Further Recommended
Karen Armstrong, A HISTORY OF GOD (The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam), Ballantine Books, c1993 by
Karen Armstrong.
A thoughtful and diverse view
of our search and perception of the Almighty throughout our history.
A must for anyone seeking an objective outlook about the Divine and the
religions which claim to represent Him.
C.G.Jung (edited by Aniela
Jaffe), MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS, translated by Richard and Clara Winston,
Vantage Books Edition, c1961,1962,1963 by Random
House.
Wonderful insight into the
practical approach toward God from the mind of a great psychiatrist who spent
his life in pursuit of the relationship between mind and spirit. Some very interesting observations about God.
Jamake Highwater,
THE PRIMAL MIND (Vision and Reality in Indian
A wonderful view of spiritual
matters from a Native American perspective. Not only is this work
thought provoking, but it can be a wonderful guide for Christians who may want
to expand upon their thinking.
Jack Miles, GOD A BIOGRAPHY, First Vintage Books
Edition, c1993 by Jack Miles
Traces the evolution of our
literary concept of the Divine and the changes in approach toward it in the
course of time.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
From the mind of Stephen Hawking , Physicist
Taken from: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, Bantam Books,c1988
An expanding universe does not preclude a Creator, but it
does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!
(p9)
...They would say that
God, being omnipotent, could have started the universe off in any way he
wanted. That may be so, but in that case he also could have made it develop in
a completely arbitrary way. Yet it appears that he choose to make it evolve in
a very regular way according to certain laws. It therefore seems equally
reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the initial state.
(p11)
The whole history of
science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an
arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may
or may not be divinely inspired.
(p122)
At the big bang and
other singularities, all the laws would have broken down, so God would still
have had complete freedom to choose what happened and how the universe began.
(173)
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is
just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the
equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of
science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why
there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go
to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it
brings about its own existence? Or does it need a Creator, and, if so, does he
have any other effect on the universe? And who created him?
(p174)
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