Pandeism

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 of her belong were completely gone. When Bradstreet wrote “and to my God my heart did cry” she talks about how broken she was, as if she had just walked around with tiny shards of glass in her chest; she felt a crushing sense of sadness, and she was beyond miserable, since everything she own was now turned to ashes (8). Puritans view God as if he was a magician; like he could fix any problem with a wave of his had. So instead of looking away she watched as the flames “[consumed her] dwelling place. And when [she] could no longer look/ [she] blest His name that gave and took”(12-13). Even though God took her house she still loved and praised him to help ease the pain she felt. Toward the end of the poem Bradstreet comes to a realization that nothing is greater than the man above. She cries out “Adieu ,Adieu,all’s vanity”(36). She is calling her house that she once valued, worthless. Also she points out “ there’s wealth enough/ [she does not] need no more”(51). She explains that it's…

There are various symbols for religious imagination and its not common to re-imagine or re-symbolize the traditional concept of God; but its good to try and see God from other peoples points of view, to have an open mind about the understanding of God. Author, Judith Plaskow argues in her story, "Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective" about the images and numerous metaphors of God. "If identifying God with a particular set of metaphors both limits God and supports a…

The word of god says if you had heeded my commands, then you peace would flow like a river. He also states happy are ye that keep my commands. The essence of these words are simply foolishness to the unconverted heart. For those however; who have tasted and seen that god is good it is life unto them. There was a time in my life when i bought into the lies of the enemy. I saw god as being restrictive, his laws too rigid, and his entire government as a fun buster. I thought maybe that god…

faith was of a magnitude that he wrapped his mind at least partially around the divine Warrior and Enemy also being the perfect divine Advocate and Intercessor. This was one more step in peeling back the layers of Job’s faith. His unshakeable confidence in God’s absolute sovereignty undergirded each succeeding declaration in its context. For the past three chapters, Job’s thinking was in the judicial framework. He was about to add another dimension. Sidebar - Is this the end of the discussion?…