[PDF] Gods Biographybefore The Beginning eBook

Author : Richard Bourgeois
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493155717

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ARE THERE FEMALE & MALE SPIRITS IN HEAVENS WHY DID LUCIFER CHALLENGE GOD? GOD’S POSITION ON ABORTION DID GOD HAVE A BEGINNING? WHAT GROUP WORSHIPPED GOD BEST? PROOF....A GOD! WHAT/WHERE IS HEAVEN? GOD’S REASON FOR MAN! A SOUL.....A SPIRIT? WHAT IS LIFE IN HEAVEN LIKE? WHAT IS HELL? WHAT IS PURGATORY? WHO IS THE HOLY GHOST? DID GOD MAKE A MISTAKE? WHO/WHAT/WHY GOD? DID GOD KNOW WHO WOULD EARN HEAVEN? WHY DID GOD NOT APPEAR TO MODERN MAN? WHY DID GOD ALLOW RAPE, SIN, OR MURDER? ARE LOVE ONES FROM EARTH REUNITED IN HEAVEN? WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SOUL AT DEATH OF THE BODY? DID WE BEGIN AT BIRTH OR WHERE WAS OUR SOUL/SPIRIT BEFORE? BEFORE the BEGINNING?

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1996-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679743685

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0679743685

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A new reading of the Hebrew Bible explores the infinitely complex roles of God, from his first appearance as the Creator to his last as the Ancient of Days. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Skip Heitzig
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0736977732

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Does God exist? If He does, is it possible to know Him? How you answer these two questions defines how you see the world. Author and pastor Skip Heitzig once wrestled with these questions himself. As he studied the Bible alongside science and philosophy, he grew confident that the answers to both are a resounding yes! In Biography of God, he shares the intricacies of what the Bible reveals about God’s character and His plans. As Skip helps you recognize and remove the limits you may have placed on your idea of who God is, you’ll gain a better understanding of the… omnipotence, paradoxes, and mystery central to God’s being true nature of the Holy Trinity life-changing hope that comes with believing God is who He says He is Whether you’re a longtime believer or you’re still looking for answers about faith, Biography of God will help you transform your acknowledgment to trust in the God in the Bible, and ignite your passion to know Him more intimately.

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : God
ISBN : 9780517223123

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A study of the deity of the world's three dominant monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In a dynamic interplay between religion and society's ever-changing beliefs, values, and traditions, human beings' ideas about God have been transformed. Ideas about God have been molded to apply to the spiritual needs of the people who worship him in a particular place and time. The author explores and analyzes the development and progression of the various perceptions of God from the days of Abraham to present times--Adapted from book jacket.

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307789136

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.

Author : Jerry Martin
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category :
ISBN : 9780996725316

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The voice announced, "I am God." For Jerry Martin, that encounter began a personal, intellectual, and spiritual adventure. He had not believed in God. He was a philosopher, trained to be skeptical-- to doubt everything. So his first question was: Is this really God talking? There were other urgent questions: What will my wife think? Why would God want to talk to me? Does God want me to do something? He began asking all the questions about life and death and ultimate things to which he--and all of us--have sought answers: Love and loss. Happiness and suffering. Good and evil. Death and the afterlife. The world's religions. The ways God communicates with us. How to live in harmony with God. God: An Autobiography tells the story of these mind-opening conversations with God.Jerry L. Martin was raised in a Christian home. By the time he left college, he was not a believer. But he was interested in the big questions and so he studied the great thinkers. He became a philosophy professor and served as head of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to scholarly articles on epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and public policy, he wrote reports on education that received national attention and was invited to testify before Congress. He stepped down from that career to write this book.

Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0465040640

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The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.

Author : Ronald Hendel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691196834

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During its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and Christianity, and it plays a central role in contemporary debates about science, politics, and human rights. The authors provide a panoramic history of this iconic book, exploring its impact on Western religion, philosophy, literature, art, and more.

Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 183860863X

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In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that - whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam - God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of this story the paradox arguably reaches its improbable zenith: in the fragile form of a human being the infinite became finite, the eternal temporal. The way these and other metaphysical tensions have been understood is, the author demonstrates, the key to unlocking the entire history of religion in the West. Expertly placing the narrative of divine presence within the wider history of ideas, Almond suggests that the notion of a deity has been the single greatest conundrum of medieval and modern civilization. In this rich, nuanced appraisal, 'God' is shown to be more complex and fascinating than ever before.