Conceptions of God

The “Journal of Church and State” (2014) stated, that they saw prosperity and safety as God blessing them for doing good, but when God was upset bad things happened. With everything they did in their daily life, they did it to please God in return for good blessings. They had special days of humiliation or thanksgiving to make sure what they were doing was pleasing to God. These services were often led by the clergy. According to the “Journal of Church and State, ” (2014) the Humiliation…

character of God is autonomously far beyond our ability to comprehend entirely who He is, through the Word of God and one’s experiences we come to know unambiguous facts about Him that make know His character in a distinct and personal way. There are many attributes of God that reveal His character in special ways. For instance, God is Jehovah, the name of the independent, and a self-complete being. God is Jehovah-M’Kaddesh “the God who sanctifies.” God is infinite, which means that God is…

science or religion as my way of knowing is what makes this process most difficult. I do not know much about either the Bible or any scientific journal to disagree, agree, or base all of my reasoning with either. I believe that God made all psychologist, biologist,…

group of friends at school who were homeschooled and I went to public school. This was one difference that I feel started my comparing my walk of faith to. To me they were perfect and where doing everything God wanted but I felt as if I failed God daily and I could never be like them, pleasing God with all my choices. So I oppressed it and held on and just kept this feeling to myself. As I struggled with hiding my failures and insecurities from others another stronghold took ahold of my life as…

In “God in the Doorway,” Annie Dillard conveys a shift in her perception of God by associating fearful childhood experiences with her current interpersonal relationship with God. Santa Claus appears at Dillard’s doorway on Christmas Eve and as a young girl Dillard reacts in fear of a powerful, omniscient god-like figure and runs away. (M.S. 1) Dillard later realizes Miss White, her elderly neighbor, dressed-up as Santa Claus intending to shape a loving relationship with Dillard. Miss White…

Descartes: Proofs for God existence and the nature of human’s mistakes Rene Descartes, a famous French philosophy, was known as “the Father of modern philosophy”. With his formidable and broad knowledge, Descartes fostered his desire to seek for only true beliefs that were certain and indubitably true. In his work, the Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes reiterated his intellectual process of doubting and questioning all the essences of corporeal and intangible…

real thing that is important is keeping the planet as healthy as it can be for as long as it can be. Now to how I imagine the Holy Spirit. When I was a Christian, I saw the Holy Spirit as something a televangelist would look like. I used to always see God as a masculine man, and the words "Holy Spirit" just sounded a…

lose their symbolic meaning and rob God of his standing as the…

if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world” (Baym, N., & Levine, R. S. (2012), pg.102). It clearly states that it is their duty to show the world that this is the right way to live. If they fail their mistake will be broadcasted throughout history, because God himself has given them this mission. They have pressure from God and the rest of the world to do…

goals and go after what their heart desires. I will be explaining my personal thoughts about who I am, How I arrived at this point in my life ,What I have accomplished, why it is of value, what I have learned about myself and my relation to others and God through my college and life. I’m a very happy person and love being happy at all times. I love learning new things everyday because I don’t like to be in a gathering where…