God Is Not Great

Significant Religious Appearance in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby written by Fitzgerald, displays an important symbol, which is the importance of the image of the christian religion. In the 1920’s women, were restricted to express their freedom, citizens were overlooked by ‘God’, and also the reason why Christian religion is important to them, is because, religion is a moral standard that is expected in society. In the novel, women in particular, were not able to express their freedom,…

Second Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening promoted the idea of individualism and choosing a path to follow and a future to pursue. One aspect that shaped the Second Great Awakening was the idea of revivals and if someone does not find God during their time on earth they will be sent to eternal damnation. Revivals were one way to break away from their sins and start again. One powerful preacher who held several day long revivals was Charles G. Finney. Finney was one of the most…

waits for the word of God, a man that is able to hear, a man chosen by God, the first in the Bible to be called “prophet” (Gn 20:7). Abram is presented as the anti-Babel character par excellence. A kind of dichotomy can be seen in the two accounts. The promise of God to Abram “I will make of you a great nation” (Gn 12:2) finds its counterpart in the story of Babel when the people said: “Come, let us build ourselves a city” (Gn 11:4). The promise “I will make your name great” (Gn 12:2) in Babel…

of Nazareth. God had witnessed her as she grew up and was delighted by what he saw. Although Mary had free will, she chose not to sin. She was just a poor girl from a humble family who had little expectations that her life would be any different from most, but she was wrong. God sent the angel, Gabriel, to deliver a message to Mary. Gabriel told her that she was to give birth to the son of God and remain a virgin. Mary was delighted by this news. Mary was a willing servant of God and obeyed…

I have enjoyed reading all the passages and commentaries about the first Christian martyr, Stephen. It has really been eye opening and God has showed me some amazing things through this study. Before I get into anything I just want to summarize what I read. In the book of Acts, early church members in the church in Jerusalem were giving their money freely to help the poor. But this caused a bit of a problem because the church was growing so fast that some of the widows in the community were…

Tocqueville: What America Needs The second Great Awakening was another revival of man’s connection with God; however, this time God is reaching out to individuals and providing them with atonement and salvation. In this time period, America was beginning to expand out West. Religious lectures that lasted weeks, were known as “camp meetings” and they became popular in frontier culture. Frontiersmen would venture out into the wilderness and congregate to celebrate God with weeks of discussion…

books, or as the Law, or Law of Moses. The book of Genesis starts as an introduction to the five books of the Pentateuch. Genesis starts off with describing the upmost importance of God and his creations, but5 most importantly Man the finest of Gods work. Genesis 3 explains the fall of man from Gods favour stating “Did God really say you can’t eat from any tree in the garden of Eden?” This was the first landslide from man. This was the very first sin, that leads us to the ultimate judgement of…

The cultures of ancient Egypt, and Mesopotamia were successful civilizations, because they worked hard, kept their cities by rivers, and had rulers and gods that kept the city in order. To prove my statement is correct, I will state 6 facts from 6 documents on why this is true. Let me start from the first document. The first document says, “Heavy rains cause the Nile to overflow regularly, which made the soil fertile and good for farming. The ancient Egyptians sang this song about the benefits…

The sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was given by Mr. John Edwards, a well-known minister, during the Great Awakening to a church congregation in hopes of educating them about the horrors of hell and alerting sinners that in order to be saved they need to turn to God for forgiveness. According to Mr. Edward’s beliefs, we as humans do not have the authority to judge a person’s sold or redemption as only God has this sovereignty. One idea that characteristically appears in the work of…

Alexander The great Alexander's father (King Philip 2) died from murder and then his son alexander took over.I want to share this information with you because I want to tell you about Alexander the Great. Alexander The Great is a hero because he tried to do everything like Achilles,he was so fascinated with the Iliad that he carried it around with him wherever he went,wished to consult the oracle of the god. First reason Alexander is a hero is that , he tried to do everything like Achilles.…