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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... trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July " ! I know I have been granted the gift of life although I did nothing to deserve it . I know I should be grateful for the allotted time granted me , and thus must ...
... trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July " ! I know I have been granted the gift of life although I did nothing to deserve it . I know I should be grateful for the allotted time granted me , and thus must ...
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... trying to make God feel guilty for the horrors of the Holocaust and the deaths of his family at the time . These are simply curiosities that boggle the mind . One must acknowledge that these contradictions have been addressed by both ...
... trying to make God feel guilty for the horrors of the Holocaust and the deaths of his family at the time . These are simply curiosities that boggle the mind . One must acknowledge that these contradictions have been addressed by both ...
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... trying to explain ( away ) God's sometimes peculiar behavior , we remain with contradictions that leave us unsettled — contradictions that go well beyond the biblical world and reach deep into our present reality , which will be ...
... trying to explain ( away ) God's sometimes peculiar behavior , we remain with contradictions that leave us unsettled — contradictions that go well beyond the biblical world and reach deep into our present reality , which will be ...
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... good enough for us . But , if God is trying to tell us that anything resembling schizophrenia is good for the soul , why are schizophrenics so terribly lost in this world ? Question # 6 How Did God Decide to Create the 40 OVER MY DEAD BODY.
... good enough for us . But , if God is trying to tell us that anything resembling schizophrenia is good for the soul , why are schizophrenics so terribly lost in this world ? Question # 6 How Did God Decide to Create the 40 OVER MY DEAD BODY.
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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.