So this is the first and most basic sense in which Nietzsche thinks that God is dead. Our culture is becoming increasingly secularized. The reason is not hard to fathom. The scientific revolution that began in the 16th century soon offered a way of understanding natural phenomena that proved ...
Baldur’s mother, Frigg, learned of her son’s death and decided to take matters into her own hands. She went to Hel, the goddess of the dead, and askedher to release Baldurfrom the underworld. Hel refused, so Frigg made a deal with her. She said that all things in the world would...
5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. Read ChapterAll Versions Deuteronomy 10:12-13 12And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love hi...
Slowly, methodically, scientists supplied answers to mysteries insufficiently explained by theologians. Reason pushed faith off into the shadows of mythology and superstition, while atheism became a badge of wisdom. Our culture, freed from moral obligation, explored the frontiers of secularism. God was...
Our ideas on this profound subject are the fruit of a long intellectual and moral evolution, and they are so far from being shared by the savage that he cannot even understand them when they are explained to him. Much of the controversy which has raged as to the religion of the lower ...
Some scholars claim that current Establishment Clause doctrine can increasingly be explained in terms of substantive neutrality-that is, the idea that government ought to treat religion and irreligion (or comparable secular activities) in the same way. Whether a product of the Court\u27s commitment...
That enlightenment helps explain that puzzling first line, “Joy to the world, the Lordiscome” (emphasis added). I’ve often wondered why Watts didn’t choose “hascome.” Ms. Poblete gives us indication. God’s grace (explained in part by the acronym, God’s Riches at Christ’s Expen...
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What cannot be explained, need not immediately need to lead to the conclusion, GOD DID IT. There could be other unknown reasons. But since you are a theist, you probably have no option but to conclude, GOD DID IT. After all, there is a seat in heaven at stake. A little knowledge ...
For the last few thousand years our existence has been explained by metaphysical constructs, truths that lie hidden behind the appearances, everlasting ideas beyond what our senses can see and hear. The philosopher Plato, with his famous allegory of the cave, stated that appearances are ...