The psalmist describes betrayal by a close companion in Psalms 41 and 55. His response aligns with Betrayal Trauma Theory, but his strong relationship God prevents negative impact on “self.” structure of these Hebrew lament-poems reveals how the coped emotional distress. Laments offer way for burdened individuals to express pain, frustration, anger, fear, disillusionment God, seeking eventual r...

Open theism is known for its greater logical precision, notion of an all­-perfect personal and temporal God, resulting ‘risky’ theodicy. In discussions on the argument from evil, world­-order value free moral agency have become crucial. One necessary elements life existence particular physical evils which there cannot be a good to justify them. Particularly problematic are horren...

in heidegger’s thought god is appeared in three main forms: existence, sacred idea, and the final god. the existence, is apprehended with an internal experience; and the sacred will discovered by confronting with an art work which is exhaustive; but the final god, needs to eager expectancy, the god whose absence is expressed in the verses of poets. so the existence, art works and god's abs...

It is known that if a 2-universal hash function H is applied to elements of a block source (X1, . . . , XT ), where each item Xi has enough min-entropy conditioned on the previous items, then the output distribution (H,H(X1), . . . , H(XT )) will be “close” to the uniform distribution. We provide improved bounds on how much min-entropy per item is required for this to hold, both when we ask tha...

This study tested the hypothesis that in the minds of adult religious adherents, acquired beliefs about the extraordinary characteristics of God coexist with, rather than replace, an initial representation of God formed by co-option of the evolved person concept. In three experiments, Christian religious adherents were asked to evaluate a series of statements for which core intuitions about per...