Christian theology

We Christians were spiritually dead from sin until Christ saved us. The great news is that His death on the cross provided us with spiritual birth, a new life. Moreover, “spiritual birth should lead to spiritual growth and development” (Koessler 72). Spiritual growth is a growth in knowledge of God, therefore, entering into a deeper relationship with Him as well as growing in obedience (74). When it comes to spiritual growth, the role of grace and effort is vital. We often ask ourselves how do they

My first memories of God were when I first came to America at the age of ten. Back then, I did not know who or what God is. My mother was coming to the U.S. to do scientific research, and our family didn’t know anyone or have any friends. However, there was a Chinese church where a lot of internationals like us can come together and find friendship, build personal connections, and worship a God that was a very new concept to many of us. That was the place where I first learned about God. Initially

One day a tiny seed is planted in a cup of soil. Over the next several months, it is given water, fertilizer, heat, and sunlight. The little seed grows into a green, flowery plant because of these factors. Just as these variables influence the growth of the plant, countless components affect how humans grow in their identities and ideals. Each human creates their own extraordinary lens that they put on when they view the world and form opinions about various functions of life. Due to this phenomenon

The question of the existence of a higher power, or a god, has long plagued philosophers. Today, much of the intellectual community believe that a god does not, and cannot exist. Yet, for much of the world’s population there is a firm belief in a deity. McCloskey in his article “On Being an Atheist”, outlines the reasons he believes theists are wrong. As a result it is only natural for theists to examine his work and see if his points truly defeat the idea of god’s existence. McCloskey begins by

The Existence of God Throughout the years as the human species keeps learning about the world we live in, we are finding out that we are surrounded everywhere by evil. This seems to conflict with the belief of theism, one who believes in a God or Gods, especially a personal God who’s in control of the world. If there was an all-omnipotent, all-omniscient, and all-benevolent God, then he should have consummate knowledge that there’s evil in the world. Given that, if he knows there’s corruption

Rene Descartes was a French mathematician who concurred with Plato and the early scholars about the significance of reason. Nonetheless, he found that his antecedents regularly settled their thoughts upon what he took to be a to some degree temperamental and dubious establishment. In this way, he starts his own venture by perceiving that all that he supposes he knows could be the consequence of sense involvement, which can mislead us, as when we think the street is wet when it is just a trap of light

memory and of remembering the past in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale is a ‘speculative fiction’ first published in 1985 but set in the early 2000s. The novel was in response to changes in US politics with the emergence of Christian fundamentalism, the New Right. Atwood believed that society was going wrong and wrote this savage satire, similar to Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’, depicting a dystopia which she uses as a mirror to hold up to society. I will be focusing on

Thomas Aquinas’s cosmological argument is a posteriori argument that Aquinas uses to prove the existence of God. Aquinas argues that, “Nothing can move itself, so whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this causal loop cannot go on to infinity, so if every object in motion had a mover, there must be a first mover which is the unmoved mover, called God.” (Aquinas, Question 2, Article 3). I do agree with Aquinas’s cosmological argument in proving the

things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4, NASB). Yet I picture my Messiah as being fun to be around. A King of Kings who not only laughed, but also cried. A Savior who was not afraid to display His emotions even at the expense of His life. Christians and Justice Christianity and its followers always have and always will be held to a higher standard than the rest of the world. When we do something right it is overlooked or referred to as the person having an ulterior motive such as personal

Which astronomical sign should you date? (-- removed HTML --) When it comes to our love lives everyone (even the most skeptical) turns to some otherworldly thing for some kind of divine help or intervention. You can call it God, or fate, or astrology, but whatever it is we all turn to it for help. Love is one of those things that we find incredibly hard to leave up to chance because we want to find our soul mates. It’s just how humanity is wired. To help you out on your search find out which astronomical