Natural Signs and Knowledge of God

Natural Signs and Knowledge of God
Author: C. Stephen Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199217165

Is there such a thing as natural knowledge of God? C. Stephen Evans presents the case for understanding theistic arguments as expressions of natural signs in order to gain a new perspective both on their strengths and weaknesses. Three classical, much-discussed theistic arguments - cosmological, teleological, and moral - are examined for the natural signs they embody. At the heart of this book lie several relatively simple ideas. One is that if there is a God of the kind accepted by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, then it is likely that a 'natural' knowledge of God is possible. Another is that this knowledge will have two characteristics: it will be both widely available to humans and yet easy to resist. If these principles are right, a new perspective on many of the classical arguments for God's existence becomes possible. We understand why these arguments have for many people a continued appeal but also why they do not constitute conclusive 'proofs' that settle the debate once and for all. Touching on the interplay between these ideas and contemporary scientific theories about the origins of religious belief, particularly the role of natural selection in predisposing humans to form beliefs in God or gods, Evans concludes that these scientific accounts of religious belief are fully consistent, even supportive, of the truth of religious convictions.

The Knowledge of the Gods

The Knowledge of the Gods
Author: Amun The God of Peace and Love
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015-01-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781507733738

Is Humanity Ready for the Passage into the Golden Age? From Material Masonry to Spiritual Masonry. The Knowledge of the Gods describes the spiritual growth of a woman who managed to awaken as a result of the hardships she experienced in her life. Because of her experiences, she decided to make a sacrifice "" to sacrifice herself for the benefit of the people around her as well as for the benefit of humanity. Her willingness to make the sacrifice came from her aspiration to see all the people of the world live in peace, love and harmony. Because of her belief that sacrifice can assist in the fulfillment of her aspirations, she turned to God and asked him to accept her sacrifice. She asked to give up her life for the benefit of others. Not long after that, the author of this book developed the ability to conduct channeling. Gradually, the level of her spiritual guides rose, according to the level of knowledge and spiritual awareness she accumulated. Her continued sacrifice and progression in knowledge caused the angels and higher gods to connect with her. The high gods of light began to offer her their knowledge. They wanted to assist her in achieving her spiritual destiny. Through her, they wished to pass on their knowledge and science. The gods asked her to write a book and through that book, to offer their knowledge to all the people of Earth. With the aid of channeling, a connection was established with the gods of light from the Egyptian era, especially with the Gods Amun-Ra and Michael, who reached the spiritual level of the creator; thanks to their knowledge. The high gods of light, as you will read in the book, passed their knowledge and information during numerous channeling sessions, through journeys and fascinating experiences from different eras of life on Earth and other planets. Meetings were held in all those places, with people who had lived in various eras. Those people and the gods themselves passed on their information through personal stories taken from their own lives. The God Amun taught about the masonry and architecture of his time, as well as about how the universe itself is constructed. Also, he explained what needs to be done in order to change current material masonry into spiritual masonry. The God Amun taught the knowledge of masonry with the aid of diagrams, symbols, numeric calculations and more... during many different journeys.

The Book of the Gods

The Book of the Gods
Author: Chas Saunders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780752458045

Are you tired of the same old boring god you've worshipped for years? Looking for something new and exciting? The Book of the Gods has the answer! Explore hundreds of deities of all shapes, sizes, genders, colours with myriad powers.This is the official book of the leading mythological website Godchecker and is packed full of extraordinary facts and mythological trivia. Who is the god of shoes? The god of football? The god of fluff?From the gods of Greece and Rome to the bizarre and often downright scary gods of Oceania and the Aztecs you will find there is a deity for every occasion. Alongside the A-Z listings are 20 introductory essays that give an entertaining and accessible overview of each pantheon.

Secrecy and the Gods

Secrecy and the Gods
Author: Alan Lenzi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Secrecy and the Gods is a comparative mythological study of the human reception and treatment of divine secret knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and biblical Israel. The human royal council was the social model for ancient ideas about divine knowledge being secret - just as human kings had secrets so too did the gods. Diviners who received this knowledge from the gods in an on-going, ad hoc manner were an essential link between the divine assembly and the human royal council for whom such knowledge was intended. Scribes eventually adapted the ad hoc divinatory means of receiving divine communications to their culturally significant texts. By discursively asserting a historical connection between themselves and unique mediators with a close divine affiliation (the apkallus and Moses), the scribes constructed myths that legitimated their texts as divine revelation and claimed these were received in history through normal scribal channels. In this manner, scribes fixed the secret of the gods permanently among humans in textualized form that valorized their own position within society. Although the origin of divine secret knowledge was rooted in a common mythological idea of the divine assembly, its treatment was quite distinct. The Mesopotamians guarded divine secret knowledge through various scribal means, including the attachment of a Geheimwissen colophon to certain tablets (treated exhaustively), whereas biblical Israel published it openly. The contrast in treatment of divine secret knowledge was directly related to different mytho-political self-understandings: Mesopotamia's imperial aspirations versus biblical Israel's vassaldom. As vassals to Yahweh, the divine imperial king, the kings of Judah and Israel as presented in the biblical material were not to formulate secret orders; they were only to obey them.

Knowledge of the Gods

Knowledge of the Gods
Author: A. M. Muhammad
Publisher: WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0989042537

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. We bear witness that Muhammad of 1400 years ago (PBUH) is Allah's last Prophet. Peace! Peace! I am Field Supreme Minister, Ali Mahdi Muhammad. Spiritual Leader of the New World Nation of Islam. The Field Supreme Staff was commissioned Saviour's Day, February 26, 1960. That was the same day that our Father, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad told tens of thousands of His followers and announced to the world that He, Elijah was Allah, God. He, Elijah said, "I have been made equal in knowledge with Allah. I control the winds and the seas. I have power over the sun, moon and stars. I have waited 379 years for this day." The Commissioning of the Field Supreme Staff was witnessed by twenty of the Nation of Islam's Ministers at the Minister's Meeting that day-Saviour's Day, 1960. When Elijah (My God, Your Messenger) said He is equal to Allah many people walked out of the auditorium. But we, the Field Staff believed every word he said. He began to teach us the secrets of God being among us and what we must do the build the House of Our Father's Desires. (1 Chronicles 28:5-15) We, the New World Nation of Islam, are the original followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. We are that infant nation, a nation within a nation, born to build a New World. The History in this book is the True and Untold Story of the Nation of Islam by the people who actually lived it.

The Wisdom of God

The Wisdom of God
Author: Nancy Guthrie
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-02-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433526352

This 10-week study of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon mines the Wisdom Literature not only for wise principles for living, but also for the wise person these books point to through their drama, poetry, proverb, and song. In her accessible and authentic style, Nancy Guthrie focuses on seeing Jesus in the Old Testament instead of emphasizing works-based moralism. She presents clear commentary and contemporary application of gospel truths, speaking directly to issues such as repentance, submission, happiness, and sexuality. Each weekly lesson includes questions for personal study, a contemporary teaching chapter that emphasizes how the passage fits into the bigger story of redemptive history, a brief section on how the passage uniquely points to what is yet to come at the consummation of Christ's kingdom, and a leader's guide for group discussion.

God's Two Books

God's Two Books
Author: Kenneth James Howell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is an analysis of how 16th- and 17th-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another. It argues that these schemes can solve the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and investigation interact.

The Joy of Knowing God

The Joy of Knowing God
Author: Richard L. Strauss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1984
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780872138346

A study of God's attributes and their relevance to daily living.

The Knowledge of the Holy

The Knowledge of the Holy
Author: A.W. Tozer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0718895312

A.W. Tozer maintained that a theologian’s message must be ‘both timeless and timely’, a sentiment borne out in the fact that his writing on worship still acts as an urgent warning today. Tozer is primarily concerned with the loss of the concept of ‘majesty’ from the popular mind and more importantly from the thinking of the church. He sees the church as having surrendered her once lofty concept of God – not deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge. With this comes a further loss of religious awe and a sense of the divine presence, of an appropriate spirit of worship and of our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence. Tozer addresses this problem, to go back to the causes of the decline and to understand and correct the errors that have given rise to our devotional poverty. ‘It is impossible to keep our moral practices sound and our inward attitudes right while our idea of God is erroneous or inadequate,’ he tells us. What is needed is a restoration of our knowledge of the holy.

Study Gods

Study Gods
Author: Yi-Lin Chiang
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-08-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691210489

How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeed Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite. Yi-Lin Chiang shows how these competitive Chinese high schoolers first become “study gods” (xueshen), a term describing academically high-performing students. Constant studying, however, is not what explains their success, for these young people appear god-like in their effortless abilities to excel. Instead, Chiang explores how elite adolescents achieve by absorbing and implementing the rules surrounding status. Drawing from eight years of fieldwork and extensive interviews, Chiang reveals the important lessons that Chinese youth learn in their pursuit of elite status. They understand the hierarchy of the status system, recognizing and acquiring the characteristics that are prized, while avoiding those that are not. They maintain status by expecting differential treatment and performing status-based behaviors, which guide their daily interactions with peers, teachers, and parents. Lastly, with the help of resourceful parents, they rely on external assistance in the face of potential obstacles and failures. Chiang looks at how students hone these skills, applying them as they head to colleges and careers around the world, and in their relationships with colleagues and supervisors. Highlighting another facet of China’s rising power, Study Gods announces the arrival of a new generation to the realm of global competition.