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All Scripture quotations are taken from The New Community Bible, (NCB) Catholic edition. St. Pauls Publication, Strathield Australia. Copyright © 2008. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Dedication
To the greater glory of God, in honour of Blessed Mother Mary and in respect to:
Late Sir. James Chima Obieze (Ksm), in whom I saw the image and character of the forefathers.
Late Mrs. Florence Uchenna Agbata, who left us in a sudden and strange way, may God grant her perpetual rest in the Heaven.
Note of Thanks
Gratitude, French people would say, is the memory of the heart. I am most grateful to God for His mercies and kindness. To my Parents, iblings, uncles, nephews, cousins, niece, in-laws, friends and well wishers.
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As time passed, people began to see their relation with God in a new light. The fatalism of Puppeteer God gave way to a new sense of personal responsibility, and God came to be seen as a friend and a father –a father of adult children. People now meet God as adult and see their relation as such, thus, Jesus uses human fatherhood as an analogy for our mature relationship to God. God is still involve in history. He is not a watchmaker who fashions things and leave them to their own device and to the natural laws of their being. Though His personal involvement remains mysterious and obscure yet it leaves room for human freedom and it is manifest through human agents who can distort and confuse his message in the …show more content…
They doubt whether the study of philosophy is anything useful if not a useless trifling, arguments and counter arguments of controversies upon issues that may never put food on the table. But philosophy is more than that, a philosopher recognizes and is puzzled by problems that others barely take notice of. He/she is not satisfied with the fact of things, but is more interested in the reason for the fact itself. He/she knows the right thing to do, but asks question why the right thing must be done, and by the way, is the right thing the same thing as the