N one of the historic creeds and confessions and none of today’s theologies stress adequately five critical points concerning the Spirit of God: the Spirit who was “not yet” before the Lord Jesus was glorified (John 7:39); the last Adam (the incarnate Christ) becoming a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b); the compound Spirit typified by the anointing ointment (Exo. 30:23-25); the Spirit of life...

Build-up of enzyme–polyelectrolyte multilayer onto glassy carbon (GC) surfaces by electrostatic self-assembling method has been investigated. In order to functionalize GC surface by a starting negatively charged layer, two approaches have been carried out: (i) covalent linkage of phenyl acetic acid through electroreduction of 4-phenylacetic diazonium salt (GCA surface), and (ii) formation of a ...

Previous research has indicated that the physical actions of prayer are especially salient for preschool-aged children, and children in this age range tend to associate prayer with communicating with God. As the context in which children learn about new concepts impacts on how children come to understand those concepts, and children are often introduced to the concept of God through prayer, the...

Over the centuries, time and again, theologians, philosophers, poets and even sociologists have proposed that money should be regarded as a “god-term” (Kenneth Burke). They have spoken of the omnipotence of money (Georg Simmel) and pondered whether we should not organize religious faith like money (Niklas Luhmann). They propagated a “pantheism of money” (Falk Wagner) and called it the “all-dete...

1. The significance of Phil 2:6–7. Numerous texts of the NT suggest, more or less straightforwardly, that Jesus Christ is very God. In the Gospel of John alone, for instance, one reads: “the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1); “so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father” (5:23); “before Abraham was born, I am” (8:58); “I and the Father are one” (10:30); “he who see...

The core idea of the ontological proof is to show that the concept of existence is somehow contained in the concept of God, and that therefore God’s existence can be logically derived – without any further assumptions about the external world – from the very idea, or definition, of God. Now, G.W. Leibniz has argued repeatedly that the traditional versions of the ontological proof are not fully ...

We investigate the problem of how nonnatural entities are represented by examining university students' concepts of God, both professed theological beliefs and concepts used in comprehension of narratives. In three story processing tasks, subjects often used an anthropomorphic God concept that is inconsistent with stated theological beliefs; and drastically distorted the narratives without any ...

A method of tethering a mediator to an enzymatic membrane was studied. Glucose oxidase (GOD) and ferrocene redox polymer were immobilized in cross-linked poly (vinyl alcohol) (CLPVA) with bovine serum albumin (BSA) added as a protein stabilizer. Redox hydrogel polyallylamine ferrocene was prepared by cross-linking polyallylamine hydrochloride with glutaraldehyde and attaching the ferrocene cova...

Our second resembles it slightly. Newton, Jeans, and Planck have used "God" to account for things they could not explain. Biologists, ignorant of mechanisms underlying functions, have introduced "Nature," "Vital Force," "Nervous Energy," "the Unconscious," or some other pseudonym for God. Each of these supposititious explanations, to quote Sir Thomas Browne, "puts the honest Father to the refug...