God Is Not Great

different approaches for how they enthrall their readers. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes a world that is lost to superficiality and greed. On the other hand, Hemingway depicts the constant struggle between man and nature in his novel, Old Man and the Sea. Contrary to popular belief, both novels share one by one thing: Christian allusions. Within each story, the allusions are interwoven into everyday symbols and characters. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates a fallen world whose…

Baptist, many commonalities can be seen in the wording of the documents and the spirit in which they were written. In all three documents the Framers of the Constitution’s belief in a Biblical worldview is apparent. A Biblical worldview holds that God is the answer to the questions of: what is the origin, nature, and destiny of the cosmos and what is the origin nature, role, and destiny of man (Martin, 2006). While this commonality exists between all three documents, they also differ in many…

The great example could be the alphabets. Greeks used the alphabets for the first time in Europe. The alphabets influenced our world very much. Back in ancient Greece, people who didn't speak the common language were separated as another group of class- the Barbarians. The Barbarians were treated very bigotedly. Greeks had the pride of their own language. Also, Greeks grew up by listening to Iliad and Odyssey. It is the epic of gods' life and works, written in a poetry format. The gods in the…

Renaissance Era challenged the teachings of the church because it made people start to question if they were teaching the truth. The Renaissance Era began after the tragedies of the Black Death and The Crusades left the catholic people questioning why god would bring this to them and also left the Europeans wanting to go back to the glory days of the Roman Empires. The teachings of the church were challenged through the art, catholics inside the church and scientific advancements. The…

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” Jonathan Edwards stated this quote in his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. On July 8th, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, Edwards expressed his beliefs to his audience: people who were not saved by God will go to Hell; these “people” were also known as “Unconverted Men”. Edwards was known for the uprising theology of the Great Awakening. Henceforth upon…

its listener.(Encyclopedia Britannica, “Beowulf”) Beowulf has changed modern views of heroism, which can be made clear by comparing heroism prior to the poems existence and heroism of today because of Beowulf, the theory that a hero must be a god, or demi god are not a need, nor do you need to be born into fame or carry a name. The poem rather…

ruler was Thomas Hobbes. In his book Leviathan, written in 1651, Hobbes justifies an absolute rule being necessary to protect that country from itself by keeping the internal peace. In his article Hobbes states “if there be no Power erected, or not great enough for our security, every man will and may lawfully rely on his own strength and art, for caution against all other men…... The only way to erect … a Common Power” (Hobbes). With one body as the rule over the country there will be more…

during the restoration from Babylon. He was born in Babylon from a priestly family that returned to Jerusalem with some 50,000 other exiles. Like Jeremiah and Ezekiel he was both prophet and priest. Jewish tradition credits him with being one of the Great Synagogue, a body which is thought to have gathered and preserved the sacred writings and traditions of the Jews after the exile. (Feinberg 273) His ministry, like that of Haggai, was to encourage the returned remnant to rebuild the Temple,…

at the same passage, but from different versions. The Coming of the Kingdom of God is only found in the gospel of Luke and some biblical versions like to translate key words differently to give some different thoughts of words said by either the Pharisees or Jesus. This passage says a lot in few words. The New American Bible says that “God is among you.” The New International Version says that “the kingdom of God is in your midst.” Both versions can imply different outcomes. However, the New…

of Athens and the Roman Empire. The lone figure swimming against the waves of pain and lost love remains the same in these stories, but the roles of the gods and the ability of the hero at the heart of the stories change. The great male heroes of Homer and Virgil stand strong and can match cleverness or piety with the strength of the imperfect gods. Sophocles tells us of a tragic hero who, as a female, cannot overcome the power of men in the kingdoms…