While reading Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason, it is apparent that one can question their true faith and where their beliefs really come from. From Paine it brought many questions of my loyalties lie and where my faith comes from. Throughout life, from time to time, questions of what is true from the Lord can be muddy. With this writing, there are many contradictions, false facts, and inconsistent thoughts. Paine’s main thesis discussed in the writing was his open mindedness for others to accept other religions and not blindly follow other people with that they believe.
Part IV: Book Summary The idea of justice in the world today is often misconstrued; the most commonly accepted definition of justice is giving someone what the rightly deserve. This definition in itself is accurate, but it is not complete. Keller, in his book Generous Justice: How God’s Grace makes us Just, endeavors to inform the reader of the biblical definition of justice. He proposes that justice is not only giving someone what they deserve, but also graciously giving to the undeserving. He urges his readers to identify with
Whither I realize it or not people are always watching me. So how do I want them to remember me? So I’ve been trying to set a good example so that I wont have to tell people my beliefs, but that they can see it through my actions. His trust in God amazes me. It makes me want to get in the word and commit like him.
Sometimes the head wants what the heart knows it should not have or the heart wants what the head knows it cannot have and leave the hands confused and lost. Sometimes the heart wants something and it begins to make the hands take action but the head knows what is best and puts a stop to it. But sometimes they all come together and that is when we will feel that sudden moment of bliss. To be a true Christian, one must feel this bliss when it comes to Christ and feel like they have done right when asked. Christians must use their hearts to believe what they believe and their head to tell them how to express what they feel and believe.
* Action If I was speaking with a friend, I would most definitely tell them to keep God at the forefront of their lives. I would proceed by asking them how things have worked out on their own without praying on their situation. Often times when we do things without asking for God’s help, we make a mess of things in my opinion. I would encourage them to seek God’s word for the bible has the answers to the problems that we face today. I believe that integrating theology and psychology into practice can be attained and can benefit the client greatly.
“Good People” In a way we’re all the same. We believe in one God, just the name has changed. A God who puts love, faith and humanity in our hands. To govern these elements in the right way can put doubt and trouble into your life, and how do we even govern them? And if we do govern them and it’s wrong, how do we correct?
A person may perceive a certain image of what God is, like a trinket or something they have seen that reminds them of God. Then they start to pray to that every time instead of praying to God. This is a point he is trying to make by saying that it is still a major sin but that sometimes we don’t notice the smaller things as being bad. This book teaches a lot about the nature of God. Screwtape has a hard time believing that God actually cares for His people, unlike, “Their Father Below”.
But how would a questionnaire such as this measure an individual’s Christian and or Spiritual walk with God? Is that even possible? I suppose one of the reasons I was so shocked to have been compared to those two individuals is that I may not see where they are walking with God and I pray that others see that through whatever that I may go through that I do walk with God and I want for my
Things that should guide people towards repentance could potentially keep their focus looking inside themselves. Once a person can truthfully see how sinful their thoughts and lives are, it can and will hopefully lead them to depend on God. While Crabb is relying on God for answers, Rogerian theory states that “no other human being can possibly determine what the correct or incorrect behavior is for any other individual. Because of this, Kensit says that therapists must keep this in mind and use non-directive but yet supportive therapy. (Kensit, 2000).
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a