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 to be especially clear when reading religions texts such as Bible, in which numerous concepts of God are depicted not only throughout the Bible itself, but even within each individual book. This is particularly true in Genesis, where the story of creation and the origin of the Israelites create a variety of personalities for God, which are used as the situation dictates. Indeed, there is even a marked difference between the ways in which God is depicted in Genesis 1…...

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References

Brady, C. (2009, Sep.15). Genesis 1 -- Character of God. Targuman. Retrieved from:  http://targuman.org/blog/2009/09/15/genesis-1-character-of-god/ 

The Flaming Heretic? (2005, Oct. 9). Genesis: Folklore of Faith: Lesson 4 -- Adam and Eve (Genesis 2). Retrieved from:  http://theflamingheretic.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/genesis-lesson-4/ 

United Church of God. (2011). The Creation of Man and Woman (Genesis 2:4-25). Bible Commentary: Genesis. Retrieved from:  http://bible.ucg.org/bible-commentary/Genesis/Man-and-woman-in-the-Garden-of-Eden/default.aspx

God of the Old Testament displays many human images, many human emotions. Even though we are after all created in His image it still shocks one to read of an angry God or a vengeful God. God seems to play favorites often. We must keep in mind that the Bible was written by man. Man wrote of God in the only manner he could - in human terms.
Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. He wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Genesis means beginning or origin. It is the beginning of mankind, the beginning of sin, and the beginning of our fall from Grace. Exodus recounts the story of the Israelites in Egypt and their escape form such harshness. Leviticus details the laws set down by God and the Levites - the 12 tribes of Israel. Numbers deals with the census on the surface. However, the underlying…...

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…...

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References

Flashpoint USA, God in America. Accessed 27 September 2005; available from  http://www.pbs.org/flashpointsusa/20040127/infocus/topic_01/ 

Frier, David. You are hostile to the concept of tolerance. Accessed 27 September 2005; available from http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml8711.htm

George Washington Quotes. Accessed 26 September 2005; available from  http://www.eadshome.com/GeorgeWashington.htm 

God Bless America. American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Accessed 26 September 2005; available from  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm019.html

Medea:

Since Medea was born as the Princess of Colchis and the niece of Circe, she was a powerful sorceress. Medea fell in love with Jason through the little help she received from Hera when on his quest for the Golden Fleece. Medea helped Hera to steal the sacred artifact for her beloved and received abduction in return. Medea had numerous adventures in her life including murdering her brother to distract her father for her to make a clean escape.

Through her heroic actions, Medea handled various incidents and adventures for Jason though she eventually never got away easily. One of the final adventures that she handled for Jason is when they arrived to take the throne from Pelias in which she tricked Pelias' daughters into boiling him alive. Following their escape to Corinth and with Jason's two children, Medea was thrown out by Jason in favor of the cute young thing,…...

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Andra, Picincu. "APOLLO, the Greek God of Light and Prophecy." GroundReport. CROSCON, 21 Dec. 2008. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. .

"Greek God Apollo." Greek Gods and Goddesses. Greek Gods and Goddesses. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. .

"Human Women of Greek Myth: The Mortal Heroines, Victims, and Villainesses of Greek Myth." Paleothea: Women in Greek Myths. Paleothea, 28 June 2011. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. .

God and Science
The art of philosophy, demonstrated throughout history in all its arguments, present certain obstacles and contextual distortion for the state of humanity. There is no doubt it is worthwhile then, to examine some of the most troubling and difficult philosophical issues of the day. The idea of God and its role in humanity and its science will probably never be settled however the discussion itself helps create new attitudes and expressions of empathy that teach us about our time here on earth.

The purpose of this essay is to explore the complex issue of God and science and their relationships with one another. The relative stance of every individual's relationship to God does not provide a simple positive and negative stance. I will attempt however to present this issue in two sides. I will break down the argument as whether God can exist with science or cannot exist with…...

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Larson, E. & Witham, L. (1998). Leading scientists still reject god. Nature, 394, 313-314. Retrieved from http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.pdf

Preston, J. & Epley, N. (2009). Science and god: and automatic oppostion between ultimate explanations. Jornal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 238-241. Retrieved from  http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/nicholas.epley/Preston%26EpleyJESP.pdf 

Russel, B. (2006). From science to god: the journey of a devout skeptic. New Spirit Journal, November. Retrieved from http://www.newspiritjournal.com/Issues/Nov06/Nov0607.pdf

Nietzsche pressed humanity to realize that God is an invention of human creativity, and that we can no longer accept the idea of a divine being outside of ourselves. This was the center of his anthropocentric ideas. Feuerbach and Marx both held beliefs that agreed with Nietzsche (Jeff 19). Marx even referred to religion as the opium of the people. Kant's ideas of reason come back to haunt him because he asserts that we cannot know reality directly as thing-in-itself and that what is real in itself is something outside of human experience, therefore even if God exists, we can not know God as he really is. The idea of freewill becomes a stumbling block for the existence of God as well since many philosophers contend that the idea of freewill and an omniscient God are contradictory. The concept of an omnipotent God comes under the same scrutiny. The…...

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Craig, William, Michael Murry, and J.P. Moreland (eds.) Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide. Camden, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2002.

Jordan, Jeff. "Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2004 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).

Pojman, Louis P. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, Fourth Ed., Belmont, CA:

Wadsworth, 2003.

God's Knowledge in the Thinker's Guide to God by Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss (2003)
In The Thinker's Guide to God, the author Peter Vardy asks the question, did human beings 'make' God and did humans make the various conceptions of goodness that they have attached to God? Or is it possible to detach such concepts as a God that exists in space and time apart from the very varied conceptions human beings have evolved to explain the Supreme Being? In essence, why do so many religions have such varied conceptions of goodness and God, despite the persistence of evil in the world?

Furthermore, the all-knowing nature of a good God would also seem to complicate and problematize the notion of goodness, as well -- why does God know of evil, and allow it to exist? Why did God, in the Christian understanding of the fall, give humans free will to choose…...

hile none lacked a sense of the importance of serving the community, they came from increasingly different perspectives on how long to tolerate the peril posed by a crumbling civility. Indeed, for some, a sense that the Islamic fundamentalist groups around them would see to their deaths invoked a question as to whether it was even a worthy goal to serve such a community.
However, the monks were united in their spirituality, in their shared call to prayer and in their commitment to the simplest of lifestyles. The film does a remarkable job of demonstrating the solidarity that this creates between them even as they find themselves vehemently divided over the best course of action. The commitment to the extended community around them surely begins with the strength of community shown by the monks themselves. Even in the midst of the tumult of mounting violence, with the increasing regularity of…...

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Beauvois, X. (2010). Of Gods and Men. Armada Films.

Scott, a.O. (2011). Between Heaven and Earth. New York Times.

Berry's theory of the power runs the risk of exchanging imagination with reality, as the following quotation suggests. "I don't see that scientists would suffer the loss of any skin from their noses by acknowledging the validity of the power of imaginative truths…(26)." The danger in this quotation and in Berry's thoughts on this subject lies in the oxymoron of "imaginative truths." There is nothing wrong with imagining things; but when one does so and then tries to present such imaginings as truth, he or she is doing little more than trying to pass of religious or scientific fundamentalism to the world at large. De Button, as well, illustrates the risk of becoming too involved in one's own personal introspection, as the following quotation, in which a Mr. De Maistre "travels" about his room by seeing routine objects as though they had some sort of novelty" readily indicates. "But…...

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 had turned into wine; they ascribed the miracle to Christ and therefore to divine power.

The water into wine miracle also illustrates the way God acts in the world as a "master builder," (McGrath 116). As a master builder, God works with whatever construction materials are available at the moment of creation. If Jesus is viewed a divine, then His actions during the water into wine miracle perfectly explain the role of God as carpenter to the world. Jesus transforms one…...

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McGrath, Alister E. Science and Religion: A New Introduction. Blackwell, 1999.

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 ar when some U.S. religious leaders sermonized against "godless communists." (Gearan)
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Baker, Tod a., Laurence . Moreland, and Robert P. Steed. The 1988 Presidential Election in the South: Continuity Amidst Change in Southern Party Politics New York: Praeger, 1991.

Canipe, Lee. "Under God and anti-communist: how the Pledge of Allegiance got religion in Cold-ar America" Journal of Church and State March 22 (2003).

Chmielewski, Cynthia M. "Federal Appeals Court Bans Pledge of Allegiance in School." NEA Today Vol. 21 (2002).

Elvin, John. "High Court May eigh in on Pledge of Allegiance Suit." Insight on the News…...

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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 a., Laurence W. Moreland, and Robert P. Steed. The 1988 Presidential Election in the South: Continuity Amidst Change in Southern Party Politics New York: Praeger, 1991.

Canipe, Lee. "Under God and anti-communist: how the Pledge of Allegiance got religion in Cold-War America" Journal of Church and State March 22 (2003).

Chmielewski, Cynthia M. "Federal Appeals Court Bans Pledge of Allegiance in School." NEA Today Vol. 21 (2002).

It indicates that he is set apart form all that is creaturely and corrupt, that he is distinct from this physical and fallen world. It affirms that God is not like humans, angels, false gods, animals -- or anything in existence. In short, we may say that there is no one like God, even though that statement has the obvious limitations of a negative sentence -- it does not by itself say what he is. But when we describe the holiness of God, we must think of his uniqueness.
Holiness has bee around as long as the Bible and parts of the Bible have been around for nearly 4,000 years.

The doctrine was taught in the moral law at Sinai to the Israelites. hen Abraham was ninety-years-old God appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." This proves that this doctrine was…...

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American Standard Version Bible. "Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8." Accessed on 14 Dec 2010:

 http://asvbible.com/ecclesiastes/3.htm 

Baxter, J.S.A New Call to Holiness. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1967.

Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996.

The Stoic God was material, and therefore knowable to man, who is also a material being. They believed that all things which were knowable to us were of a material nature.
St. Augustine took this idea of becoming close to the divine through knowledge of it, but expressed that this knowledge had always been within us. Through our memory, which is one of the only things we can trust as real, we remember God "You are always the same, and you always know unchangeably the things which are not always the same," (Augustine 137). St. Augustine believed that the were was an immaterial and formless God "You are certainly not our physical shape...Yet you mad humanity in your image and man from head to foot is contained in space," (94).which we had known before our mortal "morbid condition of the mind," (186). He believed that through religious conversion and religious…...

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St. Augustine, Confessions. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1991.

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God of the Old Testament is the same as the God of the New Testament Mathewson, Dave. \"Reading Heb 6: 4-6 in light of the Old Testament.\" Westminster theological journal 61, no. 2 (1999): 209-226.
This particular article aims to propose an additional aspect that has not been adequately considered in the interpretation of Hebrews 6:4-6 to offer new exegetical understanding into comprehending this confusing passage. More precisely, the author looks to suggest reading Hebrews 6:4-6 in light of an Old Testament matrix since according to the author, a great portion of the interpretation of this part of Hebrews arises from the failure of not appreciating its Old Testament background.
Osredkar, Mari Joe. \"Forgiveness as the Summation of the Gospel Ethics of God.\" Bogoslovni vestnik 78 (2018): 313-323.
Here, the author maintains that the revelation of God doesn't necessarily fall from the heavens, but man acknowledges the word of God in the human word. Man's acknowledgment has been…...

Leaders Should Place Their Trust in God to Solve the Difficult Problems God is My CEO: Chapter 7—Tough Decisions
Sometimes in life one is presented only with what seem like lose-lose situations. These are times when everything seems hopeless, when it seems there are no good solutions and like God has abandoned one to a miserable fate. However, if one sees with the eyes of God, one can see that there really are no lose-lose situations; on the contrary, there are really only win-win situations, because in all things God’s grace is shining through, inviting one to become better in some way that beforehand did not even seem possible. Finding the winning idea in a lose-lose or hopeless situation is really the essence of what it means to have God as one’s own personal CEO. The problem is: How does one get to that point, that level of understanding, that place of…...

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Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C., & Baumgartner, J. (2010). In God we trust: Qualitativef indings on finances, family, and faith from a diverse sample of US families. Family Relations, 59(4), 439-452.

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You could focus on how a person\'s suffering can bring him or her closer to God, as that\'s often what happens. Many people don\'t think about God too much when things are going well, but when they get sick, lose their job, or fall on hard times, they turn to God for help. As they learn more about God, they may come to see that God is in everything – even the bad times. Then, the next time they have something going wrong they will not suffer like they used to, because they will be more accepting of the problems....

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