Monotheism

In Act 5 of Hamlet, we see more and more allusions and their connotations. Previously, majority of these have been to Greek mythology and Christianity. Unsurprisingly, there’s more of these allusions in Act 5! Scene 1 of Act 5 actually starts with an allusion to Christian belief; “Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?” (5.1.1-2) This question by a gravedigger references the fact that probably at the time (maybe now too) Christian burial rites and…

There are many arguments presented to the existence of God. The following are simply three examples that speak to the reality of an all-powerful being. The three arguments that are being covered are as follows: Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways, Anselm’s ontological argument, and the teleological argument. Aquinas’ argument covers a variety of arguments including the cosmological arguments, perfect argument, and the end argument. Anselm’s argument covers ontology which includes the conception of God.…

Internal Authority Many believe that authority is held either by the highest ranking official or, by the most convincing speaker, or even the public figure with the most support. These claims are slightly true, but there are other, much more powerful forces, that control how people act, speak or even think. These forces are the ones that must be accepted internally. For if an idea is forced upon you it could never take hold in your life and control you the same way your own ideals could, in…

In the beginning of the Puritanism era, they relied heavily on God and in order to live a prosperous life, one must be completely devoted to God. The Puritans thought that possession were worthless because they were temporarily, unlike God and heaven because they were eternal and they only things that really mattered. Puritans did everything they could to please God, for example in the poem Upon the Burning of our House, by Anne Bradstreet, she was devastated when her house burned down and all…

IN WICCA, THE DIVINE, or deity, is greater than creation, and yet it is creation. It is immanent in all things, but it is also distant and beyond our grasp. It is too vast for us to comprehend in its entirety, but we can begin to experience it through our rela- tionship with the gods, who are facets of the divine. As I mentioned briefly in chap- ter 2, the two main aspects of deity that Wiccans work with are simply called the Goddess and the God. They are the female and male “halves” of the…

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all what are called monotheistic religions which believe in one single God (Bishop). Their divine concepts are very similar. They all believe, that the universe is created by one all-powerful God as well as life after death, but there are also many differences in the way they approach the same concept. Major religions such as Hinduism believe in multiple Gods, but the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam believe in one single God.…

There are three main monotheistic religions, they are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All three of these religions believe in revelation and divine disclosures of sacred knowledge. They also have the idea that there are only one higher up that passed set of holy rules to humankind through prophets. Prophets literal meaning is “one who speaks for God” they were sent out by god to speak the word of god. There were many famous prophets like Abraham in Canaan, Moses on Mount Sinai, Jesus at the…

Ancient Mesopotamia was located at modern day Iraq and Syria between the Tigris and Euphrates river. Mesopotamia is where a lot of new places and idea were derived from. For example, some of the Mesopotamian artistic expressions include being the firsts to introduce writing, the arch, the wheel, and cities. The Mesopotamians believed that religion controlled most of the things in their life. This caused them to believe in multiple gods such as a sun god, moon gods, river gods, fire gods and many…

Before Dr. Moorer could genuinely reevaluate his life, he had to understand that his undeniable thirst to become an engineer and quest for success blinded him from understanding humility. Once he lost his job from the GMI, he obtained another at a local shoe store then later at a phone company. Of course, it appeared as a loss, but he was able to experience better ways to overcome challenges and gain confidence, which later profited him once he established his consulting firm. “When God allows…

One of the main aspects of biblical religion is the concept that the biblical God is a supernatural entity separated from the physical world. This biblical God is seen as the sole king over humans, thus many of the laws within biblical religion limit the ability for humans to rule over one another. I believe that this limitation of human rule is the foundation of the differences between the royal ideology of the ancient Israelites and Israel’s pagan neighbors. In my opinion the differences…