Lewis himself claims that he never intended to write a Christian message for children to more coherently understand the Gospel; although, he admits that once Aslan emerged into Narnia, he not only ‘pulled’ the story together, but he also ‘pulled’ the other six stories together simultaneously. With the figure of Aslan, Lewis attempts to implicitly and explicitly explore Christian truths; but how successful was he in his attempt? This essay will address how the nature, works and qualities of Aslan relate to Christ and will evaluate the success of Lewis in his attempt. “Aslan a man?” declares Mr Beaver “Certainly not. I tell you he is the king of the wood and son of the great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea.
A summary of his gospel can be found in John 20:31: “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.” The miracles that John speaks of in his gospel reveal the manifest deity of Jesus Christ. Morris states: The signs tell us something about the way God works and the way the hand of God is to be seen in them. But the signs also tell us something about Jesus. As John tells the story, the signs were not such as could be performed by any godly man; they could be performed only by one who stood in a special relationship to God. They are a mark of Jesus’ superiority to godly men, not an indication that He belonged among them.
The creation of the world was a miracle and cannot be explained by scientist. Supernatural forces God contains can explain the act of creation. God can create and breathe life and be the designer of our souls. In the bible there is commentary and scriptures below provide proof that God created the universe. Key Bible verses such as: Hebrews 11:3, John 1:3, Romans 1:20, and Genesis 2:7, and.
Christians could argue that they believe Jesus was still the Messiah and everything he stood for is what they believe in but maybe the authenticity of miracles today can be questioned as there is no Jesus around to prove them being performed by a Deity just as the definition says there should be. So believing in miracles would be hard to do because there is no proof because Christians just have to believe what the Bible says and can not question it even though there is no proof of miracles other than what the Bible says. It would be hard for Christians to believe in miracles because there is no evidence that supports them… (The Bible can’t be classed as evidence because it has no proof it’s real and could be a fictional book) But Christians would have to believe in them because if they disagree that would be sort of going against the belief of Jesus. I think Christians don’t have a choice and have to believe in miracles otherwise they’re going
There are four types of revelation experiences which have been identified; propositional revelation is when God communicates truth to humans through supernatural means. They are known to usually take the forms of Holy Scriptures. The Ten Commandments which were revealed to Moses is an example of a propositional revelation, these rules came from God and form a key part of religious life for Jews and Christians. The second type of revelation experiences is non- propositional revelation this is when no holy scripture is revealed. Many revelation experiences can be described as being non-propositional; it usually involves a moment of realisation or when an event is seen or interpreted in a special way this is demonstrated in the case if the exile in Babylon of the Jews was seen as God’s punishment.
(Genesis, 37:10)! This accuses Jacob, implicitly, of being ignorant of the fact that such dreams are divine visions, and that the person has no control over seeing them. At the same, the Bible points out that Jacob understood from the dream that the sun stood for himself and the moon for Joseph's mother; he realized the truthfulness of that dream and knew its interpretation. The
Creatio ex nilho simply put means creation out of nothing. Creatio ex nilho is a topical subject since it opposes the idea of God as a craftsman. It is unclear in the first Genesis account in Genesis 1 whether there was actually pre-existent material to craft whether he really did create ‘ex nilho’. There has also been a point made that when they said that God created ‘ex nilho’ he brought order to chaos rather than created ‘ex nilho’ Genesis 1 states it was only when God commanded on day 1, that the heavens and earth appeared. Whereas, Genesis 2 says our world was created by pre-existent material such as the creation of man from ‘dust.’ The idea ‘Creatio ex nilho’ lies originally with Augustine, he said ‘creation out of nothing’ does not relate to one particular moment but in fact the universe has its own time and space, which is eternal.
God’s attributes are typically broken down into two categories: Incommunicable (not shared) and Communicable (shared). Some of God’s incommunicable attributes are (taken from Doctrine: What every Christian should believe by Mark Driscoll and Gary Breshears): 1. Independence – God does not need us, or the rest of creation, for anything yet we, and the rest of creation, need him and can glorify him and bring him joy. 2. Unchangeableness – God is unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet God does act and feel emotions, and he acts and feels differently in response to different situations.
The external influence has to come form outside, not from the wood itself, in the argument for the creation of the universe, many see this influence as God. Aquinas’s second way, refers to God as the uncaused cause. He states that everything in the universe has a cause, a chain of causes, for something in the universe to exist it has to be the case of something else, but not God, nothing can cause God otherwise he would not be God. God is outside time he dies not abide by the universes rules, as he is the creator. the example of the existence of a child backs this up, the child is caused by his parents having intercourse, he cannot existed any other way.
Beliefs such as mine can influence someone a lot depending on how strongly they believe in it. Many people change what they have to do for religion and beliefs such as going to church or another religious practice. This may affect work or time. Religion can make things difficult for people but hey will still believe it. However I do not believe the Genesis story 2 and 3 to be historically true because if evolution happened (in which I believe it did) then how could the humans made by God have existed in the “Garden of Eden” (which I believe is heaven)?