Download or read book Satan s Wager written by Stephen Moore and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan was bold and determined-"Stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face!" Thus begins one of the most famous cases of suffering in history. But is there more to the story than suffering and patience? In Satan's Wager, Stephen Moore shares the amazing story of a bad bet and the priceless faith lessons you can glean from it. Would you like to know the true and missed message of Job, the one that will transform your view of God and of everyday life? Dive into the surprising story of Satan's Wager-your faith will never be the same!
Download or read book Satan s Wager written by Stephen Moore and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Satan's Wager, Stephen Moore shares the amazing story of a bad bet and the priceless faith lessons you can glean from it. Would you like to know the true and missed message of Job, the one that will transform your view of God and of everyday life?
Download or read book On Job written by Gustavo Gutirrez and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of this century's most eminent theologians addresses the eternal questions of the relationship of good and evil, linking the story of Job to the lives of the poor and oppressed of our world.
Download or read book Job 38 42 Volume 18B written by David J. A. Clines and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship. Overview of Commentary Organization Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology. Each section of the commentary includes: Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope. Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English. Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation. Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here. Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research. Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues. General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.
Download or read book How I Turned Back to Almighty God written by Christians of The Church of Almighty God and published by 全能神教會. This book was released on with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each person who believes in God has a special story about the personal journey of turning back toward Him. This book shares actual experiences of God’s chosen ones in receiving guidance from Almighty God’s words, becoming certain about the true way, and returning before His throne. Some broke free from the shackles and strictures of their religious notions, some escaped disruption and persecution by the antichrists’ forces in religious circles and the evil forces of the Chinese Communist Party, and still others gained discernment with regard to the world’s evil trends. Ultimately, they all returned before God.
Download or read book The Human Satan in Seventeenth Century English Literature written by Nancy Rosenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form in the seventeenth century. This development is centered on characters and poetry of four seventeenth-century writers: the Satan character in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the Tempter in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Diabolus in Bunyan's The Holy War, the poetry of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Dorimant in George Etherege's Man of Mode. The initial understanding of this development is through a sequential reading of Milton and Bunyan which examines the Satan character as an archetype-in-the-making, building upon each to work so that the character metamorphoses from a groveling serpent and fallen archangel to a humanized form embodying the human impulses necessary to commit evil. Rosenfeld then argues that this development continues in Restoration literature, showing that both Rochester and Etherege build upon their literary predecessors to develop the satanic figure towards greater humanity. Ultimately she demonstrates that these writers, taken collectively, have imbued Satan with the characteristics that define the human. This book includes as an epilogue a discussion of Samson in Milton's Samson Agonistes as a later seventeenth-century avatar of the humanized satanic form, providing an example for understanding a stock literary character in the light of early modern texts.
Download or read book Liberation Ethics written by Thomas Louis Schubeck and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thoroughly researched, critically reasoned, and well written, Schubeck's book is a model of caring and careful discernment."--Arthur McGovernUniversity of Detroit
Download or read book The Word of God written by Eric Brownlee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Brownlee grew up on the Great Plains of Northeastern Colorado, where he experienced his first insights into the beauty of nature—the majestic grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, the incomprehensible power of a thunderstorm, the utter indifference imposed upon the human spirit by a star-filled night sky, or in the solitude and serenity of a vast wheatfield stretching to the horizon. The formal, societal experiences that influenced his religious upbringing, the hours spent in church, the vague sermons, the rote memorization, paled in comparison. To this day, he can't understand why someone would expect to find God inside a man-made structure, or in the pages of a book written by men. He condemns Jesus' statement: "The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life."Passionately driven to write a book exposing the flimsy foundation upon which Judeo-Christian zealotry is based, Eric has, in the spirit of Joseph Daleiden's seminal work, The Final Superstition(Prometheus Books), painstakingly provided rigorous arguments establishing that sound ethics and effective social doctrines must not be grounded in myth and falsehood.
Download or read book Sex and the Devil s Wager written by Lee Huxley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-erotic elements in feminism have joined forces with Islam and Christianity to condemn prostitution, the male gaze and the natural love men have for the feminine body as a symbol of universal beauty. The author, whose religion is based in Tantra regards these attitudes both wrong and offensive to pagans. Lee Huxley, claims to be a knower - an enlightened one who sees with the third eye and whose wisdom and lateral thinking demonstrate his special insights in this book. Lee knows the truth the unthinkable that Jesus Christ, the hellfire and damnation preacher, is not the Son of God but the Son of Evil. If Christ is the Son of Evil, then Lee argues from this basis, that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are blasphemies. This book asks how Western civilization could be founded on lies, delusions and blasphemies that even today are still taken seriously. This book is the result of a lifetime of research which has culminated in the formulation of the Devils Wager. The Devils Wager challenges you, the reader, to name any moral idea from the worst evildoers of history that is as evil as the central teaching of the Bible and the Koran, namely that God will resurrect the human race and torture most of them in hell for all eternity. Fifty per cent of the damned will be women. The male God of monotheism is a hellfire pyromaniac: Jesus Christ and Allah are arsonists who burn women alive! This is the feminist issue of our times. Lee uses the writings of theologian and lapsed Catholic Mary Daly, one of the greatest feminist thinkers, to explain their common conviction that feminism must now assume the role of the Antichrist and bring an end to monotheism!
Download or read book Guidelines for Spreading the Kingdom Gospel written by The Church of Almighty God Editorial Team and published by The Church of Almighty God. This book was released on with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers together the questions and notions common to people who seek and investigate the true way, to which it provides solutions that integrate the words of Almighty God. These questions and answers are of great benefit to people in understanding the truth and investigating the true way, and are also an indispensable reference for God’s chosen people as they spread His words and testify to His work. God’s sheep hear His voice, and if, having read this book, they are able to discover the truth and recognize that the words of Almighty God are the voice of God, then they are the wise virgins who have welcomed the Lord. Website: https://www.holyspiritspeaks.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/godfootstepsen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/en.godfootsteps.org Email: [email protected]
Download or read book Living a Meaningful Life Without Purpose written by Gershon Winkler and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To describe what this book is about would defeat its purpose since it is about living a meaningful life without purpose. Purpose is overrated, writes the author. What is it your business what purpose God or intelligent design or Darwin had in mind when the idea of you came up? What makes you think that your right to life hangs on some kind of particular task and that you were specifically hired to perform it? And anyway, if you know why you are here, what would be the point in you being here, altogether? Basically, you are here for the purpose of not knowing why. So deal with it. We are indeed living very much in a purpose-driven culture that has all but robbed us of the gift of meaning and replaced it with the urgency of purpose. As a result, more and more of us are judging one another not for who we are but for what weve accomplished and for what sort of justification weve come up with for existing. Thus, people rarely ask So tell me about yourself. Rather, its mostly You got a card? To paraphrase comedian Jackie Mason, Everybody is handing out business cards, but the only ones making a living are the printers. The search for purpose becomes more urgent when we feel we exist by no choice of our own because when things get rough, there better be sufficient justification for being here that makes going through this shit worthwhile. On the other hand, when we focus on meaning rather than on purpose, we liberate ourselves from the constraints of the have-tos and breathe in the pristine gift of the moment and of each phase in the magic of our life unfolding.
Download or read book Spiral of the Three Mothers written by Rabbi Dr. Gershon Maron Winkler and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiral of the Three Mothers will deepen your understanding of the Three Cycles of the Jewish harvest period, otherwise known as “the High Holydays,” and the relevance of each phase to your personal and collective renewal. The book draws abundantly from the wellspring of ancient and early-medieval Jewish Shamanic and Kabbalistic source texts, is richly foot-noted, and presents the information in a vernacular that will inspire, challenge and enrich readers of all or no cultural/spiritual backgrounds. Spiral of the Three Mothers will introduce you to the lesser-known nuggets of this ancient earth-based tradition that will rekindle your spirit, expand your horizon, and inspire renewed understanding in regard to yourself, your pet parrot, and the sweetness of the chaos around you.
Download or read book Persons and Immortality written by Kenneth A. Bryson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious belief in personal immortality depends on the evidence for the existence of God, an immaterial soul or mind, and human nature. We also need to support the view that God will always want to maintain relationships with us in the afterlife. So, immortality is a hard sell. The suffering of innocent victims suggests that the existence of a loving God is not self-evident. Furthermore, the soul's separation from the body at death raises the troublesome problem of personal identity. How can that be me in the afterlife without my body? The tradition from Plato to Descartes plants the seed of personal immortality in our rational nature. But the deconstruction of human nature suggests that our species is not special. Yet, the belief in immortality lingers. The first step in the reconstruction of personal immortality is found in systems theory, or belief that the whole individuates the part. This view suggests that we are the outcome of relationships rather than eternal natures entering into relationships. We are the product of relationships taking place at three basic levels. 1. In psyche where being human is the result of a tendency toward good and evil. 2. As social entities where the existence of other human beings individuates us. 3. In being's unconcealment where the intelligibility of things provides a foundation for epistemic life. Heidegger's view of the nothing or horizon surrounding being allows us to identify God as creator entering into personal relationships with us - a view supported by contemporary science. That will be me in the afterlife, if the relationships that individuate me in my pre-mortem state continue into my post-mortem existence. The reversal in being's unconcealment suggests that human death continues the cycle of personal existence.
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Milton s Paradise Lost written by Peter C. Herman and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost addresses Milton in the light of the digital age, new critical approaches to his poem, and his continued presence in contemporary culture. It aims to help instructors enliven the teaching of Paradise Lost and address the challenges presented to students by the poem-- the early modern syntax and vocabulary, the political and theological contexts, and the abounding classical references. The first part of the volume, "Materials," evaluates the many available editions of the poem, points to relevant reference works, recommends additional reading, and outlines useful audiovisual and online aids for teaching Milton's epic poem. The essays in the second part, "Approaches," are grouped by several themes: literary and historical contexts, characters, poetics, critical approaches, classrooms, and performance. The essays cover epic conventions and literary and biblical allusions, new approaches such as ecocriticism and masculinity studies, and reading Milton on the Web, among other topics.
Download or read book Remembering for the Future written by J. Roth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 2256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on 'The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide', Remembering for the Future brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features cutting-edge scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to the most extensive and powerful reassessment of the Holocaust ever undertaken. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the Twentieth century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the new discoveries that are being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust.
Download or read book The Tree of Life written by Roland Edmund Murphy and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1990 Roland Murphy's Tree of Life has been a standard introduction to the wisdom literature of the Bible. Now The Tree of Life is available in a third edition, complete with a new preface by the author and a special supplement that surveys the latest developments in wisdom research. This superb study thoroughly explores the wisdom writings of the Bible, interpreting this literature in a way that illumines the development of Israel's search for wisdom throughout its tumultuous history. Murphy looks at each wisdom book individually -- Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, and Wisdom of Solomon -- and adds to them a discussion of wisdom from other parts of the Old Testament. His careful investigations expose the various guises that wisdom adopts -- the "fear of the Lord," moral formation, the universality of human experience, the mysteries of creation, and others.
Download or read book Victory Over Sin and Temptation written by Thomas Schaff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-06-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
