Manifestation of God

I knew that I would not get away with stealing because I thought that God saw everything, and I did not want to commit a sin. Those reasons made me immensely careful with my actions. Even though young Gary from the short story, “The Pie,” knew that stealing was sinning, he stole a pie despite those reasons because he thought that it would make him happy. He later discovered that he was wrong. Through symbolized versions of God and Gary’s different emotions shown through parallel episodes,…

While the vision of the good life inherent in the Christian narration of reality involves sharing in a rightly-ordered love with God, the vision of the good life in modernity differs depending on what each person constitutes as self-fulfillment. Thus, consumerism and American nationalism both demonstrate a straining to find purpose and fulfillment on earth through economic prosperity…

Louise Erdrich’s novel, Love Medicine is a fusion of Catholicism and Ojibwe beliefs. Both played a central role in the life of the author. The status of Catholicism is apparent, nevertheless, she possesses first-hand knowledge of Ojibwe culture as a recognized member of the tribe. As a product of an interracial partnership, Erdrich embraces and respects both cultures, accordingly, this can also be said about many of the main characters. Having done some research on the author’s background, I…

account starts off with stating that God created the world. This automatically brings in the sacred reality part of myth. Then it goes into paragraphs that contain everything God commanded and it all happened. "Out of original chaos, God created an orderly world, assigning a preeminent place to human beings" (Genesis 1.1 2:3). This directly correlates the sacred reality and its relationship with humanity because it is saying that God created humans. "Then God said, let us make humankind in our…

Kultur versus Natur While German anthropologists rejected the theory of evolution, there was still an interest in understanding the relationship between Kultur and Natur. They rejected evolutionism because it “placed steric categories of human nature into a fluid continuum…” (Zimmerman, 2001, p. 69). Nature, to German anthropologists before the 20th century was perceived to be a “static system of categories that allowed them, in their study of natural peoples, to grasp an unchanging essence of…

seeks to prove that it is more rational to believe in God rather than to not believe because you gain more by believing. In this paper, I will provide support to this wager in showing that you acquire a greater reward by believing in God. I will primarily outline Pascal’s Wager, then respond to one criticism raised that attempts to refute premise two (the expected results of belief and disbelief). This criticism states that there are many other gods that the wager does not account for and…

Bel and the Dragon begins with an idol that the Babylonians worshiped named Bel. Daniel, however, did not worship the idol and the king confronted him about it one day. Daniel replied that he did not worship the idol because he worshiped the living God who created the earth and not idols created by humans. The king asked if he meant he did not believe that Bel was living even though he eats and drinks the food every day. Daniel confidently told the king that the bronze idol was only filled with…

lives to be where it is now, and that being is known as god. When we were a child, we did not have a choice whether we truly believed in the existence of God. We were told what to believe and never questioned it that belief. In this essay, I will analyze the existence of god between “Does God Exist?” by Ernest Nagel and “Why God Allows Evil” by Richard Swinburne. Although Nagel rejects the existence of God, he establishes two causes for why God exists. The first argument is the cosmological…

3.2. Dean Borgman - Contextual youth ministry Dean Borgman, youth ministry professor at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, was to America what Pete Ward was to the UK during the 1990s. His take on the incarnational approach influenced a wide range of youth ministry. He summarises his view in this way, As leaders committed to youth ministry, we may read the command of our Lord in this way: “You are receiving power from the Holy Spirit to be witnesses of me in all the youth cultures of the world”’ (Borgman…

This was a really good reminder for me as I considered the place of spirituality in professionalism. If I do not remember this as a Christian helper, am I really satisfying God and myself with what I do? Without having a value in the meaning of life it would be so easy to get dragged down and disheartened by the unsuccessful encounters. Although with it, I will be able to see a glimpse of good in the tough time. After all…