Essays About God

“ Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a enigma. Today is a gift – that is why we call it the present. ” Author unknownHow much of your life is lost either brooding on the yesteryear or worrying about the hereafter? When your ideas are imprisoned by the yesteryear or fearful of the hereafter, you can […]

The recent discovery of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic papers has prompted scholars to call for a comprehensive reassessment of Gnosticism and the early history of Christianity. The Nag Hammadi find includes twelve codices and eight folios from a thirteenth, which contains 52 separate tractates (with 45 separate titles due to duplications). These texts were originally […]

Are you expected to give your clip, endowment and hoarded wealths to a God that you dont cognize anything about. Not cognizing God will do it difficult to allow travel something that you think belongs to you. In order to to the full function God, you need to cognize who He is. It ‘s of […]

Despite the dictionary’s definition of religion as the act of serving and worshipping God or supernatural beings, I have doubts regarding this specific interpretation. Although all religions involve the worship of a supernatural force, they have not solely focused on this aspect throughout history. To fully understand religion, we must consider its impact on humanity […]

Puritanism is one of the most important aspects of the American culture. Many of this countrys beliefs come from puritanism background. What is Puritanism and the meaning of it in American history? Puritanism is a term that originates from the religious group called the Puritans. They were a denomination formed by the great Protestant Reformation […]

Montaigne in his Apology for Raymond Sebond begins his exploration into the human capacity for knowledge with this belief that only though God can one achieve true knowledge. God is the only infinite, all seeing, being with divine wisdom. He is not subject to the laws and rules of the human domain, and he exists […]

Bless Me Ultima, a book by Rudolfo A. Anaya, is about a young boy named Antoniowho comes of age through troubling ordeals throughout the book. He is aided in this journey bya curandera named Ultima, who teaches Tony many life lessons. Anaya uses animals to symbolizeintangible attributes such as good and evil. Representing Ultima, he […]

Argument: Premises: 1. God exists, is omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good 2. The tsunami caused people to suffer 3. An omniscient and omnipotent good being prevents any suffering that it can properly eliminate (that is, eliminate any suffering without eliminating an outweighing good or bringing about a greater evil) that it knows about 4. An […]

Doctrine of creation ‘What do we mean by creation? How helpful are making, emanation and/or artistic work as analogies? Is it a doctrine about the world’s beginnings or origin, or about its present or future existence, or what? Creation is often referred to as a ‘mystery’ and this is due to its perhaps ambiguous nature. […]

Gode ground, and any attempt to remain neutral in relation to God’s existence is automatically synonymous with unbelief. It is far from a “moot” question, because if God does exist, then nothing else really matters; if He does not exist, then nothing really matters at all. This is kind of unfortunate for someone like myself, […]

Existence is comparable to a creature that conceals itself, only to ultimately disclose itself. Webster’s New World Dictionary defines existence as the state or reality of being. While existence endeavors to attain truth, which exists beyond the confines of space and time, it must nevertheless be comprehended by existence. This comprehension is achieved through ritual, […]

St. Augustine, in his book Political Writings, emphasizes the role that Christianity plays in shaping his political perspective and argues for its influence on his views through the moral aspect of politics. While St. Augustine’s writings have gained recognition and admiration, not everyone agrees with him. Niccolo Machiavelli, for example, advocates for a government that […]

It is challenging to describe a miracle, especially given the current context. Miracles are rare in the modern world, as they are defined as supernatural or highly unusual events. In a biblical context, miracles are seen as God’s unique actions that go beyond natural laws and involve divine intervention. Christians hold to this belief and […]

Saint Anselm of Aosta, Bec, and Canterbury, perhaps during a moment of enlightenment or starvation-induced hallucination, succeeded in formulating an argument for God’s existence which has been debated for almost a thousand years. It shows no sign of going away soon. It is an argument based solely on reason, distinguishing it from other arguments for […]

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote the short story “Godfather Death” in the early 1800’s. “Godfather Death” is a short story illustrating how one’s greed can overtake anything in life. The story speaks of a poor man that has twelve children and a thirteenth on the way. The poor man finds Death and asks if he […]

Karl Joseph G. RosalesIII-Faraday THE VISION OF MIRZA The speaker in the essay, “The Vision of Mirza”, is having a conversation with a genius man who was playing a musical instrument up the mountain. At first, the speaker was alone in the mountain, until he heard a man playing an instrument. His music was so […]

They simply knew he existed. Nevertheless, they attempted to prove his existence anyway, and the basic strategies employed by them are the ones used every since. Here two approaches are presented. The first, by Anselm, is perhaps the most puzzling. While it has not been all that popular with the average believer, it has fascinated […]

Religions across the globe have their own distinctive rites and rituals, idols, traditions, and values. Each have in common a desire to explain something unexplainable by common wisdom, or attributing some aspect of life to some higher power. Many religions have at their heart etiological stories, which explain some sort of natural phenomenon through the […]

Thesis: Powerful and gripping it may be, but ultimately Cidade de Deus is a film of despair, offering a one-dimensional view of urban culture in a Brazil where social divisions appear too wide to bridge, and where millions are too brutalized by violence and poverty to contribute to any process of change. City of God […]

The poem ‘The Pulley’ describes the kind of God that a believer believes in. The poem clearly depicts the perception of the persona of his God—a provider, a creator, an all powerful being, yet somehow a conceited and jealous God. The persona in the poem uses the narrative style in writing the poem. This style […]

When some people hear the words “the godless constitution” uttered the shrill up their noses and get very defensive. Kramnick and Moore address this idea of the United States Constitution being godless. They speak about how America has misinterpreted views and how society would benefit from an understanding of what the Constitution stands for and […]

The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a ground-breaking work in American fiction. The topic of emotional/physical abuse, especially that endured by black American women of earlier generations is not openly spoken about or documented in history books. By bringing focus to this sensitive, yet saddening, experience of black women, the novel attracted […]