One True God

Author : Rodney Stark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691187853

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One True God by Rodney Stark Pdf

Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandments. Had the Jews been polytheists, they would today be only another barely remembered people, less important, but just as extinct as the Babylonians. Had Christians presented Jesus to the Greco-Roman world as ''another'' God, their faith would long since have gone the way of Mithraism. And surely Islam would never have made it out of the desert had Muhammad not removed Allah from the context of Arab paganism and proclaimed him as the only God. The three great monotheisms changed everything. With his customary clarity and vigor, Rodney Stark explains how and why monotheism has such immense power both to unite and to divide. Why and how did Jews, Christians, and Muslims missionize, and when and why did their efforts falter? Why did both Christianity and Islam suddenly become less tolerant of Jews late in the eleventh century, prompting outbursts of mass murder? Why were the Jewish massacres by Christians concentrated in the cities along the Rhine River, and why did the pogroms by Muslims take place mainly in Granada? How could the Jews persist so long as a minority faith, able to withstand intense pressures to convert? Why did they sometimes assimilate? In the final chapter, Stark also examines the American experience to show that it is possible for committed monotheists to sustain norms of civility toward one another. A sweeping social history of religion, One True God shows how the great monotheisms shaped the past and created the modern world.

Author : Mark S. Young
Publisher : Discovery House
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640701328

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One True Story, One True God by Mark S. Young Pdf

One True Story, One True God shows how God has moved through history with redemptive, missional intent and gives you a glimpse of how God will use you to further accomplish His plan. From Adam’s creation to Jesus's return, the book shows where we've been, where we are, and where we are going. By seeing the historical context of God's redemption plan, you'll have a fresh understanding of God's big story and where you fit in it.

Author : Paul David Washer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0981732100

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The One True God by Paul David Washer Pdf

This book is essentially bound as a Wire-O bound journal, with a hardback cover wrapping around the entire book, even the spine. This keeps the book in good shape for a long time, and also provides for optimum usablility. The One True God is a unique kind of workbook, intending not just to teach truth but to lead to an encounter with the living God. Beneath that goal the book aims to ground believers in orthodox Christian theology and the actual contents of the Bible. Students are encouraged to thoughtfully draw conclusions from the Scriptures rather than to merely absorb the principles, inferences, and illustrations set before them by theauthor. For this reason the book does not include such material and instead focuses on digesting the Scriptures directly. Through God's own words and under various systematic headings the book unfolds the nature of God. In this way the reader is set on a firm foundation and will readily perceive the centrality and high authority of biblical doctrine within the Christian life. It is the author's conviction that the study of doctrine is both an intellectual and devotional discipline. Therefore students are guided throughout the study to think through and apply the truths they learn, meditating on the demands of Scripture for their heart and mind. The book puts us squarely in the middle of the material and demands we give searching thought to how we will live before such a God. This workbook is especially suited for the following contexts: (1) doctrinal training for new converts; (2) college and adult group Bible studies; (3) private study; (4) Christian or home school curriculum; (5) Sunday school material; (6) an aid to parents in teaching the Word of God to their children.

Author : Eric H. H. Chang
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030570967

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The Only True God by Eric H. H. Chang Pdf

Author : Leonardo L. Williams M.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781524617295

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The World of Gods and the One True God by Leonardo L. Williams M.D. Pdf

This book will enrich the reader with the knowledge of twenty to twenty-two religions in depth of their origin and their beliefs. As a Christian, one would ask, Why should I read this book? Well, the answer is simple. You dont know where you are going if you dont know where you come from. All religions come from the Eastern countries, but namely, Christianity is the only one that teaches about a deity (Lord Jesus) that saves souls. In this book, all the religions are compared to a certain extinct to enlighten the reader on scripture-based and prophecy-based teachings about the beginning of the world as well as the end of the world or, should I say, the coming of the Messiah.

Author : James F. McGrath
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252091896

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The Only True God by James F. McGrath Pdf

Monotheism is a powerful religious concept shaped by competing ideas and the problems they raised. Surveying New Testament writings and Jewish sources from before and after the rise of Christianity, James F. McGrath argues that even the most developed Christologies in the New Testament fit within the context of first century Jewish monotheism. McGrath pinpoints when the parting of ways took place over the issue of God's oneness, and explores philosophical ideas such as "creation out of nothing" which caused Jews and Christians to develop differing concepts and definitions about God.

Author : Tobias Clausnitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1933737131

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We All Believe in One True God by Tobias Clausnitzer Pdf

Author : Millie Florence,Taylor Bennett,Sophie Spree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798649651387

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One True God, 80 Devotions by Millie Florence,Taylor Bennett,Sophie Spree Pdf

Author : Clarence H. Benson
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1581345739

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The One True God by Clarence H. Benson Pdf

The One True God clearly and succinctly answers the questions that many Christians have about the doctrine of the Trinity.

Author : Keith J. Daniels
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Bible colleges
ISBN : 9781604773866

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Worshipping the One True God by Keith J. Daniels Pdf

Worshipping the One True God Human nature has changed very little over the centuries. Overtime men have forsaken God's ways and created their own ways to worship God. Instead of creating idols made by hands they create idols with their imaginations. Jesus Christ, in his time, was at constant loggerheads with the religious leaders of his time. Most of them thought that they had all the right answers. Most of them believed that they did not need Jesus' ministry. He became a stumble stone and a rock of offense to them. Man's way is never God's way. God has desired a family who will listen to him, believe him and do his will. Each member of God's family is important and has a special purpose in the body of Christ. Each member is endued with power from on high and can perform signs, miracles and wonders. While attending the University of Rhode Island in the middle 1970's the author encountered a group of Christian students the introduced him to God's Word. He took several biblical classes with this group. Over the following thirty-two years he has taken several more from various groups. He has run bible fellowships in his home over the years. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New York at Albany. He currently is a middle school teacher in Rhode Island. He and his wife, Diana, have nine-year old triplets and they run a family fellowship in their home. The author continues to study and is working on his second book, As for Me and My House, We Will Serve The Lord.

Author : Rev. Peter Hendriks Okello
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781525530234

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The Real Deal: Making the Case for the One True God by Rev. Peter Hendriks Okello Pdf

This book explains differences between the content of the Bible and the Qur’an and between the God of the Bible and Allah of the Quran. The resulting identity of Allah serves as a wake-up call for many Christians, especially for those who think that the God of the Bible and Islam’s Allah are identical. Despite growing, militant Muslim behavior throughout the world, especially against Christians and Jews, many Christian leaders in churches and politics seem to be ignorant of the growing threat of Islam to their communities. Many examples of explicit Muslim’s inhuman behavior substantiate the global Muslim threat to completely destroy Jewish and Christian communities throughout the world. This book helps readers understand that there is a significant and most strenuous spiritual battle going on in the heavenly spheres between demons (fallen angels) and angels as ministers of God. This spiritual battle is reflected in the hearts and minds of men and women today. This book suggests how Christians need to be united in a biblical response to the growing threat of militant Islam to bring the entire world under the rule of Sharia law and worship of Islam’s Allah.

Author : Samuel HINDS (Bishop of Norwich.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024368470

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The Three Temples of the One True God Contrasted by Samuel HINDS (Bishop of Norwich.) Pdf

Author : Philip Wood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691219950

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The Imam of the Christians by Philip Wood Pdf

How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate The Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the political practices and ideas of their Muslim rulers between 750 and 850 in the Abbasid caliphate in the Jazira (modern eastern Turkey and northern Syria). Focusing on the writings of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, the patriarch of the Jacobite church, Philip Wood describes how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just theology. In doing so, Wood opens a new window on the world of early Islam and Muslims’ interactions with other religious communities. Wood shows how Dionysius and other Christian clerics, by forging close ties with Muslim elites, were able to command greater power over their coreligionists, such as the right to issue canons regulating the lives of lay people, gather tithes, and use state troops to arrest opponents. In his writings, Dionysius advertises his ease in the courts of ʿAbd Allah ibn Tahir in Raqqa and the caliph al-Ma’mun in Baghdad, presenting himself as an effective advocate for the interests of his fellow Christians because of his knowledge of Arabic and his ability to redeploy Islamic ideas to his own advantage. Strikingly, Dionysius even claims that, like al-Ma’mun, he is an imam since he leads his people in prayer and rules them by popular consent. A wide-ranging examination of Middle Eastern Christian life during a critical period in the development of Islam, The Imam of the Christians is also a case study of the surprising workings of cultural and religious adaptation.

Author : Annie Ngana- Mundeke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999344692

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Lord Jesus Christ, God Almighty by Annie Ngana- Mundeke Pdf

A christian book for religious education purposes

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691234441

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How God Becomes Real by T.M. Luhrmann Pdf

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.