My God

question, if an all-knowing, all-powerful God exists, why does he allow evil to persist among his followers? This paper will seek to examine the relationship between good and evil and attempt to provide some explanation as to how evil continues to exist in a world in which God is a part of so many peoples’ lives. An argument will be made that evil thrives in modern society not because of any action that God fails to take, but rather because of the fact that God has given us the freedom to choose…

The Duke begins to talk about her imperfections and things that were against his standards. “…the young woman’s “faults” were qualities like compassion, modesty, humility, delight in simple pleasures, and courtesy to those who served her” (“Overview: ‘My Last…” np). This made the father of the future wife begin to assume that the Duke had killed his late wife due to the behaviors she exhibited. Since the Duke had been so strict towards his wife, the father expected that he would be the same…

conviction by my oratory” (Conf. 2.4). By having him concentrate on this education, Augustine depicts Monica to be a sort of social climber in that she is focusing too much on his success, rather than helping him further understand his relationship with God. Augustine himself notes the flaws of the education he received stating, “No one is doing right if he is acting against his will…Those who put compulsion on me were not doing right either; the good was done to me by you, my God” (Conf. 1.19).…

Throughout my life I experienced many occurrences that affected my spirituality. All of the high and low points altered the way I view my spirituality. Being that I am still a growing teenager daily things also contribute greatly to my spiritual journey because God is within everything. I focused on the numerous events that occurred in my life and then chose five points in which I would like to represent on my timeline. After choosing the five events I dissected them, analyzed their importance,…

While I understand the power of prayer, sometimes my prayer life is not what it should be and I do not spend enough time in communion with God and listening to him and the leading of the Holy Spirit. I could take lessons regarding prayer from the Muslim religion. They stop to pray several times a day and even their work or hunger do not take precedence over their prayer life. Along with prayer, knowing the scriptures and having them hidden in my heart should be a priority but I find it easy to…

worldly success was built on the foundation of evil and not serving God. From a practical standpoint, it is surprising that someone who claims to be a friend of Job would equate Job’s success in life to the “exulting of the wicked” (Job 20:4). Job 21 In this chapter, Job refutes Zophar’s bold statements.…

Introduction The existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God is coherent despite the subsistence of horrendous evil in the world. Two major points are argued for in this paper lead to this conclusion. Firstly, evil is deemed not to be a “thing”; for everything in the world is created by the omnibenevolent God and as a good being; God is not one to create evil things (Jackson, 2014). Critics argue that if God exists and if God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good; He would…

Bible. While reading I came across three points that really intrigued me and questions that I could relate to and have even asked myself at one point in time, “How can you believe that a man rose from the dead”, “why didn’t God spare your mother”, and “how could an all-loving God…

“blameless and upright man” (Job 1:8) occurs due to an Adversary presenting God with the notion that Job is righteous, innocent, and blessed merely because he fears God, that if his prosperous life were taken away, he would lose faith and trust in God. The Adversary’s…

and her first reaction was to say that it’s God’s plan, her saying that showed us how strong her faith is in God, “yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just” pg.29. After she starts to think about it she starts to get upset at the thought that she just lost all her belongings and she’s trying to convince herself that she doesn’t need her personal belongings, but she’s having a hard time doing so, “ my pleasant things in ashes lie, and them behold no more shall I.” pg.27 Bradstreet wants to not…