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with his creation and how great and loving God is. This analogy represents different things in the

Following this line of thought, the next logical step for our human minds to pursue would seem to be that in order for God to experience Himself as the all-consuming good, there had to be something called the all-consuming evil. This is a flawed argument for there is only one deity we recognize as God. God is all there was, all there is, and all there ever will be. The existence of evil cannot be used as a pathetic excuse for God to be able to justify His existence.

is not a loving God, he is a vengeful God. He smashed his people he created like they were playdough during the flood. You grasp the evil side

Therefore, the suffering and sorrow that you and I face today isn’t because of a “bad God”, it has come down through our generational line and we suffer because we are sinners. Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Some people may say “ I lead a good life, I am not hurting anyone, I give to charity… ”But this isn’t good enough in Gods eyes, people need to overcome sin and selfishness which is within all of us. We are all born into a nature of sin, which has been passed down from Adam and Eve.

After this, he decided that earth was to be a moral proving ground for the matter that he arranged. The final state (after death) is decided based upon how the arranged matter lived its life on earth. This moves into the salvific account of God. There is a salvation through grace, after works are accounted for. This shows that God is not even the ultimate being. If creation was already formed, then who/what formed it initially. God is no longer a powerful being but a superior figure that obtained this specific form of holiness sooner than we did as pre-existing

Immutability: The Bible states that God is eternal and complete in every way. Because of this, He never changes. God is not subject to growth or improvement or failure. He cannot become anything more or less than what He already is.

To initiate the discussion, it is appropriate to first consider some of the Christian care-giving values that drive this perspective. Christian ethicality and theology are important forces in healing, especially through its invocation of spiritual hope. Hope is a sentiment which has commanded recognition as bearing a place of importance in human affairs throughout recorded history. This creates a documented association between hope and such important institutions as politics, philosophy and religion. To this end, the Bible makes numerous references to the concept and importance of hope. An oft-quoted passage provides that there are "three things that last forever-faith, hope, and love." (1 Corinthians 13:13, New Living Translation). The points to the close association between hope and these other crucial dynamics of

Due to the relationship of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament, there is some significant overlap in beliefs and examples of God’s redemption. One great example of redemption is from Exodus when God liberated his people from Israel and released them from Pharaoh’s slavery and punishment. When you approach the Old Testament God as one who saw the people of his creation and saw how they were disobeying him and how they had strayed away from God, it is common to refer to him as a God who brought down punishment. Let’s associate salvation with mercy in the example Noah’s Ark. The world was full of violence and corruption and God needed to hit the reset button. The Torah and Old Testament state “The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, ‘I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.’” (Genesis 6:5-7). God chose to show Noah his mercy because “Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God” (Genesis 6:9).

Nobody is able to penetrate God’s purpose in order to know for certain why in some point of the evolutionary process. He has created a completely new type of a living being which can be good or bad by its own choice (Kushner 95). However, he did it and the world has since seen many manifestation of nobility and no less of cruelty. The thing that leads Kushner to rethink his point of view of an omnipotent God is the question Kushner himself confronted as a young father when his first born child died. Kushner said that if he had to face the fact that God was either all-powerful but not kind, or thoroughly kind and loving, but not totally powerful, he would rather compromise God's power and affirm his love. I came to is that God could have been all-powerful at the beginning, but he chose to designate two areas of life off-limits to his power," Kushner says. "He would not arbitrarily interfere with laws of nature. And secondly, God would not take away our freedom to choose between good and

In the words of Hans J. Hillerbrand, General Editor of “Christianity-The Illustrated History p. 86,” wrote, “from the beginning of the Christian movement, faith, hope, and love have been extolled as the essential principles of the Christian life.” So too, in the 13th Chapter of 1st Corinthians, the Apostle Paul, tells us that of the three: faith, love, and hope, “the greatest of these is

In summarizing the “Doctrine of the Christian Hope” by author Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr., it embraces the Christian faith that lives from the raising of the crucified Christ, and strains after the promises of the universal future of Christ. However, hope is trustful expectation, particularly regarding the fulfillment of God’s promises. And still, biblical hope is the anticipation of a favorable outcome under God’s guidance. Especially hope that is the confidence of what God has done for us in the past guarantees our participation in what God will do in the future. Therefore, God alone is the ultimate ground also object of hope that was generated by His mighty deed in history.

The depiction of God in the Bible’s story of creation, namely Genesis, brings to mind the image of an omnipotent, almighty and all-powerful child playing in a sandbox. Like a child his sole purpose seems to be to simply amuse himself, and possibly acquire a source of unconditional love. These needs are in contrast to the classic view of God acting with the idea of an ultimate plan. His actions clearly show that there is no perfect plan, or if there is it must be grossly overcomplicated. Consistently God makes poor decisions, and then eventually acts to fix the situation. The whole scenario conjures up an image of the crew of Apollo 13, alternately breaking things and then patching it together

Hope is defined as “a reliance on God’s blessing and provision; the expectation of future good.” (Youngblood, 1995) Hope is a confident expectancy. It is an indication of certainty and not being doubtful. It deals with things we cannot see or have not received. Hope is for and about the future; it is what keeps us going. Faith is what creates our hope. Hebrews 11:1 defines hope the best:

The book of lamentations is one that not easy to read but also at the same time truly understand. This text was written upon the destruction of the chosen city of Jerusalem around 580 BCE. The book is comprised of five poems that describe mainly the pain and suffering of the children of Jerusalem. The imagery in the text is in such a way that it is not only shocking but also bold, judgmental, descriptive in the sense of pain, sorrowful but also in that sober atmosphere there is a glimmer of hope. The book of lamentation has harsh imagery but also the one thing to note is the imagery of God within the text, God is spoken about and spoken to with some imagery being Comfortable: God as a God of steadfast love and righteousness, one in whom we should trust and hope: Disturbing (descriptions far more graphical): God is described as a violent oppressor who has wrought the destruction of the city and its people. God is also describes as a God that is not around when his people are in need, one that seems like has no love and has withdrawn, not answering to the cries of his people. This imagery though I seemed to notice was somewhat contradictory. God is shown as the cause of all the trouble and pain currently being experienced, but also he is the glimmer of hope that I had previously brought up. This contradiction brings thoughts to mind as to how we characterize God, a destroyer/savior or both in the same context?

Anselm states that God him self was “dishonored” and “offended” by us. This was a red flag for me when I first heard that. The almighty God himself was offended by creations and wanted essentially an apology, which seems immature for a God. It feels like a parent being offended by a small child and the only way to forgive the child is if they start living like an adult. Usually the adult knows that it is a child and knows it will make mistakes. Also an adult has more “power” and is more mature and wise so they don’t get offended that easily especially by his or her child. I believe the same concept should be applied when it comes to God and his children. It is also odd that the fact Jesus was more forgiving and merciful than God since Jesus gave the gift of his death for humans without holding something against us. With Abelard’s view, it is very simple; Jesus came to us and did everything so we can follow his example. This view does not mention a God who is dishonored and wants compensation; instead it seems like a God who has a “mature”