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قراءة كتاب What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul

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What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul

What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul

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    1. How can one live as he should? 182     2. The difference in social service 183     3. The difference in personal preparation 186
CHAPTER VIII How Shall We Conceive of the Future Life? 193     1. Its relation to the present constitution of things 193     2. Where is heaven? 196     3. Will there be a Holy City? 198     4. Will there be music? 201     5. Shall we meet our loved ones? 201     6. Shall we see God? 204     7. Will there be burdens to bear in heaven? 205
CHAPTER IX Losing the Bible to Find It 207 If the Bible contains errors, how do we know that any of it is true? 207 A general statement 207 The Method of Finding God's Word     1. The story of Creation 212     2. The story of the Garden 220     3. The Bible stories in general 223     4. The laws of Israel—moral and ceremonial 224     5. The Book of Job 226
CHAPTER X Losing the Bible to Find It (Continued) 232 The method of finding God's Word (Continued)     1. The Psalms 232     2. The prophets in general 235     3. Jonah 241     4. The New Testament in general 247     5. The Book of Revelation 250

WHAT AND WHERE IS GOD?


CHAPTER I

LOSING GOD, OR THE HONEST ATHEIST

Why does God leave His very existence in doubt by forever hiding Himself?

If there were a God would He not make Himself known in such a way that no one could possibly doubt His existence?

Why should we be expected to love and obey a God whose existence is still a subject of discussion?

Could a righteous and loving Father leave any of His children in doubt of His existence?

While I was dining one day with a young minister and his wife, the latter disclosed to me her religious state of mind. Said she:

"I have no God! They have taken Him away and I do not know where to find Him. My childhood conception of a Man-God on a throne in heaven is gone—and I think rightly gone; but I have nothing to take its place. I hear them speak of an immanent God; of a God who fills all nature. And I have no objection to this except that it brings no relief. Nature is so inexpressibly vast and complex that, to my mind, a God who fills all nature is so infinitely big and spread out that I can neither know Him nor love Him. He is

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