God Is Not Great

In this story, one scene shows how Kino tries to play God by blocking a group of ants, but later he gets punished for his evil greed and is later played with by God. “He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path…. He is no longer like God”(8). This quote from the book refers to God as Kino tries to play God, but can’t stop nature making him no longer like God. In the Red Pony, there are many parts that refer to special things…

the lord, and gave out great advice to those who were in need of it. Deborah was a prophetess, an honored judge, and a warrior. As the story opens in Judges 4, Deborah is settling disputes brought to her while she sits under the “palm of Deborah”, a tree in which people would come to her seeking help. Right from the start of the passage, the reader is introduced to Deborah’s character, and sees how well respected she is. Deborah is a strong woman and one that has made a great impact in multiple…

A Hero’s Humanity Throughout history humanity has been the creation and ruin of many great societies. “By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.” (Ashley Montagu) In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh, the demi-god struggles to accept his humanity and the faults that come with it, while chasing immortality. Similarly, Odysseus in The Odyssey by Homer comes to realize that he isn’t impeccable and…

Evaluate God 's mercy in relation to his response to humanity using the events and characters of Genesis and Jonah. To evaluate character and events of Genesis and Jonah pertaining God’s mercy on relations on his response to humanity for his people. These two books of Genesis and Jonah gives us examples how humanity change when Adam and Eve cast the first Sin in Genesis 3, however in Genesis 2 God gave humanity a chance by providing them everything they needed in the Garden of Eden. Jonah…

The love of God for humanity, directions, and directives for obeying orders and serving him God is what the bible talks about.(Deuteronomy 7:9) Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. We commit sins before God and crimes against our fellow human beings. Which warrants condemnation from him. He shows mercy upon us and receives unto himself when we realize our…

In the Third Meditation, Descartes provides an argument for the existence of God that has been a great source of discussion and debate since. With the Meditations, Descartes attempted to deconstruct and destroy all of his beliefs and all foundations of knowledge in order to accomplish two aims: to provide a sound basis for scientific method and to prove the compatibility between science and religion. With the Meditations, Descartes was determined to figure out what he knew with certainty and did…

I have decided to analyses his chapter “Acts of God” in relations to ethos, pathos and logos. Reece’s purpose of this chapter is to show the hardships of the people affected directly by mountain top removal, as well as how the companies that fund this method react and undermine their arguments to receive justice. It also explains how strong religious beliefs help drive the community to seek a change, or an impedance. However, this change is not in this life time. They practice acceptance and…

which says there is three different God, not one God. As a children’s minister, his suggestion of bring realistic visual materials might be effective for children’s understanding. However, to present an apple or glass of water with ice denies each only one God and the distinctiveness of the three persons of the Trinity. Schroeder seems to be influenced by Functional Unitarianism, which focuses on only one person of Trinity or by Deism, which insists that God is absent after His work of Creation…

common courtesy and probably also reflex. This is similar to the way the Greeks show Xenia or the Greek influence of the gods in Homer’s epic poem Odyssey. The Greeks show these traits daily and do it without even thinking about it. This is shown time and time again throughout all of the Odyssey with praying and worshiping and dinner. Even the best of the best pray to the gods and invite strangers to their dinners including Odysseus and King Nestor. King Nestor shows Xenia like hospitality to…

about the king Gilgamesh or Bilgamesh. Gilgamesh was a demigod which means he was half a god and half a human. Being a demigod granted him an overwhelming strength which he used to rule his people in Uruk (a city of Sumer that later becomes Babylonia) . According to Dalley (2000), “Gilgamesh ruled sometime between 2800 and 2500 BC“. The people of Uruk prayed to the gods to help them with their suffers, so the gods sent Enkidu, a strong wild man who fights Gilgamesh but Enkidu gets defeated.…