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1.8 Chapter Eight: The "New" Testament Exceeds The Evil Of The "Old" One 1.9 Chapter Nine: The Koran Is Borrowed From Both Jewish and Christian Myths 1.10 Chapter Ten: The Tawdriness Of The Miraculous And The Decline Of Hell
[11]: 27 The Bible primarily speaks of sin as moral evil rather than natural or metaphysical evil. [11]: 21 The writers of the Bible take the reality of a spiritual world beyond this world and its containment of hostile spiritual forces for granted. While the post-Enlightenment world does not, the "dark spiritual forces" can be seen as "symbols ...
His work in the philosophy of religion includes influential essays on the problem of evil and the relation between theism and ethics. In metaphysics , Adams defended actualism in metaphysics of modality and Platonism about the nature of so-called possible worlds .
Biblical criticism, in particular higher criticism, covers a variety of methods which have been used since the Enlightenment in the early 18th century as scholars began to apply the same methods and perspectives which had already been applied to other literary and philosophical texts to biblical documents. [9]
It discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God (referred to as "All That Is" [19] [21] and "The Multidimensional God"); [22] the nature of physical reality; [22] the origins of the universe; [21] the nature of the self and the "higher self"; [18] [20] the story of Christ; [23] the evolution of the soul and all ...
The doctrine of sin is central to the Christian faith, since its basic message is about redemption in Christ. [2] Hamartiology, a branch of Christian theology which is the study of sin, [3] describes sin as an act of offence against God by despising his persons and Christian biblical law, and by injuring others. [4]
[3] So, for example, Chapter 5 on "Charity" takes just one quotation from the Bible, combining it with less familiar sources: "He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." 1 John iv "By love may He be gotten and holden, but by thought never." The Cloud of Unknowing "The astrolabe of the mysteries of God is love." Jalal-uddin Rumi " [4]
A Deist is defined as "One who believes in the existence of a God or Supreme Being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason." [2] Deists generally reject the Trinity, the incarnation, the divine origin and authority of the Bible, miracles, and supernatural forces.