Conceptions of God

wondered how does the God look like? I heard people saying testimonies that God spoke to them, they heard the voice of God. But really, Does God speak like normal humans? For me, God is beyond my expectations and he is extraordinary. After reading the article “The Ineffability of God” by Ron Rolheiser, I could easily relate most of the parts mentioned in the article to my life that is, I always escape from thoughts about God’s appearance because I’m confused of being skeptic about God. According…

and being told that I was worthless to God. There came a time in my life where I placed my eyes on man instead of God. I saw my flawed spiritual leaders as an image of God, and when I was deeply hurt by them, I pushed away from everything that I loved growing up. As a child I was filled with the joy of the Lord and could not imagine life without him. That joy was quickly flushed out when the people I looked up to trampled me telling…

J. Packer was born in 1926; therefore, he was 47 when he wrote Knowing God. He is a Canadian theologian in Anglican and Reformed traditions. He serves as the Board of Governor’s Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Packer received his education from the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Wycliffe Hall. Packer received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1954. He learned under C. S. Lewis, a well-educated theologian. He taught theology as a…

building the future is when he talks about gods being a thing of the past. “In the elder days of Art, builders wrought with greatest care each minute and unseen part for the gods see everywhere” (Longfellow 20-24). If I could, I would ask Henry Wadsworth Longfellow what his thoughts were on religion. However, I can only try to presume his opinion on this subject through looking at his poetry. From this particular stanza, Longfellow seems to say that religion and God is something of the past or…

way he went about writing this book. It was the influence of Cornelius Van Til that this book came about. He wrote a lecture called “Why I believe in God” which is where the title of this book comes from, “Why I still believe.” Which comes from the idea that with all the things that Boot would have encountered in his life he chose to still believe in God and follow his ways instead of the ways of the world around him. Meaning that he would have read his Bible day after day and was aware of the…

Are you afraid of being blessed? We can miss the things of God if we don 't know and understand that we have a right to His Blessings. We must rebuke the spirit of poverty in our lives. We will never do anything special until we acknowledge that we are special and act like it. Romans 5:17, ‘For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God 's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through…

repenting ones sins. According to biblical text the concept of the God of Israel is known as the “God of mercy and forgiveness”. In revealing his nature to Moses, God indicates his forgiving nature much more in depth than the ten commandments. God made it clear that mercy, carrying sin and extending love and kindness is far more a better punishment than revenge. These concepts are then extended to the evolved concept of the two attributes of God, attribute of justice and mercy.Therefore, when…

Everyone in the world have their own beliefs and belong to a culture that shape who they are. In their culture, people generally follow rituals and have their own norms that have special meaning to them. For example, Muslims generally follow ‘salat’, which is a practice of praying five times a day. Or even the Irish(and many others)celebrating St. Patrick 's Day by eating corned beef, going to parades, and getting drunk off their ass; eventually where they can’t walk or even having a drunken…

they had been there and had left the land but in reality she had hidden them on the roof top under the stalks of flax (JOSHUA 2:4-7). Rahab also played an important role when she declared that the God of Israel was far much greater than any gods. Here we can observe that Rahab feared the almighty God of the Israelites despite her being a prostitute which was regarded as a great sin in the eyes of everyone in that city (JOSHUA…

nowhere and pulled right out in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and watched them disappear over the hill ahead. Right then, it hit me that if I had not slowed down any sooner, I could have been in a very serious car accident. I believe it was God hastily intervening…