people who received their relevance of belief from a single living transcendent God. The historical basis is important as God reveals himself through humans, in non-recurring human-historical events, to impose God’s will and direction to affect the will of humans. Chapter 1: The Bible In Its World In this chapter Oswalt addresses different beliefs on the existence of the world. Specifically how the Israelites and Greeks viewed the world in relation to their neighboring cultures. The Bible is the
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Spiritual gifts are defined by “www.biblicalstudies.com” as “things characterized or controlled by the spirit”, In my definition, spiritual gifts are gifts given to Christians by God so that they can further administer the gospel (good news) of the coming/resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Examples of Spiritual gifts listed in the New Testament are : 1. Prophecy 2. Serving 3. Teaching 4. Encouragement 5. Wisdom and Knowledge 6. Faith 7. Healing 8. Miracles
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intellect. They believed that everything in the universe had the ability to be understood by man because all of creation is contained by law and order. This belief led to the glorification of Man’s abilities to the point that it was almost god-like. The Greeks emphasized the importance of the mind so much so that the majority of them “favored the cold mind over the warmth and depth of the heart”. In Judaism there are similar views on intellect and the world’s creation for man’s habitation. However
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Voluminous ancient Greek cults, created gods, in some way based on some truth, but it was twisted to fit what they see as best for them. Cautiously, I will say that Christianity is one of those religions, Paul calls the work of Christ the mystery now revealed. On the other hand, we, as Christians, know that the message of Christ is the truth. Therefore, it goes without much thought that it is not the religion to focus on—it is the truth. Jehovah's Witnesses is the religious cult that I will discuss
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one finds a way to read scripture in order to provide a deeper understanding of God and allow His Word to shape one’s spiritual life. In the Introduction, in chapter 1, the reader is introduced to the idea that there is a movement in the church that seeks to become deeper and stricter in spiritual formation. He claims there are many books written for this purpose, and his intending purpose for this book is for God to use however he may want in the reader’s spiritual life. Mulholland provides the
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The tension between free will and destiny: Which one is more powerful? ‘I would say that there are three main questions: One, do people have free will? Two, is determinism true? And three, are free will and determinism compatible? ’ Throughout history, human beings have always tried to be the ones who have the power to rule their own lives. However, there exists a debate which questions whether that is really possible or not. In other words: are human beings capable of deciding what to do with
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1. Theology. the study of the nature of God and religious belief. Religious beliefs and theory when systematically developed 2. Theodicy. in its most common form, is the attempt to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil. Theodicy attempts to resolve the evidential problem of evil by reconciling the traditional divine characteristics of omnibenevolence,omnipotence, and omniscience, in either their absolute or relative form, with the occurrence of evil or suffering
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of the fact that for God all things are possible.” Unlike the knight of infinite resignation, the knight of faith is confident that he will gain his love back, not in the afterlife, but in this temporal world. “Abraham had faith… for this life. Yes, had his faith only been for a future life it would indeed have been easier to cast everything aside in order to hasten out of this world to which he did not belong.” In other words, it was the fact that Abraham believed what God promised him to be would
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Perhaps the Greek playwright Sophocles never had the concept of “free will” in mind when writing Oedipus Rex, but the play does allow for that interesting paradox we know today as free will. The paradox is: if Oedipus is told by the gods' oracles that he will kill his father and marry his mother, does he have any power to avoid this fate? That's a basic free will question. If Oedipus manages to avoid killing his father and marrying his mother, he will prove the gods wrong, and the oracle
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aspect the difference between faith and belief is easy to see if you go to church the week before Christmas and then Christmas day and look at the difference in the number of people. The regulars who give of themselves one day a week for God truly believe in God, those who show up for Holy Days more than likely have faith. Not to sound cynical, having faith is better than nothing, it is just not all that a person could give. But why are we being so lazy? The answer comes to us in the context of our
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