Schema of interpretations

about God, the world, mankind, and religion

 

 

 

Please see the Reflections on the Scheme, opening each Part of the Scheme.

 

Historical Note before the Reflections

 

I started a new vision of Christianity with this essay Schema of interpretations about God, the world, mankind, and religion; although, this was not the end, yet; I updated these ideas in other essays. Some of them are:

 

Faith, Grace and Supernatural is a World of Science

The Paradox of Some Christian Teachings

My Name is Existence, To Be, "I Am"

Eternal "Ideas" in God

 

I have to update them again in the essays:

 

Schema about the Nature, Attributes and Communication with God - The "Presentness" of God

Conversation with God about his presentness which complete the second Schema

Presence of God in space or his presenceness

 

 

First Part (Click to open)

 

1. The problem

 

1.1. Does God exist?

 

1.2. The idea of God in Christian tradition

 

1.4. The God of the Bible

 

2. First interpretation: There is no God

 

3. Second interpretation: There is no "God" different from the Universe

 

3.1. Pantheism

 

3.2. Monism

 

3.3. Gnosticism

 

3.4. New Age gnosis or Neo-Gnosticism

 

3.5. Eastern Religions

 

4. Conclusion.

 

Second Part (Click to open)

 

 

5. Third interpretation: God does exist; but, what kind of God?

 

5.1. God is impersonal

 

5.2. Personal God in the Christian thought

 

6. God and time

 

Third Part (Click to open)

 

 

7. Does God reveal himself?

 

8. The personal God

 

8.1. The concept of God should not be rationalized

 

8.2. God has no similitude to any human or physical being

 

8.3. Only one God, the same for all mankind

 

9. God, creation and humankind

 

9.1. God is inside creation

 

9.1.1. Natural presence and action of God

 

9.1.2. Preternatural and supernatural presence and action of God - Providence of God

 

9.2. Alternative of believing in a supernatural God

 

9.3. Is humankind the center of creation?

 

 Fourth Part (Click to open)

 

 

10. Religious attitudes  toward God

 

10.1. Religious attitudes in general

 

10.1.1. Religious attitudes and reason

 

10.1.2. Religious attitudes and faith

 

10.2. Religious assumptions in particular

 

10.2.1. Worship and love

 

10.2.2. The glory of God, meaning of human existence

 

10.2.3. Thanksgiving

 

10.2.4. Prayers

 

 Fifth Part (Click to open)

 

11. Is there an afterlife for mankind?

 

11.1. Immortality

 

11.1.1. There is no immortality

 

11.1.2. Afterlife by the creation of immortal beings after death

 

11.1.3. We already have a spark of immortality within us

 

 

 Sixth Part (Click to open)

 

11.2. The Bible and immortality

 

11.2.1. Genesis, we were created in the image of God

 

11.2.2. Peter, we are partakers in the divine nature

 

11.2.3. John, the preacher of eternal life

 

11.3. Immortality as individuals

 

11.4. Immortality as in an ontological unity with God

 

11.5. Jesus precursor and prototype

 

12. The final aim

 

 

 

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