Solar deity

Human beings are intricately unique and deeply loved by God. Psalm 139:13-14 says “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well.” God has blessed me, personally, with strengths which define my meaning and purpose. These strengths are tools that I will use best when I follow God’s will for my life. My top five strengths are belief, input, achiever, responsibility, and restorative. As I continue to pursue God’s will, these strengths will…

The UCC is both a very young tradition and a very old church. We are four traditions with significant history, filled with both beauty and ugliness, that combined to create something new, in 1957. As a former Catholic, I love and appreciate history, and where history matters most and is most fascinating is looking at how different strands change or end or wind into the present and the future, often in surprising ways. The UCC traces its roots back to four different denominations, each of which…

Major religions have a form of text, such as the Bible or the Quran, that is deemed sacred. One controversial topic regarding these sacred texts is how they should actually be read. Through discussion of the origins and natures of the Quran and Paul 's letters, it is concluded that how a sacred text should be read is dependent upon various factors such as the origin and the socio-historical context it is written. Some of the major factors that will contribute to deciding how sacred texts read…

Numerous and various deities have become the unique and significant representations of Hinduism. Deities are also symbols, which not only suggest the diversity of the tradition, but also illustrate unity, tolerance, and acceptance that characterize the believers of this ancient tradition. A deity in Hinduism is a symbol of the tradition according to Paul Tillich’s description in his work Faith as Ultimate Concern. A deity satisfies the first characteristic of a symbol, which the symbol points…

polytheism. There are very few things that the Hindu and Mayan religions agree on, but one of them is that some divine force existed before humans. For Hindus this divine force is known as Brahma who came from Brahman. Since Brahma is the only the only deity that Hindus worship, their monotheistic…

Atheist or To Have Faith We have always wondered about how everything in this universe was created or how we humans came to be. We humans have come up with explanations to these answers, but each explanation differs from one to another. These explanations are called religions. Each religion has its own story and creator/creators. These religions only contain stories on what happened but there is little to no actual facts if what these religions tell us is true or not. So because of this, many…

1- In Signs of Life, Scott Hahn, discussed the importance of Bible. The Bible is an incredible book of history and facts that proves that there is a God that created all things. I believe that without the words of God in our lives we are really empty. I think it is helpful to read it and apply it in the life. The Bible is free from error in all it affirms and unfailing in its purpose. I have in my religion the Quran, which is the holy book of Islam and is viewed by Muslims as the direct word of…

both describe the story of creation, in their own ways. Initially we can see that there are very different beliefs of how creation came to be throughout the stories, but there are some underlying concepts that are the same. The relationship between Deity and humanity in Genesis 1 and 2 is one that resembles a father and son, where as in the Enuma Elish humanity is merely a tool for the gods the handle their menial work. The book of Genesis gives the account to how the world was formed and the…

This story is from the Japanese "Record of Ancient Things". The story tells of the creation of japan rather than the creation of the world. But in this story Japan is the first landmass on earth, and mankind are created in the process. When the world began, three gods appeared, They were know as the Spirit Master of the Center of Heaven, The August Wondrously Producing Spirit, and the Divine Wondrously Producing Ancestor. When the earth came into being the land floated on the water. Out of the…

The cosmos are abstract and ever changing. Knowledge expands, impacting perception. God, like the universe, is nonconcrete and perception changes between individuals. God is at once all encompassing while simultaneously minimal. God defines morality while justifying corruption. God elevates some while undermining others. The distinction between God and god lies in the circumstance or beliefs of the beholder. God in the most literal sense pertains to religion. Whether seen as a singular…