Over My Dead Body: Some Grave Questions for GodIn this compelling "autobiographical" account of life and death, Rabbi David Forman takes the reader on an intensely challenging journey of self-discovery. Dramatic and comic, intellectual and emotional, Over My Dead Body: Some GraveQuestions for God addresses primary concerns about God that occupy all of us. |
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... father from heart disease . After all , they both lived into their nineties . When I see friends unexpectedly struck dead by a heart attack or succumb to cancer , for some odd reason ( despite my own two brushes with death — one in war ...
... father from heart disease . After all , they both lived into their nineties . When I see friends unexpectedly struck dead by a heart attack or succumb to cancer , for some odd reason ( despite my own two brushes with death — one in war ...
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... . No ego here , just the mutterings of a father , grandfather and husband who knows what his worth was to his family . Without doing any comparative shopping at an emotional mall , it is hard to believe that my love The Beginning of the ...
... . No ego here , just the mutterings of a father , grandfather and husband who knows what his worth was to his family . Without doing any comparative shopping at an emotional mall , it is hard to believe that my love The Beginning of the ...
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... Father , Son and Holy Spirit . " I believe in the Ahura Mazda . I believe in Allah . And then , there is the ancient Greek God in whom Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan believe ( or rather endorse ) — Nike : the God of Victory . - The ...
... Father , Son and Holy Spirit . " I believe in the Ahura Mazda . I believe in Allah . And then , there is the ancient Greek God in whom Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan believe ( or rather endorse ) — Nike : the God of Victory . - The ...
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... Father , Son and Holy Spirit ? According to early Christian doctrine , these divisions of the Godhead actually constitute One God . In Islam , Allah is Supreme and Singular . That He ( no doubt here of a male appellation ) attracts the ...
... Father , Son and Holy Spirit ? According to early Christian doctrine , these divisions of the Godhead actually constitute One God . In Islam , Allah is Supreme and Singular . That He ( no doubt here of a male appellation ) attracts the ...
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... father , Abraham ? Why does that God of Creation refuse to sort the whole matter out ? Does God enjoy this confusion ? While many in the field of religious academia would argue that God is not a variation of the same theme , that God is ...
... father , Abraham ? Why does that God of Creation refuse to sort the whole matter out ? Does God enjoy this confusion ? While many in the field of religious academia would argue that God is not a variation of the same theme , that God is ...
Contents
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How Should We Address andor Describe God? | 45 |
What Constitutes Divine Personality Traits? | 47 |
What is the Relationship Between Guilt and Responsibility? | 105 |
Does God Know Our Thoughts? | 116 |
How Do We Distinguish between Right and Wrong? | 120 |
What Does It Mean to Blame God or Thank God? | 129 |
Is There Such a Concept as a Divine Spark and if so are We All Created Equal? | 133 |
Is Atheism a Viable WorldView? | 140 |
Is God Dead? | 148 |
Are We All Basically Agnostics? | 153 |
What are Gods Powers? | 51 |
Does God Possess Healing Powers? | 55 |
Can Anyone Communicate with God? | 58 |
Do We Need an Intermediary to Talk to God? | 61 |
Why Pray to God? | 64 |
Does God Need So Much Praise? | 69 |
Is There Divine Retribution Reward and Punishment? | 72 |
Does God Grant Free Will? | 76 |
Can Philosophy Settle the Conflict between Free Will and Determinism? | 79 |
Are We Gods Puppets? | 85 |
If Sin Exists Original or Otherwise What is the Process of Atonement? | 94 |
Evolution and Creation Why the Conflict? | 157 |
Is Materialism Our New God? | 165 |
Are There Other Gods Political Ideologies Flag Anthem and Country? | 170 |
Does God Have a Special Relationship with the Jewish People and the Land of Israel? | 174 |
Is God a Zionist? | 178 |
Can Empiricism Prove Gods Existence? | 182 |
Is God in the Details? | 186 |
Can God Perform Miracles? | 197 |
Is There an Afterlife Heaven and Hell a Soul? | 201 |
The End of the Beginning | 211 |
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Page 38 - I WILL sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 38 - I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 The LORD is my strength and my might," and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 26 - You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth.