Each day that I tap into God's Love and spread it all around, I see the results of my true belief in Him with the honest effort of Love infecting others. We all are drawn into God's mercy, power, and grace that taps into our loving lifestyle and kindness.…
People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own…
The main theme is humans can find it emotionally difficult to conform to society, but usually end up doing so. The meaning of this theme is that we all want to do things that are practical to society even if it feels wrong in our hearts.The main driving component which draws people too conformity are the desire to be accepted in certain status groups. People fear that if they do not conform to society, they will be breaking the social contract, therefore be rejected by society at not being able to achieve their personal goals. It is easier to do what is expected than following our minds and rebel. We chose this theme because we can all relate to it and is common in today’s society. Our identities are formed by us as individuals, but also by the world we live in and the other people who inhabit it. The media, our friends and our families all influence us in one way or another. For example, most of us follow the latest things or culture’s trends such as how to dress.This is important in most teens in our society because they don’t want to be judged and talked about in the general public. The media and the opinions of our peers are both things that we consider important. Even though most of us won’t admit it, we all want to belong. We want to be accepted by everybody, so to fulfill this desire we perform things that are against our will.…
Let me start off by saying that this story is not about a wow moment in my life, or about an epiphany that I had one day that made me change the way I live my life. No this is simply a story about the things that I’ve learned along the way to make me view religion the way I do. …
My spirit began to demonstrate to me that as a child of the most high we were all given the gift to transform and change who we are by understanding the purpose that God has appoint on our life. God, has given us our birth certificate signed, sealed and delivered in which the bible gives us bearing and whom we originated from. It demonstrates to us best practices to live and sustain the transformation of being able to flourish by reading and understanding the bible and applying the word to our life.…
A religious experience is an outward encounter with something divine also known as God. This experience is set apart from any other experience as it is based on religious context. It is the contact of feeling something far greater than one’s self “connection with holiness”. It seems to happen at any time and it is described as likewise being in ‘another dimension’- as one perceive themselves unaware of their surroundings; feeling as if it happens directly outside the body- in a spiritual realm- given the name “supernatural event”. There are many types of religious experiences that were once very rare and are becoming more and more frequent amongst believers of many faiths and non-believers. During this period of time people feel loved, joyful, peaceful and blessed and other times gain some ultimate truth concerning life as well as, by and large, alters and changes behaviour and attitudes. According to some scholars in view of religious experiences humans cannot fully understand or are not yet equipped to explain the experience and as a result this is where the complex issue lies, posing a question on whether experiences are reliable, credible and are valid in terms of understanding human nature and Gods nature.…
However, most experiences tend to be less dramatic and more personal, such as answered prayer or seeing the beauty of nature. One type, called a ‘mystical’ experience, occurs when a person becomes overwhelmingly aware of the presence of God.…
I will examine the distinctive features of a religious experience and how they differ from everyday experiences from the world religions of Christianity and Buddhism. I intend to use the religious experiences of mysticism, near death experiences and revelations to highlight the distinctive features. These distinctive features are what separate religious experiences from ordinary experiences, such as us not having suitable words in our vocabulary to describe religious experiences and the experience not being universal to human beings.…
But I locked myself in my parents room because the ruckus out in the living was too much for me. It was already past 8 o'clock and I already knew that they weren't going to be leaving anytime soon. So I decided to fill my ears with some encouraging Christian music and my eyes with a book called 5 Minutes with Jesus. Just as I finished reading a chapter of the book I saw my dad coming into the room, and in the hallway I heard some mutter, "Grandpa just pasted away..." I walked to my dad and hugged him as he cried and uttered some words I couldn't get into my head. I let go of him and walked back into empty, frigid, starless room. I closed the door shut and didn't even bother to turn on the lights as I fell on my knees and cried endless prayers. Eventually I came out of the room sluggishly to look at my grandfather, and there I heard cries…
in nature, in providential history. and in the moral law within the heart, whereby all…
Many years ago, I was a patient at Crumlin Childrens Hospital Dublin. I was there for quite a long time as a result of surgery in Galway University Hospital not having gone to plan. I was only two years of age when I was involved in a freak accident, which resulted in me breaking my arm. Little did I know at the time that I would find myself still attending Crumlin occasionally four years down the road.…
Marx’s challenges to religious experience arguments are sociological; he suggested that the origins of religious experience are to be found in society.…
It was to my turn to receive prayer and I was ready to receive whatever God was going to reveal to me that day. The night before I was in my co-pastors home discussing the Holy Spirit and was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I stepped up to the pastor and waited for him to lay hands on me and begin to pray. The Holy Spirit began to move and the pastor began to pray in tongues and he revealed to me…
We learn in the bible that he would perform miraculous wonder in front off all the nations. We then see how he rose from the dead and walked all around the world preaching and teaching for 30 days. Also when he ascends into heaven the whole world was able to see his glory shine. This is a show on how what was prophesied came to live. How what was in the word became flesh and dwelled among us (John 1:1). To this day reading God’s word surprises me and shows how real and alive God is.…
I was born into a Muslim family and raised up a nominal Muslim. I grew up believing Christianity is just an alternative religion to Islam. Sometime in 1999, in Lagos, Nigeria, I was invited to a church – Redeem Christian Church Of God - by a female friend. While in the church I heard the gospel preached to me and was deeply moved by the words I heard. I responded to the alter call made by the preacher and was told am now born again.…