Personal god

interaction with other humans and nature. According to Paul Tillich, a religious experience is a feeling of “ultimate concern” demanding a decisive decision decision about what? from the person experiencing it. Whereas, Martin Buber says God reveals himself on a personal level through interaction of both people and nature. Martin Buber suggests that everyday human relationships are simple are known as “i-it”, but more meaningful and deeper relationships are known as “i-thou” it is in these…

Then, McMinn (2007) acknowledges the spirituality perspective on prayer. The author points out that prayer allow for the capacity to experience God through prayers which is the center of Christian spirituality (McMinn, 2007, p 87). McMinn (2007) makes it clear that people often overemphasize petition prayer and neglects prayer as worship; therefore it is important to remember that prayer is “also an act of worship, a way of celebrating God’s character and gracious provision,” (p 88). The…

His mysterious name, YHWH (I AM WHO I AM), God says who He is and by what name He is to be called. This divine name is mysterious just as God is mystery. One of these is that since God is Being, He upholds and sustains all of creation and all creatures in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end. Father Barron considers Anselm's "Ontological Argument", his description of God as that than which nothing greater can be thought; also God cannot be limited by the categories of…

divine providence, the will of God, God’s relationship with the human race, salvation, and many more topics of discussion still relevant to theologians in the present day. Like many of their peers in the church, they agreed on certain matters, one of which is that the purpose of humans is to love God unconditionally and to respond to God’s Grace that he gave to humanity. They also agreed that evil and human sin pulls one away from the relationship he is meant to have with God. However, when…

Section A 2) “Enoch boasted aloud that they (the egwugwu) would not dare touch a Christian. Whereupon they all came back and one of them gave Enoch a good stroke of the cane, which was always carried. Enoch fell on him and tore of his mask...Enoch had killed an ancestral spirit, and Umuofia was thrown into confusion.”(Chinua Achebe, “Things Fall Apart”, pg 237) “Everybody in the assembly spoke, and in the end it was decided to ostracize the Christians.”(Chinua Achebe, “Things Fall Apart”, pg.…

Hinduism comprises so many different beliefs and rituals that some sociologists have suggested thinking of it as a grouping of interrelated religions. Two other religions of the Far East include Confucianism and Buddhism. These ethical religions have no gods, but advocate ethical and moral principles designed to improve the believer's relationship with the universe. All three religions share many similarities of morals and ethics, but also have unique defining characteristics that separate them…

research, Dr. Smith was able to form a creed of this de facto religion, which consists of 5 major points. The First is that God exists, created all things, and watches over life on the earth. Second, God wants people to treat life and each other well. Third, the main goal of life is personal happiness. Fourth, God is only directly…

This will cover the seven world view questions. The questions will be about God and His entirety for the world. The seven world view questions asked and answered are: What is God like? God is an all-powerful person. What is the nature of the universe? The nature of the universe is orderly. What is the basis of ethics and morality? God gives us ethics and morality. What is the cause of evil and suffering? The cause of evil and suffering is sin. What happens to man at death? Man go to heaven after…

God is so good! He created us with a spirit, and a spirit in his likeness for that matter. In this class we are taking a closer look at our spiritual formation and concepts of spirituality. When God made us he gave us ways to commune with him. This allows us to have a relationship with him, where we are able to learn more about and grow closer to him. In an essence God gave us spiritual disciplines so that we are able grow spiritually. In this paper we are going to go over what a spiritual…

The original sense of “demon”, from the time of Homer, was a benevolent being. Homer even uses the word theos, which can be translated as Gods, to describe the daimons. In ancient Greece, daimons were believed to be beings that were different from the gods. Daimons dealt with fate and each person had a daimon that guided them through life; helping them make the right decisions. A daimon is the Christian equivalent to a guardian angel. The Greek historian Hesiod categorized daimons as human that…