God Is Not Great

eras of human life. However, after the sin committed by Adam and Eve, God 's creation was damaged and then, individuals have been abusing God 's endowment of sexuality. In past times, sexuality was criticized and frowned upon before marriage. In present days, our sex-inundated society makes it hard to oppose sexual allurement. The church teaches us that only through marriage are we to have sex with out partners for the reasons God created sexual desires. Sex is meant to be a blessing…

saving work of Christ is shown with justification and sanctification through several sermons of John Wesley. In the sermon Original Sin, our sinful nature is depicted, “Now God saw that all this, the whole thereof, was evil; -- contrary to moral rectitude; contrary to the nature of God, which necessarily includes all good…”. God saw us for who we truly were but still allowed His relationship with us to move passed legal justification, which we truly deserve. Repentance is also a topic that…

and he is very ambitious, yet doesn’t take a minute to think which makes him a little strange, he is willing to do anything and lose everything in order to get what he wants from Lucifer even if that means he will waste powers that he has gained at great cost. When Faustus is introduced to the reader, he is just preparing to board on his career as a magician, and while we anticipate that things will turn out badly as the chorus prepare us there is a grand glory to Faustus as he contemplates all…

A Perilous Accident In the year 1620 John Howland and other Englishmen boarded the Mayflower and set sail for the New World so that they could worship their god they way that they wanted. The Englishmen new that the peregrination (not sure if I used this right) to America would be a long and perilous journey but they didn't wimp out. About three days after they had set sail an enormous storm came upon the Mayflower in a terrible fury. The wind relentlessly rocked and tossed…

dominated by polytheism Judaism started when God appeared before Patriarch Abraham at Harran (west of Ephrates) and told him to leave his home and travel until he arrived at Canaan in Palestine. to go and raise a great nation" This began the monotheistic tradition of the Hebrew faith with the establishment of the “Covenant", “Chosen People" and “Promised Land" Jacob (grandson of Abraham) Abraham’s grandson Jacob took name “Israel" which means “God ruled" and organized Israelites…

In the Book of Job a great quarrel or debate between Job and his three friends, liphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. This debate only occurs after Job’s outburst in which he cursed the day of his birth and began wondering why those who long for death continue to live. Following his cries, Job’s friends offer their though that ultimately lead Job in the wrong direction. Each friend of Job’s offers a reason to Job’s suffering. For example, Eliphaz justifies his…

The Great Question. Most professionals agree that all religions tie into each other like a complex web of a spider. Like most webs, this one ties into a central idea and branches out with similar strands. Keeping this in mind it is easy to see how similar a religion is to another then how it is different. In order to do so Christianity, Islam, and Judaism the three major religions will be compared. They will be examined through the basic means of comparison in which will contain; poverty,…

names of God, Eck carefully constructs a path to guide the reader up to the question “who does God listen to?” Eck’s strategy in leading the reader up the question she presents is great! By the time she has presented the question, the reader has been exposed to a different perspective based on how God can be viewed. The exposure to the different perspective allows the reader to answer the question honestly with the ideas Eck has presented fresh on their minds. Asking the readers, “who does God…

didn’t have enough resource, so they depended on god, scared of knowing what actually is going on. In the literature “Sinners in the hand of an angry god” by Jonathan Edwards, he stated what is the benefit of being a christian.They made the god responsible for everything that happened to them or around them. This literature’s purpose was mostly because of the Great Awakening. During this period, the church in Connecticut had less influence of the Great Awakening, so the author spoke upon the…

to grow rapidly, and created temples to serve their gods in. The Egyptians are known for their great advancements in architecture when building the pyramids. Both the ziggurats and the pyramids reflected new forms of architecture, and were physical manifestations of the religions they were following. Although both civilizations worshipped different gods, both had specific gods based off of occurrences in nature. Both served their polytheistic gods to protect them from the harsh environments they…