Religion Essays

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 […]

The Holocaust is without doubt the greatest human tragedy of the twentieth century. The literature surrounding Holocaust speak of the profound alienation of personality and loss of divine faith experienced by those affected. Those who survived to record these experiences are both lucky and unlucky. They are unlucky in that they had to continue to […]

Although Augustine of Hippo’s early life was disordered and undisciplined, his adult life is marked by maturity and spiritual searching. His steadfast spiritual journey – one identified with penance and dedication – will lead him to a profound understanding of the message of Christ. He attains a refined reverence for the omnipotent will of God. […]

William Blake, a prominent figure in poetry and visual arts during the Romantic Age, was considered an outcast due to his radical views on religion. Despite identifying as Christian, Blake’s family did not follow traditional Christianity or attend church services. In his youth, he claimed to have mystical experiences involving notable figures like the angel […]

Beowulf was written by a Christian poet around the eighth century. Having been changed a number of times, this manuscript has been observed in the older pagan period, and influence by pagan rituals. There are two different cultures reflected towards Beowulf which, are the Christianity culture and the pagan culture. Paganism and Christianity are both […]

Jasper Chase was unable to escape the persistent question of “What would Jesus do?” This question continued to haunt him even after he had departed his hometown of Raymond half a decade ago. Memories overwhelmed him as he sat at a delightful cafe, recalling preacher Henry Maxwell’s appeal to commit to living in accordance with […]

The Virgin birth of Christ is an actual Historical fact. God came (in the sinless form of Jesus) into the earth “HE” created. No other event in the past has had so much impact out side of Calvary where Christ paid the price for our transgressions. Seven hundred years earlier, this was prophesied by the […]

Some time ago, before Vatican II, God was a vengeful God, unmerciful and terryfying. Something that all parents used against their children for them to eat their vegetables and go to mass.

My religious background began in the Church of God in Christ also known as C.O.G.I.C. whereas the Old Testament was the primary teachings that shaped my life’s values and forms.

While anyone can read the Bible, understanding its significance presents a different challenge. To truly gain from studying God’s Word, it is essential to employ a method that promotes honesty in interpretation. This approach enables readers to objectively evaluate the Scripture and incorporate its truths into their personal lives. The preferred method for many Bible […]

Theology is “the instruction concerning God” or “the deliberation of God.”(Grenz, 2000, p.2) It endeavors to disclose the identity of God, the habitation of God, and the character, origin, position and importance of God. Humans commonly acquire information in three ways: through their senses, through their logic/reasoning, and through their faith which denotes confidence in […]

It is fair to say that we live in a world of hatred, wars, terrorism, and murder, however, how we can hold accountable one Man for all these unspeakable actions? God can change everyone’s personality so that we can not sin, except then we would not have free will.

Looking at two different definitions of the word nature, I gained a better understanding of what the phrase, “God in Nature”, means. The first said that it was, “the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized” (www.wordnetweb.princeton.edu), and the other described it as, “The material world and its phenomena”. The earth, and everything […]