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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... feel as if he or she were the center of attention , and who , throughout her illness in her latter years , only knew how to encourage those who were in her presence ; Karen Smith Senyak , a classmate from a nostalgic period in my life ...
... feel as if he or she were the center of attention , and who , throughout her illness in her latter years , only knew how to encourage those who were in her presence ; Karen Smith Senyak , a classmate from a nostalgic period in my life ...
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... feel the other side of my heartbeat fading . Little can calm my bouts of dread of my approaching death . Recovery and eventual sleep result from the emotional and physical exhaustion that I expend on my not so irrational fright . Often ...
... feel the other side of my heartbeat fading . Little can calm my bouts of dread of my approaching death . Recovery and eventual sleep result from the emotional and physical exhaustion that I expend on my not so irrational fright . Often ...
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... the eighteenth century by the Baal Shem Tov ( see page 58 ) , Hasidism teaches that zeal , prayer with emotional feeling and humility are superior to study . discover how it turns out . Our lives stop in 14 OVER MY DEAD BODY.
... the eighteenth century by the Baal Shem Tov ( see page 58 ) , Hasidism teaches that zeal , prayer with emotional feeling and humility are superior to study . discover how it turns out . Our lives stop in 14 OVER MY DEAD BODY.
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... feel as I do , that it is only natural to react this way to the " great unknown . " I admit it : I am selfish . And , I don't understand it . Why did God create human beings only to let them die ? While I cannot fathom what an ...
... feel as I do , that it is only natural to react this way to the " great unknown . " I admit it : I am selfish . And , I don't understand it . Why did God create human beings only to let them die ? While I cannot fathom what an ...
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... feel free to challenge God . I would have nothing to lose , and , if I came up with some answers , then everything to gain . However , the reader should not have heightened expectations , believing that my search for God will ...
... feel free to challenge God . I would have nothing to lose , and , if I came up with some answers , then everything to gain . However , the reader should not have heightened expectations , believing that my search for God will ...
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.