Singular God

called “Who is God?” of the series “The Story of God”, Morgan Freeman explores the concept of who God is and how the idea of God has evolved. He visits several places throughout the world, including places like India and Egypt. The episode shares insights, but doesn’t insinuate or stretch facts on who God is? The show begins with Morgan taking a trip to India to get some insights on Hinduism. The woman states that Hinduism is an umbrella term and that there not just one god, but…

top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in…

there a god or gods? Nested in this question though is another decision worth noting. If my answer is “I do not know” am I an atheist or an agnostic? I would argue that they are one in the same. To call yourself an agnostic is to be a subset of atheism. Although the distinction between atheist and agnostic may seem significant in use they are similar in definition. The definitions of the terms are as follows; Definition 1: a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any…

Beowulf’s Battle Against Grendel’s Mother Under the credible assumption that a Christian – or, some speculate, many of them – actually wrote Beowulf, rather than merely edited it, its author faced, and confronted with the writing of the epic, a singular obstacle: persuading pagans to convert to Christianity by describing Christianity, which also condemned and promised to abolish the system of blood feud, as compatible with pagan culture, to an extent. This theme comes to the forefront during…

Is Hume’s Natural History of Religion Really a Problem? In this essay I will explain how Hume’s natural history of religion isn’t so much a threat to religion as it is a valid explanation. Hume’s claims of natural explanation will be presented and assessed based on their rationality of how religion has progressed through history. From here I will analyse Hume’s argument and then proceed to consider a counter-argument against this natural history of religion involving supernatural explanations.…

that God created life and the earth, while the believe of evolution is more modern and taught by science. Creationism and evolution have different ideas but they also have many similarities. Creationism is “the belief in a deity of some sort; a creator of the world and everything in it including humans and animals.” This belief is based only on religion. The theory of creationism comes from the bible, but it mainly comes from the of Genesis in the Old Testament. The book says how God…

of a singular thing, but rather a central orientation of a person’s beliefs, the core of reality which an individual can build upon. It is a consolidation of beliefs into one holistic perspective. (Word Count XXX) With that definition in consideration, a biblical worldview is a worldview characterized by a fundamental belief in the Bible as the sovereign Word of God, the principle truths it presents, and the responsibility Christians hold to live according to its teachings. The Word of God…

sense here, to pursue the knowledge of Yahweh. In contrast, הַדָּעַת “knowledge” is despised by the priest (Hosea 4:6) and the woman vainly רָדַף pursued her lovers (Hosea 2:7). לָדַעַת אֶת־יְהוָה (יָדַע) “know, knowledge of Yahweh, knowledge of God” is infinitive construct. The personal dimension carries with the idea of “love” and “fear” as ingredients in the “knowledge” of Yahweh. The exhortation is to pursue the knowledge of…

Medieval philosophers built arguments and ideas based on the assumptions that God must be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. But are God and evil truly physical beings? This was the question that faced Saint Augustine as he entered Milan in the late fourth century. Under the Manichee, Augustine was taught to imagine God as a physical mass. Catholics in Milan, however, taught that God was a spiritual presence. If God is a being with a physical mass, this puts his omnipresence and…

Unlike Cordelia, Edgar seems unwilling to ask the gods to reverse his father’s fate, insinuating that he values justice over mercy. The difference in the way that these two characters alone approach the gods reiterates the notion that interpretations of the pagan gods’ natures are not rooted in scriptural evidence, but in the images of the believers themselves. Albany, like Edgar, also ppears to consider the gods “just.” “This shows you are above,” he exclaims, “You justicers, that these our…