Page 1 Article Review – Evangelical Anxieties Over Spiritual Formation Steve L. Porter addresses the evangelical anxieties over spiritual formation in his article Sanctification in a New Key: Relieving Evangelical Anxieties Over Spiritual Formation. The author explains that although there are a plethora of views and meanings for the word spiritual formation, he is going to go through eight notable objections to spiritual formation with the two ideas of recognizing the cautions and corrections
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JonNecia Kane Intro to Theology December 4, 2008 Paper #4 When I signed up for your class I was anticipating learning some things that would be quite challenging and eye opening. I never thought I would be faced with so many different issues concerning the way I currently live my life. I had always heard that we were all sinners but I never really understood to what extinct. Psalms chapter 1 verses 1 through 6 it states: 1 Oh, the joys of those who do not follow
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Does God Exist The Debate held at Biola University on whether or not the existence of God is true was illuminating. William Lane Craig had an abundance of supporting evidence to reinforce his argument. Craig approached his argument from not only a theist’s standpoint but from Philosopher’s standpoint as well, which made his speech clear and concise. The existence of God has been brought into question because of atheistic views. Whether or not God exists depends on a person’s definition of God
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Will is defined in the dictionary as the ‘desire or wish or the determination’ of a person to do something. We can see that in this simple explanation, we can easily grasp the meaning of will. However in Ethics, the word ‘will’ signifies something differ than those that are given in the dictionary. Will is defined in ethics as the man’s faculty which seeks the good. According to the book, it is perfected by the quest of what is good. Therefore, it is not enough to just do what we want to do. We
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I. Mentioned by Prussian philosopher, Immanuel Kent in Critique of Judgment (1970) it was translated as “worldview” in the 19th century, as Weltanschauung described as “our intuition of the world.” (pg. 50) as stated in Consider by Dr. Weider& Gutierrez. Like a telescope; a representation of our perspective on life. II. 1. The Question of Origin – For any Theists, those who believe God was the actual creator and shares intimate relationship with those created in his image, Genesis
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Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes’ third meditation from his book Meditations on First Philosophy, examines Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God. The purpose of this essay will be to explore Descartes’ reasoning and proofs of God’s existence. In the third meditation, Descartes states two arguments attempting to prove God’s existence, the Trademark argument and the traditional Cosmological argument. Although his arguments are strong and relatively truthful
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PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 2014 TRAIN THE TRAINERS WORKSHOP HELD ON SATURDAY 26TH JULY, AT OUR REDEEMER ANGLICAN CHURCH. Theme: “GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN” Text: 1 Timothy 6:6 INTRODUCTION: “Now godliness combined with contentment bring great profit” 1 Tim 6:6. (New English Translation) It is said that sometimes big things come in little packages. 1 Timothy 6:6 is loaded with profound spiritual insight and complexity. However, we must note that we live in a world in which
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Revision - Philosopher’s and their views A.J Ayer weak verification, “mountains on the other side of the moon” Hick -eschatological verification “we’ll know at the end” -epistemic distance between us and God -Universal salvation -Replica theory -traducianism (soul inherited from parents) -Price’s mental world= consistent Price -“mental world” in which we live Karl Popper -falsification principle, true until proven otherwise Antony Flew -parable of the two gardeners, death of
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examples of this are that the Bible states God is morally perfect, the judge of mankind, the law-giver, and the sending of Jesus to humanity. Arguably one of the most fundamental creeds in Christian Biblical interpretation, is the concept of God’s moral perfection, regardless of whether the students of the Bible are literary or progressive theists. This is simply because the Bible states clearly that God is perfect: “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” Matthew 5:48.
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In the 13th chapter of his book, Principles of Christian Theology, Macquarrie insists that while reviewing the work of Christ, we should not separate his life and death. He notes the tendency among Christians to give superior emphasis to Christ’s death as opposed to His life which ends up subordinating the works which lead the crucifixion. There are two main themes which recur in the works of Christ. The first is obedience where Jesus fulfills the divine will by being “delivered up according to
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