Monotheism

Compassion is a word that links us to every human being in helping understand each other. Whether it is by religion, meditation, or community structures, compassion is the tike of it all. Compassion sees everything without a filter; it doesn’t acknowledge social statuses and religious barriers. It simply binds us together to form an alliance where we all feel sympathy and concern for the misfortune of others. Compassion acknowledges us to cry in pity and to cry as our reaction to tragedies of…

Cornelius Plantinga Jr. made me ask myself a lot of questions while reading his book Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living. My first question was how am I going to read a book about Calvinism, when I’m not exactly sure what Calvinism is? To say I was skeptical of this book is an understatement. My thoughts have always been that people believe and view things differently and that's ok. It may be the way they were raised or someone that came into their life and…

Absolute Materialism In general, the phrase “materialism” is used to refer to metaphysical theories regarding the nature of reality. Absolute materialism holds that matter is the only reality in the world whose conditions and activities render meaning to every event in the universe (Knight, 2012). Put simply, absolute materialism commits to the following principle; that all that exists is ultimately physical – that matter contains electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules, all of which are bound…

The development and practices of Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam have one purpose, and that Is, to find the God within oneself. They all believe in 'good people' and 'bad people' and that being 'good' will benefit either oneself and/or the outer community Islam and Christianity, were both formed from Judaism. This research paper will explain how each of these religions have teachings common to the earliest of the group such as Hinduism, as well as other comparisons that they…

Throughout this book, Huston Smith puts an emphasis on the nature of God and the different ways that God is seen through the eyes of the various religions of the world. In some cases, such as Buddhism, God doesn’t exist. In other religious such as Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, the idea of “God” is very similar. The people of these religions believe that God is the creator of man and the creator of the universe. God is portrayed by some of these people as someone who loves but also as someone…

As we have been exploring the ideas of faith and Christianity in class, we were called to look deeper into the meaning of Christianity through various self-designated books. Francine Rivers’ story, The Shoe Box, is centered around a child by the name of Timmy O’Neil and the raggedy brown box he carries by his side at all times. Francine Rivers mentions before the start of the story how she formulated this book based directly on her own experiences. The overall purpose of this book was to convey…

A worldview is all encompassing to the human being. It determines the very actions, thoughts, and motives of a person. A personal worldview is not unchangeable or unalterable, but an individual cannot escape the grip and impact of a worldview; thus, it ought to be studied and examined so that it can be better understood. As a people, we should seek to comprehend why we believe what we believe regardless if our beliefs are truly correct. Making sense of the world around us, ourselves, and our…

Believe it or not, it is exceptionally difficult to write a page on “basic beliefs” for pagans. The main reason is because there are such a wide variety of individual beliefs in paganism, and so many different paths, that it is difficult to write a page on specific beliefs. However there are a few certain universal pagan beliefs that I will attempt to cover on this page. As far as diety is concerned, most pagans believe in A Goddess, and a God. Instead of the Christian belief where there is only…

There are many religions in the world. Some believe in one god and others believe that there are more than one god. I believe that there is only one god and that he is the creator of this world and everything in this universe. Christians and the Muslims also believed that god was the creator of everything in life. Christianity and Islam are both similar and different from each other. Christianity and Islam are both Monotheistic religions. This means that they both believe in only one god.They…

In ancient Israel, protocol at animal sacrifices permitted the high priest’s servants to plunge a three-pronged fork into the cauldron of boiling water and return to the high priest whatever amount of meat they were able to draw up. In defiance of this rule of law, the sons of Eli (the high priest and predecessor of Samuel as judge of Israel) instructed their servants to take as much meat as they wanted, forcefully if necessary, even before the meat was fully cooked. "This sin of the young men…