God

Dr. Thompson has done an amazing job gathering together and discussing many of the reason for unbelief as well as many of the solutions to the philosophic, theological, or scientific charges against God and the Bible. The first few chapters in the book discuss the differences between unbelief. Some people claim to be atheists while others see themselves as agnostics. Clarification is given about what constitutes a skeptic or an infidel. Dr. Thompson also defines and discusses deism, pantheism,…

God made the Heavens and the Earth and all that lives on it in seven days. Wow! Now that is pretty powerful. Titans and gods never die, but where are they now? Mythological gods and God have a few similarities. Even though there were many different mythological gods, they share some similarities to God. For starters, both mythological gods and God possess power. They were known to have super natural powers. Also, the mythological gods and God are worshipped. Temples were made for…

biblical writers, in the Old and New Testament, recognized God presence in their midst and experienced the transforming power of divine grace. Some of the writers portray God to have a humanlike personality, a cosmic authority character traits and behaviors of bewildering variety, he is the creator of everything. However some authors portray God as love, generosity, compassion, and merciful, while others emphasized his anger and violence. God is portrayed a eager to save his creation and to…

projected on God, objective in nature. 5. They are his nature, not fragmentary parts. God is his love, holiness, power, etc. But these attributes are different ways at getting at who God is. Attributes of Greatness (moral/natural attributes) I. Spirituality – God is Spirit 1. Not matter, does not possess physical nature. John 4.24, God is spirit. 2. Not limited spatially or geographically. John 4.21, not destructible 3. Hands and feet? Anthropomorphisms – truth about God with…

In Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan describes how wonderful and loving God is while fighting off the accusations of God being a monster by the New Atheists using the Old Testament. One major point made by Copan is the question of how truly loving or terrible God is. Throughout the Old Testament God shows many different sides. He can be a caring God, or He can be a scary God. There are times when God shows mercy and then there are times that seem like he is letting terrible things happen to…

In discussing about the existence of God, Saint Augustine’s view is that God is not subject to decay, to harm or to change. He believes that only inferior beings are subject to decay, and that includes everything and everyone living on Earth. Therefore, anything that could not decay was evidently more superior. Yet, Augustine finds himself unsure about the form of God, since he does not take the form of a human being and anything within the Earth, since God is not subject to decay and if it…

the image of God is such an important concept that humans need to comprehend. Our full understanding and identity of who we are as human being relies on man being able to grasp and analyze this idea. According to Gerald Bay, being able to study and evaluate being made in the image of God will lead to understanding how the fall of Adam affected the image of God. 2. Philosophical Foundations or Presuppositions To first be able to study and explore what being made in the image of God means, one…

(Oxford Dictionary pg. 1) God limits the knowledge of his doings a great amount in the Hebrew Bible, but specifically in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, many stories, such as Adam and Eve or Job, reveals how God limits knowledge from his people. The question is, why does God limits knowledge from his people? God is said to know everything and the world and loves his people; so why keep them in the dark from certain things? The Limit of knowledge of His doings is used by God to reveal…

worshipped gods. However each culture has slightly different beliefs, and different gods. For example the Greeks worshipped “the big twelve” and their children (Minor gods). The Vikings worshipped the Norse gods which include gods that are still used to this day(such as Thor and Loki). Then we have the Egyptians worshipped the Egyptian gods, which includes many gods with varies of animal heads. Amun was one of the eight ancient Egyptian gods who formed the Ogdoad of Hermopolis. He was the god…

The portrayal of the Greek gods in Riordan’s series examined in this essay as compared to the Greek myths is reasonably accurate. Riordan does not make many changes in his portrayal of the Greek gods, choosing to only alter the physical appearance of the gods to keep them in line with the idea of ancient gods coexisting in the modern world and he otherwise makes minimal changes to their actual personalities. Riordan chose not to make any outright changes to the gods’ personalities, instead…