God and Creation
Has the concept of God well and truly woven itself into the very psyche of the average American citizen? What exactly does the average American think about God? As a matter of fact, each and every American must take some time to sit back and think deeply about these issues, and also pay close attention to the power and influence of God in the history of America. Perhaps a visitor to the national Capital would not be complete without a visit to certain of the most important historic and monumental exhibits present therein, which would undoubtedly prove that God does exists in the psyche of the American citizen. For example, when one visits the National Archives, which hosts the original document of the Declaration of Independence, one would note that it is there that one would find the 'immortal phrase' which states that we are "endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights among which are Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and these words in fact declare the beginning of independence for the American citizen.
It is a fact that psychologists and theologians have been attempting to, for the past hundreds of years, integrate the two fields of work, ever since the science of psychology first emerged as a successful independent field of study. When the two fields happened to intersect, it was then that fruitful production was achieved, while at the same time instigating numerous problems as well as conflicts. At the outset, it must be remembered that people in general find it difficult to both understand and also to experience God as such. The reason for this may perhaps be the phenomenon that reveals that the various beliefs and experiences of God have quite a few distinctly differing levels and intensities. At the same time, most people believe in certain limitations and boundaries when it comes to believing in God and in His greatness, especially when He taken as the Creator of man.
When taken in the psychoanalytic sense, the very Image of God depends to a large extent on that individual's perception and in his experience of God. This can become the emotional experience that one has when contemplating God and it was only in later years that the idea and concept of God, as seen in a God Concept was developed by Lawrence, in the year 1997. However, when seen in a basic way, a person's God Concept refers to a cognitive or a theological comprehension of God by him. When the two concepts of God Image and God Concept occur simultaneously in an individual, then they may be quite different form one another. This would naturally mean that anger, anxiety and guilt would be built up within him, and as the God Concept, or in other words, an individual's cognitive understanding of God develops, it would grow along the lines of what he is taught about God, and what he actually learns in the long run, about God.
The content of God Image on the other hand, is primarily emotionally based. Research has confirmed the fact that the God Image in a child's mind has largely emerged as a result of the basic relationship that he has had with his primary caretaker or with his parents. According to Rizzuto, the primary parent may differ from one child to another, and it can be either the father or the mother as the child sees fit. While the God Concept is infinitely more dominating as far as the conscious thought is concerned, the God Image need not necessarily mean the same. This may be why, when a person is asked about God, they generally tend to think first about their God concept, or what they do believe about God. This happens whether or not they are actually conscious of the God Image.
When it is an American citizen who is asked the same question, then he would most probably say that he was indeed blessed by God to live in such a wonderful country that is America. He would also most probably state that even when America is at her very worst, she is far above the rest of the countries of the world. However, there are many more people of the United States of America who feel that America is not at all what she was some years before; in fact, they often lament what exactly has happened to America as a country, of late. There are many reasons that are stated for this statement. Some of them are the substantial increase in crime in America, fuelled by drug abuse and teenage pregnancy and inadvertent and unabated
God in Genesis The nature and character of God, as found in the Bible and in human consciousness, is a widely disputed and contested field of debate. The reason for this is the very nature of God as ephemeral and unknowable. Human beings can surmise ideas from God from religious texts and their own experience. However, no human being can claim to know the true nature of God. This fact seems
Creation Myth Analysis Case Study of the History of Biblical Creation Narratives What Is Myth? What Is History? Manetho Josephus Jeroboam Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 Myth? Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 History? Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 Both Myth and History? An Analysis of the Biblical Creation Narrative of Genesis 1:1-25 and Egypt's Possible Influence on the Historical Record God created the world in just six days, and rested on the seventh, but scholars have not rested at all over the millennia in their investigation of
Jesus then becomes a supreme secondary cause. Paradoxically, though, Jesus is both primary and secondary cause because of His divine nature. Jesus asks the servants to fill up the jars with water, which they do "to the brim," (John 2:7). Then the servants do Jesus's bidding by delivering some of the water to the banquet. Upon serving, the water has been turned into wine. The servants "knew" how the water
God was not part of the original pledge written in 1892 and adopted by Congress 50 years later as a wartime patriotic tribute. Congress inserted the "under God" phrase in 1954, amid the Cold War when some U.S. religious leaders sermonized against "godless communists." (Gearan) Works Cited All Things Considered. "Interview: Dr. John W. Baer discusses the history of the Pledge of Allegiance" All Things Considered (NPR reprint) 6/27 (2002). Baker, Tod
Creation Stories A Comparison of the Biblical Creation Narrative and the Babylonian Enuma Elish: Substance vs. Form Every culture known has some sort of explanation for how the world and the universe as we know them came into existence. Creation stories have helped cultures to make sense of natural phenomena that they did not understand, and also in many instances demonstrate the perspectives and basic instructions for how ongoing human civilizations are
Zeus himself, though now king of the gods, is the child of other gods who are themselves children of still greater gods -- Gaia or Mother Earth among them. Most significant for our purposes here is the fact that Zeus created four other races of man before he got to ours, meaning that again man (especially in his current form) was the last in a long line o creative
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