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God Vs. Evil

itself confirms those evils. Mark refers, of course, not only to the goodness of God but also the many evils which exist in our w...

Psalm 54 Exegesis

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

Nietzsche And Kierkegaard: Compare/Contrast

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

Animals and Animal Imagery in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...

The Concept of Evil

God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Jesus The Son Of God

age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...

Jesus Second Person in Holy Trinity

If we show that Jesus Christ is the Second Person in the Holy Trinity, we also demonstrate that Jesus is the Son of God, which is ...

Why was I Born Gay? by David McGrinn

This essay is a book review that pertains to David McGrinn's God, Why Was I Born Gay? Biology, the Bible and the Homosexual Debate...

Church's Perspective on War

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering

This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...

Parallels in the Early Church and Contemporary Society

This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...

Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

This essay discusses American Gods by Neil Gaiman in light of the archetypes described by psychologist Carl Jung. Six pages in len...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

Herodotus and Ancient Leaders

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

Acts of God

God uses to point to Himself as the power (Samons, 2012). Examples of miracles in the Old Testament include God parting the Red S...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

Should The Church Be Marginal To Society

of England. If something that catastrophic were to happen today, would the Prime Minister respond to save the church? One can onl...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Gods: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Pledge of Allegiance and 'God'

As would be expected there has been a great deal of outcry about this particular ruling. For example, one senator stated, "This is...

Encountering God and Diane Eck's Unconvincing Argument

carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...

Christ in Evolution According to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...

Jesus of Nazareth As God

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

Evil and God

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...