Omniscience

Harvey Cox’s work The Market as G-d is an analysis of “The Market” and religion—exploring their shared natures and functions as forces within the lived human experience. Cox (in all but name) dissects the structure of a neoliberal economy to discover that the notion of “Free Market” moves and speaks much like that of religion. As Cox explores the relationship between “The Market” and religion within the paradigm of neoliberalism, one witnesses how a neoliberal economy elevates and enthrones the…

Snorri’s treatment of Odin can arguable be represented to the contemporary Christian audience as God, or seen as symbolizing a monotheistic deity similar to the Christian God, Loki is portrayed as demonic, as Satan, or even as the Antichrist. This divergence between Odin and Loki was fundamentally impacted by later Christian influences and attitudes which affected the myths transition from oral poetry to written word. By critically comparing the roles which Loki fulfilled in Snorri’s Edda and…

Virginia Woolf’s The New Dress has many themes and literary devices. The story shows the style of stream of consciousness that Woolf uses. Virginia Woolf’s writing style is creative because many people do not use it in today’s writing. Woolf’s writing style of stream of consciousness uses Mabel’s thoughts and events that happened. Woolf decided to write in a stream of consciousness style, and her choice of writing let her use flashbacks as a literary device. She was able to use flashbacks and…

causation, or retro-causation, has been given much attention in the past twenty years. It has made waves in metaphysics, quantum physics, and even religion. In the case of religion, it pulls into question God’s divine foreknowledge, in other words omniscience. This is an attempt to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with the possibility of backwards causation. Thus if is it impossible to do so then the options present themselves as: God has no divine foreknowledge, backwards causation is…

The End of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Slavery had become an extremely controversial issue among not only the religious group the Quakers, but also among political forces toward the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Before the American Revolution, slavery was widely used and accepted throughout the developed world, but afterward, people began to acknowledge the negative side of slavery. The abolition the slave trade of the United Kingdom in 1806 and 1807 paved…

intrusions become a vehicle to explore the binary opposition of lightness and weight in the novel. By not only successfully immersing himself in the plot, but also distancing himself from it, Kundera successfully establishes his omnipresence and omniscience - two qualities that contribute to his reliability as a narrator. In addition to this, Kundera also assumes the roles of creator and director of the novel. This best reflected in the authorial intrusions in the novel. By incorporating…

The reasons why each person or nation may experience growth or prosperity may be different; however, the origin of this success is the same. The people who suffer are able to use that suffering to produce better outcomes and experiences. In the absence of suffering, there are no lessons to be learned and no reason to reflect on alternatives. To suffer does not only mean to experience physical pain, but it can also mean to experience emotional pain or be extremely displeased of a current…

reason why he also favors a strict "either - or" between God 's existence and human freedom: either God exists or man is free and responsible. There is no third possibility and all philosophical efforts to find an intermediate way between divine omniscience and human freedom are simply a waste of time.…

There are many controversies regarding the theology in the bible, and different groups and cultures view them and use them as they believe is the correct way. Since we have no time machines or original transcripts, we can only use the text itself to derive clues as to what the author meant. One of the longer standing controversies is the Calvinist-Arminian debate which arose in the 16th century. The debate which argues about the nature of God and whether he decides the future of every individual…

Why then must you go through with this tediously lengthy trial that serves no purpose? The defendants before me are the subordinates of Hitler, who, during the existence of the Nazi government, were intoxicated by his ostensible invincibility and omniscience. What greater punishment can you inflict on a nation…