The Targum as a Bible Reread, or How Does God Communicate with Humans?Syren, Roger
For his friend Enkidu Gilgamesh did bitterly weep as he wandered the wild: “I shall die, and shall I not then be as Enkidu? Sorrow has entered my heart! TheEpic of Gilgamesh. IX.I-4 the fact that he is one-third human; the fact that his fate will be likeEnkidu–death. Until now...
But why did humans feel compelled to make the Grim Reaper, well, so grim? Why not make him a friendly and helpful guide to the underworld? And why, for that matter, does he have to be a guy? We'll address all of these questions on the next few pages. We'll look at the ...
Yep, there's formaldehyde in cigarettes.boonchai wedmakawand / Getty Images You may not know formaldehyde when you see it, but you'd probably know it by its smell. The colorless gas has astrong, suffocating aromathatsome describe as pickle-like(but not in an appetizing way). The flammable...
God will reveal God's self through every simple system, every effort that humans make to reach for it, there will be something that they will grab that might be different than other people. And yet it's feels like hubris to think that human beings can understand God through their ...
Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.
How were Humans made I think most of the myths use this motif because most of the people could not think of any other way of humans coming to be. But, how did it get to every other culture that had made the humans out of genetic material? Genetic material is usually stuff like clay...
did prayer build our relationship and give us a chance to talk to God together, it also led to some great conversations. For instance, when Anna hesitated to pray for a woman she did not know well, who had lost her father, we had a great talk on praying with empathy. We discussed ...
” the question should be “What do you believe God to be?” One might say “An opiate of the masses” as did Karl Marx, still the question provides a more open possibility to explore the nature of the Infinite. God is the unifying and organizing Principle of the universe. God is One...
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