The Reason For God By Timothy Keller Essay

Malala Yousafzai, 18 year old Nobel Prize winner and women’s rights activist, once exclaimed: “I raise up my voice- not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back”. The idea of speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves is extremely important when it comes to striving for change, so being able to express the needs of marginalized people is a great and awesome power. Yousafzai’s quote specifically connects to women’s rights, therefore it can be used to support the feminist movement seeing as she is advocating for the equality, in treatment and opportunity, of men and women. Feminist beliefs do not only apply to society, but to theology as well, seeing as the teachings of the bible are extremely influential in the day to day lives and values of religious people. The text that I chose to highlight this idea comes from Elizabeth A. Johnson’s book Quest for the Living God, chapter 5 ‘God Acting Womanish’ because it directly connects spirituality and feminism.

All hope must be lost in a world full of noiseless features and in which the world has no detail nor meaning but just black pixels all around. That is what was thought by the young Hellen Keller, who had been diagnosed with a disease that gave her the disadvantage of becoming blind, deaf, and mute. In the excerpt,” The Most Important Day,” by Hellen Keller, she talks about how her life became like a flower blossoming after meeting her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who taught her the basics of life. According to the excerpt, events have led to show that ever since meeting Sullivan, Keller’s life will forever be changed. Sullivan was able to teach Kellen that everything around them has a word and a meaning.

In the article “ On Being an Atheist,” H.J. McCloskey attempts to inform his readers that the belief in atheism is a “much more comfortable belief” by effectively using a disdainful rhetoric towards theists and their faith. McCloskey delves into both the Cosmological and Teleological arguments, which within he criticizes the arguments and to further his argument against theism, he also presents the Problem of Evil and why evil cannot possibly exist with a perfect God being the creator of universe. What will be displayed in this essay are the counter-arguments to McCloskey’s criticisms and the attempt to discredit his claims that regard the “comfortable” position that lies within atheism and its arguments.

“I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects.” Hellen Keller states this in the opening of her autobiography “The Most Important Day”. This excerpt from the work recounts Keller’s first interactions with Sullivan, her teacher, and how these bolstering events have come to alter the course of her life. The events throughout “The Most Important Day” display how meeting Sullivan was a life-changing decision because of the linguistic skills that Keller was able to learn from her and the eagerness to learn more that she would gain from their interactions. Before meeting Sullivan, Hellen Keller did not understand the concept of words and was held back linguistically due to her disabilities,

• Writes about James, brother of Jesus, who was called the Christ. Stoned to death in A.D. 62. Pg.78

The content of my paper will be an analysis of Augustine’s Confessions. I will focus on the first nine chapters of the book. First, I will write an introductory page about Augustine. Second, I will explain why Augustine wrote the Confessions and the importance of the Confessions as a philosophical work. I will analyze Augustine’s view of God and show the main theme of his book, which is, the sovereign God of grace and the sovereign grace of God. I will focus on Augustine’s view of God and His grace.

According to E.F. Peters, “The three great faiths called Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were born of an event that each remembers as a moment in history, when the One True God appeared to an Iron Age sheikh named Abram and bound him in a covenant forever (Peters, 2004).” Unfortunately, a paradox exists between the three monotheists – Jesus. Islam and Judaism look at Jesus a prophet and teacher (Keller, pg. 4, 2007), whereas Christians view Jesus as God. Tim Keller agreed that this is a problem as well, because it leads to exclusivity “Therefore, it is easy for one religious group to stereotype and caricature other ones (Pg.4).” Keller offers several signification suggestions about how Christians can give insight about their faith and defend the reasons for their belief giving a clearer picture to nonbelievers or believers of other religions. This leads to Tim Keller’s introduction of his book a Reason For God, where he challenges the believer, “…to ask the hard questions about why they believe… (p. Xvi).” This statement led me to investigating my own faith so that it moves from inheritance to my own personal belief.

a) Christians believe many different things about God’s nature; due to the huge spectrum of Christians that there are. However, as a general rule they perceive God as being one of the following four things:

In Uys’ (1980) film, The God’s Must Be Crazy, a tribal community of South African Bushmen who live independently away from any contact with the outside world. When a Coke bottle is dropped from a plane, this “beautiful” and “useful” thing becomes a tool that is adopted into a variety of uses by the family (Uys, 1980). When the family begins to fight over the bottle, Xi, decides that although the bottle has been given to them by the gods, this now “evil thing” must be thrown off the edge of the world (Uys, 1980). The film then captures Xi’s experiences and interactions with other people and modern society as he sought to accomplish his task.

The belief in Gods has always existed throughout human’s recored history. Whether it be the Greek Gods: Apollo, and Zeus, or the Judeo-Christian God, believed by Christians in modern day society. The belief of God has always existed among humans, however, assuming God does not exist, what explains the cultural evolution of such a false belief, namely religion? I shall argue that the reason this false belief is successful is because it manipulates human nature better than any other belief by these three points: an avoidance of death (the soul), a sense of worth (knowledge), and a sense, or need of belief (faith).

As Christians we often believe certain things simply because it’s what our parents and the people around us believe. We often go about our Christian walk without ever giving thought or reason to why we believe what we do. The world of Christian Theology is a place where Christians can find answer to the ‘what and why’ of Christianity. If we are able to begin comprehending Christian Theology and the rudimental knowledge of it, then we can take it with us into more in depth books and discussions about theology, know the importance of it and how vital it is for Christians

Three Arguments for the Existence of God Many people debate about God’s existence. There are three arguments Christians use to prove God exists. These three arguments are the cause and effect, the design, and the moral arguments. Each argument shows a different piece of evidence for the existence of God. The Bible also gives evidence of God’s existence.

Through out history, as man progressed from a primitive animal to a "human being" capable of thought and reason, mankind has had to throw questions about the meaning of our own existence to ourselves. Out of those trail of thoughts appeared religion, art, and philosophy, the fundamental process of questioning about existence. Who we are, how we came to be, where we are going, what the most ideal state is....... All these questions had to be asked and if not given a definite answer, then at least given some idea as to how to begin to search for, as humans probed deeper and deeper into the riddle that we were all born into.

Morally bad morally good because of god.Some people feel that a bad action morally wrong is because God says its wrongs.The question and option I have is would people still feel bad about their actions without a God. Are people lookIng for someone to blame for their decisions? Or do people use God for the scene of guilt o “I fail you God” or they just fail themselves so basically god is a coping mechanisms god to people is a coping mechanism people feel bad for what they do any yes, I feel like God is a part of why some people could have regretted in their action he's more a support type of person.

The bible was written as an account of what many viewed that God had accomplished so his actions and words could be passed on for generations. Some believe it is a literary account and some believe it is a historical account. The word of God in the bible comes in many forms and is left up to interpretation by the reader. Some believe that the word of God should be the only word and should be strictly followed. Some believe that the words are meant as a guideline to help us through life. Whatever your belief is you can always seem to find the meaning behind your belief through the word of God in the Bible.