return to live in her hometown of Bethlehem, Ruth goes with her out of her love for Naomi. Loyal love for Naomi and the God of the Israelites, Jehovah, is an overarching quality of Ruth’s personality. Loyal love can be defined as a type of kindness that lovingly attaches itself to an object until its purpose in connection with that object is realized.…

Kretzman asserts that in order to understand dilemmas such as the Aquedah and the Euthyphro, we must consider that God offers an objective, universal morality in which God himself can be equated to goodness. This paper will examine what makes Kretzman's solution successful, as well as analyze the idea of a perfect God as a moral standard. Kretzman is successful in offering an explanation for religion-based morality. He manages to capture ideas that theological objectivism and theological…

how we got here? Some believe we came about through the single cell theory or evolution, but others believe life was created by some higher being that they call god. The teleological argument know also as the argument from design. The argument is used by theists to persuade the existence of god to agnostics and atheists. It states that god or some intelligent being created the universe or life on earth and keeps it in balance. It tells that an object with intelligent design must have an…

Fredrick Streng set out to accomplish the difficult task of defining religion in which encompassing all the world's religions at once. In another sense, he explains in his textbook "Ways of being Religious", that in order to define religion and build conceptions of it we must first grasp our own preconceptions. Streng believed we could do so by asking ourselves questions he proposed in the book. His essay focuses on revealing the various ways to approach the topic of religion. Even further,…

to explain and evaluate the divine command theory (DCT). The divine command theory focuses on the conception that God’s commandments are the foundation of ethical choices (Holt, T 2008). The theory states that whatsoever God wills as moral is moral and what God forbids is immoral. (Rachels, J., S 2007). The theory is very clear on its views in that if you want to know if something is moral go to God those that live by this theory look to religious book such as the bible to find the answers to…

radical nature of Oedipus’s threefold deed, the killing of his father, the solving of the sphinx’s riddle, and the union with his mother, might make Oedipus a sinner, but it might also make him a god. The Thebans, however, are not prepared to take on the responsibility that follows upon man becoming god, and Oedipus, in light of this, must interpret himself as a sinner. Thus, Oedipus must banish himself not because his is a sinner, but because he chooses to understand himself as a sinner for the…

What is the Unlimited Spirit, Limited Spirit and Corporeal Bodies? We differentiate three distinct types of beings here. One is the highest good in which nothing can surpass. This highest good is God; God is the only unlimited spirit with no end, no beginning and is not limited by space or time. The unlimited spirit has always been and will always be. The limited spirits are all the angels and human spirits that have a beginning, no end and the human spirits are limited by space and time…

its existence in a world fashioned by an omnipotent, virtuous God. Through the logic expressing that everything generated by God is good and thus, God did not create evil, Augustine defines evil as the depravity of goodness that recurrently befalls mankind as a consequence of man’s poor application of free will. Perhaps the basis of his argument is best illustrated by his question, “Where then does it [evil] come from since the good God made everything good…

research, I should attend their ritual every Sunday and participating events and volunteers from other protestant churches so that I could understand fully how believers help each other beyond their social status and how protestant only believe the God, not Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. In addition, I never saw how they are thrifty on their ritual compare to my religion which were big with vocal groups, pianist and decorative objects and sculptures to appeal believers, and they were not part of…