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Born Believers

Author : Justin L. Barrett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439196575
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Born Believers written by Justin L. Barrett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infants have a lot to make sense of in the world: Why does the sun shine and night fall; why do some objects move in response to words, while others won’t budge; who is it that looks over them and cares for them? How the developing brain grapples with these and other questions leads children, across cultures, to naturally develop a belief in a divine power of remarkably consistent traits––a god that is a powerful creator, knowing, immortal, and good—explains noted developmental psychologist and anthropologist Justin L. Barrett in this enlightening and provocative book. In short, we are all born believers. Belief begins in the brain. Under the sway of powerful internal and external influences, children understand their environments by imagining at least one creative and intelligent agent, a grand creator and controller that brings order and purpose to the world. Further, these beliefs in unseen super beings help organize children’s intuitions about morality and surprising life events, making life meaningful. Summarizing scientific experiments conducted with children across the globe, Professor Barrett illustrates the ways human beings have come to develop complex belief systems about God’s omniscience, the afterlife, and the immortality of deities. He shows how the science of childhood religiosity reveals, across humanity, a “natural religion,” the organization of those beliefs that humans gravitate to organically, and how it underlies all of the world’s major religions, uniting them under one common source. For believers and nonbelievers alike, Barrett offers a compelling argument for the human instinct for religion, as he guides all parents in how to effectively encourage children in developing a healthy constellation of beliefs about the world around them.

What Christians Believe

Author : Moody Publishers
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575679604
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book What Christians Believe written by Moody Publishers and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1952-09-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important answer book for everyone, from seeker to long-time believer, systematically covering the fundamentals of Bible doctrine and Christian living.

A Taste of Grace

Author : Greg Albrecht
Publisher : Plain Truth Ministries
ISBN 13 : 9781889973111
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Grace written by Greg Albrecht and published by Plain Truth Ministries. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Taste of Grace is an easy-to-read page-turning exploration of God's amazing grace, demonstrated and illustrated by the teachings of Jesus. A Taste of Grace proclaims God's grace as irreconcilably opposed to the core values and beliefs of institutionalized religion and reveals God's grace to be an absurd and foolish sentiment that doesn't add up to the human mind.

Christian Beliefs

Author : Wayne Grudem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844744862
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Christian Beliefs written by Wayne Grudem and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Trauma Cleaner

Author : Sarah Krasnostein
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250101212
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Trauma Cleaner written by Sarah Krasnostein and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural—and unnatural—catastrophes and fatalities. Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts. When properties are damaged or neglected, it falls to Sandra Pankhurst, founder of Specialized Trauma Cleaning (STC) Services Pty. Ltd. to sift through the ashes or sweep up the mess of a person’s life or death. Her clients include law enforcement, real estate agents, executors of deceased estates, and charitable organizations representing victimized, mentally ill, elderly, and physically disabled people. In houses and buildings that have fallen into disrepair, Sandra airs out residents’ smells, throws out their weird porn, their photos, their letters, the last traces of their DNA entombed in soaps and toothbrushes. The remnants and mementoes of these people’s lives resonate with Sandra. Before she began professionally cleaning up their traumas, she experienced her own. First, as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home. Then as a husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, and trophy wife. In each role she played, all Sandra wanted to do was belong. The Trauma Cleaner is the extraordinary true story of an extraordinary person dedicated to making order out of chaos with compassion, revealing the common ground Sandra Pankhurst—and everyone—shares with those struck by tragedy.

The Faith

Author : Charles W. Colson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0310276039
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Faith written by Charles W. Colson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses modern-world questions about the Christian religion and its tenets, drawing on historical events and present-day anecdotes to illustrate its joyful aspects while explaining the faith's embrace of the example and message of Jesus.

Questioning Your Faith

Author : Stephen Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414102795
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Questioning Your Faith written by Stephen Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a disturbing movement in the Western world today based on the principle of "anything but Christianity." But even believers wrestle daily with faith and understanding of God. There are three main areas that cause skepticism and doubt regarding Christianity in both believers and non-believers. The first is the pursuit of science as ultimate truth. This book reconciles the Bible's teachings on sin and salvation with modern science while glorifying the Creator. Second, because of misconstrued beliefs about human equality, the notion that all religions are fundamentally the same has become popular. A careful examination of the beliefs of the major religions shows that they are all very different and cannot be reconciled into one universal faith. Finally, the applications of flawed logic and selective reading to scripture and theology have led many to disregard Christianity as internally inconsistent. Here, reason and logic are fused with Christian beliefs to show their congruence with a rational God. To know God and be saved through his son are the supreme goals of every human, but Jesus said that we are in his will if we spread with our mouths the truth we contain in our hearts. An objective critique of Christianity allows us to change doubts into confidence, from which we can move into bold evangelism.

Beliefs of the Unbelievers

Author : Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Beliefs of the Unbelievers written by Octavius Brooks Frothingham and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biblical Beliefs: Doctrines Believers Should Know

Author : W. Jackson Watts
Publisher : Evangelical Training Association
ISBN 13 : 9781929852109
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Beliefs: Doctrines Believers Should Know written by W. Jackson Watts and published by Evangelical Training Association. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This course presents foundational Bible doctrines in a popular, easy-to-understand format. Covered in the course are creation and the fall of man, faith and regeneration, justification and adoption, prayer and worship, angels, Satan, resurrection and judgment, and the church. Introduction The Authority of Scripture The Godhead Creation and The Fall The Person and Work of Christ The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit The Doctrine of Salvation Spirituality The Church: Origin and Identity The Church: Mission and Ministry Angels and Demons Heaven and Hell The Coming Kingdom

The beliefs of unbelief

Author : William Henry Fitchett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The beliefs of unbelief written by William Henry Fitchett and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Convictions

Author : Ed Kenerson
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781662826924
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Convictions written by Ed Kenerson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to understand how God's Spirit moves within us in the process of sanctification is very difficult at best. However, most people believe that we have three essential functionalities that God has created within each of us, which we consciously and unconsciously rely upon to live our lives. These functionalities are perspective (mind), passion (desires and emotions), and purpose (decisive choice and intention). It seems that God's Spirit, if we are believers, works to keep this sequential order in line with his will. He rarely chooses to take complete control of us, for he wants us to obey him with heart felt love and responsible choice. When our "inner person" is functioning correctly, we are living in faith and obedience to the Lord Jesus. Functioning correctly means that we are driven by our spiritual convictions, those which find their source in the Word of God and are whispered (sometimes shouted!) into our soul by God's Spirit. This book is all about finding, building and holding on to these critical convictions that the Spirit is working to establish within our minds and hearts. I've listed only 24 of them, but there are many more. These, however, are key foundational convictions, which, if consistently maintained, will bring great success to our spiritual walk with Jesus Christ. I hope you enjoy them, and with God's empowerment, I know they will help us all to embrace God's love in a profoundly practical and life changing way. Ed Kenerson attended Gordon College (B.A. Psychology) and Gordon Conwell Seminary (Masters of Religious Education) and has over 10 years experience in Christian Education and Youth Ministry. At present, he manages his own training and communications business called Steps To Success, delivering multi-media presentations to businesses in areas of career management, customer service, and other important areas of professional development. In addition, he serves area churches through his teaching ministry, "Faith Factory Construction Co." Ed is married to Kathy with two children (Bob and Kerri) and ten grandchildren - Ethan, Hailey, Garret, Skylar, Meadow, Marin, Sawyer, Delaney, Carly and Joey.

Know why You Believe

Author : Paul E. Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Know why You Believe written by Paul E. Little and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why I Still Believe

Author : Mary Jo Sharp
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0310353882
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Why I Still Believe written by Mary Jo Sharp and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who feels caught in the tension between the beauty of God's story and the ugliness of human hypocrisy, Why I Still Believe offers a stirring story of hope. Why would anyone be a Christian when there is so much hypocrisy in the church? Mary Jo Sharp shares her journey as a skeptical believer who still holds to a beautiful faith despite wounding experiences in the Christian community. At a time when de-conversion stories have become all too common, this is an earnest response - the compelling conversion of an unlikely believer whose questions ultimately led her to irresistible hope. Sharp addresses her own struggle with the reality that God's people repeatedly give God's story a bad name and takes a careful look at how the current church often inadvertently produces atheists despite its life-giving message. For those who feel the ever-present tension between the beauty of salvation and the dark side of human nature, Why I Still Believe is a candid and approachable case for believing in God when you really want to walk away. With fresh and thoughtful insights, this spiritual narrative presents relevant answers to haunting questions like: Isn't there too much pain and suffering to believe? Is it okay to have doubt? What if Jesus' story is a copy of another story? Is there any evidence for Jesus' resurrection? Does atheism explain the human experience better than Christianity can? How can the truth of Christianity matter when the behaviors of Christians are reprehensible? At once logical and loving, Sharp reframes the gospel as it truly is: the good news of redemption. With firmly grounded truths, Why I Still Believe is an affirming reminder that the hypocrisy of Christians can never negate the transforming grace and truth of Christ.

Believers: Faith in Human Nature

Author : Melvin Konner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651878
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Believers: Faith in Human Nature written by Melvin Konner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropologist examines the nature of religiosity, and how it shapes and benefits humankind. Believers is a scientist’s answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. It is a firm rebuke of the “Four Horsemen”—Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens—known for writing about religion as something irrational and ultimately harmful. Anthropologist Melvin Konner, who was raised as an Orthodox Jew but has lived his adult life without such faith, explores the psychology, development, brain science, evolution, and even genetics of the varied religious impulses we experience as a species. Conceding that faith is not for everyone, he views religious people with a sympathetic eye; his own upbringing, his apprenticeship in the trance-dance religion of the African Bushmen, and his friends and explorations in Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and other faiths have all shaped his perspective. Faith has always manifested itself in different ways—some revelatory and comforting; some kind and good; some ecumenical and cosmopolitan; some bigoted, coercive, and violent. But the future, Konner argues, will both produce more nonbelievers, and incline the religious among us—holding their own by having larger families—to increasingly reject prejudice and aggression. A colorful weave of personal stories of religious—and irreligious—encounters, as well as new scientific research, Believers shows us that religion does much good as well as undoubted harm, and that for at least a large minority of humanity, the belief in things unseen neither can nor should go away.

Do You Believe?

Author : Antonio Monda
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307280586
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Do You Believe? written by Antonio Monda and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal, revealing, unexpected, this book is a captivating and thought-provoking meditation how faith, in all its facets, remains profoundly relevant for and in our culture. “When the Italian writer Antonio Monda sat down to talk religion with American cultural leaders... he went straight for the big questions.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enter into intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about belief itself, about religion, and about God. Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous interviewer, asking the most difficult questions (he often begins an interview point blank: “Do you believe in God?”) that lead to the most wide-ranging conversations. An ardent believer himself, Monda talks both with atheists (asked what she feels when she meets a believer, Grace Paley replies: “I respect his thinking and his beliefs, but at the same time I think he’s deluded”) and other believers, their discussion ranging from personal images of God (Michael Cunningham sees God as a black woman, Derek Walcott as a wise old white man with a beard) to religion’s place in American culture, from the afterlife to the concepts of good and evil, from fundamentalism to the Bible. And almost without fail, the conversations turn to questions of art and literature. Toni Morrison discusses Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, Richard Ford invokes Wallace Stevens, and David Lynch draws attention to the religious aspects of Bu–uel, Fellini...and Harold Ramis's Groundhog Day.

Choosing Faith

Author : John W. Saultz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532674724
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Choosing Faith written by John W. Saultz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A belief is a judgment that we assume to be true when making life decisions. Our beliefs cannot conclusively be proven true or false. Beliefs can be as simple as our preference for food or as profound as our religious beliefs. How are beliefs different from knowledge or opinion? How do beliefs develop and change over time, and how do they become the foundation of our purpose in life? This book is divided into three sections. The first explains how beliefs are formed in childhood and modified and adapted when we become adults. The second section explores different types of belief and introduces the notion of moral beliefs about right and wrong and religious beliefs about the existence and nature of God. The final section of the book explains how beliefs are prioritized into a faith that becomes our framework for making life decisions. The beliefs we hold most dear form the building blocks of our purpose in life. We have the freedom to choose our beliefs, so we have the freedom to choose our purpose. The goal of this book is to help the reader think deeply about this process and explore the meaning of this freedom.

Religion for Atheists

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771025998
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Religion for Atheists written by Alain De Botton and published by Signal. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a deeply moving meditation on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. Alain de Botton was brought up in a committedly atheistic household, and though he was powerfully swayed by his parents' views, he underwent, in his mid-twenties, a crisis of faithlessness. His feelings of doubt about atheism had their origins in listening to Bach's cantatas, were further developed in the presence of certain Bellini Madonnas, and became overwhelming with an introduction to Zen architecture. However, it was not until his father's death -- buried under a Hebrew headstone in a Jewish cemetery because he had intriguingly omitted to make more secular arrangements -- that Alain began to face the full degree of his ambivalence regarding the views of religion that he had dutifully accepted. Why are we presented with the curious choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle and effective rituals and practices for which there is no equivalent in secular society? Why do we bristle at the mention of the word "morality"? Flee from the idea that art should be uplifting, or have an ethical purpose? Why don't we build temples? What mechanisms do we have for expressing gratitude? The challenge that de Botton addresses in his book: how to separate ideas and practices from the religious institutions that have laid claim to them. In Religion for Atheists is an argument to free our soul-related needs from the particular influence of religions, even if it is, paradoxically, the study of religion that will allow us to rediscover and rearticulate those needs.