To understand God one must seek him in the Spirit. God is not flesh and blood and not of this world therefore. God must be separated from worldly things and comprehended in the Spirit. When striving to understanding God in the spirit the questions of why, how and when will be answered. These questions and more are answered in the pages of this book. Who is God? Where is the Garden of Eden? Where will the New Jerusalem be? What and where is Babylon? Where did Cain get his wife? Why are we here? Why does God allow evil? What are the images and likenesses God gave to man? What is Sin and how does one commit sin? How long did God take to create Heaven and Earth? Why is Adam the first man? The writings in the book; Understanding the Spit of God are not meant for an interpretation of a Bible the purpose is to acknowledge and understand the Spirit of God. I would like offer my sincere thanks to my friend Roland B Selma for his help in putting this manuscript together.

Challenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism. According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought. The essays probe a wide range of subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius’s quest for universal enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor, Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza’s theology, and the unexpected persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. Exploring the emergence of historical consciousness among Enlightenment thinkers while examining their repeated insistence on living in an enlightened age, the collection also investigates the origins and the long-term dynamics of the relationship between faith and reason. Providing an overview of the rich spectrum of eighteenth-century culture, the authors demonstrate that religion was central to Enlightenment thought. The term “enlightenment” itself had a deeply religious connotation. Rather than revisiting the celebrated breaks between the eighteenth century and the period that preceded it, Let There Be Enlightenment reveals the unacknowledged continuities that connect the Enlightenment to its various antecedents. Contributors: Philippe Buc, William J. Bulman, Jeffrey D. Burson, Charly Coleman, Dan Edelstein, Matthew T. Gaetano, Howard Hotson, Anton M. Matytsin, Darrin M. McMahon, James Schmidt, Céline Spector, Jo Van Cauter

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