Manifestation of God

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    conceptions envision a God who embodies general human behavior, St. Augustine, one of the most influential thinkers throughout the history of Christianity, posits a much different view in his self-described letter to God Confessions. Prior to his days of devout piety, St. Augustine had subscribed to the faith of the Manichees, preventing him from viewing God as an immaterial force. Although Augustine uses strict rationalism to come to his Christian beliefs, he establishes a few qualities of God…

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    In The Road, McCarthy presents to the reader one of the most obvious subtle representations of the human interpretation of faith. She does this by putting it in a place we can so clearly and evidently see, that we are not consciously aware of it, through the main characters of the man and the boy. This effect represents how faith is depicted in The Road – ambiguously. The man openly expresses doubt about the existence of a higher power "Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the…

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    Christian Worldview

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    Many questions are brought up about a plethora of different topics pertaining to, God, Jesus, and salvation. Most of these questions cannot be answered completely, however, using the Bible they can be answered to a certain extent. By breaking up Christianity into its bare essentials; God, humanity, Jesus, and restoration, its concept can be better understood and explained. God Everybody has their own idea about what God is like both physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The Bible gives…

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    Religion Vs Religion

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    the gods of nature were centered around evoking these experiences through the use of song, dance, and psychedelic drugs. For the primitive man, the sacred was real, and his participation in it offered meaning to his life. The advent of Christianity in the West represented a shift away from faith and towards belief. Within Christian dogma, the sacred was experienced through heaven rather than through divine manifestations in nature, and the polytheism of many gods combined into one supreme God.…

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    Discrepancy In The Bible

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    Israel’s God. The following paragraphs will critically view the passage in the aspect of the pagan main character, the opening of the donkey mouth and potential discrepancy in the…

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    This world was created by God, the Father-Mother and Great I AM, since time immemorial. The Christian Scientist conception of God is a bit more nebulous than that of traditional Christianity. God isn 't seen necessarily as a distinct being. Rather, according to Mary Baker Eddy, “All is [the] infinite Mind [of God] and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all” (Christian Science, “What is Christian Science?”). Christian Science doctrine stresses the infiniteness of God, who is the…

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    • Transcendentalism: The American manifestation of Romanticism was Transcendentalism and it stood as one of the major American Revolution. Transcendentalists believed God to be supreme and most mighty as he animated everything. It was a reaction which stood against modernism and rationalism. It was marked by the mystic belief in a spiritual state that transcended the physical and the factual and the perfect state could only be attained by one’s own intuition and reflection. They always…

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    biblically revealed Christianity and the culture, whether Greek, modern, postmodern, or any other”. The writer has established that the ultimate goal is for Christian churches to open up its walls, and make sure that all recognize why we worship God, then we can become accustomed to the heavenly form of worship so that it culturally relevant in a Christ-like manner to make sure that cultural conflict is zero tolerance when it comes to the House of the…

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    Augustine is that human sins through his or her own free will, which is granted by God and good. Nevertheless, it is tempting to leave the problem of evil just at this point, without considering the actual significance of the free will. For instance, can this human free will act independently of any restrains? Why is it designed the way it is right now? Therefore, this essay sets out to address the question how God frames human free will, knowing it enables human to sin, so that it serves His…

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    desecrating Jerusalem and exiling them from their home, instead, they cry that “the LORD is in the right,/for [they] have rebelled against his word” (Lamentations 1:18 NRSV). Many people believed that God had abandoned them as punishment; however, the ties with God have not been severed because this was a manifestation of God’s anger. In actuality, this was the Babylonians doing, yet it is deemed God’s doing. Despite the various sieges and destructions that Jerusalem has been through, the city…

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