God the Father

redemption. Father Gabriel, a Jesuit priest, is the other main character. Unlike Rodrigo, Father Gabriel is a "Christ-like," peaceful, loving and compassionate man. Father Gabriel first confronts Rodrigo in the Guarani village as he is attempting to capture the Guaraní for slave trade. It appeared as though Rodrigo’s conscience was challenged by Father Gabriel during this initial encounter in the Guarani…

The story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," demonstrates two elements of cultures between Father Paul and Native American protagonists. In the Christian world, only God can cause rain, but for the Pueblo world, it is a task to every man to communicate to the cloud people to initiate rain. The characters in this short story show the power struggle between the white world made of Christians and the Pueblo community. There is the struggle between integration of the two cultures. The central theme here…

The author next details that Hester challenges the “God” of the Puritan religion when she “confront[s]” the “influence[d]” “old Puritan magistrate” with a “fierce expression”, her immense aggression in turn implying that her rage must also stem from suppressed resentment for their religion (104). Lastly, the author mentions that Hester argues that instead of God damning her with Pearl as a form of “retribution” like the Puritans believe, “God gave [her] the child in requital of [everything]…

questioned the existence of God because church was all I knew. My older sister and I spent countless hours with my grandmother at church helping in any way that we knew how and we never missed a service; in those services I heard testimonies of so many men and women who knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one other than God moved in a miraculous way in their lives and I just knew he had to be real. Not until I…

Change I used see love, hope, adventure, and life as a narrow road, but it’s so much more. I remember finding this understanding in my relationship with God. Some my not understand this, and that’s okay because i'm not here to tell someone else's story; but my story. My story begins in a cold church auditorium where I prayed a simple prayer, and felt an unimaginary peace feel my body. Before this I was a simple kid the one who, did what looked intriguing, felt like a half empty glass, and…

contemplative prayer. Being around them, it can be easy to covet the way they do things. Nevertheless, we are not meant to covet each other’s paths to finding God. We are all created differently. Also, we will seek and find God in various and different ways. We are hardwired to love God. There is no one formula of what loving our heavenly father should look like. Gary Thomas unpacks this much debated topic in his book Sacred Pathways. Thomas unfolds nine specific spiritual temperaments. He…

state of Israel, the “promised land”; also referred to as the “right to return”) were created based off of each other, but both stem from the covenant God made first with Abraham. The Old Testament of the Bible contains many covenants made with Abraham and his descendents, promising various things; in Deuteronomy, it is written that “the LORD your God will bring…

When Socrates finds out that Euthyphro is charging his own father with the negligent homicide of a slave, he asks Euthyphro what Piety is. Euthyphro believes that prosecuting his father is his responsibility as he believes that he must act with piety. He declares that no matter what the case, even if it is family who killed someone who was not a relative, this is his first reasoning for the prosecution. Socrates responds to Euthyphro’s reasoning saying that this definition is too broad. Socrates…

restore honor to their names and they used the family to teach the one who disrespected them to show respect to a god/goddess. But on the other hand, the human perceptions of these gods were far different from each other. First off, the motivation for both gods is very similar, they both wanted to make sure they were well respected among the mortals and that the…

love Cannot Do The love of Jehovah is massive and incomparable to the love of man. You might wonder why this enormous love of God could not proof itself in some situations. I remembered an old story of a king and his slave. “The king, who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in all circumstances, said: “My king, do not be discouraged, because everything God does is perfect, no mistakes!” One day they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked the king. His slave…