Author: G.R. Pafumi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450003966
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Our vision of God varies by culture. It has changed over the millennia. We no longer believe in the pagan gods of the Romans and Greeks. Why should we expect that our current view of God will not change? Scientific knowledge and discovery is occurring at a pace never before experienced in human history. Yet our concept of God remains mired in the 15th century. This is about to change. It will become increasingly difficult for religions to convince believers educated in modern science to blindly accept as truth religious dogmas conceived centuries ago. Religious scripture is a combination of literature, myth and superstition. Science will invalidate many of these myths. This is why intelligent design advocates fear science.
Author: Dr. Jason Lisle
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 1614580987
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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It's a bold title: The Ultimate Proof of Creation - But is there such a thing? There are many books that contain seemingly powerful arguments for biblical creation. But is there an ultimate proof of creation? There is an argument for creation that is powerful, conclusive, and has no true rebuttal. As such, it is an irrefutable argument - an "ultimate proof " of the Christian worldview biblical creation. Master the method outlined in the following chapters, and you will be able to defend Christianity against all opposition. Learn how to apply the ultimate proof in dialogues with evolutionists, how to spot logical fallacies, and biblical examples of defending the faith Discover the nature of scientific evidence and its proper role in the origins debate Details how to address theistic evolution, "day age" creationism, and other compromised positions of biblical creationism An exceptional book for pastors, ministry leaders, seminary attendees, and students of religion and philosophy This book is a complete guide to defending the Christian faith, emphasizing the defense of the Genesis account of creation, built on techniques that have been developed over many years and presentations. They are not difficult to apply when you learn how to do it properly. Ready to move beyond the circular arguments? It is time to get to the real heart of the issue and rationally resolve the origins debate. It is time to discover The Ultimate Proof of Creation.
Author: Justin Deering
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475913559
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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The End-of-the-World Delusion is a well-written, thoroughly researched, and very readable book. Deering's lively narrative makes complex and complicated topics accessible to the average reader. He certainly pulled me into his book despite my cynical view of the topic. Deering offers the reader riveting histories of end-of-the world beliefs and covers an extraordinary array of ground in this well-researched book, discussing everything from the Mayan end-of-times predictions, Christian rapture beliefs, pandemics, economic doomsday scenarios, and other apocalyptic predictions. Robert Watson, PhD, author/editor of thirty-four books, including The Presidents' Wives and America's War on Terror People from many different corners of civilization seem to be saying the same thing: the end is near. In The End-of-the-World Delusion, author Justin Deering explores such scenarios, discussing why they are not likely to occur or have any visible impact on this planet within our lifetime. Providing a thorough analysis, Deering chronicles the numerous instances of such predictions throughout history, examines frequent religious and cultural sources of these end-of-world claims, analyzes the sociological and psychological dynamics and dangers, and outlines other forms of end-times beliefs, ranging from religious to pop culture in nature. The End-of-the-World Delusion provides concrete information that helps evaluate these dubious assertions, relates how such beliefs have harmed individuals and society, and talks about why people are inclined to nurture such beliefs in the first place. Setting the record straight by detailing the history of failed doomsdays, Deering shows that nothing can be gained by worrying about the end of time, and that we must learn a lesson from the past, live in the present, and plan for the future.
Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Publisher: IVP Academic
ISBN: 9780830814008
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 757
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An Eternity 1988 Book of the Year! Since its publication, the New Dictionary of Theology has rapidly established itself as a standard, authoritative reference work in systematic and historical theology. More than 630 articles cover a variety of theological themes, thinkers and movements: from creation to the millennium from Abelard to Zwingli from Third World liberation theology to South African Dutch Reformed theology Firmly anchored in the evangelical tradition, the NDOT is nevertheless wide-ranging in its scope. Over 200 contributors, experts in their individual fields, offer both Western and international perspective. Concise and comprehensive, biblically grounded and historically informed, even-handed and free from unduly technical language, this dictionary has been praised by general readers, pastors and scholars.
Author: Raymond Carver
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101970588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. "Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories.... [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us." —The New York Times Book Review
Author: Mark Clark
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310535239
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Problem of God explores answers to the most difficult questions raised against Christianity. A skeptic who became a Christian and then a pastor, author Mark Clark grew up in an atheistic home. After his father's death, he began a skeptical search for truth through the fields of science, philosophy, and history, eventually finding answers in the last place he expected: Christianity. In a winsome, persuasive, and humble voice, The Problem of God responds to the top ten interrogations people bring against God, and Christianity, including: Does God even exist in the first place? What do we do with Christianity's violent history? Is Jesus just another myth? Can the Bible be trusted? Why should we believe in Hell anymore today? Each chapter answers the specific challenge using a mix of theology, philosophy, and science. Filled with compelling stories and anecdotes, The Problem of God presents an organized and easy-to-understand range of apologetics, focused on both convincing the skeptic and informing the Christian. The book concluding with Christianity's most audacious assertion: how should we respond to Jesus' claim that he is God and the only way to salvation.
Author: Christina M. Gschwandtner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567660249
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Jean-Luc Marion's early work on Descartes and his more recent writings in phenomenology have not only elicited huge interest in France and the US, but also created huge potential in the field of theology. This book is organised around central questions about the divine raised by Marion's work: how to speak of God, how to approach God, how to experience God, how to receive God, how to believe in God, how to worship God. Within that context it deals with the important aspects of his philosophical work: the inspiration of his writings in what he calls Descartes' “white theology” and its late medieval context as well as the apophatic theology associated with Dionysius the Areopagite; his important claims about idolatrous and iconic ways of speaking of the divine; his notion of the saturated phenomenon or a phenomenology of revelation and givenness, and his extensive writings on love. Christina M. Gschwandtner also considers Marion's explicitly theological writings and establishes their relationship to his larger phenomenological oeuvre. Overall, it approaches Marion's work not only as a philosophy of religion, but with specifically theological questions in mind. It hence shows how Marion's extensive historical and phenomenological work can be profitable and inspiring for theology today, for both systematic questions and for concerns of spirituality, in a way that holds the theoretical and the practical together.
Author: Matthew Bullen
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595371213
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Have you ever wondered how to build a happy, Christ centered family? Do you long for peace and harmony in your home? Does your heart desire to build a family that brings glory to God? Would you like to opt out of the rebellious and destructive youth culture and raise joyful, godly young people? Can you envision future generations of your family walking faithfully with the Lord and do you wonder how you can prepare your children for such a legacy? In The Blessed Family, the Bullen's delve into God's Word to reveal a plan for families and to share how timeless principles found there can help you to build a home that is a little piece of heaven on earth.
Author: Ronald Wyenn
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1684092434
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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IN THE BEGINNING, THE KNOWLEDGE OF ‘GOOD AND EVIL’ THAT MANKIND WAS FORBIDDEN TO KNOW DESTROYED US TIME AND AGAIN. KNOWING WHAT WAS FORBIDDEN ---“GOD’S SACRED PLAN FOR LIFE” WILL STOP US FROM DESTROYING THE WORLD IN THE END! Revealing Heaven’s greatest secrets, solving life’s epic mysteries ---“God’s Sacred Plan For Life” tells an ancient story that no one, past or present, ever heard before! The greatest love story ever told about how good triumphs over evil contains one thing that mankind was forbidden to know by the gods of antiquity who created us ---“The Knowledge of Good (God) and Evil (Man)!” In the beginning, the gods who came from the heavens to earth stopped the natural course of man’s evolution. Giving them their alien DNA, the first man and woman were genetically engineered to be a slave-species for their creators who needed an army of primitive workers to do what was impossible to do by themselves. Mine a precious metal used to repair their planet’s atmosphere from a nuclear holocaust of their own making. Possessed by the DNA in their blood, the first earthlings were made to follow not lead, serve not disobey. The god’s lust for conquest, wealth, power, privilege, and status evolved to dominate human nature. Trained to sacrifice themselves and kill their own kind in the name of the egocentric gods they served, man’s soulless patterns of pain, suffering, war, and death were all learned from their inhuman patriarchal masters. Created in their image after their likeness, man destroyed countless civilizations, past and present, to become “The King of The World” just as the gods did on their planet. To change the self-destructive course of man’s fate, knowing good from evil will reveal the knowledge of ‘God’s Dual -Nature’ that clergy insist is unknowable; the knowledge of ‘Man’s Dual-Nature’ that psychoanalysts contend is mystifyingly contentious and ‘DNA’s Dual-Nature’ --- The cosmic-connection linking the spirit of God to the body of man, that from the beginning created the conflict between the forces of good and evil. Knowing what was unknown before will change people’s egocentric SELFimage. Changing man’s inhuman, alien nature mental illness, physical sickness, and spiritual disease will become relics of the past --- Stopping us from destroying all we love and cherish most ourselves, mates, children, families, world, and future. Making the impossible possible God’s plan for a better life will prove to be the mother of all SELFhelp, SELFhealing, and SELFtransformational technologies for one unprecedented reason --- “What was forbidden in the beginning that destroyed us is present in the end to save us!”
Author: Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Book Description
A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.
