Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains and Buddhists and includes Nepal, Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia ( Java), Thailand, Myanmar, China, and Japan and in countries with large ethnic Indian Hindu populations including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Fiji, Guyana, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, South Africa, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Hindu denominations worship him regardless of affiliations. His depictions are found throughout India. Ganesha ( Sanskrit: गणेश, IAST: Gaṇeśa), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in Ganapatya sect. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work-God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged.Buddhi, Riddhi and Siddhi or celibate in some traditions What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for "honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage" in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating "small studies out of great subjects."Įach chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God's wrath, and God's sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter's theology seems to rival the next, until one's mind is so expanded that one's entire view of God has changed.Īuthor Elizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer "puts the hay where the sheep can reach it-plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God." Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing to put first things first. Jill Heatherly writes: 'A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. A new cover and new format for this foundational Christian classic.
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