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Begetting and Making are two very separate ideas that can become easily confused. Begetting is the creating of something the same as the creator. Humans beget humans and birds beget birds. Making is the creating of something that is not the same as the creator. God made man; man is not God but is like God in some ways. God sent His begotten Son to earth so that the fallen humans of the world could become sons of God; humans are made into sons of God, not begot into sons of God. When Jesus came to earth, he gave us a perfect example of what a human life should look like. However, human lives are naturally self-centered, the opposite of Christ’s life. This self-centered lifestyle often holds individuals back from living for Christ. Christ died for humans as a whole; in principle, each individual is already saved and just needs to accept that salvation. Some have asked why God didn’t just beget sons of God instead of making them and then having them go through the difficult and agonizing process of becoming more like the one who God
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However, God lives apart from time; all times and places in all of history are the present for God. Even though there are millions of people praying to God at the same time in our world, God has all of eternity to listen to those prayers because of his infinite attention for each person. When you pray, you are as much alone with God as if you were the only person praying to Him. Humans have free will even though God already knows what decisions we will make. This is the case because God is outside and above our lives. God views our lives as a timeline. He does not look in the past or foresee the future. He simply sees every moment as the present. Some assume that Christ’s life as God was in time and that his time on earth was a part of his life as a whole. However, Christ’s time on earth has no relationship to His life as God because his life as God is beyond all space and
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To become fully human men must distinguish themselves from God. When God sends the flood. He separates Himself from them by putting the world into their hands, as if to say, "There you go, you're grown up now, you take care of it." The gift of the Earth should be God's last active attempt at separation; from then on the humans should try to separate themselves from Him on their own. But like birds kicked out of the nest who try to climb back up the tree, they try to build the tower to heaven; and once again, God must intervene by creating even greater difference. This time He confuses their languages so they are not only different from God but also different from each other.
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“The scientific study of how humans developed did not begin until the 1800s in Europe. Until that time, people relied on religious explanations of how humans came into existence. Starting in the 1500s a scientific revolution began to sweep Europe. Thinkers started using scientific methods and experiments to try to better understand the world and the creatures living in it. Eventually these methods were turned to the question of human origins” (The Nature Of Human Origins, 1). Earth made it possible for species to change over time because Ancient Earth provides ability to plenty of time.The Homo Sapien a is very complex creature. The species started off very simple by living in caves and surviving with little food and then later evolved into a species that were able to do many more complex things. The first species was Sahelanthropus tchadensis They were one of the most simple humans in that time period and on. They had very small skulls compared to Homo Sapiens today and their motor skills were just the same. We have evolved and changed for the better both mentally and physically. The Evolution of Homo Sapiens started off simple, such as the Neanderthals, and now we are the most advanced species to ever walk the planet so far.
characterization of the Son does not oppose this tradition; rather, it is simply different. By Milton’s portrayal, the Son has an acute craving for attention, a desire for gory revenge over Death, and an appetite for glory. Furthermore, while the Son, after accepting the task of becoming mortal and dying to save Adam’s descendants, receives plenty of specific praise from his father (“ ‘thou... hast been found by merit more than birthright Son of God’”(3.308-9)) and from the narrator (“[he] breathed immortal love to mortal men” (3.267-8)), he builds up the ramifications of his sacrifice even more in his own language. Such language from the Son comes across as not only grandiose, but even narcissistic at times. The Son of God’s speech betrays narcissism not only in its visual language (that is, the images depicted in the speech), but also in its emphasis on drawing the attention of the angels and future humans to himself.
The Trinity is made up of God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This concept is what many Catholics believe in, but other worldwide religions believe in other beliefs. Out of all the three Divine Persons, “Jesus is the most qualified to bring the renewal of creation because it was through him that creation came into being” (Pohle February 7th). We as humans will have to face the consequences for actions that we have done in the past, present and future. Jesus has come into the world as a human to show his dignity and save us from sin; he was the world and of all creation. As we come to read more about Jesus we get to know Jesus more, we learn about what he did, how he did it and why he had to do these saving actions.
Because Adam and Eve took of the forbidden fruit, sin and all kinds of evil were unleashed into the world. This sin is what separates men and women from the relationships that God intended them to have, not only with him, but all those around us (Jenson, 2016, p. 75). Even at birth, babies are born with this nature of selfishness, and this could carry on through the person’s whole adult life (Jenson, 2016, p. 76). However, we are given something we will never be deserve: salvation. This salvation is granted to us through the death of Jesus Christ, although, that is not the end to this story. Jesus was not subject to death. God raised his Son from the realm of death in order that this broken relationship between Himself and humanity may be restored in a way that death cannot overcome (Jenson, 2016, p. 79). In this event, humanity was buried with Christ so that each person could live a new life that is radically different from their old self (Romans 6:4). That is to say, though each person is born into sin, they have the opportunity to live a life free from sin through believing in this story, that Jesus was crucified, yet was raised from the dead in order that humanity can live a new life in honor of Him. This community of believers is known as the church. The church is considered to be one group whose common goal is to reach out to the rest of the world through the use of the gospel, which can
Organogenesis takes its roots from two Greek words: organon, an instrument, tool, or organ, and genesis, a beginning or creation. With this in mind, one can intuitively infer the basic meaning of the word organogenesis; that is, the creation of an organ. What it means in context to medicine, however, may not be so easily predicted. If any man (or woman, for that matter) of medicine fifteen years ago was asked about the meaning of organogenesis, he or she may tell you that it is the development of organs in an embryo. This is because just a few years ago, the only known way of creating organs was to bring a new organism into the world. If the question was asked today, however, the response might be something like “Which kind?”, as there now exists more than one way to create organs. The field of bioengineering has produced amazing advancements in regenerative medicine. The knowledge of the medical field is now to a point where organs can be created in a lab from only artificial materials and stem cells. This growing of organs is now referred to as organogenesis, and it is the solution to a myriad of medical problems.
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