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If you are religious and serious about your faith, you most likely will be told by secular individuals that you are a fool. You will be told that there is no god, the existence of humans is the result of a random natural process, and there is no afterlife. They will say their arguments are logical; religious arguments are not. What if, however, the reverse is true? Jeffrey Stueber's The Vast Wastelands of Unbelief is a survey of the many errors and inconsistencies in secular thought - whether in the form of atheism or secular humanism. Their beliefs are often laden with internal contradictions as in Geoffrey Berg's claim that God's existence cannot be verified; a claim that precedes his assertion that this world is not what God would create if God existed. Berg cannot have it both ways. Atheists often say there is no immaterial soul or self; our thoughts and decisions are the result of genes, memes, or neurons. We are simply biological robots. Yet, while they say this is true, their actions testify to their existence as intentional beings, not robots. They don't or can't even take their own beliefs seriously. Secular beliefs yield harmful results also. The liberal culture of death testifies to this fact.
Successor to the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Unbelief (1985), edited by the late Gordon Stein, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief is a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America''s fastest growing minority: those who live without religion. All-new articles by the field''s foremost scholars describe and explain every aspect of atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, secularism, and religious skepticism. Topics include morality without religion, unbelief in the historicity of Jesus, critiques of intelligent design theory, unbelief and sexual values, and summaries of the state of unbelief around the world.In addition to covering developments since the publication of the original edition, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief includes a larger number of biographical entries and much-expanded coverage of the linkages between unbelief and social reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the labor movement, woman suffrage, anarchism, sex radicalism, and second-wave feminism.More than 130 respected scholars and activists worldwide served on the editorial board and over 100 authoritative contributors have written in excess of 500 entries. The distinguished advisors and contributors--philosophers, scientists, scholars, and Nobel Prize laureates--include Joe Barnhart, David Berman, Sir Hermann Bondi, Vern L. Bullough, Daniel Dennett, Taner Edis, the late Paul Edwards, Antony Flew, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Peter Hare, Van Harvey, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Susan Jacoby, Paul Kurtz, Gerd Lüdemann, Michael Martin, Kai Nielsen, Robert M. Price, Peter Singer, Victor Stenger, Ibn Warraq, George A. Wells, David Tribe, Sherwin Wine, and many others. With a foreword by evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins, this unparalleled reference work provides comprehensive knowledge about unbelief in its many varieties and manifestations.
"Finding silence amidst restlessness is what makes creative life possible-and death comprehensible. But how do we find-more importantly, how do we "understand"-silence while immersed in the chattering of the digital age? Have we forgotten how to listen? Are we less prepared than ever for the ultimate silence that awaits us all? Mark C. Taylor's new book is a philosophy of silence for our nervous, buzzing present, a timely work for a world where noise is a means of distraction, domination, and control. Here Taylor asks the reader to pause long enough to hear what is not said, and to attend to what remains unsayable. But in his account, our way to "hearing" silence is to "see" it: Taylor explores variations of silence by considering the work of leading modem and postmodern visual artists, from Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt to James Turrell and Anish Kapoor. Drawing also on the insights of philosophers, theologians, writers, and composers, he weaves a rich narrative modeled on the Stations of the Cross. "We come from and return to silence; in between, silence is the gap, hesitation, interval that allows thoughts to form and words to emerge," he writes. His chapter titles suggest our positions toward silence--or rather, our pre-positions: Without. Before. From. Beyond. Against. Within. Around. Between. Toward. With. In. Recasting Hegel's phenomenology of spirit and Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, Taylor translates the traditional "Via Dolorosa" into a Nietzschean "Via Jubilosa" that affirms silence in the midst of noise, light in the midst of darkness"--
A religious history from man's pre-mortal life to the end of the world.
This is volume 16 of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including: "Toward Ever More Intelligent Discipleship," "A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence," "A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 2: Facade or Reality?", "Careless Accounts and Tawdry Novelties," "The Prodigal’s Return to the Father: House of Glory and Rediscovery," "The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family Dynamics: A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel," "The Doctrine of Resurrection in the Book of Mormon," "Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection," "Learning Nephi’s Language: Creating a Context for 1 Nephi 1:2," "The Treason of the Geographers: Mythical “Mesoamerican” Conspiracy and the Book of Mormon," "John Bernhisel’s Gift to a Prophet: Incidents of Travel in Central America and the Book of Mormon," "A Treasure Trove of Questions," "The Theory of Evolution is Compatible with Both Belief and Unbelief in a Supreme Being."
The Bible tells us in Hosea 4:6 that God's people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. Like the people in Hosea's day, I too was lost in a vast wilderness because I didn't have the slightest clue how to find my way out of that wilderness. I really thought, like many people, that it was too late. I'd messed up so many God-given opportunities and remained in a state of muddled confusion because I didn't know the truth, the way, and the life, that is Christ. I had been "born again," but I didn't know what it meant to live and walk in the Spirit. I didn't know the powerful truth of God's word. I didn't trust the Bible, and I didn't obey it because I didn't believe it with all of my heart. I did things the only way I knew how: my way. And that lead from one miserable failure to the next. Until the Spirit of God opened my blind eyes and penetrated my unbelieving heart, I was without hope. Only God can and will change us when if and when we trust, believe, and obey him. I'm here to tell you that change is possible, but only through Christ. It is never too late. I know what it is to live a hopeless life. I lived it for forty long years, and when I just knew it was too late, God knew what was about to happen. I had no idea. During some of the worst circumstances in my life, God stepped in and everything changed because he changed what I could not. He changed my heart. You and I need changed hearts, and God is the only one who can do that.
The book of Daniel 2 reveals by symbols the successive empires/kingdoms of the world with a statue of a human figure of a head of gold, chest of silver, thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of a mixture of clay and iron. Daniel 7, which describes four beasts (a lion, a bear, a leopard, and a terrible beast with ten horns), covers the same period in world history as in chapter 2. While the king of Babylon saw the majestic power and grandeur of the Gentile empire/kingdoms, Prophet Daniel saw their real character, beastly conduct, wicked rule, and profligate government. All the beasts (empire/kingdoms) were destroyed by the Messiah, Immanuel (the Stone), who the builders of the nations of man rejected and who is the cornerstone of the holy nation of believers. Revelation 12 describes the great dragon thrown down, the age-old serpent that is called the devil and Satan, he who continually deceives and seduces the entire inhabited world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. This usurping dragon would form successive compacts with mankind for the dominion of the earth. Revelation 13 shows the final compact between the nations of man and the man of sin, Satan (the dragons beasts), engulfing even the holy people (Israel, the churchthe woman on the beast in Revelation 17). When the stone finally destroyed the lawless kings of the nations/kingdoms, their rule was dispersed to the lots of nation-states created by the common peoplethe rule of commoners. These are the nation-states of democratically elected commoners. Revelation 13 (and 17) shows the rebellion and apostasy of our Christendom/Queendom of Babylon, the great nation-states of man setting themselves up against the son of man, Immanuel. Why the stone is about to crush Christendom of Babylon the great! And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain or rock and filled the whole earth (Daniel 2:3435). Yes, he is the rock of ages!
The continent is at war and the most powerful army lays in shambles. The Elrathi march across the land to seize their destiny; domination of Moirai and its inhabitants. Simon continues his quest for power, making new enemies as he goes. With a final push into the icy Tzin Wasteland, Simon and Azuron take on a horde of trolls to retrieve the last weapon that Simon believes he will ever need. However, in Simon's quest for power to keep his beloved safe, an ancient evil is unleashed. With his new-found armament, Simon must lead his Weavers to defeat the mighty armies of the Elrathi before he is consumed by the very evil he has freed. Facing betrayal and death, Simon finds that all the power in the world may not be able to save Moirai or the woman he loves. If he succeeds in defeating the Elrathi, the cost may be his very soul. If he fails, hundreds of thousands will die humanity may become extinct.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...' Hosea 4:6 (AMP) When we don't know what God says about a matter, we are helpless to stop Satan in his attacks. What did God say? What is the truth? Jennifer Mills's book, To You, With Love, From Jesus, brings to light fifty of the most commonly misquoted passages in the Word of God and explains the truth of how they should be interpreted. This thought-provoking guide seeks to put an end to the frequently misconstrued scriptures that are keeping people broken and in despair. These people either do not understand Him, they do not know the truth, they have been taught wrong, or they have not been taught at all. It is with anticipation that all can better understand God's message of redemption and restoration. It is with hope that each person who reads this book will find the truth in God. Jesus said in John 8:32 (AMP), 'And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.' Beloved, be set free!