Accessing God directly is the prerogative of the Son of God. All other mediators, mediate on the Son's behalf, not God's. But the Son mediates on behalf of all mankind and God. It is impossible to know God without the Son and it is impossible to have life without the Son no matter how perfect...
Many people think of God and religion as a means to acquire wealth directly or in the form of various blessings that God bestow to His followers. This is quite common in the Christiandom.
But the Book of Job shows that genuine worship exists on a totally different level - one that disregards...
Yes I do believe in Heaven. I believ that heaven, in our case here, is the dwelling place of God.
Where God dwells, all is holy, pure and perfect. Because all emanated from God,the ultimate rule for purity, holiness and perfection will be the characters of God. Anything that stands in...
There are two (2) types of atheists.
1. One does not believe in God
2. Another believes that God does not exist
The atheist who does not believe in God believes in something else but still exercise that right/freedom to believe in/on the contrary. But this contrary belief still, by its...
The word Satan is not found in Genesis. In fact it is not found in the whole of the Pentateuch. The first use of the word is in 1Ch 21:1 where it means the opponent or the adversary. So:
Did God put Satan in the garden?
No. But we infer that the serpent is Eden is Satan from reading the...
It would be a good idea to differentiate between the terms: culture, custom, tradition and morality. Often it becomes unclear as to what extent morality can be viewed in the context of the others.
It is complex. Social dynamics is influenced by the individual members making up a society as well as other factors like availability of resources, communication,religiosity, etc, etc...
We may be talking about culture and customs here which is different from morality.
I would like think that free will was given to man and that it is not a product of innumerable variables. That it was given so that man could use to attend to the needs arising from the innumerable variables - biological, chemical, physical forces.
Subconsciouness? The purest form leads back to...
Yes. Language had to be developed using also the free will and the power of choice. Power of choice of what? Power of choice of words and the choice to vocalize it the way man preferred. Again notice:
Gen 2:20 "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast...
Before Adam had to contend with the choices that he waould have to make, he begun naming animals, etc. Notice this:
Gen 2:20 "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him".
This is a...
No. You learn from the consequence. Not while in the process. You learn from the rewards you get from the choices you make. You associate the rewards with the consequence, and there learning begins.
But the consequences of their choices were told to them.
Because you first decide to learn (...
Its a good question. The answer to this quesstion lies on our position about the evolution of self-awareness. To this, there are only two:
1. We developed it as part of the evolutionary process or
2. We were endowed with it by an external factor
If we believe in the first...
Sin came into this world because of one man's choice. He had to choose between LIFE and DEATH and he chose death instead. Given this, I would like to believe that anything we do or behaviors we cherish that has the potential to destroy ourselves or others is sin.