Preview

Personal Narrative: Do We Know?

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
486 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Personal Narrative: Do We Know?
Do We Know?

Everyone in this world has their own opinion and I have mine. Do we really know if God is white, black, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim, female, or male? In entertainment industry movie producers are playing games and changing things from the traditional God being white to God being black. In Bruce Almighty God is black. In previous years in movies God was always a white male. Through time it seems that people open up their minds to new ideas.
I don't believe that God is black or a woman. I have grown up believing that God is a white male. I was born into a Catholic family. Although I was born in a Catholic family I always question what we believe. Just like everyone else that questions religion why would God put us through some of the things we have to go through. Wouldn't he want everyone to love every moment of their life or do we have to go through pain such as the pain Jesus dealt with. I question if we are wasting out time going to church every Sunday morning because we don't now if these amazing stories we hear of God really happened. They are stories that have been told for the longest period of time that could have changed from time to time just how …show more content…
The image everyone has of God is a long haired male. What if somebody messed up thousands of years ago and God was a woman with shoulder length hair? No one will ever know the truth we will only know what we want to know and what we have been told. No one will actually know what happened when God was alive. If God is really a black woman and we have been praying to a God that is a white male is this war we are in revenge? Maybe God couldn't take us praying to a white God all these years and finally everything built up inside her and this is how she is repaying the world. This is her way of showing she cared for everybody for a while but not she is upset. God will love us for ever whether she is male, female, black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, or
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Analysis: The Color Of Water By James Mcbride
    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Analysis: The Color Of Water By James Mcbride

    Mcbride’s mother’s distant nature obviously raises a lot of questions for her young son and just like any other affectionate child wants to get down to the reason why. Due to Mcbride’s young age he naturally would assume that his mother was crying out of sadness rather than of the jubilation that she comes into from God, and in an anecdote is curious as to “‘Why [she cries] in church?’...’Because God makes [her] happy,” (50). Mcbride theorizes the reason why she gets so heartfelt is because “...she wanted to be black like everyone else,” which gives insight as to why she may feel so polarized and thus feel the pull to God so strongly. Whenever Mcbride questions his mother about this topic she almost always responds in a fragment that highlights her reserved personality even towards her children, which also shows her strength as well. Furthermore, when Mcbride is curious as to if God is black or white his mother makes it quite clear that “‘[God] loves all people. He’s a…

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Aspects of the Male Divine Article
    • 506 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Aspects of the Male Divine Article

    The author in this article questions the gender of god in the face of the onslaught of the question of the female divine; the varied criticisms and the study of the scriptures where God declares to Moses “I am that I am.” The article goes on to defend the male divine in that it argues from religious studies, scriptures and published studies the male nature of God from a Christian’s standpoint. Taking on certain criticisms and arguing against them point by point, the article is a reaction to the threat of women’s liberation and the wave of studies on the female divine. The author of this article goes on to reiterate the actions taken on by other religions to fall into a certain political correctness when discussing god, removing his gender which the author believes is confusing. Since the establishment of early Christianity as God is seen as the “Holy father” and Jesus as His “only Son”, the author of this article argues that God has no gender and that even with the male divine argument, God exists outside sexual differentiation. The attributes of the Male divine in God is due to the fatherhood personified in human worship of 'Him' and the female attributes come from the “female acts” that God is seen to perform according to the scriptures. Even then, the question of God's gender in this article while 'made invalid' due to God's “motherhood” still pronounces the “male divine” being that 'God' even from a Christian viewpoint due to the Jewish patriarchal nature of the Old Testament being that Jewish Theology is heavy on male transcendence. Judaism sees patriarchy as the mandate of giving life and of making reality - women need the male to “be heavy with child”, to look after the family, to carry the line from generation to generation. Thompson however argues that while this is so, the Male Divine is just a manifestation of the “wholeness” that is “God the Holy Spirit” and “Spirits” do not inhibit a corporeal body so gender does not limit them. The Dvine is…

    • 506 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Male Divine in Contemporary Culture
    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Male Divine in Contemporary Culture

    Cited: Ben Thompson, P. (2000, March). Is God Male? Retrieved October 9, 2010, from Apologetics Press: http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2167…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Religion and Sexism in Sweat
    • 1342 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Religion and Sexism in Sweat

    Religion and sexism go hand and hand in the story, these themes developed the characters, elaborate and establish the main points. Also it creates the plot by allowing the reader to be in the stories time frame, which is key to the plot. The treatment of women by not only whites but by blacks as well made life harder having two forms of persecution. Making an interesting point of view, the religion helps establish the main character and allows the reader to understand her struggles. As we read these themes, they become important to the reader.…

    • 1342 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Gnostic Gospels By Elaine Pagels Summary
    • 481 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Gnostic Gospels By Elaine Pagels Summary

    The orthodox view continued the Jewish innovation of an all-male godhead while other religious groups help both male and female Gods. The Gnostics viewed God as a creator who possessed both male and female aspects. The Gnostics pointed out that in Genesis, God made humanity “both male and female,” and since he made them “in our image, in our likeness,” that there must be a feminine element in the God. Orthodox Christians had a strong belief that everything about the God was masculine and masculine only. Pagels expresses the belief that the prime reason for the orthodox rejection of texts suggesting a feminine god was that these were a scriptural basis for the Gnostic practice of admitting women as full equals in the churches, taking priestly, episcopal, and even prophetic roles within Gnostic…

    • 481 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Shakers
    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Shakers

    One of the most important ideas is not even in the text itself, but the simple fact that Rebecca Cox Jackson is an African American woman, and is being given a prayer directly from Mother Ann herself. Mother Ann stressed the idea that all Gods’ creatures are equal and here we see her embracing Rebecca as she would any other white member. Unlike other religious groups who separated themselves based on color, Mother Ann is accepting of essentially everyone.…

    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Powerful Essays

    Aztec Tradition
    • 2087 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Aztec Tradition

    * This god created itself and it was both male and female, bad and good and, chaos and order.…

    • 2087 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Interpretation Of God Clifford Summary
    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Interpretation Of God Clifford Summary

    One of the reasons leading to feminists rejecting the Bible is the interpretation of God as male. Not only does this undermine women and make them inferior to men, but it also does not allow them to connect with God. Contemporary images of God that can be liberating for women are explored by Anne M. Clifford to demonstrate that God is not the “other” for women and can be relatable, while not understating God’s position of creator and savior.…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Role Of Sexism In Hebrew Trible
    • 351 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Role Of Sexism In Hebrew Trible

    Trible has three points of argument that explain, counter, and address sexism in the Hebrew bible. Her first argument addressing sexism brings into question the use of language. Pieces from Isaiah Genesis, Psalm, and Jon that distinctly uses gendered (if not obvious) language to speak of Yahweh: God was a midwife, seamstress, housekeeper, nurse, mother” (Trible, 1973), a caretaker, which Trible points out are all feminize images used to describe God and what he did for his people, in the words of the Old Testament. She also argues that a masculine God was a societal formality rooted in an inaccurate imaginative portrayal of God. This masculinized interpretation is, to Trible, “misleading and detrimental” because of how inaccurate that view…

    • 351 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Womanist Theology
    • 360 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Womanist Theology

    In my opinion, womanist theology still carries that traditional view of being a woman somewhat. Our outrageous, audacious, courageous, and willful behavior takes me back to the myth of the superwoman. We as black women feel as though we still have to take on that strong mother role to uplift everyone around us. The only difference is that while doing that we don’t actually forget about the importance to uplift ourselves. And we carry on the tradition of using God to help keep our sanity and understand why things happen the way they do. As being black in general, we have always depended and resorted to our beliefs in God. I feel that 99.9 percent of womanist theology leans upon the support of scripture.…

    • 360 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Psalm 139 Re-Written and Explanations
    • 540 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Psalm 139 Re-Written and Explanations

    God is our creator, the Lord has given us everything we know of; he has made us the way we are through our mother. God knows all about our life stories, how we were made and where we came from so he does not discriminate.…

    • 540 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    A Higher Power?
    • 1697 Words
    • 7 Pages

    A Higher Power?

    God, a higher power, is defined as a “Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe” or the Almighty Lord, however, there is no clear description of how he or she looks like but in the bible, Genesis 1:24 we see that God said he will make “human beings; they will be like us and resemble us…[and so] God created human beings making them to be like himself”. [2] From these two statements, we realize that God is very similar to how we look like. However, I believe that it is so to allow anyone reading the bible, or having the belief in Christianity to feel that they are able to relate and have some form of connection with God. In Exodus 3:14 he told Moses “I am who I am. You must tell them: The one who is called I AM.” [2] “I AM” is undefined and the mystery remains as to who is this higher power, but “I AM” being written in capital letters, it definitely shows authority. “I AM” is also used as a first-person point of view, which also emphasizes or helps one relate to God so that one does not feel isolated. Other than these statements, we see that the pronoun used throughout the bible is ‘he’; therefore, we tend to think that God is a masculine figure, a Father. To a certain extent, many may argue that it is…

    • 1697 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    What Role Does God Play In Evil
    • 914 Words
    • 4 Pages

    What Role Does God Play In Evil

    These and other questions lead us to arrive at our examination of the logical problem of evil. Evil can be defined as a thing that is “characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering., [CITE] The deductive or logical form of the problem of evil maintains that a set of six propositions is logically inconsistent. Essentially, the facts that (1) God exists, (2) God is omnipotent, (3) God is omniscient, (4) God is omnibenevolent, (5) God created the world, and (6) the contains evil, cannot all be true. As it relates to the women of our conversation, they could disprove that God is not present in their situation or has not acted justly but adjusting the mindsets. Of the many adjustments, let us primarily focus on (1) changing one’s understanding of God, (2) changing one’s understanding of God’s relationship to creation, and (3)…

    • 914 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Powerful Essays

    Androcentrism - Essay
    • 1435 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Androcentrism - Essay

    Typically when one studies history over the years and even in the school system what is written in the books is another case of Androcentrism. It is not until I studied and analyzed gender issues not only in the class but applied it to my life, did I realize it is everywhere and it always has been. I question why I am just now realizing it, and it is because it is considered normal, I grew up learning this never questioned it because it seemed as one of those situations to not question. Through the Judeo-Christian Theology and Theory, their are goddesses’ and gods, yet no female could ever attain being a god the highest ranking they could earn would be a goddess. There were numerous goddess such as: Aphrodite, the goddess of love…

    • 1435 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Sophies World
    • 1248 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Sophies World

    I'd disagree... there are some questions that us as Christians are unable to explain to others... God'sexistence is one of those questions. God's intelligence is unimaginable and we, as humans, cannot comprehend the complexity of how God has always been. This subject is one of the main rolls as Christians which is called faith. We can't see it, it is very hard to understand... yet we all believe it with all of our hearts. God exists, just like you and I in the living flesh.…

    • 1248 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More

Related Topics