God

Throughout the book, Armstrong provides a vast amount of information that deals historically with how men and women have perceived God. She provides a chapter, and sometimes more than one chapter, dealing with how each one of Judaism, Christianity and Islam perceived God throughout history. Each historical chapter of the book is rich with information concerning how and why each religion has certain beliefs. However, a flaw of being so rich in information is the lack of simplicity and clarity. It…

The Bible is the word of God, but the Bible can only nourish us “if it is understood and personally appropriated as God’s own word” in the flesh (Preface 1). Jesus Christ, the word of God incarnate came down to earth so that we not only could receive salvation, but so that all people can have a relationship with Him. This straightforward approach starts the book off on the right foot, and I enjoy how direct he is in this foreword. While this short introduction is good, it certainly is not a…

manmade greek gods in every way. The greek gods show over and over large flaws and that they cannot be trusted, unlike Jehovah who has no flaws and is very trustworthy. Firstly, the greek gods are very unforgiving seen when Athena and Hera curse Paris because he chose Aphrodite as the most beautiful instead of them (Hamby Judgement). This shows that the greek gods are unforgiving because they will become angry and violent when things do not go their way. However, unlike the greek gods, Jehovah…

Every day, the children of God pull on their armor, lift up the sword, and draw their sword. Why do they do this? They are fighting for the kingdom of God. In order to properly fight for the kingdom of God, children of God must try to understand exactly what the kingdom of God is. There are many different aspects of the kingdom of God, and many times it can be difficult for finite human minds to comprehend. However, my understanding has brought me to believe that there are two different aspects…

The story of Abraham (Genesis 12-25), the father of faith, starts the ever-last redemption plan of God for humanity. Abraham, son of Terah, was born in Ur, Mesopotamia, Near East in 1812 B.C.E. which is one of the first civilization registered in human story. As Raphael Patai, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer states in his article "Abraham." Tetah then moved to Canaan in the migrations due the barbaric invasion and domination. Migrations caused a weakening of culture on Mesopotamian tribes…

“Knowing God” is divided into three sections. The first section covers issues such as why studying the word of God is important, idolatry and how it can affect the knowledge we have of God, the mystery of the Incarnation, and the nature and the importance of the Holy Spirit. It asks questions such, do you know God and what does it mean to know God. The second section list God’s attributes. It touches on God’s unchanging nature, His majesty, wisdom and gift of wisdom, His Word, love, grace,…

The ontological argument is theory of God based on reasoning alone. The word ‘ontological’ means ‘being’ or ‘exist’. The ontological argument states that God does indeed exist because he is the thought of God can be conceived. The argument was first proposed by Anselm of Canterbury, a monk and christian philosopher. Anselm believed that God was the greatest being conceived and that there was no other being more powerful than God. According to Anselm, if something is perfect, then it couldn’t…

In this psalm, David praises God, but he still cries out to God for deliverance. These concepts confuse many people. In everyday life, people are confused why Christians can praise God through trials. David has probably been furthering this confusion through this psalm. However, I believe that David’s praise of God illustrates that God is worth following and knowing even if our worldly circumstances do not change. In fact, following God can sometimes cause worldly circumstances to become worse,…

The Nature of God and the Trinity begins for the human race with the being of creation. For Christians this starts with the Bible chapter of Genesis. Many people in this world though do not know or understand the concept of God and his nature and cannot see how God becomes three different entities all in one; The Father, The Son, and Holy Spirit making the trinity. In theory by reading the word of God, one can begin to understand the application in the nature of God. However, still may not begin…

Introduction Knowing God is a influential evangelical book by James Innell Packer and holds to be the authors best-known work. Packer was an Oxford graduate who was influenced greatly by another famous Christian author, C. S. Lewis, and eventually committed his life to Christian service where he spent a brief times teaching in different places and eventually ended up back in Oxford to study theology, then later he became the Regent College Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology in 1996. Soon…