Even if he possesses great thoughts, strength, and value, he is still nothing because of his black skin. Of course, even if he is an educated man or a skilled worker or whatever, he is still not appreciated by his talents, but by his appearance. (1) The fight and insults in the dark represent the hatred and mistrust between the blacks and the whites. In darkness, of course anyone will be scared when pumped into someone else and maybe say something insulting.
Augustine's views seem to come from the concept of "the love of god." His theory starts by him trying to find a solution, the problem being evil. The problem at hand basically is that if god is so infinite in power then evil just can’t is here; but evil exists, therefore god couldn’t possibly. Augustine argues saying that all things start out as good, not perfect, and are like liable to becoming evil. Evil is simply the lack of good.
Through the divinity and humanity of the Christ, Christians and believers share the stories through word of mouth. The Son of God is also evident from the sacred texts of the Gospel testimonies which include the wonders and recoveries on people achieved by Jesus, and from the witness to his death, resurrection and ascension into heaven by his followers and other eyewitnesses. The beliefs of the divinity recognise his relationship to God as Son. Jesus’s divinity showed Jesus’ role to be the salvation of humanity and to resurrect and rise to defeat death. In the Gospel of John 1:14 “The Word became
Overall the Puritans were a religious group with a core of specific beliefs that are at the essence of the Puritan Faith. Those two beliefs are the belief that man is predestined or divided into two groups, the damned and the elect. The second core belief is that of free grace versus a doctrine of works. This means that man cannot save himself by changing his ways and doing good deeds. Instead it means than humanity is only saved by the free grace and mere good will of God and that whosoever believes in Christ and has faith may escape Hell.
This inability to use all your senses in able to understand what is happening, creates fear for the unknown; or better formulated: fear for the insensible. As Plato argued around 400 Before Christ: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Being afraid of the unobservable is adopted as normal, while being afraid of the observable will be tragic and not understood. By stating this, Plato argued that fear should not be able to exist when one is able to
And Mathew28:18 say “Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”. That means that the word of god has authority. And just like Jesus – the revelation of god - has authority that was given by The Father, so does the word of God. Next we’ll discuss inspiration. As I believe, we can define inspiration as a supernatural guidance from the Holy Spirit poured upon a person, and that influence gives the individual comprehension and make his writings accurate and trustworthy.
‘God exists’ is an empirical hypothesis (30 marks) This essay will be arguing that ‘God exists’ is not an empirical hypothesis. An empirical hypothesis is a hypothesis (a proposed explanation of something) which can be tested through empirical procedures (through observation and experimentation using science). This essay will be arguing the following points: That ‘God exists’ cannot be proven using science; that it is a matter of faith, not provable fact and that ‘God exist’ is not an empirical hypothesis as it is in fact a religious hypothesis. Firstly the idea that God exists cannot be proven using science. There are no tests or actual empirical evidence for God’s existence.
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea, and Samaria and to the ends of the earth." (Acts 1:8) As a church we recognize that we serve the Triune God, and we stress the importance of developing our relationship with God and with Jesus, yet it seems to me that there is a lack of talk about our relationship with the Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit? I believe many of us regard the Spirit as something of an essence or wind-like force that surrounds us and leads us to be like God.
(Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other Gods me.) I would answer the Teleological question by saying, “We are the Kingdom of God, and because we belong to God’s Kingdom we have purpose and destiny on my life. Since God has purpose on our lives that means he has a plan. Jeremiah 29:11 states, “I know the thoughts I think towards you thoughts of good and not of evil to give you an expected
(Mark 10:20, 1Cor 12‐14, Luke 18:22) B. Knowledge – is not just knowing a lot of things through study or experience. Knowledge that is of the spirit is the fruit of revelation, founded on faith, and synthesized by Christian experience. This is more of doctrinal teaching and ability to speak an understanding of a truth of the mystery of Christ. (Read how Paul understands the mystery of Christ in Eph 1, Eph 3:2‐3) C. Faith – is not just an intellectual belief in God, but a confident assurance in God which allows us to move forward without any doubt at all.