Forgiven! You’re starting fresh! The first thing God did when you made Jesus Christ your Savior was wipe the slate clean. What was wiped away? Sin -- your disobedience to God which would have separated you from him forever. Everything you have ever done to offend God has been erased! Your failures have been forgiven! How can this be? Because when Jesus died on the cross‚ he paid the penalty for all your sins -- past and future. Of course‚ God doesn’t want you to sin anymore. He has put his
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nature is even more intricate. With this in mind‚ nature must have a designer because everything regarding nature is complex and it is very unlikely to be created without contrivance. Convincingly‚ Paley came up with the notion that there must be a God or transcendent being that created the universe‚ as well as all of the nature within it due to the fact that it seems implausible for something so complex to have been created with no thought or planning. In chapter eight‚ Pascal writes‚ “…for nothing
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THE CREATION ACCOUNT AN ESSAY SUBMITTED TO DR. BOBBY GENTO FOR THE REQUIREMENTS OF OLD TESTAMENT ORIENTATION 591 FOR THE COMPLETION OF A MASTERS DEGREE IN MARKETPLACE CHAPLAINCY by Janis Betts Lynchburg‚ Virginia May 18‚ 2011 Introduction Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle‚ Washington‚ composed a comprehensive and succinct essay titled “Answers to Common Questions about Creation” that puts forth many principles surrounding the age-old question of Creation. He
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sea‚ at the long courses of the rivers‚ at the vast compass of the oceans‚ at the circular motion of the stars‚ and pass by themselves without wondering” – St. Augustine. Phillip Bishop used this quote to introduce his article about the evidence of God in human physiology. He discusses three topics to help prove his point: 1) the complexity of man and what it suggests about man’s origins‚ 2) the efficient and versatile operation of man compared with machine‚ 3) the depth of our ignorance about how
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Popol Vuh "The Mayan Creation" Popol Vuh was an integral part of the Mesoamerican society that had been enlightened with the western biblical judiciousness. The Mesoamericans‚ which were called Quiché people‚ believed that their Ancient World was fashioned from the same matter and aspects as that of the Western Judeo Civilizations. There are numerous transactional meanings between the biblical stance and the creation story of the Quiché. Many narratives have been borrowed from the bible and reconstituted
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Does God exist? Does God exist? This seemingly simple question is in fact loaded with a myriad of twists and turns that scientists and theologians have debated for years without reaching an accepted conclusion. Part of the problem lies in the many definitions of God. Traditionally it is accepted that God is a supreme being‚ infallible‚ perfect‚ and existing outside of the material world of humanity. It is this definition that is generally used when debating God’s existence. There have been several
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---------------Relationship Between Gods and Mortals---------------------------------- -----Observing the relationship between the polytheistic gods and mortals in the time of Homer seems‚ in comparison‚ is odd to our judeo-christian traditions found in our society. Where some may see a omnishient and powerful being as a inactive in the our everyday dealings‚ the Gods in Homer’s time were consistently involved in either hindering or aiding those they found to their liking or disliking. In the
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According to Christianity‚ God is all good‚ omnipotent‚ omnipresent‚ and omniscient. So‚ why did this good God let there be evil (Augustine 121)? It starts with free will. God gave humans free will to love Him and to do good. According to the Adam and Eve story‚ Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit so that they could be like God. They were prideful and acted in a way that did not live up to their full potential for good and thus‚ there was evil. Now‚ that is not to say that Adam and Eve are
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are created by God. Without the omnipotent hand of a creator God we would not exist. Isaiah 45:12 states that it was God’s hands which created the Heavens. 2. The Question of Identity – The question of identity ask‚ “who am I” and “what does it mean to be a person?” (Weider & Gutierrez‚ 2011) These questions are clearly answered within the Bible. A creator God created us above the animals and lower than the angels and therefore is greater than us. In Genesis 17:1 God calls himself the
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God science debate Wide spread myth that science has always been on a collision course with the belief in God and so therefore‚ natural science and faith in God are incompatible. Argued by the new atheists - that science leads away from God.- leads to atheism. Myth; significant natural science project of this generation is the human genome project. First director of it was Jim Watson- discovered the double helix structure of DNA he was an atheist. 2d director - Francis Collins hes a Christian
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