The Life Of God

A dull routine can always cause artificial stimulants that can lead to not more than fake results. In Unholy Sonnet 14 by Mark Jarman, he illustrates how the congregation is becoming more of a social organization than a faith-based community mainly because of the routine it follows. The poem reveals how the typical congregation seeks for sin to be forgiven. However, it also suggests that a congregation’s conventional dull routine cannot relive the pain of sin when it remains in the heart of the individual.

Truth, what is truth? This question itself has a thousand answers, no person can ever be sure of what truth is rather, truth can be justified, it can checked for reliability with strong evidences and logic. If the evidence proves to be accurate then it can be established that a certain answer is the truth. However, have we ever tried to think about what intrigues us to seek the truth? To think about a question and set foot firmly on the path of knowledge. Definitely it has! That was the very cause itself which is why this world has witnessed some of the greatest philosophers like Aristotle, Plato and Socrates etc. along with the school of thought. The ability to think and reason is one of the greatest ability humans have, it is what

Carla the Carbon atom is a free spirit. She wanders through the atmosphere, moving with the wind. Carla floats from one cloud to the next, without a care on her mind. One day, she was floating in the air, and was joined by two oxygen companions, Oscar and Octavius. Her two companions transformed her into a carbon dioxide molecule. Her new status as a molecule allowed her new privileges, like the ability to enter plants and to take part in plant and animal respiration. Carla was now a part of an exclusive club.

‘Health we must have; and health is proportion; so that when a man comes into your room and says he is Christ… …and has a message… …and threatens… …to kill himself, you invoke proportion; order rest in bed; rest in solitude; silence and rest; rest without friends, without books; without messages; six months’ rest…’ (Page 110).

As the sunrises over the crisp fall horizon, followers begin to surround the sacred space in anticipation for what is about to take place. The sacred space is soon surrounded by people who are dressed in the sacred colors, some wearing necklaces of their totem, while others wear headdresses that adorn with their sacred symbol. People begin to drink, play music, and prepare a banquet feast for each other, creating a festival atmosphere in hope that today’s ritual will be a success. As the ritual gets set to begin followers begin to crowd into the sacred space, surrounded with pictures and names of those who have reached greatness. As the ritual begins, music is played in order to bring everyone together and prepare for the events that

The tone is similar to the solemn Sunday Eucharist of the past, a duty for the child, that she abandoned by teenager. And now as then, at the mere mention of principles, moral values and horizons her instinct to escape is irrepressible, how to breathe deeply after an apnea.

The weekly mass has allowed me to obtain a better grasp on my faith and understand the significance of its every part. Throughout the years, we have learned that even though we can not physically see God in our everyday lives’, he is always with us.

The Examen, a bi-daily routine for the Jesuits, connects the priests with their subconscious and conscious minds, as well as with God. Saint Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits or Society of Jesus, created this daily examination of prayerful reflection. Much like the Act of Contrition said before confession by the lines of content, the Examen helps one better understand themselves. In the Jesuit order, the reflective prayer is said twice a day, which splits the day into three periods or parts. This prayer, said once in the morning and later in the evening, the prayer focusing not only on one’s faults but on what one did correctly or improved upon, venerating hard work. Because this prayer was created by Ignatius himself, it reflects essential values of the original Jesuits. Although the prayer helps one receive and perceive God, it’s

“Engaging God’s World” by Cornellius Plantinga Jr. is like an overview of the Bible. The overall goal of the book is to get the reader to think about the Bible in a different way. Plantinga brings up the three major parts of the Bible with creation, fall, and redemption, and instead of just restating what the Bible says he puts it in a way for the reader to interpret how they feel. He relates it back at the end of the book how the way the reader interprets the Bible shapes their entire future. Plantinga also talks about why learning in a Christian environment is important to strengthening personal religion.

A third theme is about importance of afterlife in the medieval time. God was everywhere with his grace man be born, he lives for him, trying at all costs to win his favor asceticism and fulfilling orders of the Decalogue, with his finally die to get eternal reward for a life of renunciation. The man was subordinated to God, worshiping him and acknowledge the superiority of the spiritual over the temporal goods. At that time, the relationship between God and man was simple and unambiguous. God was perfection, which sought in his earthly journey man tried to so live and die like best, so as to get closer to God and eternal life. The man knew the purpose of his life and tried to fill it as best he could. The unchanging teaching of the Church is

Cautious consideration was paid to sanitation. In the Saint Gall arrangement, a large portion of the restrooms were set on the edge. At whatever point conceivable, religious communities were situated close streaming water, which was diverted both to give new water and to divert waste. The significance of the water supply and waste in medieval religious communities is bore witness to by an arrangement, drawn up around 1160, for the establishment of another water framework at the Canterbury Cathedral cloister.

The large brass bells vibrated through the monastery as the clock struck dinner time. Six strokes, and once again the only audible sounds were the brook chuckling away towards the sunset and the sparrow sitting in the pear tree, singing its final evening tunes. Inside the archbishop's room in the western tower, a quill was hastily scribbling away on a frayed piece of parchment with brown ink. Intricate forms made with the pointy tip left the paper with a brown painting of wishful words. The hand holding the quill was worn and tired. The nails had dirt under them from a lifetime of flipping through ancient parchments and book pages, and the fingers were handling the quill with such care that one might think it was their most prized possession. The body the hand belonged to was sitting bent over a wooden desk, one hand pressed determined to the wood, the other firmly writing the letter. Every now and again, mutterings of the writing escaped the chapped lips. “I sincerely hope... if you would only consider... gracious

Although, not has deep as the other devotional this devotional forced us to open up about a topic that could have spurred up arguments. Whether it be based off of interests or perspective, discussing the making of a chapel could have divided us, but we took it upon ourselves to be open-minded to contradictions.

In the previous section, I have argued that Barth’s understanding of God’s being in act helps us preserve the ontological integrity of the triune God in the incarnation. In this section, I will delve into the theological understanding of Christ’s death with respect to the Trinitarian atonement. First, I elaborate how Barth understands the death of Christ in terms of God’s being in act. I then argue how his understanding enriches our theological understanding of the Trinitarian atonement.

The mission of God is to reach all nation. God uses chosen people to spread the Good News, to the nation. As He called Abraham (Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22: 18; 26:4; 28:14). Jesus taught that we must preach repentance to all nation ( Matthew 28:19 ; John 20:12; (Act 1:8). Jesus was sent by God to teach all nation about Him and His return (John 20:21). Christian should accept all people of all walks of life. The church should continue to teach the word of God as it is in the Bible and to show love to all ethnic diversity. To equip people to participate in multicultural ministry is to embrace the love of God to all. The biblical base of philosophy is “Love covers over a multitude of sins” ( 1Peter 4:8). To get the saints and un-believers to join in unity with Christ. Cultural influence biblical interpretation, thus as we teach or preach we must remember whom our audience are and be able to get the message across so they can understand, by keeping the social also cultural of the Scriptures in mind.