“Explain the Judeo- Christian concept of God as a law-giver and judge” God loves and cares for his creation because of this he creates rules in order for his creation to live together harmoniously. Judaeo-Christians have many views about God as law giver and judge. Firstly God can be seen as Law giver in Exodus 20 when God is said to have revealed the 10 commandments to Moses, but the Children of Israel have just been warned that if they approach him directly, he may break out against them and kill them. In this story it God is seen as omnipotent and the presence of Him is a mortal danger and threat. He gives direct commands to Moses and Moses obeyed God's orders despite personal danger and overwhelming odds.
Adherents believe meaning can be found in their response to evil and suffering. A principal belief of Christianity is that God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, as a human to model how to be truly human and to reach full potential as an adherent. Adherents believe Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary through the Immaculate Conception after Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary to bring her the news. It is believed Jesus Christ was sacrificed through his crucifixion to save adherents from their sins, and
The natural world was created by God. Romans 1:20 states that that through the creation of the earth you can see God’s invisible attributes, eternal power, and divine nature. All this can be understood through what God has created. So there is no excuse for believers not to know and understand about
The moment when you realize that you can only get strength from God is when you will find the faith that Lewis mentions in this chapter. In order to get to this bankruptcy we have to fall multiple times and keep failing, then we will find the faith that we need. When we find that spot that we need to put all our trust in Him. We need to trust what God tells us, we need to follow His directions, and we do things not to get saved but because he has already began the saving within us. We don’t do things for a reward in heaven but we do them because the sign of Heaven is already inside of us.
And because of this many believe that they were punished by God. In the book of Matthew, it is said that once the word of God had been preached to the whole word, the end will come. This means that once everyone believes in God, the world will end. And as mentioned before, Thoennes believes that these natural disasters can bring people closer to God. So we can assume that God had brought this tragic event upon Japan to make God known to the Japanese
If you believe in god and you participate in sinning you will be punished when you go to heaven but you wouldn’t be considered one going to hell. In 2 edwards states, “Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. (Edwards 2) What Edwards is really trying to say in this quote is that on justice day god will know what you have done in life and in what situations you have sinned in. But if you do sin it doesn’t mean you’re a person from hell. God will always be open to hear your prayers and the problems that you need help
He argues that humans are made in the image of God with the potential to accomplish perfection in the future, and then humans will then grow to become the likeness of God. Hick accepted that if the likeness of God is to be accomplished through experiencing evil then God is partially responsible for evil. However, Hick argues that God is justified in allowing evil because we develop virtues as a result of overcoming life’s challenges. These virtues are “intrinsically more valuable than the virtues created within him ready made without effort on his own part”. Vardy’s example further supports this with the analogy of the king who falls in love with a peasant girl.
This clearly states that the sins of one’s society affects every member of the society even though it may affect them in different ways. The American culture is seemed to be either naturalists or supernaturalistic about our worldview opinions of God. Naturalist individuals believe that there is no such thing as God; they believe that science should take full credit for everything that has happened in the world and for our beautiful universe. They believe the man is the creator of all things good and bad in our world. They also believe that there is no force greater than man and the man is the creator of the world.
In Genesis 2:7, gives more detail of the making of man and how he became a living being. Therefore taken from scripture God created man. The Christian/Biblical worldview of identity is given in Jeremiah 1:5, God knew who we were before he formed us. In Jeremiah 29:11, God has made a plan for everyone. The morals of an individual leads him/her on the path of good or evil.
The Epic of Gilgamesh and Noah’s Ark have lots of similarities and differences. Both had to do with floods because of how people were being disobedient. Both also had one man and their families survive the floods. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enlil was frustrated by the noise on Earth, so he gave Utnaphishtim to survive the flood. Enlil told him to build an arc so that he could save humanity from perishing.