Solar deity

Religion has been around since the beginning of time, every culture worshipped in different ways whether it was to a god.goddess, or idol. For example the Egyptians, the Vikings, and the Greeks all worshipped gods. However each culture has slightly different beliefs, and different gods. For example the Greeks worshipped “the big twelve” and their children (Minor gods). The Vikings worshipped the Norse gods which include gods that are still used to this day(such as Thor and Loki). Then we have…

A single, all-knowing entity is central to the religion that I had grown up with. A god named God a figure of perfection who cradles the world. Watching over the people of Earth and holding control of what goes on with no-one sitting at his level sharing such an amazing power of creation. God made it all and holds so much faith from the people and for the people, but no matter what anyone says, I cannot bear the thought of giving all of my faith to someone or something so inhumanely “pure”.…

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the God plays a powerful indirect role and interfere with the lives of human. Mesopotamian deities required human to worship and praise them. In return, God is supposed to stabilize their surrounding and to provide them a good fortune. There are many examples throughout the epic text of God trying to control life in a certain way. Gilgamesh is two-thirds god and one-third human and plays the role of being king of the city Uruk. Gilgamesh is very powerful and is not…

“No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part” (Bridges 1978). In Jerry Bridges book, The Pursuit of Holiness, Jerry explains how to make a Christian’s life more holy. Through chapter 1, Jerry explains why Christians need holiness in their everyday lives. He explains that to find holiness we must search the Bible because the Bible has all the answers. The Bible is the spoken truth…

My second year at Moody, I became friends with the new RA of the floor. Together, we wrestled with how to minister to an older floor that had become fractured due to members of the floor having established friendships in other areas of life. I remember caring for one of our 4 new freshmen and just being available and accessible to engage in life and theological discussions. My third year, the Lord placed on my heart to initiate and start up a regular prayer meeting on the floor for the floor,…

Every Christian has wondered at some point in time what Heaven will be like. A lot of people in the World just view Heaven as a spiritual place where you meet God. Richard Mouw believes Heaven will be a renewed creation that includes an embodied existence and cultural life. In the book “When the Kings Come Marching In” Mouw talks about how society has to transform and change our ideas of how we view things in order to prepare for the Holy City. In doing so we will be ready for Heaven to come.…

As I said in some other essays I wasn’t a Christian person. So, coming to Taylor was a pretty big decision to me. I thought a lot of things and I just didn’t know what to think about Taylor in that moment because I found out that Taylor is a Christian Community. It was not just a cultural change or language change. It was more than that. I wasn’t having a good relationship with God. I wasn’t having faith to Him. I was like forgetting about religion. But I took the decision and I came to Taylor.…

The Pitfalls of Godliness A relationship with God can be nourishing to the soul. Those whose bond with God is strong are ideal models for others because of their virtuous and selfless nature. However, there are those who only preach the word of God without following in his footsteps and use their faith to justify their sins. Even worse, there are those who raise themselves up to be equal with God. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O 'Connor, the grandmother, who defines herself as a…

In the third century B.C.E., Roman society and cultures were heavily impacted by the Greeks. One of the other major influences that the Greeks had over Romans was religion. The Romans have experienced Greek influence through Greek cities in southern Italy which resulted in the blend of religious influences. This blend resulted in two separate religions, Roman religion and Greek religion, which also had many similarities, and was referred to as the “Greco-Roman” religion. Early forms of Roman…

I believe that people cannot live without ‘Faith’. People know that god exists through two ways. First way is through prophets messages, which I think was the first real knowledge. God ordained Prophets to undertake the same mission from Adam to Prophet Mohamed, the religion delivered by all prophets is exactly the same. The message is monotheism, doing righteous deeds and to establish the religion and make no division therein. So how did divisions happen? When Prophets died, their followers and…