The Deity Conflict
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The Deity Conflict
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Author : Godfrey Godfrey
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-03
The Deity Conflict written by Godfrey Godfrey and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-03 with categories.
What is your position on the Christ? Is He the Son of God or not? 41 Others said, This is the Christ . But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him. 47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? (John 7) The conflict arising from whether the Christ is the Son of God or the idea that it is a Christian aberration has been increasingly heating up, and is taking an uncanny dimension. What position do you hold? Is your position founded on credible evidence or what you get from questionable sources. Have you bothered to know and to consider other positions and to find out whether in verity your position is the right one. Have you also bothered to know why those who hold contrary views to yours are inclined to their views? The Deity Conflict is one book that has harnessed the various views of the worlds foremost religious groups on the conflict arising from whether the most outstanding personage in human history qualifies as Son of God or is just a human phenomenon imbued with supernatural powers. Perhaps no one subject has aroused a strong an interest and contention in the world's religions more than the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christianity has continued to propound the idea of a Son of God. It has also continued to predicate its highly exceptional teachings on this concept. All other various religious groups and even religious schools of thoughts have held strong and divergent views on the issue of whether the Lord God actually has a Son or not. Most non-Christian groups are flabbergasted that Christians teach and trumpet a concept as strange and so questionable as the Lord God having a Son. They have neither seen the need for this, nor could they conceive the idea of this in view of the fact that God is supposed to be one. By this then, the concept of a Christ as Son of God becomes highly debatable and intriguing so much so that Christianity has been most repeatedly lambasted on the basis of this idea. For many non-Christians who would want to change their religions on grounds of lack of satisfaction and incompleteness, perhaps the whole idea of a Son of God in Christianity constitutes the strongest reason for holding back. The disturbing idea has also given Christian detractors impetus to dissuade many of their own adherents against switching to Christianity. The fact that many, if not all other religions but Christianity have no idea of a Son of God in their scriptures, has frustrated the knowledge and spread of the truth from a larger percentage of the world. Islamic ideas especially, modern day Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and ideas of a host of other non-Christian related religions propagating God, have concepts of God that scream against the Christian position. The claim too is that the Christian position overtly suggests polytheism; especially for a religion which paradoxically beats its chest about a strong position in monotheism. This second series of The Deity Conflict can be best appreciated after having gone through the first book of The Deity Conflict. In Book 1, the positions of Hindus and Buddhists were presented and considered. This was followed by the position of Islam and sentiments by some Muslims on the matter. We also have a general interaction of some of the religions. These positions have actually spiraled from religion, into affecting the way people and nations react to one another."
The Conflict Between The Gods
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Author : Malachi York
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-06
The Conflict Between The Gods written by Malachi York and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-06 with categories.
The Conflict Of The Gods
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Author : Idjakpa Mathaias
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2017-11-22
The Conflict Of The Gods written by Idjakpa Mathaias and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Religion categories.
The gods of the sun and the gods of the moon battled for supremacy using Angela and Megan respectively.The conflict had indelible effects on the worshipers of these gods. Find out the role of the Almighty GOD in resolving the conflict of the gods.
God S Conflict With The Dragon And The Sea
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Author : John Day
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-04-20
God S Conflict With The Dragon And The Sea written by John Day and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-20 with Religion categories.
The Old Testament contains a number of interesting poetic references to God's conflict with a dragon, called by names such as Leviathan, Rahab or the twisting serpent, and with the sea. In this original contribution to the background and understanding of the Old Testament Dr Day undertakes a detailed and thorough examination of these allusions. Building on the discovery of the Ugaritic texts, he demonstrates a source for these references within Canaanite mythology. His study further explores the associations of the imagery. Sometimes in the Old Testament the dragon is associated with the creation of the world, or it becomes a symbol of a foreign nation, and in some references it is associated with divine conflict at the end of time.
The Gods Of War
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Author : Meic Pearse
language : en
Publisher: IVP
Release Date : 2007
The Gods Of War written by Meic Pearse and has been published by IVP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with War categories.
Does religion cause war? It is often claimed that religion is responsible for more wars, more global conflicts and more deaths than any other factor. After all, the world has seen its share of crusades, inquisitions and jihads. Enlightened, modern people assume that if we could only discard primitive religious belief, the world would be a better place. Alas, the picture is not quite so simple. "Indeed," writes Meic Pearse, "there is only one thing that bears a heavier responsibility than religion as a principal cause of war. And that is, of course, irreligion." In this provocative book, historian Meic Pearse debunks the common misconception that religion causes war. He argues that while religion is often a significant generator of armed conflict both in the past and in the present, the two principal causes of human warfare are in fact culture and greed for territory, resources or power. Since culture and greed often clothe themselves in religion, wars fought for culture often appear to be fought for religion. With keen analysis of global history and current events, Pearse shows how irreligion has produced far bloodier wars than religion, and how global secularism itself does violence to religion and traditional cultures. Ultimately, throughout history warfare has been waged over the shape of society itself. A crisis in meaning leads people to fight for what they fear may be lost. For a world weary of war, Pearse points beyond both cultural and secular metanarratives to an alternative hope.
God At War
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Author : Gregory A. Boyd
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2014-06-18
God At War written by Gregory A. Boyd and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-18 with Religion categories.
In this bold and compelling work, Gregory Boyd undertakes to reframe the central issues of Christian theodicy. By Boyd's estimate, theologians still draw too heavily on Augustine's response to the problem of evil, attributing pain and suffering to the mysterious "good" purposes of God. Accordingly, modern Christians are inclined not to expect evil and so are baffled but resigned when it occurs. New Testament writers, on the other hand, were inclined to expect evil and fight against it. Modern Christians attempt to intellectually understand evil, whereas New Testament writers grappled with overcoming evil. Through a close and sophisticated reading of both Old and New Testaments, Boyd argues that Satan has been in an age-long (but not eternal) battle against God, and that this conflict "is a major dimension of the ultimate canvas against which everything within the biblical narrative, from creation to the eschaton, is to be painted and therefore understood." No less edifying than it is provocative, God at War will reward the careful attention of scholars, pastors, students and educated laypersons alike.
Violence In God S Name
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Author : Oliver J. McTernan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Violence In God S Name written by Oliver J. McTernan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Terrorism categories.
This book provides insight into the growing phenomenon of religious inspired violence, and an analysis of the political world’s failure to understand the problem. Oliver McTernan traces the historical ambivalence of the world’s major religious traditions towards violence, arguing that today’s religious activists select the past misuse of foundational texts and exemplars to justify their own resort to violence. He challenges both religious and political leaders to rethink their response to the current crisis. A call for tolerance, he argues, is insufficient. Religious leaders need to re examine their attitudes towards pluralism.
The Conflict Myth And The Biblical Tradition
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Author : Debra Scoggins Ballentine
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-01
The Conflict Myth And The Biblical Tradition written by Debra Scoggins Ballentine and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Religion categories.
There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif, arguing that it was used within ancient political and socio-religious discourses to bolster particular divine hierarchies, kings, institutions, and groups, as well as to attack others. Situating her study of the conflict topos within contemporary theorizations of myth by Bruce Lincoln, Russell McCutcheon, and Jonathan Z. Smith, Ballentine examines narratives of divine combat and instances of this conflict motif. Her study cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries as well as constructed time periods, focusing not only on the Hebrew Bible but also incorporating Mesopotamian, early Jewish, early Christian, and rabbinic texts, spanning a period of almost three millennia - from the eighteenth century BCE to the early middle ages CE. The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient west Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and of how mythological and religious ideas are used both to validate and render normative particular ideologies and socio-political arrangements, and to delegitimize and invalidate others.
God And Conflict
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Author : Philip Hellmich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06-01
God And Conflict written by Philip Hellmich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with categories.
God and Conflict: A Search for Peace in a Time of Crisis... ...is a raw, powerful and transparent journey into the heart of peacebuilding on inner to international levels. Hellmich is thrown into an existential crisis by Sierra Leone's bloody civil war as the villages he lived in as a Peace Corps Volunteer are sacked by child soldiers. He seeeks solace in a meditation practice that opens him to mystical experiences of profound love; all the while working on practical peacebuilding initiatives in Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa. Hellmich bridges the chaotic violence and the divine love in an authentic and skillful way that sheds light on the scientific and spiritual dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding. God and Conflict is a timely and inspiring story of moving from personal and global crisis to sacred activism.
In The Whirlwind
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Author : Robert A. Burt
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-25
In The Whirlwind written by Robert A. Burt and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-25 with Philosophy categories.
God deserves obedience simply because he’s God—or does he? Inspired by a passion for biblical as well as constitutional scholarship, in this bold exploration Yale Law Professor Robert A. Burt conceptualizes the political theory of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. God’s authority as expressed in these accounts is not a given. It is no less inherently problematic and in need of justification than the legitimacy of secular government. In recounting the rich narratives of key biblical figures—from Adam and Eve to Noah, Cain, Abraham, Moses, Job, and Jesus—In the Whirlwind paints a surprising picture of the ambivalent, mutually dependent relationship between God and his peoples. Taking the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a unified whole, Burt traces God’s relationship with humanity as it evolves from complete harmony at the outset to continual struggle. In almost every case, God insists on unconditional obedience, while humanity withholds submission and holds God accountable for his promises. Contemporary political theory aims for perfect justice. The Bible, Burt shows, does not make this assumption. Justice in the biblical account is an imperfect process grounded in human—and divine—limitation. Burt suggests that we consider the lessons of this tension as we try to negotiate the power struggles within secular governments, and also the conflicts roiling our public and private lives.