Christian values and the existence of God

I believe Christian value is very good. Altruism, love and sacrifice. Nobody can't know whether God really exists. God exists or does not exist, which is regardless of whether people believe in God. Do those who believe in God really show altruism, love and sacrifice? I think Christian values and existence of God are not mutually related.

I think there are many people who believe in Christian values but don't believe in God. I think that's natural.

God and the name of him

Hello ***,

 

I was confused myself...  Read especially Acts 2:21 more carefully. Both Acts and Joel 2:32 says ' the name of Jehovah'. I have to check the grammar of 'of' in original language, but it seems not 'the name' is 'Jehovah' and it's more likely that means 'Jehovah's name'  

 

If his name is Jehovah, these passages ought to be written as 'Jehovah, the name of God'.

It seems Jehovah simply means God in these passages. I can read these passages as 'the name of God is unknown but call him in our mind'.

 

Probably more in passages at Joel, Jehovah is used like a proper noun. Basically Jehovah is the name of God in Hebrew scriptures.  I can't believe Jesus used the term Jehovah in early Christianity.  Jesus might not have used the term Jehovah because we can imagine that he wanted to establish a different religion from Judaism in his teachings.  

 

Please examine more on this. Because we've been discussed it many times.

 

 

                                                              Mer

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crime, god, marriage, war 
Those terms appeared to be in bold letters in tag section.

Those must be my centre of interest that I haven't noticed.

I believe in God

One of my best friends pointed out pointing one of the famous Bible account that is God is love. He said God is love, not God has love. That means God is a personification of love as well as wisdom, power, justice.

We must believe in God or at least we ought to.

What is 'Truth'?

Truth includes things that have already verified.
Truth doesn't include things that have not verified yet.
Does truth include things that cannot verify? Some people insist that 'God is almighty, it's truth.'

God cares for you

 

Until a few days ago I had taken it for granted for a long time that Nietzsche denied the existence of God by declaring Gott ist tot or God is dead. But if God were almighty, he could resurrect himself. If Jesus were God before he arrives on the Earth, he or God experienced human's inevitable destiny through the crucification.

If so, the real meaning of Gott ist tot is different from what I thought. God experienced death because he wanted to give his best creature, that is all humans, an eternal life in Eucharist and wanted to share the same suffering all humans once had to experience, that is death -sharing in other words, Communion.

So real meaning of Gott ist tot is God experienced death through which he was able to give us an eternal life and also share the same suffering. The real meaning of faith was giving and sharing.

God is dead was an ultimate expression of God cares for you.