Singular God

In this essay I am writing about what a relationship should look like. It should be centered around God and should model what relationships look like based on the Bible. It should correspond with Biblical teaching. What should a relationship look like based on Esther’s life? Esther was chosen by a king in a contest to be his wife and it says that “the King loved Esther more than all the women” Esther 2:17. Now because he loved her and was so happy to marry her that he held a great…

through. Civic religion in ancient Greece was the way that the ancient people practiced religion in their everyday lives. It combined their households with their communities, and their communities with their government or city-states. Crime towards the gods, impiety or Asebeia, was treated as crime towards the city and…

In particular, Augustine’s prose, The Confessions, focuses on how human temptations of the senses—smell, taste, touch, sight, and sound—can distant the relationship between one and God. For Augustine, the temptations of the senses—smell, taste, touch, and sight—are not difficult to resist when compared to the singular temptation of sound. In Book 10 chapter 33 of The Confessions Augustine admits to the reader, “I was enthralled by them (sounds)”. In other words for Augustine sound has the…

One important branch of deterministic philosophy is Stoicism. The Stoics were pantheists, meaning they believe all aspects of nature and the universe are God. From this line of thinking, they also believe everything interacts together in a way that sets events into motion from which it follows that the Stoics believe everything is determined. Stoic philosophy can be very confusing to studiers because it holds a heavy contradiction. As previously stated, they believe that everything is determined…

The first volume of Robert Jenson’s Systematic Theology resolves two theological difficulties in the doctrine of God by innovatively binding together eschatology and pneumatology (advancing what I will refer to as Jenson’s “eschatological pneumatology”) in order to develop and sustain material proposals concerning God’s triune character. In terms of eschatology, Jenson’s project critically opposes theologies which are overdetermined by protological thinking, or God’s reality as source and origin…

not simply restore relationship back to where it was, but creates room for the relationship to grow. Christ did this for all of us, by restoring our relationship with the Triune God, Christ allows for the Holy Spirit to continually sanctify us through the sacraments and through our faith in God. We can become as close to God through our faith and sanctification as we allow ourselves. Our theological understanding of forgiveness now includes reconciliation. I wonder however, if that…

stern defense of the logical problem of evil, which he uses to suggest the God does not exist. I will attempt to defend the notion that both God and evil, in the form of human creation, can exist in the world by way of suggesting that freewill is the answer. Furthermore, I will strengthen the argument for freewill against Mackie’s defense, which suggests that the argument of freewill also compromises the Omni-three nature of God. In part, I will back freewill by using Mackie’s own logic against…

describe how an individual has their beliefs and faith. Religion is a part of the main purpose of the novel since Pi states that his story will make you believe in God. Even being a story of wonders Stewart Cole believes "Though it might seem absurd to infer from this that he would not even bother to tell the story to a listener whose belief in God was already firm, it does raise the question of how the story’s appeal might be recast for a religious listener.” (page 22) he does not see that a…

Theology Proper Definition of God God is a Spirit (John 4:24), infinite (Job 11:7; 1 Kings 8:27), eternal (Ps. 90:2; 1 Tim. 1:17), and unchangeable (James 1:17; Mal. 3:6) in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. The Immanence of God The immanence of God connotes an indwelling of God within the world and its processes (Jer. 23:23-24; Acts 17:27-29; Heb. 1:3; Matt. 10:29). Every event is of supernatural causation in some sense. However, God is over the universe and in…

A singular disease in modern life can be alleviated only when searching for a mate and discovering God's love again. Dover Beach is along lyric poetry by the English poet Matthew Arnold [1]. It was published for the first time in 1867 in the collection of new…