God of Carnage

Upon entering the place of the gods John states that “I went north—I did not try to hide myself. When a god or a demon saw me, then I would die” (Benét 5). This is very substantial because John is willing to pay the ultimate price in order to feed his curiosity for knowledge. He is willing to lay down his life just to gain knowledge of who the gods are and how they lived. When John is fortunate enough to escape a pack of wild dogs that attack…

promised Eden and erotic lust. Marvell’s approach to lust through religion is unimaginable, how is he able to mask his sexual desire through his faith in God? He embraces New World language to explore faith in God and lust for his promised…

different people. This world is made up of individuals with different ideas and beliefs which give birth to different worldviews. My personal worldview is based on how I was reared. My religion, Christianity, is what shapes my worldview. I believe in one God who gave his only begotten Son, who died not for only my sins but everyone of this world. This paper will discuss the various meanings of "spirituality," and my understanding of the concepts of pluralism, scientism, and postmodernism.…

evidence to support belief in God. There have been many philosophical thinkers who have looked into this controversy. Is there a God and if there is how can we prove this is true? There were many philosophical thinkers that had an opinion on this topic, some of the most important in stating sufficient evidence proving gods existence were Saint Augustine, Saint Anslem, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Saint Augustine was dealing with God and the future. Augustine thought that God knew the future and if…

praising God for creating us. Then comes the question of who is this God, creator of all? The saver of animals through Noah’s Ark, the one we should live for because he created us, the lover of both good and evil. What does Sunday school teach us? To look up to the faithful Abraham, the pure hearted David, and the obedient Esther. A child is pure, unknowing of the trials ahead of them, the temptation,…

Theodicy, according to Kenneth Surin from The Harvard Review (1983) states “Theodicy, in its classic form requires the adherent of a theistic faith to reconcile of an omnipotent, omniscient and morally perfect God with the existence of evil” (p.225). In other words, in a religion where God is all powerful, all knowing, and purely good, how can evil exist at all. E. Dowling & W. Scarlett of Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development (2006) define evil as the bad or painful things which…

belief systems. From these religious beliefs in a higher authority than that of man, civilizations and societies have derived teachings, customs, guidelines, and laws by which to live their lives. Many of the various religions hold on to the belief in a God and an afterlife. While these religions have some similarities, they hold some significant differences…

For a new beginning, in and for the Kingdom of God, which is His mind. From the beginning of time, the seeds of Zeus have been sown. We are experiencing the reaping. America is being transformed slowly to those of us who can see it…

concept of faith was simply that if I loved God and followed his commandments, good things would happen to me as a reward. As I grew older, however, multiple events shook my confidence in this idea, and left me more uncertain and unsettled in my journey with Faith. For instance, the death of my Grandmother and the tragic death of a girl in my class during my freshman year of High School made me question my beliefs; I wondered how a supposedly loving and giving God could inflict such pain and…

Tyler Ingalls is a youth pastor based in New Era, Michigan. Before this, he was my youth pastor intern at my hometown church, Central Wesleyan Church, in Holland, Michigan. He is a huge reason of where my faith is today and my biggest spiritual mentor and leader. He has really pushed my faith and continues to do so on a day-to-day basis. He seeks the Lord with all his heart, so I was really interested in his perspective of “who is Jesus” to this spiritual giant of mine. After asking him this…